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<p>[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 3415322, member: 24633"]Before the price of silver soared into the $40's, I was ordering two boxes of half dollars every week from my BoA branch for years. They even supplied me the wrappers, and I would re-roll them and return them to my branch. The tellers and the management never complained.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly enough, I began to think that some of the coins looked vaguely familiar, and I could swear that I had seen some of these coins before. Of course, this couldn't be possible. Right? There are surely hundreds of thousands of half dollars floating around in the Federal Reserve System and in all of the other banks and armored car services in my region.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, one day, as I was engaged in a casual conversation with Laurie, the head teller, I made mention of this. This didn't seem to come as any surprise to her. As a matter of fact, she nonchalantly informed me that BoA in Florida has a central storage facility to process orders for coins needed by all of the BoA banks, and that coins of all denominations are recirculated and re-wrapped in this facility. The only time that coins are ordered from the Fed is when the supply at the storage facility runs low.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yep! I wasn't imagining things! I don't know exactly how many years it took, but I really must have searched through every half dollar in their system. It was fortunate for me that it wasn't long after that the price of silver skyrocketed to that amazing high in the $40's because I sold all of my junk silver and stopped searching boxes from BoA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 3415322, member: 24633"]Before the price of silver soared into the $40's, I was ordering two boxes of half dollars every week from my BoA branch for years. They even supplied me the wrappers, and I would re-roll them and return them to my branch. The tellers and the management never complained. Oddly enough, I began to think that some of the coins looked vaguely familiar, and I could swear that I had seen some of these coins before. Of course, this couldn't be possible. Right? There are surely hundreds of thousands of half dollars floating around in the Federal Reserve System and in all of the other banks and armored car services in my region. So, one day, as I was engaged in a casual conversation with Laurie, the head teller, I made mention of this. This didn't seem to come as any surprise to her. As a matter of fact, she nonchalantly informed me that BoA in Florida has a central storage facility to process orders for coins needed by all of the BoA banks, and that coins of all denominations are recirculated and re-wrapped in this facility. The only time that coins are ordered from the Fed is when the supply at the storage facility runs low. Yep! I wasn't imagining things! I don't know exactly how many years it took, but I really must have searched through every half dollar in their system. It was fortunate for me that it wasn't long after that the price of silver skyrocketed to that amazing high in the $40's because I sold all of my junk silver and stopped searching boxes from BoA. Chris[/QUOTE]
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