My SO and I put all of our ‘silver’ change (no pennies deliberately and effectively no nickels) into a five gallon water jug. It was filled in eight or nine years and contained just over $7300.00.
This thread got me to check my box o’ change. Somehow a Kennedy half-dollar, four buffalo nickles and Lady Liberty dime had found their way in their :eek:. Also a few foreign coins and a Lego piece. At least I know my Napoleon III era and Imperial Russian coins are safely tucked away.
After my grandparents died we collected the ridiculous amount of change (mostly pennies) they had kept and it totaled to over three hundred bucks. You have no idea how much that crap weighed. I had to put it into several sturdy boxes because I couldn’t easily carry it from the house to the car.
I asked at my bank the other day and apparently TD doesn’t do that anymore either.
My kid don’t want nothin’ to do with me. Fuck. We’ll drive 50 miles to go ski, won’t say a word to each other on the way up, won’t ski together, and won’t say a fucking word on the way back home (or if we stay up there). Like it never fucking happened.
Family Failure. 
Beer still loves me. :o
Were you able to lift it? Any idea how much that thing weighed?
I once had one of those bottles that was about an inch deep in pennies (about $25) and couldn’t believe how heavy it was.
That was a silver nickel. I used to collect them; they were worth more than 5 c in silver.
But I grew up in the 40s and we learned to spend our coins. A quarter was significant. When my son and his family spent a year in Montreal about 25 years ago and left to go back to the US, he gave me all his change. I sorted it, counted it and eventually spent it. It came to over $250. Mostly I spent it on my commuter train fare.
Never been a change hoarder, especially since I know longer need coins for laundry. I rarely use cash these days anyway. My change goes into a plastic bag and I take it to a nearby coinstar and get an Amazon gift card.
I go to the UK once or twice a year, I try to donate all of my coins under 20p into charity boxes, but I do keep some of the larger coins up to £2. I actually just gave that bunch of coins to a friend who went to the UK last week.
I’ll drop my pennies in a cup and now and then cash them in for $4-6, but in general I recirculate my change since I’m still a cash-heavy user.
Now as to foreign currency, I have a bowl with some many types I could spend days figuring it out…which wouldn’t matter because no one would cash in that little amount.
I can’t recall having more than a couple bucks in change at any point in the past decade or so, as I’ve been mostly cashless. In the old days I remember rolling up a few hundred bucks a couple times.
By the time it was full it was too heavy to pick up, but was easily tipped onto its side and rolled. The jug was about half full IIRC when it became too heavy for the bathroom scale(250 lbs ?)
This was when Coinstar-type machines were relatively new, and my bank did not yet have a free one. I bought a cheapo coin sorter/roller and a rubber stamp with our account number to package them up for the bank. This took waay too many hours to do, but it was one of those one-time “lets see if we can” things.