Love Those Bank Tellers

So, awhile back I posted that the ladies at my local Rabobank (there is only five of them) collect any customer wrapped coins that are brought in during the week and set them aside for me. The ladies are really awesome about this. After showing them what it was I was collecting, they started looking for things for me. On Fridays they will e-mail me and tell me how much has been brought in for the week. Usually, this runs from $250.00 - $500.00 a week. It is always every denomination and I usually find good stuff (including silver) in these coins. Today, after a long, depressing week of work, I get an e-mail from them and they tell me they have $1,700.00 in customer coins this week, and is that too much? God I love them. Okay, everybody say it with me now, "No, that isn't too much." So, I naturally went down to get the coins and my vault lady whispers to me, "I'm not supposed to tell you this (customer privacy), but the two boxes over there came from an antique store." Don't you know I can't wait to go through that. Another cute thing that happened was that one of the tellers realized I was there, got extremely excited, called me over to see what she had saved for me. It was an Ohio quarter that had started to tone gold. Nothing special about the coin, but it was very cute that she thought she had found a "gold" quarter and couldn't wait to give it to me. I know this relationship with my tellers is a bit unique, but I have really hit the jackpot with them. The coolest thing about this whole thing, besides what they do for me, is that I am not even a customer in their bank. The organization I work for has an account there and I happened to ask about coins once when I was in there.

P.S. Yes, I do take special care of them with chocolates, Starbucks gift cards, etc.

 

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You damned well better! That's a gem of a group you have there.
I wish my bank tellers were that attentive to me.

 

wow you've got it made.

 

You will follow up with what you found, right?

 

<jumps on a plane for a trip to Rabobank... loaded up with better chocolates and larger Starbucks gift cards>

 

Huh, that's not that far from me. I don't know Histman, you may have a competitor in a few years!
Nah, I'd rather stay at my uncle's bank, he saves aside a lot of coins, but now how they got rid of the coin machines, I think that time has ended.

 

Sorry! For some reason my system was telling me that Coin Talk was a non-secure site and wouldn't let me on.

Here is what I got.

Cents - 55 Rolls = 421 pre-82 Copper
1982, 1983, 2001 Canadian
11 Wheat Cents (Includes a 1913-P)

Nickles - 49 Rolls = 22 pre-1960
2 1963 Mexican Cinco Centavos
2 1945-S War Nickles (Silver)

Dimes - 54 Rolls = 1972 Canadian
1964-P, 1964-D Roosevelt (Silver)

Halves - 1 Roll = 1968-P (Silver)

Unfortunately, $1,300.00 of it is in quarters, and hunters know the chances of getting anything in the quarters is pretty slim. I chose to tell you about the quarters last for a reason. For amusement purposes, I look for bicentennial quarters and foreign coins. So, here is what I found:

Quarters - 130 Rolls = 85 1776-1976 Bicentennial

I then got excited because I found a 1964-D Washington Quarter (Silver). I thought that made my day, until I opened the next roll.


Look what I found:



I found six Silver Washington Quarters. There were five (5) 1964-D & one (1) 1951-D Silver quarters in this roll. As you can imagine, this made my year. Previously, I've only found one silver quarter in all of my hunting. I think my ladies came through big time. I can't wait to tell them (and show them) what they got for me.

 

The other day I watched a teller tell a guy that his silver was not worth that much. About $350 face value. She sealed it in a deposit bag to be sent out and counted.
I was next at the window. I had to tell her it was worth about 12 times face. She told me I was wrong and that she knew better. She cost the guy about $3000.

 

Unfortunately, no way to buy it from her either. Luckily, my ladies would put that aside for me.

 

Histman, watch it with the tangible gifts. Anything they can eat right there is fine as the evidence isn't preserved. The managers find out, they're not going to like giving their tellers tangible gifts for favors.

 

I'm not too sure about that. At my local branch, the branch manager partakes in the goodies I bring in to them and has never objected to my repayment of their largess.

 

Everybody likes you, Rick. I can understand that.

 

Has to be sarcasm. Just has to be.

 

Well. That was rude of her. Did you get her next?

 

I said nothing more. I was shocked that she did not know better.

 

This is astounding. Where was this geography?

 

If I had seen that happening, I would've interrupted the transaction. Was this at a Bank of America by chance?

 

Couldn't you buy it from the teller.