From: Gordon 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.local.yorkshire
Subject: Re: Limit to the amount of change you can bank?
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:37:56 +0000

Peter King  wrote
>> >> I got one of those money sorters for christmas.
>> >I've got one too, very handy.
>> Might I ask which ones the are?
>Mine looks like:
>
>http://www.gadgets.co.uk/item/ELECCOINS/Electronic-Coin-Sorter.html
>
>Which looks like the same design as the argos one, I'm not sure where
>mine came from as it was a present last year.
>
>> Argus do one, I think, and do they do the counting for you?
>
>They do, but only to a certain extent, basically each tube on the front
>holds a set amount of coins. Unfortunately this doesn't always
>correspond to the amount needed to fill a banks coin bag, for example
>the 10p and 20p tubes each hold a bags worth, while the 5p tube only
>holds 40 5p coins. Far less than the 100 needed to fill a bag.
>
>Also 5p coins occasionally get stuck, but it only takes a second or two
>to free it.
>
>In summery, its a handy gadget/toy to dump your coins in each evening
>and sort out the high value ones while leaving the low value ones to be
>bagged up and taken to the bank. But its would be no good in a shop.
>
>Peter
>
Thanks.   I saw one which my grandson in California had a few years ago 
for his money gifts etc.
It sorted them directly into paper bags which could be taken to the 
bank, which I thought was very useful, but that was for Do$$ar coinage 
of course.

I've used the Sainsburys counting machine once, to get vouchers, but the 
7% voluntary tax is too much...
-- 
Gordon Harris