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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;vintagemintage, post: 2580151, member: 75988&quot;]I stop at several banks regularly to ask for Half Dollars. Not too long ago I was asking at one of them, the teller had a few and he knows I&#039;m a regular requester of Halves, so he also offered to check with the other tellers to see if they had any too. He came back to his window, told me he had $17 worth and started counting them for me. One of the coins he got from another teller had a bright silver edge and he picked it out, kept it in his closed hand, and told me there was $16.50. I asked him what he had kept in his hand and he told me that it was just a coin that didn&#039;t belong with the others. When I told him things like that could be of interest to me and asked if I could at least see what it was, he didn&#039;t want to show it to me and just repeated that it didn&#039;t belong with the others. I asked him what it was about this coin that he wouldn&#039;t even let me see it, and he reluctantly showed me a Franklin Half and told me that he saves stuff like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Normally I don&#039;t have a problem with tellers saving coins for themselves, in fact I sometimes think it would be cool to be a teller just because of the chance to do that! I have a good rapport with other tellers that like to show me some of their finds from time to time and we&#039;ve shared some good stories.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I started thinking... this isn&#039;t a teller saving coins from his tray for himself, this is a guy that went on <i>my behalf </i>to another teller to get Halves for <i>me</i> and now wants to keep one. And he does this right in front of me and then tries to conceal it. </p><p>When I reminded him that one reason he sees me in the bank asking for coins is the hope that I might find something exactly like this, he did let me have it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess my point is: Even if a bank&#039;s policies allow tellers to exchange coins for themselves, It&#039;s just bad business to do this in front of a customer that&#039;s requesting those coins. At least be a little discreet about it, or customers will just be needlesly dissapointed like some on this thread[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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