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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1240281, member: 12789&quot;]I agree that they should be somewhat familiar with American coins - but you must remember they are often times college age ie about 20-22 year olds that have most likely never had a previous encounter with one of those coins.&nbsp; The banking institutions do nothing to educate them.&nbsp; Curiously there is only informal training on recognizing older coins and currency - one of my banks has a head teller that keeps &quot;training&quot; money ie the older small head bills etc to show new tellers what they looked like.&nbsp; One thing I will opin in their favour - they are not overly well paid.&nbsp; They do a stressful job that involves a lot of counting, auditing and lots of responsibility.&nbsp; Mistakes can seem trivial to you and me, but they can cost someone their job.&nbsp; In my many years of working with tellers I have only encountered mere handful of narsties - and many many more that are just awesome in supplying me with older bills, Ike dollars and my $500-800 a week nickel searching habit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tomorrow morning is reward day, visiting my commercial banks that draw in coin from their commercial and municipal customers on Fridays and sell me the remains on Monday.&nbsp; So have to have the gift cards loaded up and ready and make my rounds.&nbsp; Yeah, you got it, I am not above buying them off with favours.&nbsp; You can never hand them cash as a reward - remember this is a bank - but gift cards for restaurants, iTunes etc are perfectly acceptable. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I like my tellers, because of them I have found 120 year old coins from their deposits, darned near completed my Jefferson Whitman folder from circ(Just need the &#039;50-D and the 55 Philly) and also scooped up lots and lots of sexy silver half dollars and even war nickels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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