I asked her if they had surplus pennies that I could buy. She smiled and gladly gave my $30 worth (dumb me, that's all the cash I brought in). She also proceeded to ask the manager about boxes in the vault, and they gladly offered me multiple boxes at any time. I didn't ask about ordering boxes, I'm living on the road right now and can't handle too much volume. I did ask about the coin counter that they had in the lobby. The manager was willing to let me buy the coins, but she couldn't figure out how to handle the situation. The coin counter keeps track of the count and the manager has to send in that exact amount of coin. I'll check in with them in another day or two, maybe take some sweets with me. They were very accomodating and nice to me. Not sure if having my son come in with me did any good, but I've not had much luck picking up pennies lately and was glad for the "change".
I've sorted through a bit over half of them. I'm sorting with a coin comparitor that I have clamped to my TV table, hand feeding. I still like to look through them by hand, too, and pick out wheats and such. I got 3 US dimes in the rolls so far, and one Canadian dime. I also had six of the rolls that were basically 96% Canadian pennies (I'm staying 3 miles from Canada). I've collected up $3 fv of canadian coppers so far out of all the pennies I've sorted. Got to decide what to do with those and the cull Canadian cents I've sorted out.
Tex
