WTH - only BofA and WF have boxes?

[97guns]

i went to 5 different banks today and only BofA and WF had boxes ready to go. both cahse and citi had to give me customer rolled stuff. is this the norm for these 2 banks to not have boxes?

[newton7]

BoA, CapOne and BVAA all handed me boxes today. All new and fresh, no customer rolls but i dont bank at citi or cahse. It could also be a Friday or payday issue. I know I have hit snags on paydays in the past and try to avoid Fri/Sat if possible. Hope this helps.

[97guns]

ty, how many boxes do you buy at a time?

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

ty, how many boxes do you buy at a time?

24

I love customer wrapped rolls.. and am always pleased when banks sell them to me. You have a much better chance of copper and other good things with CWR's. Don't expect banks to have boxes.. and if they do, don't expect them to sell them to you. The generally reserve their boxes for their merchant customers. They tend to order just enough boxes of pennies to fill the weekly demand of their merchant customers.. and certainly not stacks of extras that will fill up the vault.. this is why they rarely have "extra" boxes to sell to you. In order to get boxes on a regular basis, you need to establish a good relationship with the bank and get to where they order them specifically for you on a weekly basis.

What, you thought this was easy?

[97guns]

the chase branch where i bank at offered to order me some boxes because they do not normally carry them, would it look abnormal to order 10 boxes?

how do i hual 10 boxes out of the bank?

[TXBullion]

the chase branch where i bank at offered to order me some boxes because they do not normally carry them, would it look abnormal to order 10 boxes?

how do i hual 10 boxes out of the bank?

Might seem abnormal, just act natural

As for the haul, either multiple trips with very heavy duty bag (porter cable nail gun bag ) or a cart. Be ready to get a couple of looks with the cart Also, make sure your cotter pins are secure so you dont have a wheel fall off

[cwgii]

branches within the same bank , do things different. i have one that will not sell me cwr , as it may have short rolls etc. . yet another branch, will only give me cwr as has been stated. .. they hold the bwr for 'businesses'.

that said, i find it more of a feast or famine on cwr. .. too many times i get skunked. either on wheats, war/buffs. as they are 'different' and stand out when people roll their coins.

but just often enough, you get a 'haul'. like last night i got one roll....... 5 buffs, all no dates, a 44d war, one 1948,,,,, and a coin i had not seen before, a 1936 mexican 5 centavos.

[JadeDragon]

Think of it this way. Some branches are net shippers of coin - they get in more coin than their clients can use. Typically branches in residential areas fall into this group, think coin drives, piggy banks etc. These are good source banks.

Some banks are net importers of coin. These branches have business customers that use coin in the tills. These branches are often in big commercial areas.

Either one can be a decent source bank. You can get CWR at the branches that would otherwise have to ship coin at a cost. They will like you for taking it off their hands. Don't expect big quantities though. If you ask for big blocks of coin they will freak though.

At the importing branches it is easier to get lots of boxes because they are used to importing coins for their business customers. Your request just gets tacked on.

[97guns]

i just got back from a successfull run. i went to 2 BoA and a WF netting 6 boxes of nickels and 3 pennies, both of the BoA tellers did not have the nickels at their station - they had to "buy them" from the main stash. i also went to my Chase to do my banking, they do not carry boxes but can order them so i ordered 2 nickels and a penny, we'll see how this goes.

[999Ni]

how'd you do with those nickel boxes 97guns??

[97guns]

im not searching the nickel's, should i be?

tomorrow i go to pick up the 2 nickel and penny that i ordered from chase

[999Ni]

i just assumed you did, sorry.

i check for buffs, war nicks, and anything pre-1960 goes in a separate pile. of course, some people just put the nickel boxes away that they get and thats fine too! Up to you.

[97guns]

i guess i can do that when and if its feasable to sell.

[PreservingThePast]

i just assumed you did, sorry.

i check for buffs, war nicks, and anything pre-1960 goes in a separate pile. of course, some people just put the nickel boxes away that they get and thats fine too! Up to you.

I've only ever gotten one box of nickels to search and it was a big boring disappointment. Usually just get a few rolls each week, when I can. I, too, prefer the CWRs but occasionally the bank has individual BWRs. So I take what I am offered. I may try another box one day to see if the results are any better, otherwise I will just stick with getting a few rolls at a time from the teller.

I am only lacking one coin now to fill my 1938 - 1964 nickel album. All coins were obtained at face value. I did cheat recently when I "found" a few WNs that I had stashed away from long ago finds from when we had our business and searched through those to fill some of the empty spots in the album.

The 2009 nickels are still very, very hard for me to find.

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.