Coin shrapnel

looksee

I am just at that point of house moving where I have gathered accumulated stashes of money.

Not valuable money; small current coins, old Punt money, oddments of French, American and UK money. All mixed up together in a manky tin full I have no intention of sorting out.

The serious coinage got put together and bagged and netted nearly €80, but this is just furrin shrapnel. Just occurs to me I could give it to a charity shop, let someone else sort it out!

Any better use I could put it to? (The tin-full would make a fine doorstop).

Donald Trump

looksee wrote: »

I am just at that point of house moving where I have gathered accumulated stashes of money.

Not valuable money; small current coins, old Punt money, oddments of French, American and UK money. All mixed up together in a manky tin full I have no intention of sorting out.

The serious coinage got put together and bagged and netted nearly €80, but this is just furrin shrapnel. Just occurs to me I could give it to a charity shop, let someone else sort it out!

Any better use I could put it to? (The tin-full would make a fine doorstop).

Go to mass and put it in the poor box




Either that or a dusting of coke and some old manky hooker. You get what you pay for

kfallon

I can't even move this fúcker to one of those counting machines


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Twenty Grand

Throw it in the counting machine. It'll take 12% but guaranteed your time is worth more than 12% of a few measly euro.

looksee

There used be collecting boxes (airports/ supermarkets) you could put mixed coin into but I haven't seen one in years, it must have got unprofitable to sort them.

Edit: I'd be afraid a counting machine would throw all the foreign stuff back at me!

SEPT 23 1989

Smelt it

TheValeyard

Put them on rail tracks

foxy farmer

Hold a competition to see what the value of the coinage is. Let the winner collect it.

Akrasia

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Smelt it

It smells of copper and unwashed underwear

Akrasia

give it to your local primary school. They can use it for fundraising and also get sweatshop labour from the kids to sort it out and pretend it's a maths lesson.

TheValeyard

Akrasia wrote: »

give it to your local primary school. They can use it for fundraising and also get sweatshop labour from the kids to sort it out and pretend it's a maths lesson.

Ooohhhh i like your child labour approach and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Sam Quentin

Melt it down and make copper ingots /bars. BEAUTIFUL.

Capt'n Midnight

Twenty Grand wrote: »

Throw it in the counting machine. It'll take 12% but guaranteed your time is worth more than 12% of a few measly euro.

LOL

Every counting machine I've ever seen has been within a few meters of a self-service checkout that gives you 100% of the value.


And there is the warm fuzzy feeling that you aren't subsidising that business model that preys on the uninformed or lazy.

Outlaw Pete

After Hours treasure hunt.

Fighting Tao

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

LOL

Every counting machine I've ever seen has been within a few meters of a self-service checkout that gives you 100% of the value.


And there is the warm fuzzy feeling that you aren't subsidising that business model that preys on the uninformed or lazy.

Have you tried putting hundreds of coins into them at a time? I’ll save you the hassle...they won’t take them.

corner of hells

As an amutuer coin collector , I would seriously advise you to examine your coins of particular interest nowadays are English Euro coins .

Malayalam

Bury your stash in a durable pot in a deep hole with some cryptic runes carved in wood or better still chiselled on metal, add some animal bones, an intact skull of a wild creature preferably, burnt charcoal, plastic beads, and if possible a small papyrus scroll covered in an invented language, and then spend the rest of your days quietly happy that some day a thousand years hence you may utterly confound a troop of archaeologists.

Conservatory

Have an eighties wedding and do a grushie.

Twenty Grand

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

LOL

Every counting machine I've ever seen has been within a few meters of a self-service checkout that gives you 100% of the value.


And there is the warm fuzzy feeling that you aren't subsidising that business model that preys on the uninformed or lazy.

Hah good luck! Those things only take 1 coin at a time. Not a chance am I going to spend 20 minutes hand feeding a shopping bag of pennies into that machine just to save a few euro.

looksee

I like the idea of burying the stash (and other stuff), and it would fit nicely into current plans

Donald Trump

Drive slowly through Cavan, fecking them out the window at regular intervals and watch the locals lose their shit over them

Videotape the carnage, put it on youtube and you'll turn a nice profit from the views

dxhound2005

Twenty Grand wrote: »

Hah good luck! Those things only take 1 coin at a time. Not a chance am I going to spend 20 minutes hand feeding a shopping bag of pennies into that machine just to save a few euro.

You don't have to. Just put in a dozen or so every time you go shopping. It will be no harder than hoarding them in the first place.