# 12 Years of Change Collecting + Coinstar = $?? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 17, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052 "2012-10-17T19:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/21 "2012-10-18T15:02:07Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > ETA - Oh! He’s going to tell! He’s going to tell! Ni! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/22 "2012-10-18T21:00:09Z")
Come on and tell us! Some of us have been sitting by our computers all day long refreshing this thread every few seconds to find out. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/23 "2012-10-18T21:48:14Z")
OK, I won’t spoiler this because there wasn’t enough interest. I turned in a total of $1015.52. The breakdown is: 1 dollar coin 1 half dollar coin 1753 quarters 3976 dimes 2411 nickels 5762 pennies 13904 total coins, excluding those that couldn’t be read by Coinstar. That included a lot of foreign coins and damaged coins. So the two closest are: Omniscient: $19.79 high (though I didn’t turn in all of my quarters, as I have wash to do) tdn: $37.25 low I guess that Omniscient’s name is well deserved. edit to add: I did this in two waves. The first was just over $300. I was kind of curious if the machine could hold all of the coins, but it handled the remaining $700 fine. The Amazon certificates are limited to between $5 and $1000, so the total would have been just over the limit for that. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/24 "2012-10-18T21:54:27Z")
Sorry I missed: mkecane: $27.87 low ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/25 "2012-10-18T22:33:44Z")
Well done you! You can do a lot w/ that now that you have it all in one ‘currency’, so to speak. For example, Amazon’s Subscribe and Save prices are about par w/ our local grocery prices and they give you free shipping. Saves you a trip, that’s hard to beat. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/26 "2012-10-18T22:38:42Z")
Dang, I was going to guess $867.5309! ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/27 "2012-10-19T03:54:23Z")
By the way, I’ve found that a coffee can filled to the rim with coins, in their normal distribution from receiving change - with nothing taken out for laundry - will come to about $105. I’ve used this finding to win the “Guess Your Total” challenge that some coin machines have. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/28 "2012-10-19T03:58:54Z")
Crap, my guess would have been $1013.00. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/29 "2012-10-19T04:01:31Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > $1035.13 > > I know about how much change I generate in a year under similar principles, so I’m thinking I’m close. Not bad. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052/30 "2012-10-19T04:06:55Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > I got it in Amazon gift card credits with 0% taken away. If I had gone for cash, it would have been around a 9 or 10 percent skim for Coinstar. My bank doesn’t do this, so this was my only option outside of rolling them myself. Considering the amount of coins that I would have to roll, that was not an option for me. I think that Amazon is hoping that I won’t redeem all of the value of the gift cards, so that is how they make their skim. My bank won’t take rolled coins. I show up with a sack of coins, they count them for me and offer to pay me in paper currency or deposit the amount to my account. Oh yeah, all free of charge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-years-of-change-collecting-coinstar/638052.md?page=1)