Do guys keep a jar full of coins? Is it a 'guy' thing?

David777 said:
Except when I''m actually going into retail stores, dislike having coins in pants pockets so am quick upon coming home, tossing them into containers and never grabbing any when leaving home. A minor amount are in my vehicle if there was a reason to need some. I separate out the quarters since they have use in our laundry rooms. The useless pennies are just annoying. The chump change dimes and nickels won't bother with putting into those paper wrappers. Eventually will bring them down to those machines that automatically sort coins for a fee.
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My bank had that machine. I was expecting to wait around an hour. The teller had everything counted in 3 minutes.
 

In 1980 or 1981 my kids bought me a box of cigars for Christmas. The box is metal, approx 6" high and 4" x 4" wide. I use it to collect pocket change and when it gets half to 3/4 full I make a visit to the supermarket to cash it is, usually around $50 to $75 dollars.

My daughter passed away in 1983, and that old metal can means to world to me.
 
We have a coin sorter, we drop the coins in push the button and the coins drop into the correct plastic tube. Great for garage sales.
 
We used to keep a large container of change, but when my job was eliminated in 2020 we took it to one of those change dispensers in the grocery store and received over $200. The only change I keep these days is Quarters for the gas station air machines to fill up my tires.
 
palides2021 said:
I also collect change, but when it's needed, I use it. Years ago, I was collecting coins, looking for any unusual ones which was always fun. Recently, I found a coffee can filled with pennies, so I started going through them again to see if I had anything interesting. The oldest penny I found was from 1941.
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I had one from 1932. They were such treasures.
 
I save coins and $1 bills. I started doing this years ago. I don't like wrapping the coins, but instead of paying the bank to do it, I will from time to time take a few hours to wrap the coins and then take them to the bank. The banks give up the wrappers without complaint. I have a friend that told me his bank charges him for the wrappers. That's the first time I ever heard of that.
 
dseag2 said:
We used to keep a large container of change, but when my job was eliminated in 2020 we took it to one of those change dispensers in the grocery store and received over $200. The only change I keep these days is Quarters for the gas station air machines to fill up my tires.
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trouble is those change sorters in Supermarkets .. charge a whopping fee.. 11.9 % currently . On my £400 that I counted myself.. the Machine would have taken almost £48 in fees... :oops:
 
I worked as a bank teller long enough to get a sinking feeling when I see a man approaching with a coffee can.

Long before the counting machines I was the counting machine and I could wrap and roll at warp speed, but it was still time consuming.

Also heavy. I once pulled a tendon along my collar bone while lifting coin from the floor of the vault. It still bothers me sometimes.

My son is one of those people who saves his coin until it becomes a problem. He's cracked the tops of two pieces of heavy pine bedroom furniture with his coin collections. Now I try to catch it before it gets to that point, take it to the machine at the grocery store, and get it counted for him, but I truly wish he would do what I do and drop his change into those little charity containers found at most cash registers.
 
I try not to accumulate coins, but as few transactions ever come out to the dollar they’re inevitable. I tend to carry change in my pocket until their weight is pulling the pants down, then I go to the grocery store Coinstar machine, and can get the coin value transferred to a small Amazon or other store credit.

Every few years, some folks talk bravely about doing away with pennies, but just like converting to the Metric system, we never actually do it… 😩
 
I have a small metal bank in the form of a red British phone booth that I keep on my desk. I used to cash it in the week after school was out, and usually got about a hundred bucks. I haven’t cashed it in for a while, because we rarely deal in cash anymore, so it’s probably still about a hundred bucks.
 
Some silver coins are valuable - check the dates before cashing them in. US silver coins (dimes, quarters, half- dollar, silver dollar) dated 1964 or below, have considerable value. The last I sold, I got nearly $9.00 for every $1.00 in silver coins. Right now, the silver market is down a little, but you should get $7 for silver coins.

These coins are 90% silver, and the price is meltdown value. Silver coins between 1965 & 1976 are 40% silver and have meltdown value, but not as much.

Also, there is very high numismatic (coin collector) value to many coins that can be found in circulation. Check out coin values on a search engine before cashing in your change.

Good luck and please post how you made out.
 
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