# National Shortage of Coins?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-shortage-of-coins/913982 "2020-07-01T19:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-shortage-of-coins/913982/29 "2020-07-02T13:12:35Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Sure, we purge and audit those machines on a schedule any way - but we usually do it one at a time, not all 12 at once. We can’t just throw all the money in a bucket and say, oh, we’ll get around to it someday. After all that money is collected it has to be counted. That’s about 5k-6k for each machine with several hundred of it in loose coin. That’s what took all the time - on top of my already 8 hour day of routine duties. Your self-checkout machines have about five thousand dollars in paper money in them? How often do they get emptied? That seems like a lot to accumulate over the course of a day or even a week. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-shortage-of-coins/913982)._