$25.00 box of circulated cents

[Steven]

I went to a bank, that I had not been to before, yesterday and asked for a box of cents. The teller looked at me strangely then asked if I wanted a roll of pennies. I said no a $25.00 box of them. She then asked how much is that? I said $25.00. She then went to get a supervisor. They had a discussion of some sort while both were looking at me like I was weird or something. They both then began searching the other teller booths and came up with $25.00 in old used paper and shrink wrap rolls. The teller then put them into two of the zip up bank bags, shoved them toward me and said sorry we are out of boxes they are getting hard to come by. I gave her the $25.00 and began to leave. I turned and saw that they were all looking at me from behind the counter like they just saw an alien or something. Is it getting that hard to get copper from banks everywhere else.
Just had to share this one
Steven

[walkingdude]

I don't ask for that much, they wouldn't have it anyway but I just tell them I like to look for errors. They smile and so "Oh".

[Dick]

Steven, I have several empty boxss. I ask for the empty boxes that they toss out! ( B of A). Maybe other "banking organizations", maybe can't, don't, won't. You might pffer to lend them a box, so they can fill it for you, and then notify you when it is ready. I don't do business with B of A, but I do have a savings account with them. It has to be over $100.00 to keep them from "eating" it @$3.00/month! Other than keeping a savings account open for ready access to their boxes of cents, and quarters, primarily. I have gotten boxes of nickels. Dimes? TOO small!!!! nickels, problem, cents big problem, but I live with it. I bank with another bank, but they don't like to see someone come in with a bag, bos, or more that a few rolls of coin! Their alarm goes off every time I go in. Dick

[eagames]

I've also got the alien response from banks.

I went a few times and got whatever they offered. The last time I went the teller looked paranoid, she asked the manager something and they both looked at me like an alien. Then the manager looked at the rolls which were hand wrapped with phone numbers or account numbers on them (in the past they wanted that if you turned in rolls). That manager inked over the numbers and gave them to me. I guess she thought she outsmarted me if I was doing it to get account numbers

[Dick]

Boy, they must really be "out of touch" with the "modern" ways. Now they don't ask for this info. They don't even check the rolls, (other than to count them). That is how we are getting these little "goodies" that are reported as "found in rolls"! I have found everything from SBA's, Philipine "PIZO"'s, alumunum car wash tokens, you name it, in quarter rolls. Makes it more intreresting.
Dick

[coppercoins]

I usually have no trouble at all getting a $25 box of cents, and the banks know what they are. I even get them from banks when I'm out of state and they don't know me from Adam. Is your skin green or something?

I was able to stop at three banks in Ohio that I had never been to before and got a clean $25 box from each one. I can get them from the local banks here any time I want them. Heck, you pay the $10 shipping and I will get them for you here. I believe I can get 100 rolls in a priority box....done it before.

[Dick]

CD, do you have any problem getting bags of cents? I would have to go to San Frenscisco, to get one, as far as I know. And "thets a fur piece"! There aren't any Fed Reserve banks closer, that I know of. I have always wanted to buy at least one, before I die. I want to see what else might come in it, also. Dick

[Dick]

Steven, ED, especially you, ED, it just occured to me! With the influx of "Illegals", maybe it would help if you spoke Spanish to them. That is what I do. Dick

[coppercoins]

Getting a bag would be far more difficult considering they haven't put cents in bags since 2001. Back then it was easy. I could get as many new bags of cents as I wanted for $50.

[Dick]

CD, I didn't know they didn't do that any more. I see the ads at the Mint for bags of 100, 1000, coins etc, and just supposed it was still being done with the cents. Live, and learn. I guess it would go without saying that it is impossible to buy an un-opened, un searched bag, these days! I don't think they are stored in banks, like the Morgans, and Peace dollars were. I get the impression that I was born about 60 years too soon. Regards,
Dick

[Dick]

CD, I'm almost tempted to send you the money, (next month. This one is "shot"), and ask you to send me a box. Maybe there might be something besides Denver mint marks. I'll try to remind you if you are still willing to give it a shot. Regards,
Dick

[coop]

Dick: That won't work cause he also gets most Denver coins. Not all like you and me find. The number of Denver coins on this side of the Country is re-re-dundant.

[coppercoins]

Dick,

The bags you see advertised from the Mint are special bags for collectors. The bags I was talking about is the way the mint used to package coins for commerce. $50 cent bags, $500 dime bags, $1000 quarter bags, etc. They quit doing that in 2001 in favor of huge plastic tubs of coins that take a forklift to move. A cent tub is $4000 face, as I hear it.

And Coop is correct. Although I live in the center of the country most of the coins I get are Denver mint. You'd have to go East of Indiana or to Eastern Kentucky or Tennessee from here to get to the Philly minted cents.

I do know that within the next three or four months I will be going to Ohio for a visit with family - I may try to get five or ten boxes while I'm there. Still looking for my example of a 1999 cent with the proof style reverse (like I'll ever find one).

[Dick]

CD, I see what you mean. I'll wait and see what "the weather brings". We havs a very hard time getting "S" mint coinage, and it is less than a thousand miles away. Denver, on the other hand iscloser to 1500+ miles, and we are "swamped" with them! "P"'s are like "hen's teeth", pretty hard to find.
The chat.....in AZ, 6 PM will do it. I have to do it at 5PM. CD, is already there! All you folks on the East coast "gotta" wait 'til 8 PM.
Regards, Dick

[eagames]

One other thing about boxes is....

About this time of the year or in Dec most banks stop getting new unc solid date boxes, maybe it's the time when the mint's about to swith to the next year. I've seen boxes dated Dec and sometimes they're of first strike coins dated the next year. But the places that roll/box seem not to ship them until the beggining of the next year.

So if you get boxes now they'll either be stragglers of 06 or mixed dates or the bank might not have any to give.

They're also sometimes more eager to get rolls if you have them to turn in.

Soon we'll see if 07 brings a flurry of DDOs like 06 did!!!