Saw my favorite Bank Teller again today and she told me she had some old coins that I might want to look at. Apparently an older man had come in a few weeks ago with his Granddaughter and a jar of coins to exchange. The Teller saw what they had and suggested that they might be worth more at a coin shop but they didn't want to be bothered with that, just wanted to exchange them, so she saved them for me. I picked these out of the pile! Sometimes it helps to have friends at the bank
Not the first time I've come across the response "I don't want to bother with a coin shop" or "I don't trust the coin shop". Seems there's room for a bit of public-relations improvement in the industry... Hope you're keeping that teller well-supplied with treats!
Awesome find! Makes me want to schmooze the tellers at my bank some more and ask them to save any old coins for me. Got them chocolates a few weeks ago. Gotta think of something a little more.
Absolutely Actually there were 2 quarters in there but I can only see the silver Canadian in the photo, I'll have to check the pile again when I get home. I only had time to snap a few photos before I had to run, haven't even checked the dates yet.
My guess is that they get tarred with the same brush as pawn shops by non-coin people. I still don't understand why would one cash in silver for face value though.
Or wheats, or buffalos, or any obsolete coins... I often wonder why too but gladly accept that it happens, probably more often than we know. Maybe they just don't know where to go or how much more than face value it's worth. A bigger question to me is why do tellers tell me that they know it's worth more, then exchange it to me at face? Not all do, I've had a few tell me they buy it themselves, and why not?
I understand why people might not bother with Buffalo nickels and Wheaties. Plenty of 'em aren't worth more than face value. But silver?? Any 90% silver coin is currently worth well over 12x face just for the metal value alone!
Ya, nice find. My cousin works at a bank and grabbed this for me Tuesday. Not from San Fransisco though
My uncle works at a bank. In January, he gave me lots of silver halves (oldest was 1906D) And an 1899O Morgan. It was a G-5 though. He keeps telling me to take more, and I have to decline because there's like $150 in silver in there.
true story bank employees see a lot of interesting stuff. some days opening coin rolls looks like the foreign exchange. when was the last time you saw a ''trolley car penny''. when you work near mbta boston quite frequently. got one as a gift. looked at it recently, put the magnifier to it, this one never met the mbta ..... mint issue (mint mangled) planchet 50% streached 50 % offset with date. whats this gem worth?