How much loose change are you sitting on?

MGLICKER

Nothing waiting to be searched or having any value above face.

Here it is about $90 in nickels thru quarters.

Couple bucks worth of Chuck E Cheese pres dollars and maybe $30 in Lincolns, which have been

accumulating since 1995.

bsshog40

I have 2 of those 5 gal. water bottles here at the house. One is only pennies that have already been searched and the other is clad. I'm guessing at least $100 in pennies and anywhere between $300-400 in clad coins. My wife always gives me her change to check before it goes in the jugs also. Lol

LindeDad

2 or 3 coffee cans that is.

bestmr

I have around $120. My mom has over $1000 in a big jar!! That's a lot of change

bidask

I reached in my back pocket and counted 46 cents.

crispy

More than I should try to lift at once.

keets

I think if all the "hoarded" change were turned into the banks the Government could stop striking coins for about a decade but they'd have to print even more currency than normal to pay everyone for the change.

Brol

<< <i>I think if all the "hoarded" change were turned into the banks the Government could stop striking coins for about a decade but they'd have to print even more currency than normal to pay everyone for the change. >>



I wish that your words go from your lips to people ears.
Around $100 in change at my house. Usually I bring them to the bank at least twice a year.

3Legs

a 5 gallon water jug about one third full i estimate about $300

shorecoll

I've told this before. My sister got laid off in her late 40's and went back to nursing school. She was broke and "starving" for two years while she did this. After she graduated and got a nice job, one day she asked me to help her count her "change". She had 6- 5 gallon water bottles filled with change and the first one had well over $1000 in it. I called her a#$%%# idiot for not cashing it in when she was struggling. PS, I found a F-VF 1915 Barber quarter in that jug.

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MrEureka

76 cents. Never been much of a packrat.

TopographicOceans

Why do you think they mint billions of cents every year?
Most don't circulate, but wind up sitting in jars in peoples homes.

crispy

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<< <i>I think if all the "hoarded" change were turned into the banks the Government could stop striking coins for about a decade but they'd have to print even more currency than normal to pay everyone for the change. >>



I wish that your words go from your lips to people ears.
Around $100 in change at my house. Usually I bring them to the bank at least twice a year. >>





Well, if this is all that I'm guilty of in life, then I can comfortably live with myself.

lordmarcovan

A big flower vase about half full. Mostly pennies, probably. I know there's a roll each of quarters and dimes, though.

Probably $50 worth.

DeepCoin

Probably 30 to 40 dollars, have a pewter jar that holds about 100 in silver (clad) change when full.... right now it is about 1/3 full

Baley

a 4 lb coffee can nearly full of regular pocket change accumulated, and maybe the same amount in various BU rolls and albums

Raybo

I separate my change by containers, nickels and pennies (cents)/ and dimes, quarters and halves.
Currently I have about 3/4 of a gallon of cents and nickels, and somewhere around 3 gallons of dimes, quarters and halves.
I'm guessing around $1200. I'll cash it in next spring to spend at the Central States show, than again maybe I won't cash it in, saving my change just might turn into an obsession.

Raybo

BTW,

Does anyone have a link to the member that had images of several blue barrels full of wheat cents in his garage? I tried the search function but came up empty.

Thanks as always,
Ray

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MGLICKER

<< <i>Why do you think they mint billions of cents every year?
Most don't circulate, but wind up sitting in jars in peoples homes. >>



Never used a jar. The "silver" is in a couple of small boxes. Cents are in a PCGS blue plastic slab holder.

LochNESS

• One 5 gal water jug full but only Lincolns
• Three piggy banks; all modern Jeffs, Roosies and GWs (no halves or $)
• One tzedukah box; mixture of currency and all circulating change

You decide how much total. I have no clue of total poundage.

derryb

I'm hoarding circulated nickels. They are the next 90% silver.

PipestonePete

<< <i>a 4 lb coffee can nearly full of regular pocket change accumulated, and maybe the same amount in various BU rolls and albums >>



What brand of coffee was sold in a 4-lb. can?

Baley

wow, somebody read my post! turns out the can is 44 oz, or 2 lb 12 oz.

metalmeister

Where's that photo of the guy who has trashcans filled with Wheats and 95% Copper Cents.
It seems like I have half that much.

LochNESS

<< <i>Where's that photo of the guy who has trashcans filled with Wheats and 95% Copper Cents.
It seems like I have half that much. >>

Are you being figurative or literal? Because that would be a lot of loose change. Let us recall the OP's qualifier: nothing which has to be sorted, nothing worth more than face … … if I had trash cans of modern change worth face you better believe I'd be taking it to the bank. Or perhaps CoinStar, as my time rolling would be worth more than CoinStar's percentage.

ckrakowski

<< <i>BTW,

Does anyone have a link to the member that had images of several blue barrels full of wheat cents in his garage? I tried the search function but came up empty.

Thanks as always,
Ray >>




Here you go.

Wheat Hoard.

hchcoin

<< <i>

<< <i>BTW,

Does anyone have a link to the member that had images of several blue barrels full of wheat cents in his garage? I tried the search function but came up empty.

Thanks as always,
Ray >>




Here you go.

Wheat Hoard. >>



One of my all time favorite threads but it did turn a little testy unfortunately. I don't remember many threads years later, but those pictures are burned into my memory . Wonder what ever happened to compromonedas

MGLICKER

<< <i>wow, somebody read my post! turns out the can is 44 oz, or 2 lb 12 oz. >>



Ahhhh retail, inflationary downsizing!

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BackroadJunkie

When my dad died (13 years ago now), I found he'd stashed more than $750 of circulated bicentennial quarters in 3lb coffee cans. (I still have them, so I think it qualifies...)

When I found they were all 1776-1976 quarters, I looked to the heavens and asked, "You couldn't do this in 1964?"

TwoSides2aCoin

My butt would hurt. I prefer cushions.

Cameonut

I have a quart glass milk jug on the shelf. The only thing that goes in there is cents, nickels, and dimes. A quarter coin tube sits on my desk for quarters.

When the jug is full its off to Coinstar for a Amazon gift card (no fees for this option). When the quarter tube is full, I roll it and deposit it in the bank.

Typically, the jug holds about $40-50 and the tube is $10.

Boosibri

About 7 euro

Mission16

Surprisingly little, once I deduct a couple boxes of cents I'm mining for copper and 3 boxes of nickels for the strategic stockpile.

TwoSides2aCoin

Okay, Mrs. ___________ came into the shop one day. And her husband had suddenly died. He was a professional. Except for one quirky thing. She brought me "his coins".
All modern. All from jars and boxes.

I asked her then while extending my condolences : "Do you know why he did this ? I have a friend who does it, too ?" She said, "Well he was a collector so he would just put his pocket change in a dish every day". Once it would fill up of course, it would get dumped into a jar. And he worked as a medical professional. (not that this detail is important)

…. Not surprised, I told her, "Well , I will pay you a higher price than that Coinstar machine". There were no "finds" in it, per se. A few "nicer" mint state zinc coins and a few nickels , dimes and quarters that a numismatist thinks " Should I keep this"… and then toss it aside for later examinations.

But looking back in retrospect, my money always went to the bank. Every dime of it. I should deposit more "change" than I do, but … I sit on it , waiting for "cherry picker" millennials.

In the end, I wrote a check for over 3 grand And your thread question just reminds me of some of the ____ i have been through, to date.

Oddly, at the end of it all, I said, "You said he was a collector ", Do you have any of the "collectible coins". She said, "Yes, you just counted it up".
Oh what could I do ? To save face, I just said, "I am sorry you lost your husband, ma'am" and she was happy with the check, but it was a little disCOINcerting for me.


So who wants to be a coin dealer ?

ricko

Between wheaties and silver.....likely $400+....Cheers, RickO

LochNESS

<< <i>Between wheaties and silver.....likely $400+....Cheers, RickO >>

OP asks for only face-value change. Wheaties are ~3.5¢ and silver despite being low is still worth something.

TopographicOceans

I have a ceramic monkey bank I put quarters in (they're monkey food) and probably have about $500

Any thing else I take to the CoinStar at Albertson's market because they don't have a fee if you get an Albertson's gift card instead of cash.