UPDATE!! July 2009: N.B. Current fees at Chevy Chase bank are a flat $3 for <$100 and 7% for anything over $100.
In the DC Metro area at any rate.
If you go to Chevy Chase Bank, they have coin counting machines that will give you a little slip. Then you take it to the teller and they give you bills for it. You don’t have to have an account there to use it! That’s what so great about it!
A small warning, my friend observed a <.01% error rate. It was very small. Pennies difference on about $15.00. And when my friend told the teller, she rounded up the payout so nothing was actually lost.
This is a relief to find out. I was on the verge of taking a cup of change to a Coinstar machine and getting an Amazon gift card to avoid the Coinstar fee. But I would rather save the money instead of spending. (Or else turn it into a year’s worth of laundry money quarters so I never have to make a special trip again.)
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It’s a great service and it’s available at all Chevy Chase banks. I think SunTrust does this as well but you need to be an account holder.
If you haveone by you Commerce Bank has free coin counting too
I also love this service. My momma flies into town with a bag of coins and that is her spending money for the visit. It adds up pretty fast and saves her from having to roll coins for her banks at home.