Interesting find at bank. Said they would save for me!!

[BuffaloBoy]

There is a bank in my area with a free coin counter. I have known about the magnet on the machine but never bothered to ask about it. One day last month, I asked what happens with all foreign coins that go through the machine(I collect foreign)...

The teller says the magnetic coins get stuck to a magnet. I asked where the magnet was out of curiosity, the teller points out that it is below the metal bin where the coins slide through.

Since I dump once, maybe twice a week, he tells me next time I dump there, pull out the metal bin that the coins slide down to be counted and dump straight into the hole Saves me a lot of time!!

Anyway, back to the story. I ask if there was anything interesting on the magnet. The teller, he lifts it up and there is a big bunch of coins stuck to it. He is removing the coins from the magnet and I tell him the countries the coins are from and that I collect foreign.

He's a slick guy, collects silver coins as well. We have conversations when I am dumping, and he is always friendly.

I ask if I could buy the coins off the machine, but he said he can't do that and they have to throw the coins in the trash

I ask that if he throws the coins in the trash if he could save them for me since I save foreign coins. I guess he indirectly said yes by giving me what is off the coin machine which made me happy and I thanked him a lot.

Going through the change now, it contains the following:

Caymen Islands:
1996 5c
2002 5c
2002 5c
1992 10c
1996 10c
1996 10c
1996 10c
1999 10c
1999 10c
1999 10c
1996 25c

Euro:
1 eurocent, 2002- Germany
5 eurocent 2002- Italy

Canada:
2008 1c

Phillipines:
2004 1 piso

Also found a non-metallic Great Brittain 5 pence from 1990 in the reject bin with a few pennies and a couple nickels which I did not put in the machine as I was only dumping half dollars and dimes.


And possibly the best find of them all, he say it and said I could keep it... 1943 USA steel penny. The second one he's given me in the course of 1 month.

Gotta love it when tellers save coins for you! Foreign or not, the bank has to throw the coins away, why not give them to someone who appreciates the coins! Someone is getting sweets or some goodie next time.

Thanks for reading, HH all!

-BuffaloBoy

 

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[BuffaloBoy]

6 eurocent is worth $0.0719632
.01 CAD is worth $0.0103498
1 piso phillipines is worth $0.0233002
5 pence Great Britain is worth $0.0819538
and for the larger one, someone must have went to the caymen islands and dumped their money here:
$1.10 in Caymen island dollars is worth: $1.34146


Altogether, the coinage is worth about $1.53, I will save it, but goes to show, if the bank is going to throw it out, take it if you can or go metal detecting in the dumpster out back

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

awesome finds!!! my bank also says they cant give me the coins from the magnet/internal reject tray, and they mean it! ive tried everything, they just wont do it. they say they have to give all customers the same advantages, so if they gave me the coins it would be favoring me above other members. but, when i have asked before, they say they have to throw them in the trash can next to the machine, wink wink, so they dont mind if im digging in their trash picking out foreign coins etc in other words, and thats just what i do also, when the bag fills, they open the machine, and if i see coins on the magnet, i just say "oh, it looks as if some of my coins got stuck to the magnet" they peel them off, and give 'em to me. they know that they are not mine, especially since i dump ONLY halves (and i dont usually find 10 canadian quarters, 3 canadian dimes, and 6 canadian nickels in my rolls of halves), but they figure that if i say the coins are mine, they have to give them to me or else it would be theft if the coins really were mine...so it all works out in the end in fact just the other day when the bag was being changed, i notice "i" had "accidentally" dropped a $5$ bill into the machine, and they "let me have it back" from the reject bin
keep it up and hh!

 

[BuffaloBoy]

hah nice one! I am going to ask all the tellers every time i go to dump if I can have the coins off the magnet since they shrow them out because like i said, if they are going to throw them out, give them to someone who appreciates it