Easily a couple of hundred worth!

for free, if you get a gift card. Amazon is the only one that I saw that charges a transaction fee.

You can even donate it to charity.

https://www.coinstar.com/giftcards

Silver mining was going through the slot machines in a casino and collecting coins left behind. A friend of my dad’s was homeless for a while in Vegas in the late 80s and could make $70 a day going through the casinos and collecting coins. He actually saved up enough of the cash so he could eventually rent an apartment and get an actual job.

Good for him.

on the walls and we got money a lot. I remember my dad saying he thought it was because we did it at the airport and a lot of people would be rushing out to catch a flight and forget or just leave the change there.

to see if we could find enough change to buy tickets. More often that not we found enough for popcorn too just from people dropping coins as they got in and out of their cars.

"No deposit - no return" killed that bit of recycling.

Walking around and reading gravestones, I found one that had probably 20 dollars in coins on the stone. They were all clad coins, no silver. I'm surprised no one has taken them.

These coins aren’t thrown on these gravestones just because—instead, they’re honoring and showing respect for dead soldiers. So one reason you shouldn’t remove them is that it disrespects that gesture and also might upset living family members if they notice.

https://parade.com/living/coins-on-gravestone

a few quarters myself.

I didn't this time, since I won't be in many situations where I will be visiting a retail establishment, but in the summer and in December, I usually carry a bag full enough of American change that airport security makes me remove it so they can see what the weird metal shape was.

My wife and I HATE credit cards, and we pay cash whenever we can, putting our coins back into circulation whenever possible. It beats giving Mastercard or Visa (or whoever) 3.8% of the transaction, thus taking it out of the pocket of the retail shop.

Even in a coffee shop someone ahead of me will swipe a card for a $2 cuppa. And be forced to enter a tip into the machine.

I'll ask the barista "Do you still accept cash?" and s/he'll smile and say yes - and Thank you. And I leave a nice tip.

Hate having my every transaction monitored by these corporate/international snoops.

We've always been change-collectors, and about once a year, we turn it in at a Coinstar machine. Usually about a $100; enough to pay for a grocery trip (or it used to be).

I also pick pennies up off the ground. Find a penny, pick it up...

2,000 years from now, some hunter/gatherer family will be digging potatoes out of the ground in the midwest and find these old 20th century coins with our emperors' faces on them.

One their old folks (35) will tell tales he heard when he was a young'un.

send Devin out there with a metal detector and have him do something constructive for the first time in his life. You get money to pay your legal people their pennies-on-the-dollar, Devin gets some fresh air, and the cow gets a break from having Devin's clammy hands touching it. Win-win-win.

In addition to finding the usuals, clothing and appliances to give to Goodwill, we found several heavy bags of coins that I guess he had never decided what to do with. I took them to the local CoinStar machine and scored close to $400 in cash. I would rather have had my father-in-law back (sweetest, nicest man in the world), but at least the coins didn't end up in a landfill.

there was a treasure trove of coins there. Even the vacuum hadnt reached that area