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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 401998, member: 5233"]The true story (as it happened) was this. My customer was a younger gentleman and he came to my window with a large paper bag of coins for me to run through the machine. So, I carried them to the back where our coin machine is. The teller in the window next to me was helping the lady who had a handful of plastic film containers with coins and the roll of half dollars. As I was walking to the back I saw he was too with considerably less coins to run so I said he could go first (because I was going to take several minutes-at this point I had no idea what he had). He sat the coins on the counter and began to dump the plastic film containers into the machine which had state quarters in them which she had saved. As he was doing so...I noticed the old roll and picked it up out of curiosity. I peeled back one end and saw a walker. So, I peeled the other...and there was another walker. I told him not to run them, just to set them aside for me. Knowing I was a coin collector, he asked me if they were worth anything...I told him yes, at least $10 per coin if they were all walkers (I had no idea what was throughout the roll). The lady's total "coin run" (as we call it) was about $57...$47 were the quarters run through the machine and $10 for the roll that was set aside. I ran the coins for my customer and by the time I was done with that...the lady was gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>I later withdrew $10 from the teller in the window next to me and he gave me that roll. I knew what the coins on the end of the roll were while the lady was still in the bank (although she was not my customer), I asked that teller to save them for me and he did so. Before I bought the roll, he opened it up and confirmed they were all walkers. My job is to perform the transactions I am asked to do, and that's what I did. I know there are people here who think I should have said something, but I chose not too...I simply did my job. Should I inform every customer that deposits a star note of what it is and its potential value, or should I just accept it and buy it later if I want to? </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't feel I need to defend my actions, as far as I am concerned I did my job. Its pretty easy to stand on a soap box and say shame on me, but I'll bet most people would have done the same thing. And truthfully, if she came in with another roll...I would do the same thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least they are going into a collection where they will be well taken care of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 401998, member: 5233"]The true story (as it happened) was this. My customer was a younger gentleman and he came to my window with a large paper bag of coins for me to run through the machine. So, I carried them to the back where our coin machine is. The teller in the window next to me was helping the lady who had a handful of plastic film containers with coins and the roll of half dollars. As I was walking to the back I saw he was too with considerably less coins to run so I said he could go first (because I was going to take several minutes-at this point I had no idea what he had). He sat the coins on the counter and began to dump the plastic film containers into the machine which had state quarters in them which she had saved. As he was doing so...I noticed the old roll and picked it up out of curiosity. I peeled back one end and saw a walker. So, I peeled the other...and there was another walker. I told him not to run them, just to set them aside for me. Knowing I was a coin collector, he asked me if they were worth anything...I told him yes, at least $10 per coin if they were all walkers (I had no idea what was throughout the roll). The lady's total "coin run" (as we call it) was about $57...$47 were the quarters run through the machine and $10 for the roll that was set aside. I ran the coins for my customer and by the time I was done with that...the lady was gone. I later withdrew $10 from the teller in the window next to me and he gave me that roll. I knew what the coins on the end of the roll were while the lady was still in the bank (although she was not my customer), I asked that teller to save them for me and he did so. Before I bought the roll, he opened it up and confirmed they were all walkers. My job is to perform the transactions I am asked to do, and that's what I did. I know there are people here who think I should have said something, but I chose not too...I simply did my job. Should I inform every customer that deposits a star note of what it is and its potential value, or should I just accept it and buy it later if I want to? I don't feel I need to defend my actions, as far as I am concerned I did my job. Its pretty easy to stand on a soap box and say shame on me, but I'll bet most people would have done the same thing. And truthfully, if she came in with another roll...I would do the same thing. At least they are going into a collection where they will be well taken care of.[/QUOTE]
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