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<p>[QUOTE="I Like Trees, post: 290248, member: 10463"]<b>Avoid CoinStar! Choose history!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts:</p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7"><span style="color: SeaGreen"><i>CoinStar</i></span></font></font><font size="7"><span style="color: SeaGreen"><b><i><font face="Comic Sans MS">☆</font></i></b></span></font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="7"> Is Evil</font><font size="5"><font size="7">!</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">They take part of your money, or put all your money into a gift card, or whatever gimmick they've come up with recently to make you jump through hoops to get <i>your</i> money.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">My bank charges me nothing to have a teller count loose change on their machine. Is this not the case with most banks? If your bank charges you, <b>get a new bank! </b>Shouldn't that be illegal? It's legal tender! Shouldn't the responsibility for counting it be on the recipients, since they are legally required to accept coins as payment? (How do places get away with refusing $1 coins, for that matter?) Am I wrong about this; is there a legal limit on the percent of something you can pay for in small units? For example, buying a car with %50 $1 bills? (Some European board members have said this is the case over there.)</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">If you don't have a bank account: that is just weird. If your money (spending money, not collection) is under a mattress, you are loosing even more buying power than if it is in the bank. (If your bank's interest rate beats inflation, you are <i>sooooooo </i>lucky, and I am </font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><i>sooooooo </i></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">jealous.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>Speaking of <i>Antiques Roadshow</i>, a 'series' of coins like this is just the kind of thing their experts would love!</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana"> If you could assemble theses coins (I'm talking to Eyesee here) so they told a chronological story</font><font face="Verdana">—including the time in NY on the way home, maybe some US coinage when they got back, Mexican coinage from their vacation during the boom years, or whatever</font>[FONT=&quot]<font face="Verdana">—and arrange family items, like letters, photographs, military paperwork, as well as newspaper clippings: that kind of thing would be seen as seriously enhancing the value of the collection.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>[/FONT][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="I Like Trees, post: 290248, member: 10463"][b]Avoid CoinStar! Choose history![/b] Thoughts: [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=7][COLOR=SeaGreen][I]CoinStar[/I][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=7][COLOR=SeaGreen][B][I][FONT=Comic Sans MS]☆[/FONT][/I][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=5][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=6][SIZE=7] Is Evil[/SIZE][SIZE=5][SIZE=7]![/SIZE] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]They take part of your money, or put all your money into a gift card, or whatever gimmick they've come up with recently to make you jump through hoops to get [I]your[/I] money. My bank charges me nothing to have a teller count loose change on their machine. Is this not the case with most banks? If your bank charges you, [B]get a new bank! [/B]Shouldn't that be illegal? It's legal tender! Shouldn't the responsibility for counting it be on the recipients, since they are legally required to accept coins as payment? (How do places get away with refusing $1 coins, for that matter?) Am I wrong about this; is there a legal limit on the percent of something you can pay for in small units? For example, buying a car with %50 $1 bills? (Some European board members have said this is the case over there.) If you don't have a bank account: that is just weird. If your money (spending money, not collection) is under a mattress, you are loosing even more buying power than if it is in the bank. (If your bank's interest rate beats inflation, you are [I]sooooooo [/I]lucky, and I am [/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=5][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=6][SIZE=5][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][I]sooooooo [/I][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=5][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=6][SIZE=5][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]jealous. [/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT]Speaking of [I]Antiques Roadshow[/I], a 'series' of coins like this is just the kind of thing their experts would love! [FONT=Verdana] If you could assemble theses coins (I'm talking to Eyesee here) so they told a chronological story[/FONT][FONT=Verdana]—including the time in NY on the way home, maybe some US coinage when they got back, Mexican coinage from their vacation during the boom years, or whatever[/FONT][FONT="][FONT=Verdana]—and arrange family items, like letters, photographs, military paperwork, as well as newspaper clippings: that kind of thing would be seen as seriously enhancing the value of the collection.:D[/FONT] [/FONT][/QUOTE]
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