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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 860996, member: 24633"]Until a couple years ago, I would order $500 boxes of halves and quarters from my bank to search for circulated silver. I'd place the order on Monday and pick up the boxes on Thursday. One particular Thursday, I got a little involved on the computer, so I didn't get to the bank until 10 minutes after they opened. I picked up my order of 2 boxes of each, and went home to search them. I re-rolled what I didn't want and returned them to the bank the next day. Laurie, the head cashier, knew that I collect coins and search for silver, and she said, "You won't believe what happened yesterday."  It turned out that the manager of the 7-11 down the street had come into the bank a few minutes before I had to pick up his box of quarters for the weekend. A couple hours later, he returned to the bank to ask if they had any more boxes of quarters. Laurie said she couldn't believe that he could have gone through $500 in quarters that quick. It turned out that when he opened the box he discovered that all 50 rolls in shrink-wrap were silver. That was when a $1K bag of 90% circ silver was selling for $11,000. You see, boxes aren't "reserved" for any one particular customer order. The cashiers just take the first box off the stack to fill an order. If only I hadn't been fooling around on the computer! Chris[/QUOTE]