I'm a two-bit Midas!I hate, hate, hate having coins jingling around in my pocket, so I've been dumping all my change in piles at home and at work. On Thursday, I collected it all in a Gatorade bottle and dumped it -- slightly sticky -- into a nearby CoinStar machine. I asked for estimates before I left. Guesses ranged from $30.00 (Zachary Thacher) to $268.00 (a [My employer] creative director on the elevator.) The count turned out to be:
- 6 golden dollars from the post office stamp machine,
- 289 quarters,
- 172 dimes,
- 130 nickels, and
- 175 pennies, for a total of
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- $103.70, of which I got about $94.00, since CoinStar takes a cut.
