Small Change Results

Here are the results of my cashing in, I weighed the coins to get an idea comparing to a nominal weight of £1 to get the value.

Coin	£1 grams	Weight	Estimate £/coins	Actual £/coins
1p/2p	350	3571	10.20 / 714	9.93 / 657
5p	68	740	10.85 / 217	11.55 / 231
10p	65	1880	28.90 / 289	28.50 / 287
20p	25	1349	54.00 / 270	53.60 / 268

I estimated that the 1p/2p were split 40:60 but it was much nearer 50:50

Small Change Crisis

I am not very efficient with small change, and it has built up in the last couple of year.

I did some weighing up and worked out things had got out of hand and it was time to try and cash it in somewhere

I had seen people using CoinStar machines, and knew about the 8% processing charge, but it also turns out that they return vouchers redeemable in store.

But then I was in Natwest and they paying in machines now take coins - and probably have done for a few years maybe. Also paid into your account with no transaction charge.

This was the way I went for, it works pretty well - and now I can solve my loose change crisis.