Coin Counting Machines

Any person with a handy social life should rack up a few hundred in change in the bedside drawer regularly.

I used to count out the €2, €1 and 50c coins and bag them. And use the coin counters then to sift out the chaff, couldn't be done counting the hundreds of 5 and 10c coins for hours.

Dempsey

mad muffin wrote: »

Don't you have an electronic kitchen scale? Count one bag, weigh it and the rest should be much faster.

I do, how did you know that?? :pac:

I like the idea of weighing bags myself to get it done quickly. I favour that approach over coin counting. The accuracy of the scales is the next problem, its a cheap yoke so i image the margin of error is quite high compared to better scales

nice_guy80

Most small shops would take them, just to avoid going near a bank

pickarooney

Gebgbegb wrote: »

Game on....
I'm saying it's €72.89

126.11 and about three fiddy in sterling.

Toots

Gebgbegb wrote: »

Game on....
I'm saying it's €72.89

My husband has one of those and I had to empty and count it on Wednesday cos we're so broke. €328 and some change was what I got out of it. Took me about an hour but I was a bank cashier for years so I'd say I'd probably be quicker at counting than most. Wasn't expecting that much money at all!

kfallon

I have a full bucket and a half of change to get rid of

Jelle1880

Banks tend to give you some bags for each denomination if you ask, just fill them, write the amount on it (they'll still count it) and then they'll either put it in your account or exchange it for notes.

Nymeria

Banks in the UK have these machines, or at least RBS has had one for several years, so its not like it can't be done.

You can literally lodge your coins, the machine takes a few minutes to count them, and the money is credited straight to your account. No ridiculous charge.

Banks here are just being stingy IMO.

Yourself isit

sligojoek wrote: »

Seperate the coins into 50 - 20 - 10- 5 etc. Get a kitchen scales with a digital readout.
The weights required for each bag is available online.

None of these kinds of posts answer the question.

It's like asking where can I hire an interior designer or painter and getting DIY tips.

The op doesnt want to count. And surely these machines still exist.

sbsquarepants

Dempsey wrote: »

Its a 3L vodka bottle full of 20 cents and lower denomination.

Probably take a few hours to sort & count. Since its dry january, maybe its s good distraction!

I had the very same thing a couple of years back, but I had from 2 euro down in it - got almost €700 I think. But the bulk of that was in €1 & €2.
I'm saying €117.84

Whoever gets closest gets to keep it, you do know that don't you?

BattleCorp

I think I'd rather sort them out into moneybags rather than giving away 10% or more of my money for feck all.

blue note

I fill up a money box and look forward to counting it up every few months. I must be a bit odd. Everything below 50c goes into it and I usually end up with about 50 quid out of it. So I'm guessing you'll get about 130 or so from a 3L bottle.

ohnonotgmail

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I know at Tesco if you used the machine they'd take about 10% of the money but I thought when I used it if you used the money in store you got the full amount!
I think my local credit union do it but you need to have the money sorted!

they used to do that but not any more.

BrokenArrows

Used to work in a centra and we were happy to take bags of coins as long as they were sorted. We had scales which verified the amount.

Costs the businesses money to get the coins from the banks.

Yourself isit

BattleCorp wrote: »

I think I'd rather sort them out into moneybags rather than giving away 10% or more of my money for feck all.

You're paying 10% for not sorting.

Caliden

Yourself isit wrote: »

None of these kinds of posts answer the question.

It's like asking where can I hire an interior designer or painter and getting DIY tips.

The op doesnt want to count. And surely these machines still exist.

I think everyone has completely ignored the OP's question and the thread has descended into stories of how much people once counted in coins and where to find coin bags.

ohnonotgmail

Caliden wrote: »

I think everyone has completely ignored the OP's question and the thread has descended into stories of how much people once counted in coins and where to find coin bags.

The answer to both questions is no. I thought that had been established already.

donegal.

here you go

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Automatic-Euro-Coin-Counters-Counter/dp/B0041K806Q/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1484909102&sr=8-4&keywords=euro+coin+counting+machine

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mad muffin wrote: »

Don't you have an electronic kitchen scale? Count one bag, weigh it and the rest should be much faster.

This is the best idea.

I have a couple of small piggy banks that I through change into (one for coppers, one for 10c and 20c, and one for 50c, €1 and €2). Whenever one is full, I'd just count it and bag it and lodge it into my bank account. If you have a lot to do, just do it some evening when you're sitting in front of the tv!

Ciaran_B

I'm happy to chuck them into the machine in Tesco and pay the lazy mans tax.

Sleepy

Buy this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/HMF-4710-05-EURO-Sorter-Counter/dp/B001UK6EH2/ref=pd_sbs_229_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FSB9J0P76YWS6QW6BS0K

Offer a kid a bag of sweets for helping you count it all.

super_furry

My time is too valuable to me to waste it sorting pennies into bags. I've a biscuit tin by the bed that I throw all my chance below €1 into. When it's full I'll use the coin machines in Tesco to get the cash and gladly pay their fee so I don't have to bother with counting it out.

Dempsey

I counted the first bag of each denomination to get the weight then I powered through the whole bottle in just over 2 hours.

There was ~€5 in coins left over which couldnt be bagged.

The 1c & 2c didnt even amount to a bag. I'll donate that to charity because it will never be in my pocket.

A few 50 cents and euros aside, the amount bagged was

€265

That should help reduce the damage done to the credit card over xmas

ablelocks

I sorted and counted 6 years worth of coins in 2008. It was about €2,800 worth of coins (+ about €300 in notes). I had a coin sorter, but not a counter.

We have another set of jars and buckets going since then. But unfortunately, not as many coins are making it to the jars. Damn kids.