So, how often do you get to look through money? I get to every Sunday, ALOT. I volunteer at my Temple, and i collect the attendance and donation money for sunday school. Well, alot of people donate small change. I look through all the money - at first just incase there was some non-legal tender (tokens, and foreign money). Then i realized, duh, i should just bring in some spare change of mine and exchange it every time i see a coin that interests me (pre 1960). So yeah, pretty much every Sunday of the school-year i get to look through a ton of coinage. What about you guys?
I go through about $100-$3000 of coin from various banks around where I live every week. I have a great collection of duplicate wheat pennies now! ~AJ
I usually get 30-40 dollars worth of nickels every Saturday morning and am finished with them by the afternoon. I also get some during the week. Sometime after school I walk to the hospital where my mom works and I pass two banks. I usually pick up some halves or nickels to look through while I'm waiting for her to finish up.
Umm mabey I'm being a little to straight laced but if you find a particularily valuable coin in the collections do you just buy it? Please take no offense but I think that I would have moral issues with that if it were at my church. I know that if you weren't there it probably would go unnoticed. But since you are you can provide your services and as a result give the church just as much as the person who gave the coin. You never know mabey the person who put it in there knew what its value was and was counting on someone finding it. Now commons and coins colse in value to face are fair game only because I would not be trying to make a profit from them. Magman I realize that the few words you printed here are not enough for me to make a judgement about you or your practice but I wanted to throw the moral aspect in to see what other peoples reactions would be if they were in the situation.
ohh ok, i was wondering if someone would ask. But i purposfully take extra change just incase i find something. Ill take a few quarters, nickels, and pennies. The money they put in gets donated to a charity at the end of the year - putting in a valuable coin will do no good, since it will be used as money. Therefore, when i find a Pre-1960 coin, i switch it with one i brought, a newer one, because in the end, itll all be the same. I dont blame you for asking me though - it does seem kinda weird saying "i look through charity money for coins that interest me" -- but yeah, i bring a replacement. and, as i said in the first post, i looked through it initially because i have found tokens - which do no good. Example: a charity to the homeless/sick/underprivaledged is going to do no good with a Car Wash Token (which i have found). edit: i dont look to sell it by the way (as i noticed you mentione in your post) - i look because i like Old American Coins (Pre-1960, as you know))
I was asking more as a way to clarify my views to my self I typed the whole post out and realized that I am kinda a prude. I debated for a considerable while as to weither I would hit the post button. I am sorry if I implied that you weren't honorable. That was not my intent I was merly wondering what everyone else thought? I will openly admit that I would love to be able to do this. I usually only search rolls that have been processed by a bank. These can contain rarities but I would have to think that the concentration of more mature individuals present at the temple may increase the chances of something good. I would also switch out the interesting ones with equal valued coins. I must confess though if I came across a coin which I knew for certain was worth hundreds of dollars I would have to donate my services and sell the coin on the temples behalf. I'd also kick my self every day from then on for doing it.
I always seem to have change in my pockets. I lay the coins on my desk, and then about once a week, with the help of grandkids, we look through it all. Some coins go into the kids' and grandkids' "birthday year cups," and once in a while I will find something worth keeping. I hit the jackpot once, many years ago. While attending college I roomed that first year away with a guy who was a bartender in order to support his college expenses. He put all of his tips in quart jars. Mainly quarters and half dollars. How many jars? About 10 to 15 as I recall. One day he found I was a coin collector, and invited me to search all of them for anything I wanted. I did, but can't remember what I found. Remember this was 1963, so you can imagine the possibilities.
I look through my pocket change every night before I put it into the "vacation" jar. My wife has a better opportunity than me, working in a drug store she doesn't have the time to search through all the change but she does notice when a coin or bill looks "different" and she immediately calls me to see if I want it.
Yup, its the kids who just get change from their spare change, or from their parents - so its unlikely anyone goes through it. I probably would too, if i found a coin worth alot. But then again, i doubt that would happen, unless i found the Error Wisconson anyways, i didnt mind you asking or anything - i figured it sounded pretty sketchy.
I find this to be a VERY interesting question indeed. Who owns a valuable coin you might find while performing your job. My thoughts are mixed, but I would probably go with the argument that it has to be found by someone who has the knowledge to recognize the value or it just passes through unnoticed. There seems to be a window of opportunity for you to claim it before it is deposited to the account of a bank (as a teller), or to the account of the temple (as a donations handler). However, there is the argument that the entity owns the fruits of your knowledge and labor (say you invent a product while on company time or using knowledge developed from your work there). Believe it is usually wise for the employer to have you sign a contract in advance to protect them from your pirating such an invention. I'm certainly not a lawyer, but there may be some legal precedence?? Some people may very well have personal moral issues as well. Others may not. Willie (The Ghost of)
I think if it's just going to the bank, regardless where it came from, it's open game. I work at a toys store, and kids love to get daddy's coin collection and go spend Or their own.... Some things I give back (stuff you don't EVER see in circulation) but most I keep.
Bank tellers are nabbing good stuff all the time... is that moral? I wish they didn't! I have taken to not even telling the tellers what i have found. If i tell them i got my hands on 120 silver kennedys searching through their rolls i would bet my finds would drop off pretty quick...
How is it immoral for tellers to take good stuff?? Aren't you doing the same thing?? I'm a teller and collector and you'd better believe i nab whatever I can. As for tellers bothering to go through halves looking for silver, I wouldn't be too worried about it. All the tellers at my bank check for silver, but thats only because they then give it to me. They all think that I'm crazy! Most bank tellers simply couldn't be bothered to take the time. So, don't worry, your halves are safe
