Bad box of halves...

[dougbfromnorthga]

Got my weekly box home & started opening the rolls & after a few I started noticing a small piece of tape on each roll. I pulled all the rolls out of the box & sure enough...all of them had been slit open with a razor blade and taped up. This was a sealed box from WF.... has this happened to anyone else on this forum. Guess someone was edge searching. WTF. Bummed out & ticked off. I dislike this almost as much as marked coins. Oh well tomorrow is another day. HH Doug

 

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[kd5txx]

Saves some time at least. Mine aren't cut and I'm on box 9 of a skunk streak.

 

[wharghoul]

Same thing happened to me on Wednesday. The person who searched them and taped them back up in the original loomis box also was sweet enough to put little red hearts on the side of each roll . I wish I had caught the piece of tape at the end of the box before I walked out of the bank. I would have refused to accept the box or at least opened it up in front of the teller to inspect the rolls for tampering.

 

[kb4iqm]

It used to be a common teller roll searching trick. Wifey worked as a bank teller back in the late 70's. She told me about other tellers at the bank showing her that method to edge-search for silver without having to unroll and reroll coins. A strip of scotch tape to seal the slit and on to the next roll.

 

[fistfulladirt]

It used to be a common teller roll searching trick. Wifey worked as a bank teller back in the late 70's. She told me about other tellers at the bank showing her that method to edge-search for silver without having to unroll and reroll coins. A strip of scotch tape to seal the slit and on to the next roll.

I don't even seal the slit.....I use that method to search a box of halves, but no ones going to get burned, as the tellers have to empty each roll into a bag of $500 worth before being shipped out.

 

[kb4iqm]

I don't even seal the slit.....I use that method to search a box of halves, but no ones going to get burned, as the tellers have to empty each roll into a bag of $500 worth before being shipped out.

Not all banks just dump coins into bags. Where I am, most of the banks won't even take coins unless they are rolled. What I was referring to was, some cherry-picking tellers will slit open customer wrapped rolls to edge-search for silver, then tape them back up before selling them to the customers that buy rolls of change. If they find silver coins they swap them out before taping the roll back up.

Bob

 

[silvercop]

yep happenend to me a few weeks ago. mine were in a loomis box but the rolls were brinks. could not believe that loomis would ship a box this way. that would be like coca-cola selling pepsi in their cartons. anyway it was the straw for me. after countless skunk boxes and having to pay dump fees this little "trick" was the straw that pushed me to take a break for a while. i plan to start back around the end of august.
anyway i feel your pain. maybe things will pick up if silver keeps falling. kind of wish it would fall back to around 20.00 oz. so all these johnny come lately's would move on. i have sold all my junk silver anyway. i started selling when silver hit 38.00 oz. and sold the rest when it was around 45.00. could have held on and gotten more but again you just never know when it will start to fall