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Originally Posted by BogeyBoy
Best system I ever saw was in a bank in Pennsylvania. The coin counting machine was in the lobby. You dumped your coins in, they got sorted and counted, then a receipt printed. You took the receipt to a teller and they handed you the cash.
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That's what I had with a small, local bank where I lived before TV. I see an interesting trend with banks and loose change. Not only have most banks removed their coin counters due to high maintenance costs, an increasing number of banks don't want your change at all -- in wrappers or otherwise. Credit and debit cards are moving us ever closer to a cashless society. Coming home from Ireland recently, I had a pocket full of one Euro coins. I couldn't exchange them. "We don't take coins," the exchange clerk told me. Not even do casino slot machines take coins! Soon, all we'll have left are gumball machines, if you can find one. (Where a penny gumball now costs a quarter.)
