ok i dont know if this is the right forum and this may sound dumb but im gonna post it anyway. i have a problem that i need help with, i work at mcdonalds(im 17 its a job) so im dealing with mony all they time and ever since i got intrested in this hobby it has been slowing me down at work because i feal the need to look at ever coing every doller everything im sure some of you have delt with also so i guess what im trying to say is how do i deal with it? and make it less of a bother. any help would be great thank you -David
i used to have that same problem at work, but you just gotta learn to look fast, thats how i did it, quick glance at serial numbers on bills and ill throw a coin over into a different bin in the register to look at later if it catches my eye, just gotta tell yourself to keep on moving but keep an eye out
maybe it will be easyer once i get my red book so i will know what to be looking for and not have to look at the coins for 5 mins
looking for silver dimes and quarters is easy, just look at the side, takes seconds and with bills just look at the serial for stars and you can tell right off the bat if the bills different, maybe its just me, but ive been at my same job for a few years now and i handle thousand and thousand a day in cash, so ive become pretty quick at it. you will become faster once you know what to look for
You have two real problems. One you may be slowing things down. Managers don't like that and neither do customers. A good way to get bounced off the till. Two if the manager doesn't know what you are doing you run the risk of being accused of stealing money from the register. A good way to get fired or if the register always balances still a reason to bounce you off the till because they just don't want to have to worry about it. And if the manager DOES know what you are doing he may bounce you because he is afraid of #1 Ideal would be if your manager know and gives his blessing, but don't count on it. At best you might be able to work out a deal to let you go through some of the coins/currency while you are on break. Unfortunately a fast food register cashier is usually not in a good position to check the till.
Didn't someone here 'have a problem' at a fast food store (i.e. get fired) just because they (de bossman) thought that he was doing something wrong?
Okay, we should then assume that you aren't working the counter register and that your contact with the money is when you're counting it during and at the end of your shift. So what's the problem? If you're in your office handling the money just take whatever time you need to search it. With bills, any with a blue or red seal, rather than a green one, may be worth a bit, but the worn ones you're likely to come across probably won't have much of a premium. Likewise any bill with a star at the end of its serial number. With coins, you're going to have to decide what you want to look for. Cents with a wheat ear reverse can be pulled out. Newer cents are mostly worth a penny but you might want to acquaint yourself with the wide-AM and close-AM varieties of 1992, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Also various years with double-die features, but these usually require a magnifier to see properly. There are few Jefferson nickels that you can pull after just a quick glance. The 50-D still has some extra value. Any nickel with a mint mark above the building on the reverse is worth saving. Few circulated Buffalo nickels will have a readable date. If you find one, don't bother with the worn ones if you can't read the date. There's not much in the way of dimes to get excited over unless it's earlier than 1965. Those would be silver. That would be all "Mercury" dimes and 1946 to 1964 Roosevelts. Any quarter prior to 1965 should be pulled. They are silver. Quarters were made in the hundreds of millions for each year and, for the most part, are worth 25 cents each. This includes the State Quarters. Don't waste your time with them. You may occasionally come across a half dollar. The only ones worth keeping are any that aren't Kennedys and the 1964-1970 Kennedys. There are no "gold" dollar coins worth anything more than a dollar, except some of the Presidential series with no lettering on the edge. Don't confuse those with the Sacagawea Dollar coins which do have a plain edge and have no premium. If you see a 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar with the date almost touching the rim, it may be worth $2-3 in circulated condition. Beyond all of this, you may occasionally come across a coin with an extra smooth and shiny background field, along with really strong details on the portrait and letters. This may be a Proof coin that someone put into circulation. Its proof value likely will have been destroyed by being worn and dinged up, but it's still a better coin for the particular type/year than the average coin and you might want to use it in whatever set you're assembling.
ok well thanks for all the help im not worried about geting fired from it and they wont knock me off the till because thats all there is to do there so...im just gonna study up on what to look for and be quicker about it thank you -David
Honesty best policy Honesty is often the best policy. Tell your manager that you have been bit by the coin collecting bug and you won't let it slow you down or interfere with the customers. Inform him or her that if you are staring at the money that you are only concentrating on the dates & varieties and that is all you are doing. Ask the manager to include you in their policy for purchasing an occasional item from the register. Make this all clear before you discover that 1916-D dime. Very best regards, collect89 P.S. you might print this thread as your manager would probably get a kick out of reading it.
that is true i do normally spend time behind closed doors with all the money, but occasionally ill be on a register, i do though have to hurry and look through everyhting cause i cant spend all night looking at everything! haha id be out of there at 2am! but if i do find somehting i want to buy, i always ALWAYS get someone in there to watch me, i dont want to think im taking anything as small as a penny! just remember that! i generally take half a sec to look at each bill when counting, i look straight where the serial number would be, if something like a star or a serial with alot of the same number comes along you can spot it, for dimes and quarters i look on the side real quick before i throw it in a seperate cup to weigh and count it on our machine, but i generally dont look at pennies and nickels, all i see is the westward journey series nickels, so its not too hard to spot an older nickel jsut by glancing
