The oldest coin from a CoinStar

Boosibri

I’ve trained my 4 year old daughter to search the CoinStar in the hope that these little treasures may spark a long term interest in the hobby. Today, I was shocked to have found this 1840 Seated dime. Anyone have an older coin from a machine?

TheGoonies1985

Nothing greater than having a close family member interested in hobbies we love. I am blessed that way with my closest relative. He does not collect but enjoys talking coins with me.

johnny9434

Some guy at the convenience store grabbed 3 mercs out of a roll, a 38 and 2 and 2 44's it's a good day 👍

fastfreddie

I taught my son the same. Oldest found was only a barber dime...teens.

golden

I do not think that anyone will find any coin older than 1840 in a CoinStar.

DCW

That's a great find, Brian! 184 years old...
Didn't someone on here find an ancient coin in the reject slot once?
And who can forget Ricko finding that W quarter after looking for so long?
The Coinstar provides endless fun and anticipation in an otherwise mundane trip to the grocery store 😆

P.S. You gotta put that dime in a 2x2 and write the date on it so she'll always remember.

JBK

I kind of cheat as the manager at a local bank gives us the rejects from their coin machine in the lobby. The oldest coins we've gotten are a 3 cent silver and a 2 cent piece.

sellitstore

@DCW said:
That's a great find, Brian! 184 years old...
Didn't someone on here find an ancient coin in the reject slot once?
And who can forget Ricko finding that W quarter after looking for so long?
The Coinstar provides endless fun and anticipation in an otherwise mundane trip to the grocery store 😆

P.S. You gotta put that dime in a 2x2 and write the date on it so she'll always remember.

Yes, I have seen at least one ancient claimed and a few European hammer coins over 500 years old.

When heirs are cleaning out old furniture after someone passes, sometimes they take the remaining change in a desk drawer and dump it into the jar of coins to be redeemed. That's possibly the primary way that oddball coins make it to Coinstar.

I think that my oldest was an Indian Head Cent but I may have received a 19th century foreign coin or two. I stopped checking regularly several years ago but can't resist a look if I notice a machine. I'm not too proud. But decreasing results seem to be a reality. It provided a very nice resurgence in the pulling of silver from "circulation"-levels not seen since the 1970s.

bsshog40

Very cool find!

tcollects

I trained my wife and she once found a Barber dime, but that's as old as I've ever seen personally - 1840 is amazing - also a little ominous because that's where our collections will end up

pocketpiececommems

My oldest

coinkat

CoinStar machines… seems I need to start living in this century.

Congrats… well done

SaorAlba

Here is my find from 3-4 years ago - ca. 200 BC Carmo - a Greek colony in what is now Spain.

Oldest US find - 1865 IHC

Joe_360

I got you beat if you except Spanish coins (minted in Mexico) 1774

Joe_360

I have found two Seated Dimes, but not as old as yours, 1887 & 1889. Two separate finds.

Sweetpie

Not Coinstar but from a TD Bank Penny Arcade. A 1700 year old Roman coin.

sellitstore

That ancient has some grade to it, too.

Maybe @Joe_360 can start a Seated Lib Dime date set from Coinstar.

Joe_360

@sellitstore said:
That ancient has some grade to it, too.

Maybe @Joe_360 can start a Seated Lib Dime date set from Coinstar.

I wish, but those two were found several years back already, so far and in-between...

But as the Great-one, Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss finding silver at 100% of the Coin Stars you don't check...”

Joe_360

@Boosibri said:
Today, I was shocked to have found this 1840 Seated dime.

@Boosibri , my theory is kids breaking in to Grandpa's mayonnaise-Jar or cigar-box...