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<p>[QUOTE="Vince11229, post: 3213119, member: 98461"]Hello all and thanks for sharing your insight and experiences. I’ve been lucky so far in that I have a bank that is willing to order halves for me and I found another willing to accept them back. Based on what I’ve seen here in the posts others are having a difficult time either acquiring halves or depositing them.</p><p>That said I learned a little bit that I thought I’d share here. I opened an account at one bank where I was told they had halves but could only give them to account holders. I opened an account. In opening the account I became friendly with the manager. In speaking with the manager and the teller I found out that not all banks use Loomis or Brinks coin wrapped service. This branch did not. When they ordered coin it came in bags. It was the teller who would wrap the coin and verify the amount receipted. This is where the cost was for this particular branch. Other banks using say Loomis pay a fee for the depositing of wrapped coin ( which makes sense since the manager at the other bank had no issue with getting the coin but refused to accept deposits).</p><p><br /></p><p>In summary the banks do not order halves as there is little demand outside of coin searchers. If they have halves on hand it’s usually customer wrapped although that is difficult to find since I know there are other searchers out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to order 3 boxes and deposit 2 boxes. These are Loomis wrapped. So far in these Loomis rolls there is nothing pre-1971 and VERY little post 2003 due to low mintages.</p><p><br /></p><p>After opening the account I took the 5 rolls of halves they had and I got lucky as I found a 65; 2 67’s; a 68 and a 69(the rolls looked customer wrapped).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vince11229, post: 3213119, member: 98461"]Hello all and thanks for sharing your insight and experiences. I’ve been lucky so far in that I have a bank that is willing to order halves for me and I found another willing to accept them back. Based on what I’ve seen here in the posts others are having a difficult time either acquiring halves or depositing them. That said I learned a little bit that I thought I’d share here. I opened an account at one bank where I was told they had halves but could only give them to account holders. I opened an account. In opening the account I became friendly with the manager. In speaking with the manager and the teller I found out that not all banks use Loomis or Brinks coin wrapped service. This branch did not. When they ordered coin it came in bags. It was the teller who would wrap the coin and verify the amount receipted. This is where the cost was for this particular branch. Other banks using say Loomis pay a fee for the depositing of wrapped coin ( which makes sense since the manager at the other bank had no issue with getting the coin but refused to accept deposits). In summary the banks do not order halves as there is little demand outside of coin searchers. If they have halves on hand it’s usually customer wrapped although that is difficult to find since I know there are other searchers out there. I was able to order 3 boxes and deposit 2 boxes. These are Loomis wrapped. So far in these Loomis rolls there is nothing pre-1971 and VERY little post 2003 due to low mintages. After opening the account I took the 5 rolls of halves they had and I got lucky as I found a 65; 2 67’s; a 68 and a 69(the rolls looked customer wrapped).[/QUOTE]
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