I have a bunch of loose change I'd like to take ot my credit union, but they only do drive through right now and I don't do drive through.  

I carry an old fashioned coin purse in my pocket for coins and bills.  I haven’t carried bills in my wallet for over 30 years or more.  This way I almost always have exact change when I pay with cash, which is less frequent all the time now.  Its much easier to keep track of my cash this way, no stray coins come flying out my pocket when I pull out something else from that pocket.  And having been a waiter in my teens and 20’s off and on I always keep my bills “faced” and in the numerical order of their denomination. 

Even though I don’t pay with cash often I would hate for it to disappear.  If everyone did what I do and paid with exact change when paying with cash maybe we wouldn’t have a shortage of coins.

For those that don’t want to go to their bank or CU to cash in their coins, many large grocery stores have change counting machines near the front of the stores.  I’ve not used one myself, but I believe the process entails dumping your coins into a hopper and the machine counts and sorts the coins and issues bills for the total you placed into the machine.  This is a good way to avoid having to roll the coins.

Eddie

I didn’t realize that the fee for these change sorting machines was so high.  All the more reason to use your change for exact paymt of cash purchases on an ongoing basis.  This way it never builds up.  

Or, if you like to use your excess daily coin pocket change as a means of saving, keep a supply of the coin rolling tubes on hand and when your coin container gets full, wrap em, roll em and cash em in.  

No way am I gonna give someone 11.9% of my coins saved for the convenience of having them count and roll em.

Eddie

My Credit Union lets us just dump coins in their machine for free. 

About once a year I take all my spare change including lots that were found in FL washers traps, some of it is really dark and discolored, Last time the Lady working at the CU said I should keep my coins in a dry location when she saw how discolored some were, LOL

I have long thought that the US Government should encourage people to return change , maybe by requiring banks etc to have free sorting machines.

It is both wasteful and unpatriotic to hard coins, you are costing the USG money [ your money too ] because they have to make many times the number of coins actually needed.

It is also environmentally unsound to hoard coins, doing so wastes energy making something that the world does not need, the amount of mining world wide to get the metal and the Hugh amount of energy consumed making and disturbing new coins much of which could be eliminated, use of Coin and even paper money is going way down, it really might not even necessary to ever make any more metal coins.

John L.

The Hotel St. Francis in San Francisco apparently still offers a money washing service (not to be confused with shady "laundering" practices),  which began in 1938 when coins were still made of silver.  Oh, the scandal of spending "dirty money" and soiling one's gloves!

Sam left us with 2 gallon jars of rolled up coins after he passed away.  I brought it all to the bank (they are heavy!) and turned out to be $212 and some cents (a lot of pennies).  

There is also loose change, I guess I can use Coin Star for that.

That to me is BS! They say the banks have upped the transaction fees and so pass it along to the consumer. In a pandemic with people out of work? Thats not gonna last I predict .

About 30 years ago I bought a little home coin sorting machine. Later upgraded it. It works OK, not great, but for the past 15 years haven't felt a need to use it, since nearly all my transactions are with plastic, or on-line.

Does anybody collect rare coins any more?