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Originally posted by juju2112
When I was in high school I got a job at a bank rolling coins in the vault.
They had this big machine just for rolling coins. I'd come in to work and there'd be piles and piles of bags of loose coin, each bag weighing about 10 pounds. I think one bag of quarters was $500, and a bag of pennies was $50. That's all I did -- dump bags of coins into this machine and take the resulting rolled coins and put them in boxes.
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Anchorage man cashes in $7,920 worth of pennies
An Anchorage man yesterday [August 3, 2001] finished cashing in more than 792-thousand pennies. With help from a coin-processing company, 57 year old Sylvester Neal processed 288-thousand-141 pennies at a coin-counting machine in a local supermarket. Representatives of CoinStar hired an armored car to help Neal transport his heavy load. It took him until seven-45 in the evening to finish his task.
CoinStar says it's the most pennies ever processed by its machines by one person, more than doubling a record set in January by someone in Baltimore.
Neal decided to cash in most of his collection after making plans to move from Anchorage to Auburn, Washington. He previously had cashed in five-thousand dollars worth of pennies. He says the five-ton collection was too expensive to move. Neal is a retired state fire marshal. He's keeping about 200-thousand pre-1974 pennies.