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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beachcombermike, post: 625597, member: 19211&quot;]<b>Don&#039;t want to start an arguement but have a question..</b> </p><p>Okay I don&#039;t want to start an arguement or heated discussion so please answer this question pertaining to this situation only and just to let you know I won&#039;t respond to any other posts about other situations telling me that bank employees who buy bills or coins of value from unknowing customers are wrong. </p><p><br /></p><p>Okay here is the situation that I&#039;m talking about. At our bank we have a changer that we have to run for the customer. The way this one is we empty the coin onto the top and skim through it looking for things that will tear the machine up. You would be surprised what we find. Some examples are pocket lint, buttons, safety pins, washers, bolts, nails, nuts, earrings, a real gold ring once, rocks and so on. Well while going through it and while waiting on my old machine to count the money occasionally I will see a wheat cent or silver dime or nickel. I&#039;ve actually found silver dimes, war nickels, a couple of buffalo nickels, one Indian head cent and lots of wheat cents. Well today a customer seen me skimming through it and said &quot;If there are any good old coins in there they are mine&quot; Well there lies my question. Shouldn&#039;t it be their responsiblity to go through their coin before they bring it in? If it were a teller running the change that wasn&#039;t knowlegable then their coins would be in a cloth bag heading to our downtown vault. Is it my responsibility to inform myself what is worth keeping and then also searching through coin for the customer? </p><p><br /></p><p>I usually set aside what I find if I do and give the customer their money and then buy the coin from my drawer at the end of the day. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see how if they aren&#039;t going to take the time to go through it that I should. Like I said I know that there are other situations and I don&#039;t want to get into a discussion about those but what about this situation? </p><p>...................................................................................................................</p><p><span style="color: blue">would any of you mind an englishman (living in australia) sticking his nose into this question, i&#039;m trying to follow it as best i can, but is the above question anywhere different ethicly than coin collectors going into banks and buying rolls of coins hoping to find something that the bank had missed, just a thought.&nbsp; mike.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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