Places that have coin-droppers will obviously accept your coins. I'm not sure if they have to be "separated" or not. But if you have a bunch of quarters by themselves, then they'll definitely accept them.


I remember going to the bank one time to get a bunch of rolls of quarters to bring to Ellis Island for the 10% bonus. I walked in and was greeted by the greeter person dude, he asked me what I needed help with, I said I just want to turn paper cash into quarters -- is there a limit for how much I can do? He looked at me stupidly, and said there's no problem, no limit, this is a bank after all. I wanted to confirm, so I asked again, and again he told me not to worry, there's no limit. Okay, cool.

I knew I wanted to do the Ellis Island thing several times, at $400 max, I decided if I did it for 5 days, I should get $2k in quarters. No problem for a bank, right? Riiiight???

So I get to the front, tell the teller I wanted A LOT of quarters and wasn't sure if they could help me with that. She also clarified there was no limit. So I asked for $2,000 in quarters. She told me they don't have that much in quarters (so much for the "no limit" thing). I don't remember how much I ended up getting, but it was definitely above $400 and I went to EI later to claim my $440 in FP. I didn't realize how freaking HEAVY that many quarters would be. It was a real struggle getting them all to my car.

After all that, I said f*** this, it's not worth the $35 in EV or so to spend all this time doing all this nonsense.