How to Use a Coin Machine

A 16-ounce container of coins can hold more than $28. A 1-gallon container of coins can hold more than $200. Converting these coins into paper money is much easier than trying to use them as coins. Using a Coin Machine can make the process of counting coins much easier. Some sorters are home electronic devices and others are commercial devices that charge a percent of the coins' value for converting the coins to paper money.
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Sift through your coins to ensure that they are all of the same currency. The occasional coin from a different country can slip into circulation since most people only give coins a cursory glance. Most machines sort by weights specific to a set of currency, so running foreign coins through a sorter that isn't equipped to automatically sift them out, can cause problems.
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Pile the coins into the sorter. Some machines can take bulk amounts of coins and sort many at a time, and others will require you to enter the coins one at a time. If your coin sorter is your own personal device, it is designed to sift the coins by type. It will have a separate reservoir for each category (quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies) into which the coins will be sorted. Once sorted into stacks, transfer the coins into coin wrappers. If it is a commercial machine, it will simply collect the coins and you won't have to wrap them.
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Collect the value of the coins. Commercial machines may dispense cash or a cash voucher minus a fee for using the machine. The machine may allow you to forgo the fee if you choose to take the coins' value in gift certificates for various stores and online merchants. If you used a personal machine, you will need to take the wrapped coins to your bank for deposit into your account, or to exchange them for paper money.