it pays to be nice to your teller!

nice for $2.00

 

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Sweet!!! - Yes it does - and it also pays to be nice to everyone you meet in life just not in the same way! :thumb:

 

Thats cool. I have gotten in good with a local teller, and have netted a few silver halves and a nice au 64 D quarter. Nothing as cool as the peace dollar though. Great finds.

 

Wow...

 

Sheesh, what do you give them at Christmas?

Very nice.

 

I always say good morning or good afternoon to each teller at any bank I go to. Always make comments on the weather or anything. There are several banks I go to where I get rolls of Halves any time I ask for them. I've heard from many people that those banks don't have them when they ask. Yes, it pays to be nice to tellers.

 

Hey Just Carl, so when you go to the bank, you can ask for a roll of Halves, give them however the roll costs, and they give you a whole roll?

 

yup, do it at any bank.

 

Would the halves be proofs or older ones, or BU. Are they all different types of conditions?

 

At the banks I deal with that have the clear plastic wrap for their coins, I explain to the tellers how they are able to scan each and every roll of dimes and quarters that goes through their hands for silver. It hasn't paid off much yet in the way of them setting aside older bills for me, but it has generated some good will and one teller has actually found a silver quarter this year (needless to say, they were pretty happy about it).

 

Brennan:
Okay, I don't know if you are kidding or not, but, they'll be what ever someone turns in to the bank.
Perhaps nothing, perhaps something.
Who knows.

 

My wife works at a bank and the only thing she brings home for me is a crappy attitude.

 

If you worked there you would bring the same thing home.

 

Cool stuff its always nice getting some good coins in your change

 

I just went to my bank today, a day early. When I went to deposit my check, with a different teller than usual, my usual teller, who was working the drive thru saw me and came over and told me she got a roll of ikes in a couple of days ago and saved them for me thinking that I might want them. I didn't really want a roll of circulated ikes, but I thought if she took the time and effort to think of me and set them aside, I might as well take them home and at least look at them. She has been really good at saving rolls of nickels that come in for me, I've gotten quite a bit of silver out of them, so I didn't want to damage our relationship by seeming ungrateful. I didn't find anything in the rolls, they looked like they had been through a thousand slot machines, but it was the thought that counts.

David

 

Old bills can add up real quick, but I take everything and anything that the tellers want to get rid of indiscriminately. It's the only way to maintain goodwill, and it helps get the unusual stuff back out there in circulation.

I once took the entire mutilated pile from one bank. They had switched to a cash handling service that wouldn't handle the mutilated unless it was a full brick (effectively they forced themselves to hang on to it forever). The head teller seemed a little grateful to get it out of the vault. There wasn't anything old in there, but I did get to search it at least.

 

On my last visit to a bank I asked for $100 in halves. The teller collected only 2 $20 rolls and 2 $10 rolls and gave them to me. If I had looked at the rolls more carefully I would have noticed that 1 $20 roll had "1992 Kennedy" written on the side. However when searching the next $20 roll I found 7 Kennedys "67's '68D's & '69's. 40% silver is better than no silver. The other roll did have 40 1992 halves and nothing in the 2 $10 rolls. The only negative was a $20 roll was short $1. I believe a collector turned in the 2 $20 rolls for paper $ and maybe didn't realize (or want) the 40% silver.

Bruce

 

Indeed! I was also nice to my regular teller and ended up with a full roll of 90% silver washers!! She deserves a dinner on me!!

 

I have found a couple of silver coins in rolls I have obtained, but nothing like this. I do remember when you could get silver in pocket change more often than now.