Although, as stated above, I pack coins into standard coin rolls when I get enough of them, I don’t do this with quarters. Quarters go into a plastic bag that I keep in my car. There are still plenty of parking meters that still accept quarters besides credit cards (or parking apps), and failure to feed them will get you a ticket. It’s also good for air pumps at gas stations, laundromats and video games/pinball.
For those who roll coins …
Why? IME years ago the only thing banks did with rolled coins was tear open your homebrew rolling to dump them all in their coin sorter / counter behind the teller barrier. Going back to roughly college I can’t recall them ever simply taking my bundle of rolls at face value and handing back cash or depositing the face amount into my account.
I stopped rolling my coins when I noticed that fact; handing them a ziplock bag full of random loose change is easier for me, and for them when all they’re going to do with it is pour it into their sorter.
That’s irrelevant to me now; I don’t use or accumulate change. But evidently many Dopers still want to fiddle with their coins.
Really? They take mine at face value all the time. And I’ve never seen a coin sorter at any branch of our bank.
There’s a coin sorter at the supermarket, but it takes a percentage of the value. I’d rather get the whole value. So I roll the coins and take them to the bank.
My offspring are gonna curse me when I’m gone and it’s time to clean out the clutter. I have, I’m guessing, five gallons of accumulated coinage to dispose of.
mmm
I’ve never rolled coins, but I always assumed the banks would check to ensure the contents were coins rather than slugs.
Agree 100% about wanting face value. Have you asked your bank recently whether they’d take loose coins?
Never would have thought of it Besides, putting them in rolls is fun and lets me know how many I’ve got.
I’ve seen people that cover tables or countertops with pennies or other mixed change and pour epoxy over everything as decorative. I remember seeing someone’s VW beetle covered with pennies.
I give them to my wife. She will accumulate a bit of a hoard, and then sit on the bed and run her fingers through the pile, a la Scrooge McDuck. Then she puts them in rolls and takes them to the bank. I think this is a leftover from her childhood….cute and surprisingly results in a tidy sum. Gotta love her!
If she were truly like Scrooge McDuck, she would:
like to dive around in my money like a porpoise! And burrow through it like a gopher! And toss it up and let it hit me on the head!
(I love that line!)
I actually have a large Ziploc bag of coins sitting on the desk in front of me at the moment. I put them up on offer on my local Freecycle for anyone who wants to take them. Why? Because they’re all foreign coins from countries I will never visit again (or never visited in the first place). The majority are pre-Euro European or pre-decimal British coins, plus a few old Caribbean island coins that look like the equivalent Canadian coins, all small value back in the day and mostly worthless now. I figure someone will take them for their kids as play money, or for a budding collector.
To follow up on this, I just made a purchase from this machine in the break room. When you check out, it gives you two options: Pay with Market Card (I believe this is a sort a pre-paid card you can get from the vending company), or pay with credit/debit card. No cash option. But the machine does have a bill acceptor, but no coin slot or change dispenser. My best guess is that you can use cash to add value to your Market Card, in whole dollar increments only, but not to directly pay for your purchases.