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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Check_M_All, post: 164095, member: 6661&quot;]The problem my banks have with halves is that they pay an extra fee to get them in... and they don&#039;t like dealing with them either. I think I found a bank this weekend that will get them for me. </p><p><br /></p><p>The issue of what will happen to the halves that I don&#039;t want also weighs on their minds. They don&#039;t want to have to pay to ship them back out too. I keep making the promise that whichever bank is willing to get them for me will never have to take them from me, but it doesn&#039;t seem to help too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I found this. <a href="http://www.coinstar.com/us/WebDocs/A1-0-3-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinstar.com/us/WebDocs/A1-0-3-2" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinstar.com/us/WebDocs/A1-0-3-2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can use CoinStar to load a prepaid MasterCard. The charge to reload is $4.95. So on a $500 box of halves you only lose 1%. This is a good deal to me as it costs me almost that much in gas and an hour and a half (round trip) in time to drive to the nearest bank branch that has a counting machine. The nearest CoinStar is less than 5 minutes away. You can then take your prepaid card to an ATM and withdraw the cash. Much better than losing 8.9% for the convenience of the instant cash voucher.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I have found that I can walk into any bank, even ones that I don&#039;t have accounts with, and they will sell me all of the halves that they have. So I have decided that I&#039;m going to buy out every bank in the area... my experience is that the other collector knows this too and brings his coins in to them also. I have found his rolls at every bank I have checked. So I&#039;ll buy them all out. Get rid of them all through the CoinStar so that I know that I&#039;ve gotten rid of all the overly recycled stuff, and hope for some more good finds and a fresh supply to build. After yesterday, I&#039;ve realized that there&#039;s still good stuff around here, you just have to be ready to take everything to get to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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