I need to work on not being so verbose... but I've got stories to tell! I try to BOLD the important parts for skimming.
Woke up this morning and was trying to figure out what to do with the coins that I had stayed up last night sorting through, $355 in quarters and dimes. Plus the box of halves that were obviously already rooted through. I found another branch 20 minutes from my house and my wife graciously went with me.
I handed her the canvas bag of quarters and dimes to which she thought was to heavy so I asked her if she could grab the box of halves. easier to grab onto. We entered the bank and a person in the lobby grabbed the box from her and said he'd put them behind the counter so we didn't have to carry them.
He then came over and said something along the lines of, did you get those from another bank or have you been collecting all your life we never see that many halves. I said I got them from another bank and that I was a collector. (Taking a tip from Boristhespider88)
Got to the teller, she had to ask if she processed the whole box or each roll individually. She was told each roll. Then she found one half outside of the wrapper. I remembered trying to get one back in the wrapper before packing it up and it being stubborn, it must have came back out in transit. "Where does this one go do you know?" She talked asked another bank member what she should do and was told she had to find out where it went and started opening the rolls. After not finding them in 3, I told her that I'd just take the box back and reroll them because it was turning into a hassle. She took the quarters and dimes though.
Went back to the bank where I got the brown rolled halves and found some 40% and wanted to buy some more. A guy in the line stared at me for quite a while, I don't know if it's because I had a canvas bag and he was trying to figure out what that was about. I told the teller I was there yesterday and had bought some halves and wanted to buy some more, specifically the brown rolled ones. She said she'd have to ask. She asked the lady in the back that said she didn't have a box yesterday... and came back and said they didn't have any but they could order some for me. I left feeling like the lady had most likely lied again because she didn't want to go to the vault to get the halves... I dunno maybe the truck came and picked them up? I doubt it because the truck was there on my second trip there yesterday and they still had them.
On our way home we noticed a bank near us was having an open house or something, there were balloons and people grilling outside. Knowing I needed to open a dump bank, I walked there and asked if they were having a party, they told me it was customer appreciation day. I told the teller I wasn't a customer. She said you can become one. I didn't even realize that there was a bank there. Actually it's a credit union. I asked her what I would need to open an account and she gave me the spiel. I asked her if there was a coin machine, she told me there was one in the vault, but that they could also take rolled coins. I told her I'm a collector so I have a lot of coins that I go through, she seemed un-phased. Since I hadn't become a member yet I thought that if it was going to be an issue she would tell me. I came back, signed up for an account
and now have a dump bank. They seem really friendly. Thanks Rick for suggesting a credit union.
Went through the nickels and the pennies today. Here's my finds. I guess that Canadian quarter is from last night.
Canadian quarter, Canadian penny.
What do you guys do with foreign coins?
Red marked nickel - seems like a coin roll hunter did that. And a pretty jacked up dime.
A few older jefferson nickels 49-69.
And two wheat pennies!
The penny rolls all pretty consistently had 51c in them, I found that interesting. Why do you think that was? Since all of the coins came from the same customer it made me wish I would have paid more attention the quarters and dimes. Maybe I missed out on some free money. I will from no one be more conscious of that. I also have a tendency to want to do things as effectively and efficiently as possible so I found myself hurrying as I sorted through the coins and occasionally feeling like it was work. I had to intentionally remind myself this is a relaxing hobby. I like that it slows me down.
I think the person that rolled them had a cat, because my eyes burned as I looked through them.
Also found like 6 pennies in the coin star. I might be getting a metal detector too. I'm hooked.
Need to wrap a bunch of pre 82 pennies I'm going to hang onto. Now they are readily available. Maybe in 30 years they will be as hard to find as wheats. Who knows. I'll store some now, can't hurt.
I also need to rewrap the halves. I think my credit union (dump bank) is closed on Saturdays so it might have to wait.
Anyway... I'm going to go look over my used copy of the coin red book from 2011 and learn some things. Excited about the wheat pennies, hoping to find more and maybe some buffalo nickels in the future. And even things older than those!
Thanks everyone. Happy hunting!
The brinks wrapped halves were slit on the side to see if there was silver. Maybe this person is the reason the bank was so weird about me asking for halves.
