In the Red at the Bank Yesterday...

I went into cash out a cent box search and did my obligatory ask for pre-1970 halves, large sized dollar coins and two dollar bills. The teller said she had no halves, no Ikes but had some twos I might be interested in. I asked her if she had any red seals(frankly not expecting her to have any idea what I was talking about) and she replied "well as a matter of fact we have several". I am thinking okay, she still has no idea what I want while she walks off to the vault to pull out a veritable stack of $2's. She counted them all out and at the very bottom of the pile of about $150 worth were these bad boys:



Yup, she knew exactly what I wanted. She just might be my new "trainee". Notice the '28-G and the '53 Star note. Too bad about the corner rips on a couple of notes - they are fresh tears too which stinks. I sure like getting these little treasures for face value. Looks like it is going to be a good paper money week since silver halves and cent boxes have temporarily dried up.

 

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Some nice finds, especially at face.
I've heard the "corner missing" on $2's is a superstitious thing for some people.

 

Very Nice find! Never hurts to ask! :thumb:

 

Nice pick ups you have to love those red seals

 

A nice adrenaline boost. Thanks for sharing.

 

SM... right time right palce and great teller!!

Hope you are well?

RickieB

 

Great find, but I'm curious why she was so eager to hand them over.....

 

Should have seen my bank treasures from yesterday - may post in the roll searching thread - I searched a Fed bag of $200 worth of nickels and found some of the best stuff in nickels in years. Then while I was buying the bag my teller shares that they have an older customer coming in sometime in the next couple of days with four large Folgers coffee tins full of cents he has saved over the years.

 

That ought to be interesting. You'll have to let us know what you find from that haul.

 

See the results here:

http://www.cointalk.com/t10176-324/

 

Awesome! Wish I hadn't spent mine, but I was young.

 

wow great find.

 

Score! Take that teller some flowers!

 

Oh, I saw her again today - now I am sifting through 18,000 cents - the Folger's Coffee Tin collection.

 

Are they wheat cent?

 

Yeah there are some. I have gone through about 6.000 of them so far, and well one very very exciting find - only the second of it's type I have found in four years.

 

$2 is traditionally the minimum bet at a racetrack. Gamblers are a superstitious lot, and they were likely to rip off the corner of a $2 note in order to expiate any bad luck clinging to it from previous losing bets.

 

Well what is it???

 

If you're willing to cull the copper from the zinc, there might be some metal value. Copper cents have a melt value of about 2.75¢ right now:
http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1909-1982-Lincoln-Cent-Penny-Value.html

The quickest sort is to drop them on a hard flat surface -- zinc cents will give a clackety clink, copper provides a nice metallic "ting."

 

Indeed, that is the main reason I buy up cents. I refuse to use a mechanical sorter because I wanna find the goodies. I have maybe 200.000 or maybe more cents that have accumulated over the past four years now in 100lb jugs.