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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 350987, member: 8247&quot;]A bank is a business.&nbsp; The Federal Reserve Bank has not stopped accepting them, but rather local branches have stopped accepting large quantities of them.&nbsp; I even had the luck of going to two in a row that refused about $2000 worth. </p><p><br /></p><p>At the first one, I figured they were just BSing me as this a branch that also lied to me about availability of halves and claimed they could never order them (even though I still buy them from other branches of the same bank).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the second one I went to was a Chase branch.&nbsp; They were a little better at explaining to me why they can&#039;t take them and letting me know what was going on.&nbsp; They were nice enough to call around to their closest branches for me to see which ones still had the ability to count them.&nbsp; A couple did not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I started calling around to other local banks and it was about 50/50 responses.&nbsp; This is only a sampling of about 10 banks and is not statistically representative.&nbsp; One of the managers at a 5/3 branch was the one who explained to me that notes from the technician when their counter was updated indicated it would not take $2&#039;s OR old style $50&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt all these banks have the exact same model counters and it may only be one model that&#039;s not taking old style $50&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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