I went to the bank to dump some zinc pennies today. I realize that the counter is rejecting a lot of coins. I scoop them out and there is a canadian quarter, US nickel and dime and probably some extra pennies left over from the person before me. I drop the stuff back in because usually it accepts it the second time. The dime passes through again. I wonder what the deal is with it and look at it and it is a 1964 silver dime- I am an idiot. So I almost lost out on getting a silver dime for free from my own stupidity but luckily the machine prevented it.
Na, not an idiot. Consider it a learning experience.
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The safe method: Start your coins in the counter. Wait a minute. Check the reject tray and pocket anything found. Finish counting. Examine rejects later.
It's so disappointing to have Ag rejected an non-coin-of-the-realm!?! Always check your rejects and, always check the reject slot.! Kind of makes me nostalgic for when I was in the 5th and 6th grade, took the long way home on my bike just to check cigarette machines and phone coin return slots (remember when they had a handle?) for nickles and dimes.
The safe method: Start your coins in the counter. Wait a minute. Check the reject tray and pocket anything found. Finish counting. Examine rejects later.
Great bit of advice. I have been trying to figure out how to do it without getting looks from the tellers.
Teller last week had to open the counter because some of my coins jammed the feed carousel. As she looked through the rejection-tray cup she handed me a bunch of bent coins and misc. metal scrap like a hexagonal nut and paper clip. This was not my scrap. My coins were free of non-coin metal. There was a leather-like skirt in the reject chute holding back the the scrap. Check the reject chute of your counter next time for silver coins possibly held behind a baffle .
I'm an idiot, but lucky today
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