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    Jul 24, 2020 3 minutes

    Should Bank Employees Be Allowed to Search Rolls?

    I always enjoy reading about coin hoards and the article about the Atlanta hoard was no exception. However, it raised an issue that has bothered me for some time.

    How is it appropriate for bank employees to just sort through bags of coins for rarities? I’ve had two unfortunate incidents involving this issue. One was about 20 years ago, when I was hunting for silver Eisenhower dollars. I went to our credit union, and asked for 50 of them. At the time, there wasn’t much interest in

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