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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eskychess, post: 101411, member: 4692&quot;]It&#039;s good to see a lot of fellow Wheaty Hunters! heheh</p><p><br /></p><p>About the $50 bags - I have run into some banks that only sell the $25 box of pennies that you had referred to. It&#039;s amazing how MEAN some banks are and how NICE others are. One bank in particular absolutely refuses to count my pennies and are quite hostile about it. They won&#039;t even offer me a service fee, they flat out won&#039;t do it, which is quite a shame because they actually have one of the fastest machines around to count coins. Absolutely LAZY is what they are, but I can&#039;t really do anything about that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> hehehe ... The other bank, one of the tellers is extremely friendly. She collected pennies with her mother in the old Whitman books long ago... She will go as far as to save the bags of pennies for me and put my name on them for pickup!! Now that&#039;s SERVICE!! hehehe ... How this bank gets the bags of pennies is that they are just counted from the change machine in change that people routinely bring in (The best for us Wheat Hunters). The machine sorts everything, and then there are several bags below for each denomination. I think most of these machines are similar and when the machine counts that there are $50 in pennies, it stops and the penny bag has to be changed. Having a telller that watches the bags for me, is extremely a good bonus because she knows the bags I have brought in and sends them out to the central place that rolls them. I think they all get those $25 boxes of pennies, but I do say that you may not want to buy too many of those at one time or one bank frequently, because those boxes cost the bank money - rolling fees and paper fees. That&#039;s why bags work great and actually SMART bank tellers and NOT lazy ones should really be more than happy to do that for you as it requires very little work and certainly does not cost the bank anything in terms of fees, other than the teller&#039;s labor, which for the most part is negligable. I have been asked to not do more than say $15 at lunchtime because of the busy time of the bank (I live in a small town) but for the most part, MOST banks will cooperate with the coin collectors. If you&#039;re going to a bank for the first time, it might be best to talk to the manager or head teller and let them know right away what you want and ask them if it&#039;s possible and how they would like it done. If you&#039;re really polite 99% of the time they will spell out a process or accept your ideas and let ALL the tellers know how it will go. If you leave it up to a mere teller to decide each time instead, you could have problems, because one teller might be polite and the other rude. If you go to the manager right away and ask them what is the best way to do it, if you get a grumbly teller later, you always have the manager to rely on for the final say. Also, DO NOT feel embarrassed to go get coins. To heck with them if they don&#039;t like it. Be polite and as nice as possible, but get the coins and search them. I know a lady who was a bank teller for 5 years and she said it&#039;s really no big deal to do that in the course of a day for a bank teller. If you do one bag per week or every other week that is hardly an inconvenience or cost to the bank! But again, it&#039;s best to go to the manager right away if you plan on doing it long term because then you can set up a relationship that is favorable and you may get lucky if some good stuff ever comes in. I know a guy who works well with a credit union in a different town and surprisingly he got a phone call from them. The teller told him that some old guy cashed in 45,000 wheat pennies all at once and she wanted to know if he wanted them. He bought every one!!! :bow: LOL ... Why can&#039;t I get that lucky! lol</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope the info helps... Keep up the good work Wheat Hunters ... Let me know what you find!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Esky[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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