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Message:: [QUOTE="justndav76, post: 705377, member: 17428"]A regular teller I highly doubt, but the banks head tellers usually can send stuff to the main central bank vault or order stuff from the central vault.  That was my experience from when I worked in a bank many years ago.  I know when I worked at that bank people would bring in stuff to cash in for face value and I would be dumbfounded at what people cashed in.  Saw so many old coins that you wouldnt believe it, unfortunately this was before I was heavily into coin collecting.  We also had one old lady who brought in her deceased husbands wheats, walker/franklin halves, and various other coinage.  I simply told her that she would get way more than face value if she went to a local coin dealer and sold them (the most reputable local dealer that I knew and did business with).  She proceeded to do just that and pocketed about $3000 on probably $600 in face value coins.  She came in a week later and thanked me for my advice.  Scared me to think what may have happened had another less knowledgeable teller waited on her.  I could have been greedy I suppose and just cashed them in and had them held for me to buy but I knew better.  In these tough times it makes me sick to think how many old people are doing this just to put food on the table or pay whatever various expenses they have.[/QUOTE]