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I had a nice bag of cents and took it to a little branch of the credit union I had visited before, near a family member I was visiting, and if they had a counter.

They told me "no, but we can hand count it for you." I agreed and came back an hour later. $45.96 was the total.

It got me thinking, were they really that board? Who are they trying to impress? Why . . ?

They looked rather frazzled, and don't plan to do that again, but with the time I filled out a "How's your service card and raved they are great."

If the banks and CUs in my area don't have a counter they typically don't accept unrolled coinage unless it's less than a rolls worth. Same with the grocery stores.

Kodak moment for sure!

Haha! I had a similar experience. Had six unopened boxes I needed to turn into FRNs, so I took two boxes to each of three branches of my bank. First bank, I'm standing in line and a teller opens up her window--"Those look heavy; bring them here." Second bank, nothing out of the ordinary, teller takes my pennies and gives me a receipt. Third bank, teller rips open each UNSEALED box. Then COUNTS every roll! Hahahahahahaha!

My credit union also asked me not to bring rolled coins, since they have to count them manually.

But the kick was that they now charge 3% to do it, so I said, very politely "no thanks"...