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VERODIGDUG · Feb 1, 2015

So I thought I'd give this CRH a try. After reading a bunch of posts on here, I went into my first bank and asked if I could please purchase any halves they have in stock. The teller had no idea what a halve was so after explaining it to him, his mgr came over. Again I asked if I could purchase what halves they had. He asked me why I wanted them and if I was looking for silver. I told him I own a business in town, which is true, and that I wanted to hand them out as change as a way for people to remember our place, which isn't so true. He went on to tell me how all his tellers are trained from day one to look for silver coins and that the only way I was ever gonna find any is if I ran into a new teller who didn't know any better. After leaving that bank I decided to call another, as I read in a post here, and ask over the phone and again I got a similar response. Both banks were WF which made me think that maybe I should try a different bank and a different approach. Any tips on how to ask without throwing up red flags?

enamel7 · Feb 2, 2015

Just ask at different banks and try not to be paranoid. It's no big deal really. People ask for coin all of the time.

norcalsteve · Feb 2, 2015

VERODIGDUG said:
So I thought I'd give this CRH a try. After reading a bunch of posts on here, I went into my first bank and asked if I could please purchase any halves they have in stock. The teller had no idea what a halve was so after explaining it to him, his mgr came over. Again I asked if I could purchase what halves they had. He asked me why I wanted them and if I was looking for silver. I told him I own a business in town, which is true, and that I wanted to hand them out as change as a way for people to remember our place, which isn't so true. He went on to tell me how all his tellers are trained from day one to look for silver coins and that the only way I was ever gonna find any is if I ran into a new teller who didn't know any better. After leaving that bank I decided to call another, as I read in a post here, and ask over the phone and again I got a similar response. Both banks were WF which made me think that maybe I should try a different bank and a different approach. Any tips on how to ask without throwing up red flags?

I think you have your dump banks. Hope you find some banks that will sell you coins. Good luck.

ArkieBassMan · Feb 2, 2015

There are no "red flags." You aren't doing anything wrong nor anything that requires secrecy. Half dollars do not circulate. Most banks rarely see half dollars unless they are a regular dump bank of a CRHer. Some bank employees pick the silver before you can get to it. Its a numbers game. The more banks you hit, the more likely you are to find halves that have not been cherry picked over.

VERODIGDUG · Feb 2, 2015

Ok thanks

Liu21 · Feb 2, 2015

How are they trained on, Looking out for silver if they dont know what a "half" dollar is? I call BS... seems like the manager is the one looking for silver, and using his position to do it..

VERODIGDUG · Feb 2, 2015

Yeah that's kinda what I figured was going on

ArkieBassMan · Feb 3, 2015

Liu21 said:
How are they trained on, Looking out for silver if they dont know what a "half" dollar is? I call BS... seems like the manager is the one looking for silver, and using his position to do it..

He very well might be. Most of us would do the same. I certainly would.