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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 508204, member: 11668&quot;]You can certainly *ask*.&nbsp; The response will vary tremendously from one bank branch to the next....</p><p><br /></p><p>If there&#039;s a teller working there who collects old/interesting money, then all the other tellers will already have been told to save everything for him/her, and they&#039;ll be unlikely to pass anything along to you.&nbsp; Otherwise, they&#039;ll often be perfectly glad to sell interesting money to customers at face value, should they have any.&nbsp; If they recognise you as a regular customer whom they see fairly often at that bank branch, then they may even be willing to set aside the &quot;nifty&quot; money for you to pick up next time you&#039;re in.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you luck into finding a branch like this: Don&#039;t turn down anything they&#039;ve saved for you, if you can possibly help it.&nbsp; Even if it&#039;s just yet another scribbled-on 1974 $20, buy it, thank them profusely, and spend it if you don&#039;t want to keep it.&nbsp; That way they&#039;ll keep saving you anything interesting that comes along, and someday it&#039;ll be something good.</p><p><br /></p><p>One day a few years back I walked into my credit union and was offered sixty-one $1 silver certificates, plus some old FRN $1&#039;s.&nbsp; The teller said that there *had* been some Funnybacks, but that the other tellers had already bought all of those....&nbsp; Fortunately none of the tellers knew enough about old money to have picked out the 1935D *..D, so I got that one.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the &quot;stuff that got away&quot; category, I once walked into my bank and found all the tellers gathered together looking at something: Apparently another customer, not five minutes before, had deposited an 1899 $1 silver certificate, a &quot;Black Eagle&quot;.&nbsp; The thing must&#039;ve been VF+ if not XF.&nbsp; They knew enough not to send *that* back out at face value!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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