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<p>[QUOTE="Moen1305, post: 55423, member: 2544"]Last week I went to the drive-thru at the bank and got 5000 pennies for my kids to search through. After the the first couple of rolls, we began to realize that we were probably searching through someone else's rejects. Not a wheatie in the entire lot. This has never happened to us before because I draw on so many banks for my coin searches and I vary my bank every time. I did manage to find a pretty neat die crack in the last roll I opened. A saving grace.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took them back to a different branch of the same bank and passed them to the teller to run through his counting machine. As I was waiting, I noticed he had 7 Silver quarters in his tray. I asked for my 50 dollars back and to include the seven quarters and he gave them to me. I got a 1935, 1947, 1950, 1962, 1963, and 2 1964's. Not a bad trade for a lot of worthless pennies. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it just goes to show that if a door closes, a window gets open somewhere else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Moen1305, post: 55423, member: 2544"]Last week I went to the drive-thru at the bank and got 5000 pennies for my kids to search through. After the the first couple of rolls, we began to realize that we were probably searching through someone else's rejects. Not a wheatie in the entire lot. This has never happened to us before because I draw on so many banks for my coin searches and I vary my bank every time. I did manage to find a pretty neat die crack in the last roll I opened. A saving grace. I took them back to a different branch of the same bank and passed them to the teller to run through his counting machine. As I was waiting, I noticed he had 7 Silver quarters in his tray. I asked for my 50 dollars back and to include the seven quarters and he gave them to me. I got a 1935, 1947, 1950, 1962, 1963, and 2 1964's. Not a bad trade for a lot of worthless pennies. I guess it just goes to show that if a door closes, a window gets open somewhere else.[/QUOTE]
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