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This works less well with other currencies If you're working with euros your largest denomination coin is 2€ . In Yen it's 500 yen! This is not chump change an
by rtpg 9y ago
This works less well with other currencies
If you're working with euros your largest denomination coin is 2€ . In Yen it's 500 yen! This is not chump change and just throwing those coins into the charity box can leave you with effectively increasing your lunch pricing by 50% if you have a "give all coins to charity" policy.
If you have the cash for it more power to you, of course.
- Simon_says 9y agoWho said anything about charity?
- rtpg 9y agoAh, I think I misread the original comment to be something like "drop the coins in the tip jar". Please disregard.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoOP is dumping the change at home, then converting it to bills all at once. That works even when coins have non-trivial value.
- tolien 9y agoIgnoring the coin jar/charity box confusion, I've tended to keep the bigger coins around and just spend them - a few £1-2 coins don't weigh that much, aren't taking up a great deal of room and will buy your lunch entirely. Then they're not your problem any more. 500 yen's over £3, so I'm guessing you don't get many of those in your lunch change? The top result for "how much is lunch in Japan" [1] suggests that your 500 yen coin would just about cover the next day's lunch and is lighter (barely; 7 grams versus 8.75g) than a British one pound coin [2,3]. The coin sorting machines that you might tip a coin jar into take a decent chunk of your money for the privilege of counting it (e.g. CoinStar charge 9.9% [4]). 1: https://www.withhusbandintow.com/costs-to-eat-in-japan/ https://www.withhusbandintow.com/costs-to-eat-in-japan/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin) 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_yen_coin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_yen_coin 4: http://www.coinstar.co.uk/FAQ http://www.coinstar.co.uk/FAQ