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Message:: [QUOTE="Billincolo, post: 625769, member: 17389"]To me, the difference lies in the fact that the bank has sold you the roll prior to your inspection of it. You have purchased the roll under the assumption that it is a roll of like-value coins, and that is what the bank has also assumed. Therefore, the roll is now your property, even if it includes a secret compartment with a diamond inside. You have purchased the contents of the roll, whatever they are. In my mind ... It is the same as if you go to an "abandoned storage locker" sale and buy the contents, sight unseen, of a box. Whatever is inside that box is yours. Just as you purchased the coil roll from the bank. That's the whole point of buying such a "surprise box" from abandoned storage. Maybe there's nothing in it ... or maybe there's a valuable antique watch inside. It differs, to me, from the individual at the bank counter having his coins counted, in that the bank has not yet purchased the coins from the customer; they are still the customer's property until the bank accepts them as a deposit or pays the customer in like-value for them. Once the customer has accepted payment for the counted coins, they are the bank's property and the customer no longer has a claim to any of them. (However, this is a legal point -- not an ethical one. It still doesn't remove the question the OP asked about what she should do if the customer suspects there are valuable coins in the bunch.)[/QUOTE]