1p/2p's in a 4.5ltr Bells Bottle.

Huh, my mother has the exact same bottle filled with pennies! Is it some fad that was introduced years and years ago to put pennies into big bottles or something? I didn't know others did it too.
 
why not weigh it? find out the weight of the bottle and subtract it, then you'll know pretty well what is in there :p
 
I have the a similar 4.5 litre bell's sitting under a coffee table on my left right now, I used to only put coppers in there but now 5p silvers go in often as well. used to do this as a whole family thing, but since everyone else stopped bothering I took the bottle. I'm pretty sure it has been full or nearly full twice in my lifetime and came to definately over fifty quid, I think it was closer to 100, got put into premium bonds for me and my sister (and it paid off, I won 50 quid last year! :D )

I remember bagging it up into quid's worth bags of 1ps and 2ps and taking it to the bank....its money, they have to take it...that's what banks are for.

Just found it spooky that so many do exactly the same with the same sort of bottles.
 
my old housemate had one of them, he'd keep all coins in it, and would use it for paying the taxi driver at the end of a night out

the drivers would follow him up to his room and help him count the quids :D

then he'd fall asleep on the bed (which is also where the coins were) and wake up with horrible green marks on his back from the copper coins
 
£40ish and the banks will want it bagged into £1 at a time. Any real bank (HSBC, Lloyds, Barclays, Natwest) will take it, the plastic ones that are really glorified building societies won't. If you need the small bags, as for a couple blue £20 of 2p's bags and a couple of orange £20 of 1p's bags as well - nice and strong and easier to carry them in with!
 
In my country just about every bank i've ever been in in the last 15 years or so has a coin-counter, and unlike the supermarkets they don't charge a cent to use them...
 
sam.wheale said:
1. Has anyone here done this before, and if so, how much roughly do they hold when full? I know this will vary depending on the 1/2p ratio – so no smart-arse comments please :p
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That won't make as much difference as you think, actually. A 2p weighs twice as much as a 1p, and as they're made of the same stuff, it follows that it is twice the size. As such, a bottle of 2ps should have about the same value as a bottle of 1ps, allowing for the probably fairly marginal differences in tesselation.

A 50p also weighs 2.5 times as much as a 20p, and I think a 10p weighs twice as much as a 5p.

That's why they let you make up bags of changes in 50p/20p lots, 10p/5p lots and 2p/1p lots.
 
Tom0 said:
My mates mam filled one with silver and copper and had £300!

Im going to get one of those boxes that the only way you can get inside is to smash it and ram it full of notes soon for a holiday. :D
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I did that. I started putting £20 a week in, though sometimes more. It was a handy way to have extra cash, I had over £300 in no time.
 
sam.wheale said:
2. How do banks feel about handling this much copper? I remember hearing a while back, that in general they don’t like taking a lot of copper in one go?

I think those little plastic money bags that you get from banks go up to £5 (Mixed) for copper? Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

When I do eventually attempt to bank it all, I would probably stagger any exchange over several days, but also over several branches of my bank?

Any thoughts?

SW.
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You can cash it in all at once, but when I did it last time (£40 worth in 1p/2ps) my bank said they'd only do £10 at a time, and I had to come back the next day to do the other £30. So when you intend to do it, give your branch a ring and check its ok.
 
i did the same to a 2litre coke bottle as a kid - stupid me put water in it too thinking it was cool (like i was watering it :/).. by the time i got round to taking it to a bank some were stuck together and weird looking
 
Ah i remember my friend having one of them, we poured all the coins out of it and made 'big burfer' biggest three way bong in town.

Them were the days...
 
At work the people work in the coin department have given me these figures. A bag of 2ps which weighs 7.16Kgs = £20 and a bag of 1ps that also weighs 7.16kgs = £20. So you can try and work it out from there if you know how much that bottle weighs :)

Just FYI:

Bag of 5ps = £100 = 6.55kgs
Bag of 10ps = £100 = 6.05kgs (IIRC)
(can't remember these values)
Bag of £2 = £500 = 3.06Kgs
 
Deiwos said:
You can cash it in all at once, but when I did it last time (£40 worth in 1p/2ps) my bank said they'd only do £10 at a time, and I had to come back the next day to do the other £30. So when you intend to do it, give your branch a ring and check its ok.
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I've never had any problem whatsoever doing this at my banks.

If my bank said that I'd demand they do it or I'd close my account immedietly.
 
some tescos have shrapnel machines where you tip it all in, it counts it for you and gives you a tesco voucher to sepnd in store which you can swap for cash at the customer service desk. may be work a think about:)
 
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