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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Howard Black, post: 3157663, member: 97119&quot;]The closest &quot;coin shop&quot; (a jewelry store that says they buy/sell coins) is a bit over a half hour drive to Ludington. The one time I went there (on the way back from having a delightful root canal) they were closed. On vacation, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I drive for about an hour to Muskegon, there&#039;s probably a shop or two, never checked. I go there to the two lousy, awful, horrible hospitals where I have all my major surgeries. It also has a bigtime &quot;GTA&quot;-ambiance ghetto, replete with gun-toting &quot;youthful offenders&quot; who regularly give some other resident his Grand Sendoff to his doubtless just reward. Probably where any coin shops are located (under the &quot;We Buy Gold&quot; sign behind the iron grate).</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>smaller</i> hospital, about 20 min. away, where I take all my ambulance rides and ER drives (and have my minor surgeries) is in a town with a hockshop that may or may not have coins. The one time I stopped in to look around, I wasn&#039;t interested in coins, and was sucking air through my teeth at the nosebleed prices for cheap crap that they sold (tried to sell?) in addition to whatever things they may have taken in pawn. Not much traffic. If they have coins, I&#039;d expect a lousy selection and insane prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a hockshop in Ludington, too. Sort of like a &quot;white people&#039;s Sanford and Son&quot; flavor to it -- everything from overpriced yard implements to overpriced wide screen Trinitron TV (just as the CRT was having taps played for it). That, and&nbsp; a feeling like I ought to count my change as I left, even though I didn&#039;t buy anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been seriously considering buying a cheap coin counting &quot;thing&quot; on amazon (assuming I can find one there -- or anywhere), and running a classified saying that I buy jars and boxes of pocket change that clutter up your house, fast in-out, automatic and accurate coin counting, payment in cash on the spot.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I do that, I hope my &quot;coin-roll-hunter-dar&quot; (or &quot;-fu&quot;?) is in full working order. I don&#039;t want to be some coin-scavenger&#039;s &quot;house-call making no-fee human coinstar machine.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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