"Robert Laws" wrote in message
ups.com...
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The poor sod who will have to count it all has not done you any harm;
he didn't make the rules or probably have anything to do with the
decisions. Why make his life a misery? ...

I used to cash up after Jumble Sales and counting a large number of mixed
coins isn't much of a problem, if you are organised and have a coin counting
tray. You simply dump the lot on a hard, smooth table top and use the
fingers of one hand to sweep two or three coins of the same denomination at
a time off the edge of the table into your cupped hand. When you have a
handful, you stack them and drop the stack into the appropriate column in
the counting tray. When you fill enough cavities in any one column to have
the right amount to fill a bank coin bag, you dump them in that. When you
run out of coins, you count the value of the bank coin bags, count the
number of full cavities in the tray (10 coins per cavity) and then count any
odd coins left over.

Mind you, if they do accept payment this way, which they don't have to, they
will probably have an automatic coin counter, which would take between 30
and 60 seconds to check the lot.

Colin Bignell