Tom Gardner writes:

I have 8 3-pound coffee cans full of change. Very standard mix
collected over the past 20 years.

Never mind the change. Those metal coffee cans are valuable. They're
all made out of mylar-ized cardboard now.


I want to have somebody run it all thro3ugh a machine and give me
cash or a check. The 2local grocery store charges 10% and a
wholesaler that I used to buy pop for the machine will do it for 5%.
My local banks don't have a machine. Isn't there a better choice?

Some time ago, maybe late 90s, Radio Shack was selling a plastic
version of the coin sorter pretty much like the ones I used to see in
local banks in the 60s and before.

Any ideas who might have a machine and doesn't
charge much? How much do you think is in those coffee cans?

A 3# coffee can holds over $4,000 in Canadian $2 coins or over 2,000
coins. Ranfom-sample your stash, do some statistics. Nice problem:
how does non-uniform coin size affect number of coins of each
denomination present?

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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada