It’s getting increasingly rare to see a consumer making a retail store purchase with cash; plastic (either credit or debit) seems the preferred method in this day and age. I remember occasionally opening my piggy bank as a child and sorting the coins into rolls to deposit them in the bank. But if you’re not a register attendant or a bank teller, you probably don’t see coin rolls very often. All this leads, of course, to today’s Brain Game. Good luck!
How many coins are there in a U.S. roll of…
…pennies?
…nickels?
…dimes?
…quarters?
…half-dollars?
…dollars?
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Too many years working in a bank. I got them all, though the half-dollar had me thinking.
posted by Jen on 5-27-2009 at 8:34 am
I’m with Jen. I haven’t been a teller for awhile, but once I got going it was a piece of cake. I think a better challenge would be how much is in a tray of rolls of coines on in a box of rolls of coins. I totally spent way too much time balancing the vaults.
posted by Patty on 5-27-2009 at 10:31 am
I got pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters right away, but didnt know half dollar or dollar rolls because i never even knew how much was in those rolls
posted by Andy on 5-27-2009 at 10:46 am
Amen Jen! Years of being a teller burned random facts like that into my mind….
posted by Kimberlea on 5-27-2009 at 1:37 pm
Knew the Value of Penny thru Quarter rolls right away and the math was easy – no clue on halves or dollars.
posted by PartiallyDeflected on 5-27-2009 at 1:46 pm
I got this and Im from canada. we don’t have a half dollar coin in regular circulation, but our rolls are pretty much the same. our 2 dollar coin (the toonie) comes in 50 dollar rolls.
posted by marc on 5-27-2009 at 9:43 pm
I waitress, my duties include running the register. The ones that you don’t typically find in cash registers were a bit more difficult.
posted by Lori on 8-4-2009 at 10:05 pm
That should have been a ‘;’…
posted by Lori on 8-4-2009 at 10:08 pm