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Just curious as to how many dollars /it would be if I go to the bank with a five gallon bucketful of quarters?
 

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It is easily $3000 plus. You would never be able to lift it. If you could, the handle would surely rip out. We use bulk bags from the bank, each of which hold 2000 quarters. I can fit 6 bags in a bucket. If the coins were loose, I bet I could fit another $1000.
 

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Second vote for $3000 or so. I routinely carry quarters that are in $500 boxes, and that is all you'd really want to do. Once I carried 2 boxes at once ($1,000 total), one under each arm to keep me balanced. Not something I'd reccommend.

I always make fun of the movies when they are stealing gold bullion. They fill a briefcase or somesuch and then carry it off, right!
 

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FWIW I often use a one gallon paint can to hold quarters I collect from various locations. (I put a rubber hose around the handle to keep it from hurting my hand and had to reinforce the way it attaches to the can ). Now it may hold more than an exact gallon to allow for expansion. If I fill it and shake it to settle the coins than fill it to the brim it will hold $700.00. I know because I fill it and have counted it and use it to replenish changers at other locations.

So, assuming the same allocation for any expansion with a 5 Gallon bucket, filled to the brim with quarters well settled, it will hold $3500.00.

Also, $1000.00 in quarters ways exactly 50lbs. So the bucket would weigh 175lbs.
 

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Earl gets the prize! I just got back from the bank ..I carried a bucket that was close to being full.I weighed it and it weighed 160lbs -really heavy- .They had a coin counter to dump the quarters in.$3268 .
 

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I can't even imagine building up that many extra quarters at the wash. Luckily our bank will take them in bags of $500, so we never have to have any sitting around or locked up somewhere.

Tokens work better for attended washes - ours is not, and I'd rather not have customers wondering why they got tokens from the changer instead of quarters. Yes, I know "customer education" is the key to tokens, but I ain't into that.
 

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Well, it is not neccessarily a build up because 3 Hamilton Changers will hold $3600.00.

In addittion, a tunnel can go thru $100.00 in quarters in a day.
 

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Wth all due respect;

You guys are nuts!

I've got two words:

Dollar Tokens!
With all due respect, you are wrong. Dispensing only tokens will most likely increase the amount of quarters you take to the bank. You will have no walkoff quarters and will have to take every single quarter you accept to the bank. If you don't accept quarters, you are nuts!
 

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I use 1/2 gal containers to keep refills of quarters in for ACWs, changers etc. They hold $300.00. 300 X 10 = $3,000..........BINGO. I sure wouldn't want to stand in line with that too long!!!!!!!!!
 

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A Million Dollars In Quarters????

In One Of My Great Mafia Books It Stated That A Million Dollars In Quarters Weighs 22 Tons,told That To One Of My Good Customers And His Respons Was "no It Dose'nt"

Wash The Planet!!!
 

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In One Of My Great Mafia Books It Stated That A Million Dollars In Quarters Weighs 22 Tons,told That To One Of My Good Customers And His Respons Was "no It Dose'nt"

Wash The Planet!!!
Well, if $1000 is 50lbs. (It is) and $1million = 1000 x 1000, then 1000 x 50lbs is 50,000lbs for $1million. So, your guy is correct. It is 25 tone.

Somewhere I read a story about needing 30 armored cars to carry the quarters needed to stock the "New" Ballys when it opened some 30 years ago.
 

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In One Of My Great Mafia Books It Stated That A Million Dollars In Quarters Weighs 22 Tons,told That To One Of My Good Customers And His Respons Was "no It Dose'nt"

Wash The Planet!!!
To make 22 tons that included the bodies.
 

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CRHAMEL said:
In One Of My Great Mafia Books It Stated That A Million Dollars In Quarters Weighs 22 Tons,told That To One Of My Good Customers And His Respons Was "no It Dose'nt"
How much would that pipe I ordered two years ago have weighed?
 

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To Much For You!!

Mr. Parris,

How come you dont work at CWR anymore????

Give me a Credit Card# cost for us to thread 4 pieces of pipe
800.00

WASH THE PLANET!!!!

Chris Hamel
 

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I roll my own then put them in a ammo box. Each row holds 100.00 and you can get 700.00 in a box. Yep its heavy
 

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Just curious as to how many dollars /it would be if I go to the bank with a five gallon bucketful of quarters?[/QUOT

$3250.00 leval with top and packed down. I us a scale to weigh and it gives me the count. Last time i sent my wife to the bank I was off .75c @ 13000 quarters.
 
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