[Carol]

This is a one time method, but we signed up with the local mall to get the coins from their fountains. It took over a year before we got notified that we can come pick them up - the time varies as to whenever they decide that they need to empty and clean out the fountain.

We are still cleaning all the coins (they came wet and full of debris and "gunk"), but it looks like we may get $1500 from it. the only effort was to pick up the coins, clean them, and then take them to a coin sorting machine - a free one at TD bank. We call it our Money Laundering project.

We probably won't get a chance to do this again for another couple of years, but it is a nice windfall for us.

P.S. It is interesting seeing all the unusual foreign coins that came with it, like from S. Africa - had to look that one up. And we got a lot of Chuck E. Cheese tokens too!