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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3744224, member: 27832&quot;]Ugh. Google threw me that article, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>worst</i> part?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, it&#039;s not &quot;free&quot;, it&#039;s <i>subsidized by the bank and its other customers</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do coins get rolled, boxed, and shipped to the banks for &quot;free&quot;? Once you&#039;ve unwrapped them all, then dumped the rejects into a coin counter, do they get re-rolled, re-boxed, and re-distributed for &quot;free&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>So far, that additional cost to banks has been small enough that <i>most</i> of them are still willing to provide rolled coins &quot;for free&quot; (at face value). We&#039;ve seen stories here, though, of banks imposing fees for boxes, or flat-out refusing to provide them. If stories like this get traction, <i>every</i> bank will have to impose fees and restrictions.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, for the record, <b>I&#039;m fine with that</b>. I enjoy change-hunting quite a bit myself, but I have no right to make other people subsidize it. If others want to spend silver coins, I&#039;m happy to pick them out of circulation. Industrial-scale roll- and box-hunting? Pay your own way.</p><p><br /></p><p>But as long as banks are willing to provide boxes or rolls <i>without</i> surcharges, I guess I&#039;m fine with <b>that</b>, too. I can&#039;t blame people for taking full advantage of the rules currently in place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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