A coin story that will make you ill....

I stopped by the bank yesterday (as I do every couple of weeks) and asked the Commercial Teller if she had any unusual coins or bills. Sometimes they'll have a stray Eisenhower Dollar, older Two-Dollar Bill, etc.

Well, the teller said to me, "You should have been here 2 weeks ago". At this point, I felt my stomach begin to churn as I knew there would be a tale of horror about to unfold. Sure enough, she told me that a lady came in and tried to put coins into the CoinStar machine. When the machine kept refusing her coins, a bank employee went over to assist her. To make a long story short, the lady wound up having around 1000 (yes ONE THOUSAND) Morgan Dollars that her father had been saving for years. To their credit, the bank informed her that she needed to take the coins to a coin shop in order to get more money for them. The lady refused and told the bank that she just wanted to "cash them in".

So, after all was said and done, not only did she cash in the 1000 Morgan Dollars, she additionally had several thousand silver halves, quarters and dimes that she also cashed in for face value. She also had 2 rolls of Indian Head Cents (yes, face value also...).

I asked the teller if, by some chance, any of the coins remained that I might purchase. The teller told me "no" because there was another teller in the bank who bought all the coins. Undoubtedly, that teller has tripled or quadrupled her salary for the year.

Ah well, I just had to share this story with all of you. Misery loves company.

 

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That is horrible. I'll be miserable with you.

 

GAHHH!!!! :headbang: I hate it when tellers do that. My cousins a teller, and told me some lady cashed in 2 rolls of peace dollars, and the next guy bought them before she could buy them for me....

 

i am ordinary collector so i never get a chance at any of this on my shoe string credit infested budget. ooh life can be such an irony at times morgans morgans everywhere but where you need it

 

the blood left my head

 

I just don't understand, if she needed money, wouldn't she sell them? The only logical explanation is the reason she needed money was becuase she was so damn lazy that she wouldn't work for money, so she cashed in the coins, becuase she was too lazy to sell them.

Then again, another mans stupidiness is another mans fortune! Horay, for the absent minded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I just threw up in my mouth.

 

oh, the humanity!!!

 

Another reason may be that they were her husband's coin collection and she was getting back at him for something really serious... At a bank you will probably not get them back. At a coin shop - who knows what you might be willing to do to get them back???

 

on the bright side, should there be one, that means there are probably 1000 morgans entering the market place.

 

I did the foolish thing of reading this story twice. It didn't make me feel any better.

 

my stomach...

 

that sounds very familiar.

 

I would love to fall into a deal like that. ( The tellers good fortune) That would provide many hours of fun looking through all those coins. Not to mention making a little green in the process.

 

This sounds like an urban legend.

Or the teller was having fun with a customer.

 

You took the words right out of my mouth!

 

Something like that would never happen to me- EVER!

 

After reading the story, I was dumbfounded.
Now, I am in denial, and I prefer to stay there.

 

can't type clearly, too many tears in my eyes.

 

Maybe getting your chain yanked?

At first I was in tears but got to thinking about this.

Unless that lady was really strong or wheeled them in on a hand cart or had a lot of help the weight alone is A LOT.

1000 Morgans over 60 pounds the way I got it figured.
A few thousand halves - another 50 pounds plus.
Then toss in quarters and dimes?

Something ain't right here.