Just a lil late, but....

[pynchinflint]

Went to the bank this morning to drop off some pennies. I asked the tellers the usual question if they had any halves. Of course they said no, which was no surprise. Then one of the tellers said "wait a second the drive thru teller had a guy drop off some silver dollars yesterday". I said are they the big ones and she said "yes the big silver dollars. She has 22 of the dollars and 30 halves".

Now as many of you know, when a teller mentions the big silver dollars, that 3 letter word comes to mind....Ike.

So the counter teller asks the drive thru teller if she still had the dollars. She says "I only have two left and someone bought all the halves this morning". Bummer! Oh well, I have 18 Ike's so far and I guess two more would make a roll. I said I'll take em off your hands for you.

As she was walking to me, she said that she had bought 10 of the dollars for herself and another teller had bought 10 of them. To say the least, I was a little surprised when she dropped these in my hand. So I happily gave her two dollar bills, thanked her kindly, and gleefully walked out the door.

Ohhhhh....if I could have only gotten there earlier....who knows.

 

[wharghoul]

A moment of silence is appropriate for a time like this.

 

[Rich Hartford]

NICE !!!!!!!

 

[Mentone Grizz]

Can't beat that RUSH!!
- Grizz

 

[d2arcing]

i don't know much, but those are silver american eagle dollars that weren't circulated?

 

[pynchinflint]

d2arcing,

Yes these are silver eagles that are not meant for circulation but these two are marked up a bit. Here is a picture of the reverse for you.

 

[joad]

Nice!!! Makes you wonder what else goes thru banks.

 

[Ju8vP3t]

I would have offered to buy all of them from the tellers for $3 each... First time I've heard of someone getting SAE's from the bank... Great Score..

 

[d2arcing]

very nice! i did see them before in a magazine i believe for sale and ebay, very lucky congrats, probably so rare to get this, i jealous

was talking to assistant manager at work last night about coins, he whipped out a film canister full of silvers, he got a gold plated georgia state quarter... can't believe how people use coins you pay good money for as face value...

 

[LJ]

Oh goodness.....great pickup!! I was thinking Ikes too reading your post. Schweeeet!!!

 

[golden silver]

Speechless. Unimaginable luck.

Golden Silver

 

[coinmojo]

Great score

This has only happend to me twice.

Mojo

 

[mistergee]

i just threw up in my mouth.......ARE YOU KIDDING ME?.....that is an unbelievable score

This has only happend to me twice.

show off

 

[maine_Jim]

I love it when they hand you something like that. I remember my first walker - came from a tellers tray. I couldn't believe she would just hand it to me like that! Congrats - I look forward to finding one of those from CRH!

Maine_Jim

 

[wharghoul]

I must be a glass half empty kind of guy. Everybody is rejoicing over the find and only thing that occurred to me was the $300-400 worth of ASEs that got away. I really need to start thinking more positively.....

Great Job

 

[thurmownator]

I must be a glass half empty kind of guy. Everybody is rejoicing over the find and only thing that occurred to me was the $300-400 worth of ASEs that got away. I really need to start thinking more positively.....
Great Job

Must admit, that was my first thought too.................all those that got away. 8)

Mucho kudos on a great pickup, though !

 

[pynchinflint]

I would have offered to buy all of them from the tellers for $3 each... First time I've heard of someone getting SAE's from the bank... Great Score..

An offer to buy the tellers coins certainly crossed my mind. I'm very torn about this. First of all, I would let the teller set her price and if it was a good deal, I'd take em. To me we could both come away feeling like it was a good deal. I just wouldn't want to throw a low number out there and have the teller later think that she got ripped off.

Second, if someone would offer me more money than I thought something was worth, a red flag would go up. I would probably say no to an offer first until I did some research. In this case it would be akin to training another CHR'er and we all know (or should know) how costly that can be.

Third, these tellers have always been pretty good to me. I'm sure they don't get paid a whole lot so I say good for them. I may have made a little score but the tellers really came out good.

 

[47thelement]

I'm still searching for smiley face that slaps a teller!