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Message:: [QUOTE="Dymaxion22, post: 41815, member: 964"]Accuracy? I wonder if the accuracy of those machines (both CoinStar and the bank machines) is routinely checked.  I know it is not precisely the same thing, but recently I took a stack of 95 one-dollar bills to deposit at my bank.  Rather than count them by hand, the teller ran them through the bill counter, which on two consecutive passes concluded that the stack was 93 dollars.  I pressed the matter, and with a mildly dirty look, the teller counted them out by hand.  Sure enough, 95 dollars.  She was shocked, showed another teller, and mused aloud "We always use the counter without double checking.  I wonder if it is always off." I suspect the mechanism for counting coins is more likely to be accurate than a bill counter.  But what do you think?  Are the coin machines "completely" accurate?  Accurate enough?  Likely to be a bit off?  The cynic in me also can't help but think how easy it would be to have these machines "fail" to count some coins, even one coin in a hundred.  Is seems extremely unlikely that the average user would ever notice, and even if all that went through those machines was pennies, it would add 1 percent to the company's take.  Consider the other denominations, and the percentage goes up.  Are they calibrated and regulated like slot machines?  Has there been a Nightline investigation?  We should use some pre-counted piles of coins to verify! Dymaxion[/QUOTE]