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<p>[QUOTE="Digenes, post: 470401, member: 16318"]The bank or I should say credit union I deal with all the time, has a coin star counter in their lobby. I buy bags of coins from them at least every two weeks. 50 for a bag of pennies, 200 for nickels and 1000 for dimes and quarters. I have found many coins other than the stated denomination in the bags. I have found up to 4 dollars in quarters in the nickel bags, dimes in the penny bags etc. I have talked to the head teller about this, and they have told me, well that is your good fortune, when I asked them if they needed the extra back.</p><p>They informed me that it does not effect their bottom line as they just take the bags of coins out of the machine, label them and send them off to the Federal Reverse. The person that is getting ripped off for the most part is 1. the customer who is getting the coins counted. 2. The owner of the counting machine aka Coin Star.</p><p>In the end the Credit Union dosn't care so I no longer do either.</p><p> </p><p>PS. Last bag of pennies I purchased I found 3.00 in wheaties and one 1979-S Proof </p><p> </p><p>Dave aka Digenes[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Digenes, post: 470401, member: 16318"]The bank or I should say credit union I deal with all the time, has a coin star counter in their lobby. I buy bags of coins from them at least every two weeks. 50 for a bag of pennies, 200 for nickels and 1000 for dimes and quarters. I have found many coins other than the stated denomination in the bags. I have found up to 4 dollars in quarters in the nickel bags, dimes in the penny bags etc. I have talked to the head teller about this, and they have told me, well that is your good fortune, when I asked them if they needed the extra back. They informed me that it does not effect their bottom line as they just take the bags of coins out of the machine, label them and send them off to the Federal Reverse. The person that is getting ripped off for the most part is 1. the customer who is getting the coins counted. 2. The owner of the counting machine aka Coin Star. In the end the Credit Union dosn't care so I no longer do either. PS. Last bag of pennies I purchased I found 3.00 in wheaties and one 1979-S Proof Dave aka Digenes[/QUOTE]
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