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<p>[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 401796, member: 9204"]I could have gone into that bank 10 minutes later and bought that roll for face. Would I be morally-crooked? No. What the OP did MAY not have been the right choice. But it wasn't so bad. The woman probably didn't pay anything over face value for them anyway. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would have told her that her coins had more value than face, had I been the teller. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a scenario for you, to hopefully counter the ignorant-old-lady stigma that so many on this forum are victim to. My best friend worked as a teller at a bank in high school. One day an older woman came in to deposit a number of silver dollars. My friend told her that what she had was worth well more than a dollar (he wasn't a collector, so he may have exaggerated a little). She told him to put them aside for himself, because all she wanted out of them was face value. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess what annoys me the most about these posts are the constant assumptions of the depositor's financial situation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 401796, member: 9204"]I could have gone into that bank 10 minutes later and bought that roll for face. Would I be morally-crooked? No. What the OP did MAY not have been the right choice. But it wasn't so bad. The woman probably didn't pay anything over face value for them anyway. I would have told her that her coins had more value than face, had I been the teller. Here's a scenario for you, to hopefully counter the ignorant-old-lady stigma that so many on this forum are victim to. My best friend worked as a teller at a bank in high school. One day an older woman came in to deposit a number of silver dollars. My friend told her that what she had was worth well more than a dollar (he wasn't a collector, so he may have exaggerated a little). She told him to put them aside for himself, because all she wanted out of them was face value. I guess what annoys me the most about these posts are the constant assumptions of the depositor's financial situation.[/QUOTE]
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