whiskey bottle

[foxystoat1]

Hi.I have a full Bell's scotch whiskey bottle full of silver & bronze collected over the past few years.Rather than count it myself, does anyone know if the banks will do this for me...and how much ar they likely to charge?

[emmalee]

I would say it was doubtful that the bank would even consider counting it for you.  Do you have an Asda near you?  They have a machine you can tip it into and it will count it for you, take a certain % for charity and issue a voucher to the value of the rest to spend in store.  Ideal if you shop there.  Hope this helps.

[SteveD]

You can ask the bank for a few of the small plastic bags they use for coins and count the money yourself.  If it's just a standard 75 cl or 1 litre bottle it shouldn't take too long.

 

When you take the bags to the bank I think they will weigh them to confirm the contents.

 

[Scarlett]

Banks have automatic weighing machines, and all you have to do is tip it in and it gives you the right total. Best to ask your bank if they would consider doing this for you. They must get asked this sort of thing all the time.

[Greedyfly]

Or if you work for a company that deals in cold hard cash they are more than likely ok to do it.  I take mine into work when its full and our cashier uses the machine to count it for us. Then the shop has change and I have money.

[sammy snake]

I worked for a Bank for 17 years and can tell you that there is now ay we would do this for a customer!  Partly because of the time it would take to do it and partly to protect staff - for instance cashier says 'total of �20 Sir' customer disputes and insists there was �50....

We would give the cust a handful of bags andtell them to bring it back when it was bagged up and counted.

[sammy snake]

and Banks automatic counting machines only work if the same denomination coins are put on.  If the coins are mixed, it can't tell and therefore doesn't work.

[SimonMorton]

Pour the contents into a bath of clear honey. The viscosity of the honey will separate out the coins by denomination. They will then settle on the bottom, auto sorted. Burn the honey off and then get counting. I wouldn't recommend you actually do this though. Use a neighbour's bath just in case. The cost of the honey may prove extortionate - ask Tesco to give you some - they might.