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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dave_in_delaware, post: 2577200, member: 82414&quot;]No, I can&#039;t see into the actual drawer where the paper money is kept. This was a separate, moveable, coin organizer that tellers either always keep on the counter (off to the side) or can pull out of a drawer. She had positioned it just to the left side of herself, near the edge of her counter, in plain view to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I do is call ahead to the branches and ask if they have any $2 bills. If they say yes, I&#039;ll tell them I&#039;d like to grab them all I&#039;ll be there in however many minutes to pick them up. When I get there in person, I tell whoever asks if they can help me that I am the one who called about the $2 bills. Usually one teller has them all in their drawer. And while they are getting the $2&#039;s together I also ask if they have any half dollars or dollar coins. If they say yes, I tell them I&#039;ll take all of those, too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Usually, they&#039;re happy to get rid of so many items. It makes it easier for them to count and balance their drawers at the end of the day (for some reason, $2 bills are the most evil). Occasionally, a teller might ask me how many of a particular denomination I want, and I tell them all of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Only once has anyone asked me why I want any of this stuff. I answer honestly &quot;I&#039;m a collector.&quot; Which is true. I collect and keep all of the $2 bills, quarters, and half dollars I get. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t ask to see them all, or ask to pick through the pile they might have. I don&#039;t selectively take only shiny coins in the hopes that they are silver. I don&#039;t ask for certain years of coins. I don&#039;t &quot;inform&quot; them that I&#039;m hoping to find a silver coin, nor do I &quot;withhold&quot; information that silver coins exist in the first place.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I take them ALL. I ask for ALL of them. </p><p><br /></p><p>And until this particular bank teller, I&#039;ve received them ALL without ever seeing them first before being counted out in front of me, and being told (and shown) by the teller that she is keeping &quot;this one&quot; BECAUSE it&#039;s silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>That was the point of my thread: being denied a specific coin by a teller in the first place, after asking for ALL of a denomination. I had no idea they were allowed to do that. And it was in plain view. She had them all in her hand, counted them out to me while putting them all on the counter in front of me EXCEPT one, because SHE knew it was silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I should have named the thread &quot;Denied a coin at bank&quot; instead? Would that have made a difference? I simply wanted to know if this is common, if it has happened to anyone else, if this might be every bank&#039;s policy. I don&#039;t know, so I started a thread.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Wow. I never thought I&#039;d have to justify/explain my methods on a coin collecting forum. </p><p><br /></p><p>And for the record, I&#039;ve never gotten any silver coins from a bank. Ever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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