Washboard, a collaborative effort between friends Caleb Brown and Shaun Chapman, provides two-day shipment on rolls of coins, and also offers a "high volume" package - $20 of quarters for $26.
Mr Brown said that while the startup is "legit", it currently has less than 10 customers. However, with a recent flurry of interest on social media from city-dwellers without home laundry facilities, that could be set to change.
For example, in New York, washing machines are seldom seen in domestic properties, to the extent that they are regarded as a status symbol by many.
"The only reason in the last five years that I've been to the bank is to get quarters for laundry," Mr Brown told Valleywag.
"For me it was just a personal real problem. You're on you're own, you're doing laundry, and there are pain points there that no one ever really cared about before."
The startup's launch comes just days after Yo - a mobile application which lets users send each other its eponymous two-letter greeting - raised $1m in funding.
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