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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If he had paid all in pennies it'd actually be easier to count because you can just weigh it and assume a value.

With a random mix of coins that now becomes near impossible without sorting through every single coin...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They could have just used an automatic coin sorter, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, those have been around since at least the 1940s, if not before.