Has anyone else opened Brinks boxes and found only copper?

[Ecotic]

So this just happened, I opened up 4 sealed Brinks boxes and found every roll was filled with copper and copper Canadians (and this weird mineral ore coin that didn't appear to be currency). I'm sure everyone here has gotten a Brinks box with all 2012 shield pennies, or even boxes with all the coppers sorted out of them, but I've sorted like $10,000+ in pennies and never found boxes like these.



I made a video (I don't know why I can't get it to embed):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYGvzmkt6As&list=UUxFpGhAH6ktahny95SBlRVw&index=1

[CardsNCoins]

Clearly the banks feel that giving you any zincs is a losing proposition for them since by your own admission you intentionally short the $50 bank bags of zincs you return by ¾ of a pound (approx. $1.35), while receiving the full $50 credit in your account.

Ecotic’s comments from a different thread:

I use coin deposit bags with my bank (I just weigh the zincs), and I always short the bag by 3/4 of a pound. It's the most I can short it without getting a correction later on. Also I go to about 10 banks in a day with 2 bags each and that allows me to get rid of $1,000 in zincs in a day.

Also, I always also deposit about $2 in cash and coins when I deposit the bags. It throws off the computer systems at the headquarters which would catch my dumping activity and close my account. My logic is they're computers could catch 10 deposits of $50 or $100, but not $52.33 or $102.47.

Hey c'mon guys, think about it. They just send the bag to Brinks, credit my account immediately, and then tell me if Brinks finds the bag is off later then they will issue a correction later on. So if Brinks found my 26.75 lb bag to be $50, then obviously I was just mistaken when I read the numbers on the scale.

Besides, my bank is always passing the buck and claiming they have no pennies, and that I should "try the branch down the road", so making the gas math works requires some... innovative accounting procedures. And I'm sure they make a healthy profit giving out loans with my very robust (and perpetual) account balance of $0.01. Ten deposits or withdrawals a month requires no minimum account balance to avoid a monthly fee!

[henrysmedford]

This thread might help on getting YouTubes to post http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=19589&hilit=youtube

[Romalae]

If not authentic, we are apt to believe that you could have salted the rolls with coppers from your existing stash. It's not too hard to fit pennies back into the clear plastic rolls, I know, I've tried it before.

Sorry, but with a dishonest and disingenuous posting record, it's difficult to hold you with honorable regard.


EDIT: Also, towards the center of the bottom left corner of the YouTube video's thumbnail, there appears to be a zinc circa the 1980s. Based on visual observation.


EDIT #2: Check out my premium copper rolls from Brinks!! PS they're each short one penny because they figured, "who's gonna know?"

[BlackOut]

Do the banks or their cash vault just weigh the
Coin lock bags to determine the amount inside? They don't run them through a counter?

[Ecotic]

The tub was filled with zincs too in the video because I came home with over $500 after a half day bank run on Friday and I was in the process of emptying them all. I came home with a lot more than just the 4 boxes mentioned above.

(Oh and thanks henrysmedford for pointing out the youtube thing)

[scyther]

This has happened to others before (not me, unfortunately). The most common theory is that they are from a super-sorter that stopped operating when it met its quota (I believe $5 million) and dumped its excess copper.

I suppose it could also be from a sorter that decided hoarding wasn't worth it, and dumped their hoard... although that would be really stupid and they probably wouldn't all stay together by the time they were put in bank boxes.

[OtusLotus]

ECOTIC IS SUCH A TOOL!!!

ROLL #1 (LEFT)- ONLY 49 CENTS
ROLL #2 (CENTER)- ONLY 49 CENTS
ROLL #3 (RIGHT)- ONLY 48 CENTS

GET THIS PIECE OF CRAP OUT OF HERE!!!

HE STEALS FROM THE BANKS... AND HE TRIES TO BULLSH** EVERYONE HERE!!!

[Ecotic]

ECOTIC IS SUCH A TOOL!!!

ROLL #1 (LEFT)- ONLY 49 CENTS
ROLL #2 (CENTER)- ONLY 49 CENTS
ROLL #3 (RIGHT)- ONLY 48 CENTS

GET THIS PIECE OF CRAP OUT OF HERE!!!

HE STEALS FROM THE BANKS... AND HE TRIES TO BULLSH** EVERYONE HERE!!!

48??