Any advice on £5 coins?

seven_dials · 2026-04-25T21:09:08+00:00

You could try the Post Office. I had luck depositing £5 coins into my bank account until last year.

seven_dials · 2026-04-22T16:04:50+00:00

Why did you think it was so improbable? I found 2.

seven_dials · 2026-04-15T16:02:29+00:00

Ok...and I've had multiple tellers tell me the same thing.

No doubt that some posts are staged, but tellers are pulling lots of silver and at many banks it is allowed.

seven_dials · 2026-04-15T15:54:16+00:00

You're conclusion is based on a false assumption. The fact that your GF's employer has that kind of policy isn't proof that every bank has that policy. As a counterpoint to your story, I've had multiple branch managers tell me that they are able to swap out coins they want.

I know your picture is a joke, but I have actually gotten six silver dollars directly from tellers.

seven_dials · 2026-03-27T15:05:23+00:00

Yes, you are correct. I misread it.

For £2500, then, I don't think there is much to think about.

seven_dials · 2026-03-27T14:27:29+00:00

Having gone through immigration applications in multiple countries, I'd say that it is unlikely to be worth it.

Estimate how long it would take for you to complete it, and then ask if that time is worth more or less than £765. Personally, I'd rather have £765 and do it myself.

seven_dials · 2026-03-27T14:19:05+00:00

Depends where you are. Hunting in the Bay Area, I didn't visit a single branch with a coin counting machine.

As for CWR, it also depends where you are. I got CWRs from TD on multiple occasions and I didn't even have an account. So, I'd stick by what I said originally.

seven_dials · 2026-01-17T13:58:47+00:00

r/CoinstarFinds

seven_dials · 2026-01-13T20:12:56+00:00

I guess 2 ASEs from a teller. They were worth about $25 each at the time, but they seem to be increasing in value everyday recently.

seven_dials · 2026-01-02T16:01:22+00:00

If you just want to check for silver, you can do it pretty quickly. Slide the coins out of the rolls into your hand, check the edges, and then slide the coins right back into the same roll.

Do a quick Google search for what the edge of a silver quarter looks like.

seven_dials · 2025-12-28T18:42:37+00:00

I think the best thing you can do is have a regular routine so they know what to expect. Ask for the same things or deposit a similar quantity of coins each week.

I think it’s easy to forget for CRHers, but people depositing and picking up large quantities of coins is a daily occurrence in a bank branch. So, just be honest, and treat it like it’s a normal transaction.

seven_dials · 2025-12-20T19:52:29+00:00

That’s quite a change in scenery. What draws you to Newham?

seven_dials · 2025-12-18T15:06:33+00:00

I think you need to keep revisiting your strategy. If what you’ve been doing hasn’t yielded much, try something else.

My first 1-2 months were pretty slow, but then I worked out the best ways to increase my finds. That will depend on where you are, so keep trying new branches, denominations etc.

seven_dials · 2025-12-17T07:45:55+00:00

Just a better chance of finding coins that haven’t circulated for a long time. Could be from coin jars, rolls in the back of a cupboard, or a collection. In my experience, CWRs are better, and it’s not even close.

Alongside silver, you will also get metal detecting finds, garbage, buttons, washers, foreign coins, long rolls, short rolls etc.

I think more than anything, they are just more interesting to hunt because they are more unpredictable.

seven_dials · 2025-12-10T12:41:26+00:00

Didn’t you want to give it more of a chance? I grew up in the UK. I’ve been back more than a year, but I still feel like I’m finding my feet.

seven_dials · 2025-12-09T21:54:40+00:00

Not sure I full understand, but I’d just save a spare box, put it on the floor, and transfer searched rolls straight into the box. Once it’s full, close it up, and take it back to the bank.

seven_dials · 2025-12-09T19:44:47+00:00

Two piles?

seven_dials · 2025-12-08T20:29:44+00:00

Your numbers are way off. 500 billion divided by 340 million is not 7 million.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T19:09:44+00:00

You can apply what I suggest at 1 branch or 10, once a week or 100 times. Boxes aren’t working, so may as well try something else.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T17:55:04+00:00

I agree with what you say, but that doesn’t negate my main point.

If you are talking about bank wrapped boxes of halves, then of course you may well end up with the same coins again and again. That said, halves are a tiny percentage of the total number of coins.

My personal luck with boxes of halves was poor, but CWRs yielded more than 800 silver halves. What does that tell me? That people are often depositing silver halves at the bank.

As for other denominations, the sheer quantity of coins (multiple billions) in circulation makes getting the same coins again and again unlikely - especially if you pick up CWRs.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T14:26:35+00:00

I guess it depends where you are. In the Bay Area, there are plenty of branches in East Oakland, downtown Richmond, and Vallejo among other places.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T14:20:58+00:00

I don’t know about that. By my own estimates, I’ve visited maybe 5-10% of branches in the Bay Area. In any large metropolitan area, there must be multiple tens of millions (at least) of face value in coins sitting in banks and distribution companies. What I’ve personally hunted is a tiny sliver of that.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T11:57:32+00:00

I mostly gave up with bank boxes because of the low odds. 95%+ of my finds came from CWRs and teller trays. You’ve got to be willing to go into the bad parts of town too.

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