Creating a random pocket of Change

[fresh83]

Alright, I created a superclass called coin and then made subclasses for all the other kinds of American coin (dime , quarter, nickel, penny)
now in my pocket class I want to some how generate a random pocket of change.So that means different mixtures of change and different amounts of coins, but i havent the slightest where to start beside i know im going to be needing java.util.Random; :) can anyone give me a hint?

Super Class:

public class coin{
int value;
String name;

public coin(){
 value=0; 
 name="Canadian Penny";
}
 public String toString() {
    return String.format("This coin is a %s\n Its value is:%s", name, value);
 }
}

Subclass:

public class dime extends coin{
  
  dime(){
value=10; 
name="Dime";
}
 public String toString() {
    return String.format("This coin is a %s\n Its value is:%s",name,value);
 }
}

Pocket class that uses the previous classes:

import java.util.Random;
class pocket{
  public static void main(String[] args){

    
    coin leftPocket[]= new coin[5];
    leftPocket[0]= new dime();
    leftPocket[1]= new nickel();
    leftPocket[2]= new quarter();
    leftPocket[3]= new coin();
    leftPocket[4]= new penny();
    
    for(coin x:leftPocket){
      
    System.out.println(x.toString());
   
    
  }
}
}

[KevinWorkman]

How would you do this by hand? Pretend your Math.random() is some dice, and you have some rolls of coins. What would you do to create a random collection of coins from the rolls?

[fresh83]

lol I guess I would roll once to see how many pieces of change are in the pocket, then set each side of the die equal to a different coin and roll once for each coin to determine its value.

thank you for forcing me to think , but caring enough to guide me . I will try this to the best of my ability's and then post to see if its a efficent way of doing it.

[KevinWorkman]

Don't worry too much about efficiency.

But pretend you have a really dumb friend, who doesn't really know anything about money or counting. Give him some dice and some rolls of coins. Write out directions that your friend could follow (better make them simple, remember how dumb he is) to get a random pocket of change. When you have that written out, you'll have an algorithm that should be pretty easy to translate into code.