Commerce Banks offer a free service where you can come in with your bags of loose change, enter it into the coin counting machine. get a receipt - go to a teller and get real cash for it... before i moved out of my last apartment - I took two very very large containers of pennies to them- so large in fact, I filled up their machine....TWICE.. and not being a commerce custoemr -i walked out of the bank with 112 dollars in my pocket - no muss no fuss -just a sore back from lugging that many pennies..