Guus Bosman

Today we brought our coins to the bank.

For two years we have been storing our spare coins in a drawer in the kitchen. The last months it's been harder to open and close the drawer because it was so heavily loaded.

We carried two bags of coins to my local bank where they used an automatic counting machine to determine how much is was.

The final count was just over $200 -- quite a bit more than two years ago when I changed my remaining euro coins. We had over 1350 1-cent coins, but the biggest value obviously came from the quarters.

It's a very busy weekend, with a lot of preparations and packing but we are well prepared and making good progress.