BBsGal
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Since I finally got all of my clad clean by tumbling it over the past few weeks, I decided today to load it up and go see the coin machine at Wally World to see how much of it would pass muster. Before I went I wanted to get a ballpark idea of how much I had dug up, and I am far too lazy to count the coins. So I came up with this...
I calculated the number of coins I had by weight. Since it has been hot here I stayed inside where the A/C blows and separated out the different denominations and weighed each one.
What I got by weight was as follows: Pennies 8 lbs 0.5 oz. for 1296 coins, Nickels 1 lb 11.3 oz. for 155 coins, Dimes 2 lbs 6.4 oz. for 480 coins and Quarters 4 lbs 10.8 oz. for 374 coins. My figured total was $162.32.
Due to the difference between old pennies and zinc ones, I used a median number for their weight as I wasn't about to separate zincs out, so my numbers on pennies were a little more plus/minus than exact for weight.
The Coinstar spit out a handful, 30 pennies, 3 nickels, 12 dimes, and 9 quarters.
That said, the Coinstar listed the following: Pennies 1282, Nickels 152, Dimes 468, Quarters 363. That means the weight method was right on the money (
love them puns) for the nickels, the dimes, one shy for the quarters, and amazingly enough, only what, 16 off for the pennies! The coinstar total for all before their take was 157.97, $4.35 difference with the pennies guestimated. Not too bad of a method.
As a little bonus, while I was separating them out I also pulled several wheat pennies from the pile that I had missed before, and decided to cull out all coins up to 1969 just for fun. I was pretty surprised to find several old nickels, I guess I don't really look at nickels that closely.
The only down side to the Coinstar deal was the fact that it did not offer any cards for businesses that I actually use, so I ended up just going for cash. I thought they did Amazon cards but not this machine. Boo.
All in all I guess it was okay but next time I'll take them to my bank and let them run them through their machine for free.
I calculated the number of coins I had by weight. Since it has been hot here I stayed inside where the A/C blows and separated out the different denominations and weighed each one.
What I got by weight was as follows: Pennies 8 lbs 0.5 oz. for 1296 coins, Nickels 1 lb 11.3 oz. for 155 coins, Dimes 2 lbs 6.4 oz. for 480 coins and Quarters 4 lbs 10.8 oz. for 374 coins. My figured total was $162.32.
Due to the difference between old pennies and zinc ones, I used a median number for their weight as I wasn't about to separate zincs out, so my numbers on pennies were a little more plus/minus than exact for weight.
The Coinstar spit out a handful, 30 pennies, 3 nickels, 12 dimes, and 9 quarters.
That said, the Coinstar listed the following: Pennies 1282, Nickels 152, Dimes 468, Quarters 363. That means the weight method was right on the money (
love them puns) for the nickels, the dimes, one shy for the quarters, and amazingly enough, only what, 16 off for the pennies! The coinstar total for all before their take was 157.97, $4.35 difference with the pennies guestimated. Not too bad of a method. As a little bonus, while I was separating them out I also pulled several wheat pennies from the pile that I had missed before, and decided to cull out all coins up to 1969 just for fun. I was pretty surprised to find several old nickels, I guess I don't really look at nickels that closely.
The only down side to the Coinstar deal was the fact that it did not offer any cards for businesses that I actually use, so I ended up just going for cash. I thought they did Amazon cards but not this machine. Boo.
All in all I guess it was okay but next time I'll take them to my bank and let them run them through their machine for free.
.I love going to the coinstar with a big jar full of dug up coins. The money I get always goes to more MD accessories and is a nice way to keep the hobby paying for itself.
