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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 416063, member: 15062&quot;]<b>Brainstorm and coin sources</b></p><p><br /></p><p>On my daily walk through one or two of the local malls, I&#039;ve always noticed that their fountain/wishing well filled up rather rapidly with about 90% pennies and the rest in nickels, dimes and an occasional quarter.&nbsp; About every three weeks they would clean the coins out and start over.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I stopped in at the office to find out what they do with the coins.&nbsp; They donate the money to charity but what happens to the actual coins is that they run them through a local CoinStar and send a check to the charity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since CoinStar currently takes 8.9% off the top, they (the mall and the charity) are actually losing money, so I made an offer to buy the coins at 100% face value.&nbsp; At this point they are considering my offer; I suppose they have to run it past their legal guys.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if it will be worthwhile searching through a bucket full of wet money but if I get them before someone else wraps them and takes them to the bank I would suppose the chances of finding something to save are slightly better.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are three malls local to me.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to check out the other two.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m also thinking that some of the larger grocery chains might have a few tons of change they might sell directly rather than haul it to the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other sources might be restaurants, churches, amusement parks, movie theaters, discount chain stores, etc.&nbsp; Any place that handles large amounts of change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Get &#039;em before they get to the bank.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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