wife and i put our pocket change in for over a year or so....978.00....turned in at the midflorida credit union...cost was 3.00 after the first 200.00 which was free....so 3 bucks to count it all and take it...
nice paid for a carnival cruise on sensation out of port canaveral 4 days 3 nights....rained everyday because of a hurricane going thru the area...
rained every day...i could not have been happier....we just needed a couple of days to spend together....saving my change again for next time..
Thats funny cause the first thing we dump the coins into says "Vacation Fund". When that is full we dump it into the big jug.
I found out from my detecting buddies that I could have gone to my local bank and saved the service fees. Will plan on that next time provided they will kick out the silver like Coinstar did. If not I might just manually roll the quarters and feed just the nickels dimes and pennies to the machine.
I take my change to a TD bank by me that has two change machines with no service fees. They take all coins but will not kick back silver. I also check the magnet on the machine before I leave and it usually produces a steel penny or two and a hand full of foreign coins.
Whenever walking past a CoinStar I always check the coin return which has produced silver for me in the past. My best was a silver quarter and dime both 1964.