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Well. Went to return a box of halves to the bank I use as my personal bank. They would not take them rolled, they said I had to put them thru the machine (and pay 5%). Well, my time is worth money so I started unwrapping and dumping them in the machine. 3rd roll in, the machine broke. (serves em right). Anyway, after they tried to fix it three times (with no success), we recovered the halves that hadn't been chomped up and I checked the return tray. The teller said some kid had come in and had used the machine. I got 40 coins from the return tray, and none of my halves were in there: 1 steel cent, several modern us coins including a quarter, a lot of Euros up to 5 euro coins, French franks, English 2 pence, a Bermuda coin, Canadian coins. The kid had put a lot of wads of paper in it and a watch battery. I left with most of the halves still cause the machine still would not work. Now I have 40 crapola coins!
 

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5% is not time or money. All 3 banks I use, never charge a fee for their coin counting machine. 5% is too much, you are lucky all that kid put in there was paper. There are several dozen posts, about people finding live bullets in these coin machines, likely from disgruntled people who don't like the fee's. Next time, say they better accept the rolls or you are not going to pay the 5% fee. Its not like you CANT spend them on gasoline, food, groceries, other expenses, HALF dollars are legal tender that need to see more circulation. OR better yet, Stick to fee-free machines
 

I could tell you the value of the foreigns, you probably made more than the value a few 40% from those coins. You got a 5 euro coin? Those are NIFC and occasionally silver or silver-plated. Just PM me the list of the coins.
 

50cent said:
5% is not time or money. All 3 banks I use, never charge a fee for their coin counting machine. 5% is too much, you are lucky all that kid put in there was paper. There are several dozen posts, about people finding live bullets in these coin machines, likely from disgruntled people who don't like the fee's. Next time, say they better accept the rolls or you are not going to pay the 5% fee. Its not like you CANT spend them on gasoline, food, groceries, other expenses, HALF dollars are legal tender that need to see more circulation. OR better yet, Stick to fee-free machines
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Just because they are legal tender doesn't always mean stores will accept them. I worked retail for a long time and we weren't allowed to take more than 3 rolls of pennies, dimes, or nickels, and only 2 rolls of quarters. A lot of people try to short the businesses by not putting the full amount in the rolls (like some of the CRHers on here who aren't honest). We had a new cashier who was $18 short on their till at the end of the night. They accepted $400 in quarters, and each roll was short anywhere from 75 cents to a quarter (the manager actually made her check the rolls against a full roll they had in the back to see if they were the same size. Dishonest people ruin everything. I agree though, 5% fee for a large transaction isn't worth it. If it's just a box of pennies or something that wouldn't be that bad.
 

red89 said:
Just because they are legal tender doesn't always mean stores will accept them. I worked retail for a long time and we weren't allowed to take more than 3 rolls of pennies, dimes, or nickels, and only 2 rolls of quarters. A lot of people try to short the businesses by not putting the full amount in the rolls (like some of the CRHers on here who aren't honest). We had a new cashier who was $18 short on their till at the end of the night. They accepted $400 in quarters, and each roll was short anywhere from 75 cents to a quarter (the manager actually made her check the rolls against a full roll they had in the back to see if they were the same size. Dishonest people ruin everything. I agree though, 5% fee for a large transaction isn't worth it. If it's just a box of pennies or something that wouldn't be that bad.
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I did not mean take them ALL to one place and pay for things with them, and odds are because they are half dollars, the cashiers working there will just crack the rolls open, and check them their-selves. I get what you are sayin, ol' fiddy cent sometimes works as a cashier just for the heck of it.

Alot of people simply don't realize that they can infact pay for things with halves. If you don't have the gumption to go up and pay someone with half dollars for a simple transaction, then you wont be able to stand 20 minutes in line, at a bank, just to ask if they have any (insert favorite type of rolled coin here).
 

50cent said:
I did not mean take them ALL to one place and pay for things with them, and odds are because they are half dollars, the cashiers working there will just crack the rolls open, and check them their-selves. I get what you are sayin, ol' fiddy cent sometimes works as a cashier just for the heck of it.

Alot of people simply don't realize that they can infact pay for things with halves. If you don't have the gumption to go up and pay someone with half dollars for a simple transaction, then you wont be able to stand 20 minutes in line, at a bank, just to ask if they have any (insert favorite type of rolled coin here).
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Yeah, I'll admit I've paid for stuff in half dollars plenty of times haha. I've also been rejected when I pull out rolls of coins from my pockets. Once in a while I will leave them as a tip at a restruant, and write something on the lable like "sorry this is the only cash I have, but you diserve a tip" so they don't get to mad about recieveing their tip in change haha.
 

I bought a $50 pair of clippers at Walmart in halves lol :)
 

I pay for almost everything that I buy under 50 dollars with half dollars. Have been doing it for the last couple of years now and a lot of the tellers don't even count the rolls I give them anymore. I buy the materials for jobs I am working on and then if I don't need them I return them for folding money. I figure every little bit that I don't have to return to my dump banks helps out in the long run.


I found out recently that the local Walmart's self service machines take halves and have been using them ever since, they count fairly quick and it is easy to dump rolled change into them. I use the self-service lanes for all the food we buy there now. I was joking with my wife telling her I should try putting 40-50 in halves in for a 2 dollar purchase just to get a couple of twenties for change.


I have a gas station that I sell 40-60 worth of change, dimes and nickels, every couple of days so that they don't have to make trips to the bank. They will even exchange 50 in halves from me if I need the big bills. The teller says people always ask him for them.
 

I don't see any reason to make purchases with half dollars, because you could be using a credit card and getting 1% cashback, if not more... But it can get hard to find banks that will take dumped coins in any large volume, even rolled for deposit...
 

Don't be enticed by the petty 1% cashback offered by credit cards, if you miss even one month to keep your card at a ZERO balance they made their money back off you many times over.
 

I dump all my halfs as fast as i can. Silver in trash out!
 

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