This weeks amazing Coinstar finds!!! :)

MrSpud

I found the elongated cent on Sunday at Harris Teeter and the rest today at Lowe's Supermarket

Leiana

Wow, cool!



-Amanda

goose3

The Lowes here sells lumber.

Pentimento

I assume a Coinstar machine spits things into a reject bin and you pass by and check whats in it? Sorry for the dumb question--never used one before.

toreador74

Neat finds.... how do you get coins out of a Coinstar machine? I thought you could only "dump" coins in to get a receipt, take that receipt to customer service, cashier or bank teller (depending on where you are) to get cash...

MrSpud

<< <i>I assume a Coinstar machine spits things into a reject bin and you pass by and check whats in it? Sorry for the dumb question--never used one before. >>



Exactly right. People dump their jars of change into the machine and it counts them and gives them a credit slip for their money (minus something like 8%) and stuff the machine doesn't recognize as coins (including silver coins sometimes) end up in the reject bin. I always look in the bin when I am in the grocery store. I found a silver dime and other coins before, but never this much stuff

coindeuce

Bottom feeder??

MrSpud

<< <i>Bottom feeder?? >>



Well yeah, sort of, I guess. It's fun though, kinda like looking through bankrolls.

Cladiator

If I'm not mistaken at least 6 of those are Mexican coins. Looks like Paco Ramirez brought his change to the coinstar machine

Bodie

I did not know those machines gave you coins. So, you have to pay to get change? WTF?

xbob

Very sweet score Spud!

I too have been successful scraping the coin return of the Coinstar this week:
one 2000 Five Centavo coin from Ecuador,
one 1972 Ten Pfennig coin from Germany,
one 1996 and one 2002 Chuck E' Cheese token,
and an undated Namco token.

No silver U.S. this go around. Damn!

MrSpud

<< <i>I too have been successful scraping the coin return of the Coinstar this week:
one 2000 Five Centavo coin from Ecuador,
one 1972 Ten Pfennig coin from Germany,
one 1996 and one 2002 Chuck E' Cheese token,
and an undated Namco token.
>>



Nice!

flaminio

<< <i>I did not know those machines gave you coins. So, you have to pay to get change? WTF? >>

The coins are from the CoinStar reject slot. Someone dumps a bucket of coins in, and CoinStar counts all the valid US coinage. Everything else goes in the reject bin. The deal is that the reject bin is near the bottom, and with everything clanking around it's easy to overlook. I've found all sorts of funky foreign coins and video game tokens in the slot -- my best find so far was a VG 1955 silver quarter (silver has the wrong magnetic signature, and gets rejected ).

lkrarecoins

nice stuff.....in nyc, we have Commerce Bank. Commerce has a counter that is free, and you don't have to have an acct. with them.
Plus, they give out free gifts if you can guess the amt. of money in your jug (not sure of how close u need to be)

Their counter also kicks out foreign coins and such...

My jug spit out a 1964 silver quarter and 4 silver dimes along with some foreigns as well.

Coinstar is a rip, btw!!! My bookie gets a smaller vig

Rodius

hum, I am going to visit my local coinstar. sounds like fun

StrikeOutXXX

Cool finds - what is a Carolina Blonde?

I don't have any free machines at my local bank, so if I don't roll my coins by hand, it goes into the coinstar at the supermarket. At 8.9% - I still think it's a deal if I'm taking in $100 in pennies to pay the machine $8.90.

I've never timed myself, but just counting by hand and rolling $100 or so in pennies, it has to take a few hours. For what I value my time at it isn't worth it to me - I'll use coinstar. Maybe next time the local High School kids come collecting for various clubs, I'll have them roll my cents for $9.00 and call it even .

TraderGio

I live in a village where 2/3 of us are foreign nationals! I bet my coinstar machine is full of latin american coins. I'm off work on Friday and after picking up some rolls at the bank I'm swinging by the store. I never thought of myself as a bottom feeder?!

MrSpud

<< <i>Cool finds - what is a Carolina Blonde? >>

Hyperion

I think this is the 21st century equivalent of checking a payphone change slot

zkcoins

<< <i>hum, I am going to visit my local coinstar. sounds like fun >>



Exactly what I was was thinking... lol

StrikeOutXXX

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<< <i>Cool finds - what is a Carolina Blonde? >>


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Ooh - should have guessed.

The last time I was in Charlotte, was around 2000 for some software training. Our guide/software trainers took us to a Hornets game and then to some restaurant/bar in downtown Charlotte and we ate in the prohibition room. The bar had these little "Passport" type cards where if you tried a beer from the various localities/countries/columns on the card they checked it off. After like 25 different beers checked off you got a coozie, at 50 a mug, all 150 or so on the card (best I can remember) you got a shirt and your name on the wall or something.

Unfortunately they cut us off at the coozie. If I remember correctly that beer was one of them. Although I have a hard time remembering the whole adventure.

Thanks for the memories

Conder101

<< <i>(silver has the wrong magnetic signature, and gets rejected ). >>


They have the wrong weight as well, too heavy.

ElKevvo

Cool! Also good to know I am not the only one that checks the reject bin!

K

coinpage

<< <i>...-- my best find so far was a VG 1955 silver quarter (silver has the wrong magnetic signature, and gets rejected ). >>



Whoa, i didn't know those machines rejected silver. I think i'll start bottom feeding too.

CaptHenway

<< <i>I think this is the 21st century equivalent of checking a payphone change slot >>



Exactly.
Now watch some young whippersnapper ask "Duh! What's a pay phone????"
TD

GoldenEyeNumismatics

Nice. At the 2005 SF ANA show when they had all the free coinstar machines I went around and would pay people a dollar if I could get all their spit-back coins. I wound up with probably 20 pre-1964 silver coins, a couple of clipped planchets, a bunch of foreign stuff, and a few other knick-knacks for about $10.

flaminio

<< <i>Coinstar is a rip, btw!!! My bookie gets a smaller vig >>

You can now get the full value of the change as an amazon.com coupon. I think other merchants will be added in the future as well. Since I'm going to spend money on amazon anyway, this option makes good "cents" for me.