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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not sure if this has been discussed before but I thought I'd throw it out there since we are into finding places to coin hunt.
Other than the banks, piggybanks and recently suggested -- the casinos as places to look for coins, I was wondering about the parking meters and newstands?
Who clears out the meters? Is it the city? After they ran their haul through the coin counter, could one just buy that stash from them?
As for newstands, that would be a lot tougher because the person that clears the machine is an independent businessman just like the local paper boy. You'd put him through a load of inconvenience just to have the coins counted.
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New Member
United States
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I don't know seems like allot of work for not so big return. I would just stick to banks because to me time is money.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
591 Posts |
I used to run a newspaper route here in Missouri. It might be different with newstands but I know the machines here never really produced much. Unless your collecting statehoods.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
591 Posts |
Not to forget Toll Booths sorry had to add that. I do have a friend that goes around cleaning fountains and such. Yes it's a legitimate job. This guy contracts out to clean the coins out of the decor. They get really nasty coins sometimes but you have to wonder what they do get.
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Valued Member
United States
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The Parking Division in my city happens to be one of the divisions that I supervise. The way the meters are collected here is the parking manage wheels around a big canister that the individual meter canisters are emptied directly into. When he is done, he takes it to one of the banks downtown and they empty, count and deposit the coins (I believe with one of the counting machines). Nobody actually every handles the coins from the time they go into the meter to the time the bank empties there machine.
Edited by ouzo66
02/21/2008 09:26 am
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
My son works at a car dearlership and theres a coin car wash right beside it.He talked to the owner and we get Quarters rolls from them..
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The Parking Division in my city happens to be one of the divisions that I supervise. The way the meters are collected here is the parking manage wheels around a big canister that the individual meter canisters are emptied directly into. When he is done, he takes it to one of the banks downtown and they empty, count and deposit the coins (I believe with one of the counting machines). Nobody actually every handles the coins from the time they go into the meter to the time the bank empties there machine.
Basically the same almost everywhere. This is so there is no temptation to help themselves to a little on the side. Problem is the coins are pushed into a slot in the meter. Then drop into a pile of other coins. Then when picked up are rattled around some. Then when dumped at the bank into a coin counting machine, again, not exactly nice for coins. Then to a rolling machine. The final rolls have coins that are scratched, dented, mutilated. Not good for the coins you know.
As to Toll systems. Almost everywhere they are slowing changing to what is called I-Pass systems. If your a frequent user of toll systems you prepay, get a magic box for your car and every time you go through a toll, it registers a debit. If you insist on using cash, there is usually a double the cost penalty. This means that toll systems are slowly eleminating the usage of cash. And the ones you get have gone through enough machinery that you wouldn't want them.
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Valued Member
United States
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I'm really kind of suprised how well some of these coins hold up.Can you imagine where they've been ,how many pockets,how many times dropped down slots ,rolled then re-rolled probably hundreds of times.
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Valued Member
United States
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One of our grocery stores has a machine where people dump their coins. It rattles and carries on and tells how much $ went in. Then the person takes the info to the cashier and gets paper money. Don't know who owns those machines, though. Just a thought.
Vending machines, laundromats, pay phones - dunno. Just brainstorming.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Actually laundromats are a good option. I know of a couple of them that are run by very approachable people. I don't know if these are the owners, but they certainly "run" the place.
I would think it'd be pretty easy to arrange to buy the change from them. Probably save them a trip to the bank....
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Posted 02/21/2008 09:01 am
