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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1520395, member: 12789"]Buy any and all you can get and are willing to go through.</p><p><br /></p><p>My best suppliers are a couple of credit unions that I buy up all the customer deposited change from. It involves calling them ahead of time so they can mark off the account numbers, names etc. Some collectors here will not prefer customer wrapped rolls - but I live in a demographically older community that tends to spend and use older coins so CWR are better usually for me. I do buy from a couple of credit unions that I don't have accounts at, but usually even $5 in the credit union is the key to getting the goodies. My one credit union has no problem ordering me five boxes of nickels and 4 boxes of cents at a time.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been occasions, more recently where I end up with brand new coins. I take them, I won't search them, but I take them because I can then trade them at another bank that has a box of circulated coins but won't sell them without getting something in return so they have coin on hand for commercial customers. Actually commercial customers prefer new coins - it just looks cool when they hand you brand new change instead of raunchy corroded Zincolns.</p><p><br /></p><p>Always take your son with you, I hate to admit, he is probably more of a charm than most people coming in and asking to buy coins in bulk, likely even more than me.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I find some of my best stuff in those rural backwater branches of banks. Original rolls of Ike dollars, Series 1966-A $100 Red Seal(from a bank in a small town in the Calif. gold country in 2010)</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1520395, member: 12789"]Buy any and all you can get and are willing to go through. My best suppliers are a couple of credit unions that I buy up all the customer deposited change from. It involves calling them ahead of time so they can mark off the account numbers, names etc. Some collectors here will not prefer customer wrapped rolls - but I live in a demographically older community that tends to spend and use older coins so CWR are better usually for me. I do buy from a couple of credit unions that I don't have accounts at, but usually even $5 in the credit union is the key to getting the goodies. My one credit union has no problem ordering me five boxes of nickels and 4 boxes of cents at a time. There have been occasions, more recently where I end up with brand new coins. I take them, I won't search them, but I take them because I can then trade them at another bank that has a box of circulated coins but won't sell them without getting something in return so they have coin on hand for commercial customers. Actually commercial customers prefer new coins - it just looks cool when they hand you brand new change instead of raunchy corroded Zincolns. Always take your son with you, I hate to admit, he is probably more of a charm than most people coming in and asking to buy coins in bulk, likely even more than me. [LEFT][COLOR=#000000] I find some of my best stuff in those rural backwater branches of banks. Original rolls of Ike dollars, Series 1966-A $100 Red Seal(from a bank in a small town in the Calif. gold country in 2010) [/COLOR][/LEFT][/QUOTE]
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