Just as I become frustrated, again, I find a 1969D Kennedy half this AM! I ask for hand wrapped paper rolls at the bank I try coin changers at car washes But I guess so many people are searching before I get to it! I wish I worked in a place where there was a lot of change changing hands....(sigh)
I hear ya! I was at the bank turning in a bunch of change when a guy joined the line behind me. He was dragging two small suitcases on wheels. I jokingly asked "Those are full of cash, right?" He said, actually, yes - quarters. He owns a laundromat. We chatted for a bit and I asked him if he looks through them at all. He said he used to, but just doesn't have the time anymore. I have to wonder if he knows what pre-1965 quarters are worth today.
Actually, he dropped off several deposit bags full of bills and several bags of quarters that he had in the suitcases. He left with several boxes of quarters. I suspect the quarters you get from the change machines at a laundromat would be the same quarters you'd get from the bank. What I really want is the quarters from the laundromat. Most of those likely came from the change machine, but the rest of them came from who knows where. Makes me want to go buy a few more boxes of quarters from that branch on my way home today. (Since many of them probably came from his machines)
I think that most laundromats recycle quarters. They go from the change machine into the washers and dryers and then back to the change machine. I'm sure that some of the quarters leave the laundromat, but they are replaced by rolls, boxes or bags from the bank. I don't know of a laundromat that deposits quarters to the bank. Why would a laundromat owner exchange quarters for quarters at the bank? Seems to me like a lot of wasted time and effort.
I'm thinking this guy doesn't have a machine to count them, and the bank is right across the street from the laundromat. He's headed that way to deposit the bills anyway, so why not let them count his quarters? ETA: I also wonder how the numbers work out. Do people bring more quarters from outside the laundromat to spend, or do people get change for a $10 bill and only spend $2, taking the rest home. It seemed like he was picking up more quarters than he was depositing, so I'm thinking the latter.
I work for a vending company and get two search plenty of rolls and loose change. So if your looking for a career change that maybe something to look into. I wish I just had more time to search. It is not a job that you have lots of down time. It is a go go go type job. So for the most part I just check the sines of the rolls then through them in.
I font know why,but quarters seem to be the toughest for me when searching for silver. Out of all the boxes I search,I think I've maby four a couple in the last year. I do much better with dimes,but overall I have the best luck with halves. My best finds though have been from intercepting people cashing in rolls at the bank,although with all of those darn machines popping up at banks this is getting increasingly rare.
Yeah, quarters are tough. I've searched four boxes in the past few months and found one silver. I think it's because they have very high circulation, the dates are easy to read, the sides are easy to see, and they make a loud enough noise when dropped that it's easy to hear the "plink". Dimes probably have close to the same circulation, but the dates are very difficult for some people to read, the sides aren't as easy to spot, and they don't make much noise when dropped. Halves, well, we all know the story on those. Nobody uses them anymore, so hardly anyone looks at them until one of us comes along and cleans out the bank.
They don't deposit quarters. The customer enters with paper money, goes to the change machine to exchange the paper money for quarters, uses the quarters in the washers/dryers. The owner empties the washer/dryer of the quarters and puts them back into the change machine, removing the paper money for deposit to the bank. None of the laundromats I've ever been to counts quarters.
