Tellers asks you "what are you doing with so many X" you respond with:

[OnARoll]

Now I usually use the poker story(works like a charm) when buying loose half's and such but I came up with a new (brilliant) story for large orders, it goes as follows.."What are you going to do with all these half dollars?" Me: My nephew only 10 years old just got a metal detector and for his birthday all of his metal detecting friends are going into a field together to search for "treasure", we bury the coins for the kids, the kid with the most coins wins a prize. Thought that this could be a cool place to tell our outlandish story's we have told to tellers when we get asked the famous question..sometimes its easier and more entertaining to make up some crazy story than to simply tell them your a "coin collector", the teller sure shutted up after I told her that one above..I usually never use story's, in fact I usually don't say anything at all, I don't get too friendly with my order banks as I do with my dump banks but I figured these types of story's are great for one time stops at a bank you will never hit up again! Looking forward to reading some more outlandish story's you have told tellers..

 

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[GlenDronach]

I just say I collect and I'm filling my books. Don't mention silver, just act like i'm a nerd. It also helps when I follow it up with "anyone hand anything old in recently?"

 

[Digesting a common clad]

"I eat them"

 

[halfhunter]

"I eat them"

I sure wish I could see pictures of what you eat.

 

[Thorne]

I say I'm a collector.

 

[bigmike0377]

I tell them I teach a church youth group and coin collecting is one of their activities and the kids keep the ones they find. They seem very willing to help and some tellers even hold old looking rolls for me because they think it is for the kids.

 

[OnARoll]

Lol bigmike nice one, good way to score some sympathy coins!

 

[bigmike0377]

I might go to hell for it but it gets me good rolls lol.

 

[maverick]

I've been doing this long enough that they don't ask anymore, they know what I'm doing allready, everyone will get to that point eventually. When they did first ask, I just told them we look for anything out of the ordinary and foriegn coins. HH, Maverick.

 

[Bad Wolf]

I tell them I teach a church youth group and coin collecting is one of their activities and the kids keep the ones they find. They seem very willing to help and some tellers even hold old looking rolls for me because they think it is for the kids.

Variation on the theme; I sometimes say my son's Cub Scout den is working on their coin collecting badge, which at least had been true a few years ago, or I sometimes say that we are working on our Whitman's and any help with older coins would be much appreciated.

 

[sax player]

I tell them that I an trying to complete my half dollar set.

I am trying to complete my set- of silver ones :-)

 

[cooper36]

They know what i do. They dont ask.

 

[50cent]

If a tella asks, 'I collect error marks, looking for some of the newer coins, chipped or broken ones, all sorts'

IF a bank manager, or someone who usually is behind a desk asks, I say "I am doing independent research on coin-ordering that I plan on submitting to the OCC"

 

[smokeythecat]

Or you could say you use the full boxes to line your bunker to keep the riff raff zombies out when the zombie apocalypse happens. Or, on second thought, they might never let you in the bank again.

 

[OnARoll]

Or you could say you use the full boxes to line your bunker to keep the riff raff zombies out when the zombie apocalypse happens. Or, on second thought, they might never let you in the bank again.

Haha you would be banished for saying something like that!! lol.

 

[dejapooh]

I will not lie. I generally say nothing. I shrug my shoulders. Tilt my head and gather my coins...

 

[smokeythecat]

You wouldn't be banished if those particular bankers were really gullible.

 

[sack0silver]

I was a bit intoxicated for this one, I told them it was for home defense. I was wearing hunting camo and was covered in mud and pasta sauce...They dont ask anymore.

 

[eolson3]

I just say rather slowly; "I just really....really...like halves..." They rarely ask again.

 

[fistfulladirt]

What was the question?