"Are these dollar coins?"

What series ?

 

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Two morgans 1881o,1921 and one peace 1923

 

I keep reading all these posts of people getting Morgans and Peace Dollars from the bank. I work at a bank, and I haven't seen any! I'm sure that I'll get lucky someday. But I can't really complain, last week someone came and cashed in some old change. To my amazement, I got 14 BU 1964 Kennedy's, 23 Franklins, and 6 Walking Liberty's. All in all, not a bad day at work!

 

Great score TOLS-I couldn’t believe my luck with the morgans most likely a once in a lifetime deal..

 

I wouldn't be too sure about that. I went into a bank I've only visited once before (last month, in fact), and the bank teller just looked at me when I asked for a box of nickels and started telling about this other "crazy guy who wanted boxes of pennies last month...." I got a little bit red in the face and walked away pretty quickly after telling her she was talking to the "crazy guy!"

~AJ

 

Yeah I think the Wal-Mart story was the one where the lady tried to spend a one million dollar bill and get change from it for a couple hundred dollar purchase!

~AJ

 

I have also gotten the old "Well, I'll have to go to the vault," routine. I answered once with, "Well, this is a bank, right?" I said it with a smile in order to take the edge off, but it did irritate me a tad.

I am amazed at the ignorance of some tellers I could be wrong, but if one works in a bank, shouldn't one be familiar with money? I have had tellers mistake half dollars for dollars, not recognize SBA dollars as dollars, and one, believe it or not, claimed to be seeing her first ever Sacajawea coin.

Lest you think everybody in western Colorado is a coin short of a filled album, be advised that most tellers I have encountered are knowledgable, polite, and helpful.

 

Bank tellers, even the rude ones, can be taught. Just show up every two or three days and ask for the same stuff. Eventually, even if you don't bank there, they'll figure out who you are and what you're looking for. They'll start keeping an eye out for what you're looking for so they can put it aside to save themselves the trouble of "going to the vault" when you show up. Just make a nuisance of yourself, and somebody else will go to the trouble of searching rolls for you, and will give you halves, silver, etc. at face value. It works. I've done it.

 

Ah, but see, she didn't remember you as the "crazy guy" who wanted the pennies. You had to tell her!

LOL. It must be a universal amongst bank tellers- hating the vault.