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  • wishingthemortgaheaway
    wishingthemortgaheaway Posts: 2,536 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    And the final half-kilo of silver shrapnel has disappeared into the automatic cashiers at Tesco. It's funny, but it swallowed all of the funky, gunky coins, but rejected a nice silvery new 5p.

    Next is the copper coloured shrapnel. I'm probably going against instincts, but I think I'll be using one of those Coin-o-rama (or whatever they're called) machines that take a 10% chunk.

    Live is too short to be shovelling in 2kg of copper which will be worth about £3.48...

    My bank has a coin deposit machine for such purposes, I took nearly £100 worth of change into the bank a few months back (having a pushchair is useful sometimes) and deposited it in the machine and straight into the bank I'm not a huge amount of time and no counting either.
    (I'm actually a little bit excited about saving up shrapnel to do it again at some point )
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  • ZTD
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    wishingthemortgaheaway wrote: »
    My bank has a coin deposit machine for such purposes, I took nearly £100 worth of change into the bank a few months back (having a pushchair is useful sometimes) and deposited it in the machine and straight into the bank I'm not a huge amount of time and no counting either.
    (I'm actually a little bit excited about saving up shrapnel to do it again at some point )

    Unfortunately, my "surviving" bank/BS branches don't have that. I say "surviving" as so far, locally, I've lost 2 bank branches, and one building society.

    Bit of a shame really, as it would be handy.

    I've shovelled about £70 of silver into the automated checkout in total (a number of trips). A couple of kilos worth in total.

    Given that there were 50ps in there, but the maximum value of the copper coins is 2p, the copper bags won't be worth too much money/time/effort IMHO.
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  • Butti
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Unfortunately, my "surviving" bank/BS branches don't have that. I say "surviving" as so far, locally, I've lost 2 bank branches, and one building society.

    That was very careless of you Zed. Do you remember where you put them?
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  • ZTD
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    That was very careless of you Zed. Do you remember where you put them?

    They're all in Durham apparently, which is difficult and time consuming to get in to.

    Which is understandable, as the only reason Durham exists, is that it's difficult to get in to...
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  • gallygirl
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    Shame on you Z, prepared to pay a machine to count your money for you :naughty:. Back in 'the day' I used to love emptying Peefer Pig and bagging up all the coins. The full bags got paid into the bank and paid straight off the mortgage. Part bags were emptied back into Peefer to keep on growing. Ah, happy days when I finally got full bags of 5p's and 1p's :D:D:D. Basically I treated it as a game - one of the many tools in my MF toolbox :).

    Now I'm a treasurer for a local group and coins aren't bagged, they go in little plastic rollers which are different colours/sizes for each denomination and which make me very happy :D.

    Durham is very hard to get into isn't it? But worth it when you get there :T.
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  • Karmacat
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    I too like counting shrapnel and then getting full value for it :)
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  • beanielou
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    Butti wrote: »
    That was very careless of you Zed. Do you remember where you put them?

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  • ZTD
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    Shame on you Z, prepared to pay a machine to count your money for you :naughty:.

    I wasn't for the silver, but I am for the copper.

    According to the scales I have
    2,412g of 1p's or 661, or £6.61
    1,140g of 2p's or 160, or £3.20

    So, over 800 coins worth in total less than a tenner.

    If you want, you can feed them into the automatic checkout, and keep the 9.9%? At 1 second per coin, that's about 13 minutes, or a wage at a smidge over £4 per hour.
    gallygirl wrote: »
    Durham is very hard to get into isn't it? But worth it when you get there :T.

    I wouldn't go quite that far - the hills do keep you fit though.
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  • beanielou
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    I wouldent either TBH.
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  • gallygirl
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    ZTD wrote: »

    If you want, you can feed them into the automatic checkout, and keep the 9.9%? At 1 second per coin, that's about 13 minutes, or a wage at a smidge over £4 per hour.
    Yes please. I assume you're paying my air fair as well :D
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