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Message:: [QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 144269, member: 2100"]Become friends with bank tellers and store clerks. I have a small network that watches out for interesting items. Some of the most regular flow, albeit a trickle, is from a couple girls that work at a Dairy Queen. Seems kids are frequently raiding someone's coin stash, and every week or two I'll get a buck or two's worth of silver, mostly dimes and quarters, with an occasion Buffalo nickel. Earlier this year a teller saved 12 Morgan and Peace dollars along with about $5 face of Mercs that an older woman had brought in because the store clerk wouldn't take them. She is only allowed to take face value for them, but I make sure to make it worth their while. I missed out on the best one though (guy went to the wrong teller). I've told this one before. While in the bank, I overhear one teller asking another "What are these? Are they American?" Of course that immediately grabs my attention. It seems that an old gent had brought in 40 rolls of quarters for "folding money". The teller that took them had looked thru 5 of the rolls prior to my showing up, and the newest one was dated 1943. The ones she was asking the other teller about were the Standing Liberties and the Barbers. I tried to purchase the whole lot, but she was going to give them to her 10 year old son who was starting to collect coins. I tried, but she wouldn't part with any of them. I would have enjoyed just looking thru the whole thing.[/QUOTE]