It may not be much...but it's mine!

[bcla]

Good luck with your hunt.

I'm not particular hunting for such a coin. I just remember seeing something about it thinking that maybe it was some super low production run. I didn't have the error coin.

 

[PigletsPal2]

Like many pps, we save our change too, in a coffee cup on the kitchen counter. We don't save for anything in particular, but we cashed it out today, and it was enough to pay for our parking at Epcot.

As an aside, I saw a news story recently (can't remember where) about a man who saved coins in a water cooler jug, and when it was full, it weighed 200 lbs!
He took the jug to his bank and (I think) an hour later he had more than $6,000!

Queen Colleen

 

[ronandannette]

Like many pps, we save our change too, in a coffee cup on the kitchen counter. We don't save for anything in particular, but we cashed it out today, and it was enough to pay for our parking at Epcot.

As an aside, I saw a news story recently (can't remember where) about a man who saved coins in a water cooler jug, and when it was full, it weighed 200 lbs!
He took the jug to his bank and (I think) an hour later he had more than $6,000!

Queen Colleen

We donate all our change; one way or the other. There's a couple of our "causes" that do change-drives every year and one year I thought I'd be really helpful and take it to have it rolled at our bank (before the days of those change rolling machines). I had about a gallon of it, which I loaded up in a back-pack and then had to struggle to carry it into the bank. Yeah, I got some weird looks and was approached by the manager when I was noticed lugging this heavy, bulging back-pack in.

 

[leebee]

I'll admit 1 penny is no big deal and I wasn't miffed in Canada as that is how there system works but I've had cashiers keep .50 cents before and I definitly asked for my change. They said they didn't have any coins in the till. I was kind of taken aback by that as I have workd retail and it is the cashiers job to make sure they have proper change.

Also, a cashier's drawer has to balance at the end of the shift. The computer tells the managers exactly how much credit, debit, check, and cash business has been conducted. It's very simple to compare what the cashier has in the drawer with the computer totals and monitor whether you have ah honest, good worker or someone who is lack-a-dasical or possible dishonest. I'm really not sure what cashiers are doing by keeping your change... unless it's trying to supplement their own income!

 

[wilkeliza]

Also, a cashier's drawer has to balance at the end of the shift. The computer tells the managers exactly how much credit, debit, check, and cash business has been conducted. It's very simple to compare what the cashier has in the drawer with the computer totals and monitor whether you have ah honest, good worker or someone who is lack-a-dasical or possible dishonest. I'm really not sure what cashiers are doing by keeping your change... unless it's trying to supplement their own income!

I use to be a manager in charge of cashing people out. Usually at Starbucks (where I use to work and where this happens to me the most) they keep it so they can toss it in the tip jar at the end of their shift. We had a terrible manager who would fudge the tills if they were over. The worst part was he didn't believe in company policy of counting new tills for every cashier so if the till was screwy at the end of the night I had to write up every barista that used it even if they had done things perfectly or not. I'm so glad I don't handle money any more.