Never saw so much silver at a bank

[mark1982]

And i couldnt get them. I was dumping dimes this morning at a bank with a coin counter that takes up to 500$ in halves. I had 7 $ in halves mixed in with my dimes and the bag filled. When teller changed out the bags i heard and saw all the silver. This teller knows me and i have struck up plenty of conversations about collecting with her before. She has never and cant ever sell a bag off the maching. I knew i was not going to get any but i asked and tried as much as i could but didnt get any. We both decided to pry at the already sealed bag. What is saw was unreal. Franklin after franklin, and 1964s every where you looked. I did not see one 40% in the bag. I would estimated there were 300$ worth of silver and mostly all 90% in that bag and thats not a exaggeration . I know there was more Than that. Anyway it is what it is. On the plus side the holiday silver is here and hopefully that silver will end up in one or some of my boxes. I ask my self now are coin machines good or bad for the hobby? I would have asked if they had any halves but i know they never do because of the coin counter. HH

 

[Rigo]

Oh my gosh! I would have flipped out and gone crazy....LOL
That's crazy!

 

[norcalsteve]

If I were you I would find a bank that takes bags. It's easy and most banks don't care cause they just ship it out. 1000$ is the max you can put in a bag so 2 bags is 4 boxes and that's much better than trying to get rid of 4 boxes split up at different banks and not to mention driving all over the place .

No banks around me will take bags.

 

[TheWalrus]

I think she meant that the bags were sent to loomis to verify, not a count at store level,, they seal them the second they come off the feed chutes. One thing I did notice is unlike the coinstar machines with the "we are going to keep it" internal reject chute, it looked as if any rejected coin goes to the return chute.

Also same here, no bank takes bags, must be rolled.
The one bank that used to take bulk coin had the toll bridge account and since the toll was lifted they got rid of the high speed sort/count machines.

So very limited in time and availability but we keep trying.

 

[UnderMiner]

That's like seeing a pile of pirate gold on the beach and being told by the life guard you can't go on the beach because it is being paved over with cement in 5 minutes to make way for a condo building.