What are the funniest things you have heard from a teller or someone about coins

[sagittarius98]

Please tell me what is the funniest thing you heard a teller or someone say about coins you were picking up or any coins in general.

My funniest was when I picked up a quarter by the side of a road and someone told me "It's a silver dollar." I then said it was a state quarter and he said "Those are collectable, right?"

I have no idea how you can mistake a quarter for a large dollar, but I think the person never even saw what a silver dollar looks like.

 

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[GlenDronach]

I offered some guy $10 in line for $5 face of 1964 half dollars. I could here him playing with them in his pocket. He yells to the whole store...."there's a sucker born everyday, this guy is an idiot". The cashier asked why would you do that? I said they are silver, they are worth $130 for them all!

He was right, there is a sucker born every day! You paid twice face value for something worth 20 face value, and he was about to buy some potato chips with them at face. He just got confused when it came to who was the sucker.

Went to the window at a local Bank of America, asked for a box of dimes.. She says, "we can't give you a whole box." So I replied, "How much can y'all give me?" Then she got this small envelope used to put cash in, and says, as many as can fit in here." At this point I just stared at her for a good 10 seconds, then started busting out laughing.. She just watched me laugh, it was great!! I didn't say anything else to her after that, just drove off!! X)))

You missed a good opportunity!

 

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[FloridaFinder]

I offered some guy $10 in line for $5 face of 1964 half dollars. I could here him playing with them in his pocket. He yells to the whole store...."there's a sucker born everyday, this guy is an idiot". The cashier asked why would you do that? I said they are silver, they are worth $130 for them all!

So to be sure, did he sell them to you?

 

[silas1128]

When a teller tells me that they can not sell me a bag off the coin counter because they "have to send them directly back to the Fed."

My local branch wont sell the bags off the machine either. They don't want to chance having it being off, and then having an un-happy customer because they got shorted. I don't think it was a real rule, but more of a better safe then sorry.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

-1.

Went to the window at a local Bank of America, asked for a box of dimes.. She says, "we can't give you a whole box." So I replied, "How much can y'all give me?" Then she got this small envelope used to put cash in, and says, as many as can fit in here." At this point I just stared at her for a good 10 seconds, then started busting out laughing.. She just watched me laugh, it was great!! I didn't say anything else to her after that, just drove off!! X)))

 

[isabella1]

So to be sure, did he sell them to you?

Yea I bought them

 

[FloridaFinder]

Yea I bought them

Jokes on him then. I wonder where he got them from. Good purchase.

 

[hughmaster10]

-1.

Why is that? She was very rude, not the fact that she wouldn't give me as much as I wanted, but her tone of voice was as if she did not want to help me AT ALL once I told her I wanted dimes.. so I don't think I was being very rude at all, being that she had an attitude with me to start with..

 

[Infector101]

Funniest thing I remember, before I was a CRH but still collected coins, was when I over heard a group of people talking about war time nickels. One of the guys in the group said that the silver nickels were worth $10,000 a piece and very rare.

 

[sagittarius98]

Funniest thing I remember, before I was a CRH but still collected coins, was when I over heard a group of people talking about war time nickels. One of the guys in the group said that the silver nickels were worth $10,000 a piece and very rare.

The people must have confused it with the 1944 steel cent.

 

[sagittarius98]

Any new stories you want to share?

 

[sagittarius98]

A manager came up to me today and told me that Coinstar picks the coins up from the floor (which isn't true) and said that if you find coins on the ground in the store I have to give them to her. I just left and let her take the $1 if she wants and maybe use it to buy some paint for the lines in the parking lot or to turn on some more lights in the store .

 

[sagittarius98]

I had a few polished V-nickels that had no numismatic value, so I decided to spend them. I dumped all but 2 at a coin counter. Yesterday I tried to spend one of the two, and the cashier immediately said "I can't take this, it's Canadian." I gave her a bit of a lesson on older US coins and she accepted it, but was somewhat unhappy.

What I really find funny is that any coin that does not look like the regular US change we have today is called Canadian.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

"I have some half dollars, I've been waiting a WHOLE WEEK for somebody to buy them, thank you so much for coming in and getting these off my hands!!"
...hands me 10 40% halves...
LOL

 

[twiasp]

Earlier this week i had a teller exclaim how she found some silver in some change that a customer brought in (in a Metamucil container). She sniped a few 6-8 silver dimes when running it through the counter. I asked if i could buy the bag of dimes off the counter when it filled up. She said, why do you think i missed some? I said, i really hope so lol. 1000 dollar bag of dimes, 299 silver rosies and 30 something silver Canadian dimes. Best teller hook up for me so far. Too bad i missed their bag of quarters as she wasn't sure if there were any quarters in the change or not =(

2nd best teller hook up for me was a bank that called and let me know that a customer had turned in some half dollars (49 dollars worth) and wanted to know if i wanted them. I said sure i do, i will be in in the morning to pick them up and thanks. I come walking in with a dozen fresh cupcakes and picked up my halves. If i remember correctly 29 dollars of them were silver (1 90% and the rest 40%).

 

[Omega]

Why can't I have any experiences like that haha. Nice finds twiasp!

 

[Omega]

Went into a bank yesterday and the teller said ya I have 4 rolls of halfs I can sell you, but I have to warn you, an elderly women brought them in so they Are old and dirty, like really really old, you may even find some gold in there. I busted out laughing with my friend as soon as we got out of the bank, but gold coins? Haha. They were solid rolls of 40%s so it was worth it! It was just funny how she reacted.

 

[D1MES_101]

i was at my NYC tour getting all the halves i can and a guy said he had 1$ in halves. One was a 68' D and another was clad. He asked me if i still wanted the 1968 D because it was dirty. I replied "i like em dirty"

 

[Dreadnox]

I used to work at a grocery store as a receiver and anytime a cashier thought he or she had a fake or foreign coin they would call me up front to see if I knew what it was. I was called upfront one morning and showed a 1921 and a 1922 silver dollar (Peace Time). I told the cashier and the owner that they were old us dollars, the owner said I just want a cup of coffee that he had already poured and I need to get to work. I told him they were collectable and he should take them to a collector but he just wanted the coffee and to be on his way so I offered him 5 dollars I had on me and I got this really amazed look but he agreeded so I bought them both for 5 bucks and and I did have enough change so I bought his coffee for him. He said thanks very much and left. I love it when that happenes, it just doesn't happen often enough. Still got thos in my stash box LOL...

 

[Twitch]

Earlier today I see an IH sitting in the teller tray. "is that and indian head penny?" "Yes, it came in with a regular roll of pennies" "Are you interested in selling it?" "I don't know yet, you know it's worth $3.70" "Very cool". It was an 1891 that looked like someone beat it with a hammer. I was laughing at the exact value of $3.70.

Earlier in the week I bought a '68D out of a teller try along with a clad and the teller gave me a ~60 second lesson on how to determine if a half is silver or not, including the rim check, the date check and the sound test, bouncing both halves off the marble counter top loud enough for the whole bank to hear. "You'll probably want to hold onto the silver one, it might be worth something someday"

Different teller earlier in the week "this one's a silver clad" it was a '67, good call Mrs Teller.

A couple of months ago as she's handing me a Franklin out of her teller tray "oh that's a old one"

~2 months ago getting a Walker out of a teller tray "that's probably collectable", uh that's why I'm here.

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

I didn't hear it from a teller but I said it. I went in and bought a box of nickels. I'm 13 years old and have been CRHing for 3 years. I was with my grandmother and the teller asked what I was going to do with them. I simply stated, "oh my grandmother and I are going to the casino to play the slots at (the local casino that's an hour away). I got the best reaction ever lol. I then had to explain what I was doing. Another some what related story, A coin collector I know took a half cent to the bank and told them he wanted to deposit it. It ended up being a 30 minute argument lol.