Wher should I buy my coins?

[Heysenn]

Such as nickels, dimes and quarters? Where have you had the most luck (convenient stores, grocery stores, banks, etc.)?

Do you think the bank goes through each and everyone one of their coins?

 

[FormerTeller]

I suggest you get a charter membership and offer to buy them here!

(It is still April 1, isn't it?)

 

[50cent]

To buy implies you pay a premium over what they are worth, you mean exchange correct? buy coins at coin shops, they sort out the good'ns for you nice and easy. you can exchange for coins at banks, and its a hit or miss whether they search them (they are known as "sniping" tellers on this site, cause, they "pick off" the good coins).

 

[Heysenn]

Buy, search, exchange. I went and bought lots of quarter rolls from the local grocers and convenient stores ... All I found was an "s" minted state quarter. Even the one Wisconsin I found was a normal one. Not even a "d" lol.

 

[FloridaFinder]

Such as nickels, dimes and quarters? Where have you had the most luck (convenient stores, grocery stores, banks, etc.)?

Do you think the bank goes through each and everyone one of their coins?

I buy my coins from the bank by the box. I only buy them when the boxes are sealed from the coin provider, so that I am sure that the bank tellers haven't gone through them. Usually to get sealed boxes I have to place an order with them, in particular for half dollars. Sometimes they will sell a spare box of quarters or dimes.

The only exception to that rule is when I buy CWR's, when they know that a customer had brought them in. If a teller had gone through the CWR's, they would probably hint at it.

 

[sagittarius98]

Buy, search, exchange. I went and bought lots of quarter rolls from the local grocers and convenient stores ... All I found was an "s" minted state quarter. Even the one Wisconsin I found was a normal one. Not even a "d" lol.

You will need to buy about $5000 in quarters before you find one on average.

 

[Wilmingtonsilver]

I suggest you go to the bum living under the bridge, give him $500 and tell him to get your 2 boxes of dimes to you the next day. This was a joke of an answer because it had to be an April Fool's day joke of a question.

 

[FloridaFinder]

I suggest you go to the bum living under the bridge, give him $500 and tell him to get your 2 boxes of dimes to you the next day. This was a joke of an answer because it had to be an April Fool's day joke of a question.

I fell for it. I don't do April Fools jokes. Oh well.

 

[Heysenn]

I suggest you go to the bum living under the bridge, give him $500 and tell him to get your 2 boxes of dimes to you the next day. This was a joke of an answer because it had to be an April Fool's day joke of a question.

It wasn't ... LOL. We just started looking into doing this and wanted some advice on where to start.

 

[Heysenn]

We went to a bunch of convenient store and grocery stores and they didn't want to give up there change. I would think the bank would go through theirs? We MD, but want to check this out too ...

 

[jamesg13]

buy them where ever they are silver, and charge face value!

by the box is best!

 

[enamel7]

We went to a bunch of convenient store and grocery stores and they didn't want to give up there change. I would think the bank would go through theirs? We MD, but want to check this out too ...

Honestly, the banks just order from the suppliers. They don't sit around all day searching rolls. They are operating a business. If you've been reading the forum then you know some of the better finds come from customer rolls. Also, stores aren't going to give up their rolls simply because they need them for business. Grocery stores get coin delivered from suppliers also, and they have to pay for that. Stick with the banks.
HH
enamel7

 

[ElectroHouseR]

Such as nickels, dimes and quarters? Where have you had the most luck (convenient stores, grocery stores, banks, etc.)?

Do you think the bank goes through each and everyone one of their coins?

Does the bank go through each end everyone of their coins Some do, some don't!
I went to a bank yesterday to pickup a box of half dollars....I was about to get it and my friend showed up out of nowhere, who happens to work at that branch. Guess what he told me??
"THERE IS NO SILVER IN THERE!" haha. I'm like how the heck do you know?? He said that he went through all of them! I told him that someone already looked through them, that's why there isn't anything in there.
I picked up another box from the same branch about a week ago and one of the tellers told me that some guy goes there and dumps bags of loose half dollars (which is completely stupid. I always re-roll my halves and give them to the tellers, that's why I have absolutely zero problems when i'm returning my $500 boxes).
I told him to go through the boxes when that guy orders something, take out the silver ones, re-roll them and then give the box to that moron.

Dumping 2000 coins in a bag on a tellers desk is not cool. I hope that moron learns his lesson.
If you treat the tellers with respect, then they'll treat you with respect too. They ended up giving me an unsearched box, from which I found a 1954 Frankling and a couple of Kennedys.

Good luck.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

7-11

 

[fistfulladirt]

It's rare now for a bank employee to NOT go through coin that customers bring in, when they get the chance. You know that, if you've been pounding the streets for the last few years, like some here have. That's why they are advising you to order sealed boxes of coin from your bank. Even sealed boxes are no guarantee they have not been searched.

 

[Wilmingtonsilver]

This should be required reading before anyone is allowed to ask their first question or make their first post on these boards. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...-beginners-guide-coin-roll-hunting-terms.html