Stop Motion

Hey,
I was wondering where the best place to purchase Boxes of uncirculated coins is. Is there a place you can get them for cost + shipping?
I need 2 boxes of buffalo nickels. I was wondering, do you ask your bank to order them or can you order them from the FED or another Bank?
Thanks in advance,
SM

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Speedy

Ask you bank--you should get them for face that thats all--your bank might already have them.

Now on other coins (cents, dimes, halves, dollar) I have tried to get the bank to order them for me but they say they can't (I talk to people who have worked in banks and they tell me it can be done you just have to keep trying)---

Speedy

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GDJMSP

About all you can do is ask around at the local banks.

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Rabone

Educational opportunity here. How many rolls in a box? Do all denominational "boxes" have the same number of rolls?
Thanks for the education.

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Rabone

Well, I think a Google search has answered my own question. Here is what I found:

Cents: Standard color is RED and they hold 50 rolls ($25)
Nickels: Standard color is BLUE and they also hold 50 rolls ($50)
Dimes: Standard color is GREEN and they hold 40 rolls ($200)
Quarters: Standard color is ORANGE and they hold 30 rolls ($300)
Half Dollars: nothing found on those. Guess they don't count anymore
Small Dollars: Standard color is GRAY and they hold 25 rolls ($500)

Is my Google information correct? Thanks.

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The_Cave_Troll

Half Dollars: Standard color is yellow and contains 50 rolls ($500)


I've bought way too many of these boxes to forget that info!

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Stop Motion

Thanks guys!
So i should just go into my bank and ask if they can order me boxes of nickels. How do they know they are going to get the Bison nickels?
Does the bank charge you a fee to order them, if the bank doesn't have them?
Thanks,
sm

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Speedy

I think your googling (sp?) did just fine ;--)

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Stop Motion I have bought 7 cases from a bank 3 counties away from me in the last two weeks for my coin dealer. They said they could order at any time but one must understand a bank MUST get direct armored car service to get new coins. Many banks rotate their coins from branch to branch so they never have a need to order from the Federal Reserve. Now back to that bank I got to order those $100 boxes of buffalo nickels, well I paid $125 per box to get it done. It was done through a third party who actually banks at one of their branches and I have no idea who actually got the extra money as all I wanted and needed was to find something my dealer needed very badly to satisfy customer demands and he was willing to pay the extra money, which I might add was cheaper than his normal distributor, so everything worked out great and the fact that it was those precious P mint mark nickels that arrived this week was just icing on the cake! My dealer has taken care of my wife and I for years and any time I can give something back to him or his wife I will do so. This time I had a connection that he didn't! Check with your banks as we are hearing the banks around here are limiting the new nickels to one roll per customer per visit if they do get them. Personally I haven't found a bank in two counties that have had them so that is why I ventured over to another county and it worked!

Speedy

I don't think you should have to pay shipping---I got a box for face with out shipping.

Just ask and hope for the best.

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crystalk64

I wasn't paying shipping! I believe the correct word would be "bribe" money to get someone to order the darn things? Now if I were buying on Ebay I would be paying anywhere from $15 to $25 shipping plus a premium for the coins so actually I got my dealer a very good buy for the money!

Speedy

Terry--
If I were you I would never pay someone $25 bucks to do there job.

I would go to the main bank in your area and make good friends (with the main guy there) and he will do anything he can for you.

I take in home-made deer jerkey and such and get what I need--

Speedy

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crystalk64

Well Speedy, sounds like you are doing a little bribing to get what you need also? I have obtained buffalo nickels from my dealer, from dealers on Ebay, from individuals on Ebay, from friends on coin forums and from that bank about 60 or 70 miles away and fI don't feel bad about any of it. I had a tremendous amount of family, friends and co-workers counting on me for buffalo nickels (price I have to pay for being an avid coin collector) and I was glad to do it. I might add the only place I got the nickels AT COST was from other collectors on the coin forums I frequent and I really DO APPRECIATE their efforts but still, with shipping, I am paying a premium JUST LIKE BUYING FROM THE MINT, which I did also for my own personal family! One way or another I was going to have my buffalos!!!

Speedy

Well---some may call that a bribe but you have to know something else.

This guy went deer hunting when he was younger--he liked deer jerkey but didn't like the store kind...I gave it to him with out asking for anything back.

This is not a bribe---I just don't see why you should have to pay for what the bank is there for.

Speedy

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The_Cave_Troll

Speedy,
I think you are misunderstanding the point of banks. Unfortunately they are NOT "there for" collectors who want to fill their collections out at face value. They are there to make money and "wasting" (in the corporation's mind anyway) time trying to get new coins for individual collectors make them NO money at all (although one could argue that its good for them in the same way that advertizing is). It seems that you have found a bank/banker that you have a pretty good relationship with. (Deer hunting together...) But, the majority of us don't have banks willing to go out of their way to service the needs of collectors. This isn't bad, it just is the way businesses run. I too am lucky, in that I found a bank that will order boxes of coins for me from the FED, so I can get what I want, but in other places that I've lived, that wasn't the case.

Chris

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