Can anyone match this total?

[cudamark]

Needed to buy a new washing machine for my MIL, so, my wife and I took a big batch of my tumbled coins to the local Vons Coinstar to get a Home Depot voucher. We didn't quite bring enough to cover the whole cost, but, we came close! There was a lot of duds too.....mostly zinc cents.....that ended up in the reject bin. I ran them through a couple more times and got another ticket for $40. I still have a few hundred reject coins left over.

 

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[releventchair]

Time for me to make an annual visit again.
But around 70 dollars has been my high , I think.

 

[pepperj]

How many years does that represent?
Probably wore the other washer out washing the dirty clothes from digging. 😅
So it's a wash one could say.

 

[cudamark]

Hard to say.....2-3 years I guess. I still have over twice that amount to do. Some still needs to be tumbled.

 

[ARC]

Needed to buy a new washing machine for my MIL, so, my wife and I took a big batch of my tumbled coins to the local Vons Coinstar to get a Home Depot voucher. We didn't quite bring enough to cover the whole cost, but, we came close! There was a lot of duds too.....mostly zinc cents.....that ended up in the reject bin. I ran them through a couple more times and got another ticket for $40. I still have a few hundred reject coins left over.

Now are we just taking "found" / "Tumbled" / "cleaned" coins... MD finds ?

Or are we talking about ANY coins cashed in at a coinstar in general ?

 

[cudamark]

I'd say 2% pocket change, and 98% are metal detecting finds. Of those, about 75% need to be tumbled. The rest were clean enough to just dump into the CoinStar bucket.

 

[ARC]

I'd say 2% pocket change, and 98% are metal detecting finds. Of those, about 75% need to be tumbled. The rest were clean enough to just dump into the CoinStar bucket.

Well if you are talking just change in general... my largest cash out of change ever was just shy of 1000... and cost me 80 bucks to do it...
Which...
Was the last time i did a cash out via the machine... and last time i waited until it was that much.

Was a real pain... 5 gallon water bottle just shy of full... talk about awkward and VERY heavy.

 

[jewelerguy]

Dang, that's a bunch. Not a fan of coinstar's fees. My bank is just 3 blocks from my house and they have a coin machine of their own. No fee if you have an account with them.

 

[cudamark]

I won't pay their fees either. I get the give certificates at 100% value. The machine I use most of the time is one with about 20 options, from Home Depot, Lowes, Southwest Airlines, Red Robin, Amazon, Starbucks, etc, etc.... It used to be that Vons/Albertson's was an option, which was very convenient for grocery shopping, but, they no longer are an option for some reason.

 

[tamrock]

That's a lot a coin. Did you need a two wheel dolly to haul it all around?

 

[pepperj]

I won't pay their fees either. I get the give certificates at 100% value. The machine I use most of the time is one with about 20 options, from Home Depot, Lowes, Southwest Airlines, Red Robin, Amazon, Starbucks, etc, etc.... It used to be that Vons/Albertson's was an option, which was very convenient for grocery shopping, but, they no longer are an option for some reason.

I think I saw a machine in a grocery store once 10 yrs ago when we moved here.
Something that just never seemed to gain traction up here at least.
Maybe in the big cities there might be outlets.

 

[vpnavy]

I only have $58.78 in US Coins and $3.20 in Canadian Coins. Not enough to "cash out" yet. Heck, it took me from April 30th, 2013 to December 9th, 2023 to get that far.

 

[Heavygold4me]

I won't pay their fees either. I get the give certificates at 100% value. The machine I use most of the time is one with about 20 options, from Home Depot, Lowes, Southwest Airlines, Red Robin, Amazon, Starbucks, etc, etc.... It used to be that Vons/Albertson's was an option, which was very convenient for grocery shopping, but, they no longer are an option for some reason.

I wish the ones around here had grocery Stores as an option

 

[ToddsPoint]

My friend had a 5 gal. glass carbouy filled with pennies he wanted to cash in. We wrestled it from his bedroom into his living room where it broke open and the pennies poured out. Filled buckets and boxes and took them in. He got over $300 for them.

 

[Winchester416]

Needed to buy a new washing machine for my MIL, so, my wife and I took a big batch of my tumbled coins to the local Vons Coinstar to get a Home Depot voucher. We didn't quite bring enough to cover the whole cost, but, we came close! There was a lot of duds too.....mostly zinc cents.....that ended up in the reject bin. I ran them through a couple more times and got another ticket for $40. I still have a few hundred reject coins left over.

I once paid two months rent with my coin jars, and had enough to eat on for a few weeks...

 

[cudamark]

That's a lot a coin. Did you need a two wheel dolly to haul it all around?

I used 5 plastic jars from quart to half gallon size. Much easier that way instead of trying to haul and dump a 5 gallon bucket.