A similar thing happened to me regarding TD & Garda. I deposited 3 large bags of halves with TD that were to go to Garda to be counted and then credited to my account. That branch said that did not want me to run them through their coin machine, because, they claim, the halfs were causing the machine to break down. I said ok, and they gave me a numbered receipt for each bag.
After 3 weeks, nothing had been credited to my account. I went to the Branch, they said they would look into it, but nothing happened. Over the next several weeks, I did the same, with the same results. I was beginning to see that the staff and Manager at this branch were not very competent. The Bag receipts they gave me were worthless, since neither TD or Garda records or tracks those numbers. I then talked to the Manager at another TD Bank who spent a lot of time contacting Garda and the other Branch to find out what happened. It seems that the other Branch, in deed, did not know what they were doing, and had turned the coins into Garda without following proper procedures. Garda essentially processed (counted) the coins, but had no idea which TD Branch they came from. After nearly 3 months they were able to track down and credit my account approx $1500. I am fairly sure I gave them over $2000 in halfs.