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Message:: [QUOTE="tbarreca, post: 724542, member: 21275"]This topic reminded me of what is perhaps my most ridiculous numismatic stunt (to date).  From late 2003 through early 2005, I searched through about 1.1 million pennies (over $11,000 worth) in bank rolls.  I did it realizing that 2009 would be the "year of the Lincoln cent," and that given that I live in the SF Bay Area, there was a decent chance that I'd find a reasonable number of the 'S' mints that were always exciting to find as a kid growing up in Syracuse, NY. Anyway, I used about 10 branches regularly of a large, national, retail bank, and never went into any given branch more than once a week.  It got to the point where I got to know several of the tellers, some of whom actually started to save rolls for me that were brought in by customers.  For example, one day I got 4 rolls of AU/MS 51-S through 54-S cents, which had been set aside for me by one of these tellers. In the course of the year, I pulled out over $100 in wheat cents,including about 10 Indian head cents (no good ones), and not including about $30 worth of 56-D, 57-D, and 58-D cents (I did keep these, though, and 2 of them were 56-D RPMs). During this entire period, I took great pains to minimize my imposition on the tellers and the bank.  Even though many of the bank employees thought it was a bit weird at first, as I got to know them, they proved not only to be not an impediment, but downright helpful![/QUOTE]