Watch me pull a rabbit out of these quarters ABRACADABRA !!! Oh Well - I'll take the Benjamins (400.05 $ actually)
My mother did the same thing back in the mid 80's but with about 16 or so metal coffee cans full of bicentennial quarters. It took her like two months to roll them by hand, two or so hours every afternoon until they were all done. After cashing them in at the bank, she went out and bought a base optioned Camaro with the money.
Back in the early '70's, my folks had a HUGE Dewar's whiskey bottle that my Dad would put all his change in at the end of the day (except quarters for tolls). When it was full (which took quite some time), we would roll just the cents and go on an extended weekend vacation for a family of 4.
she went out and bought a base optioned Camaro with the money NICE ! My bank has a counting machine so no rolling needed (haven't figured out how to quote properly yet )
Well, that was in the mid-80's when she did it so perhaps they didn't have one where she was banking, or, they may have charged her a fee to use that machine. Not sure but I do remember all those coffee cans stacked up in one of the closets full of bicentennial quarters. Heavy....real heavy. She had this idea that they would be worth more than face value in very little time. But then one day out of the blue she realized that may not be so.
Bet that whiskey jug was pretty heavy when full of change. And amazing how far money could go back in the 70s.
Best I've got is a beer bottle full of pennies that I filled up during my first year or two at college. Taped it shut in early 1982, and haven't opened it since. Lots of very shiny 1981 and 1982 coins inside, and I think there wouldn't be any Zincolns. I've hung onto it this long, I can hang on another decade or two.
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