Coinstar jackpot...

AJ2525

...well sort of.

It had 25 Chuck E. Cheese tokens that my kids oohed and aahed over. A couple of other playland type tokens, two Mexican peso coins and about 70 cents in cents, nickels and dimes.

No silver.

I looked silly walking around the grocery store with all of that in my pockets.

Oh well, it beats nothing.

prooflike

everytime I check a machine, it's empty - not very lucky that way I guess.........

commoncents05

So you took your kids to Chuck E Cheese then right? Neat find, you can't beat free, even if it is junk.

-Paul

tightbudget

I never find anything great in those things...the best thing I've found were 2 wheaties.

CheeseGuy

The problem is they changed the machine to tell the users to "check the bin for rejected coins," so now fewer coins are left behind. I still manage to find a foreign coin or silver dime every once in a while though. I also have about 25 elongated pennies I've found

grabba

<< <i>everytime I check a machine, it's empty - not very lucky that way I guess......... >>



Don't forget to check around the machine too. Sometimes the goodies roll under the machine and people are too lazy to retrieve them.

RWB

Last Wednesday evening I was in a local grocery to buy milk. There was a lady with a small child at the Coinstar machine. She had a glass jar partially filled with coins. As I wheeled by shopping cart past her, I looked at the jar and it was obvious that it contained mostly silver halves and quarters. I stopped dead in my tracks, approached the woman, told her what she had in the jar and offered to buy them for four times face for everything in the jar. I showed her the cash I had to prove I could buy them….fifteen minutes later, after sorting and stacking the coins as quickly as possible, I gave her over $400 in paper money – more than four times what she would have gotten with the machine. The lady was both amazed and happy. I told her how to reach me if she had more coins like these (the next batch will be 1972 Washingtons, I bet…)

This weekend will see if I broke even. As far as bullion goes, there were enough clad coins to leave only a small profit; however, all the silver halves were WL and the silver quarters were a mix of SL and Washington with quite a few of the SLQs having good dates. Bunch of buffalos, too.

This is not something I usually do, and it seemed more like a rescue mission that anything else.

zeus135

It had 25 Chuck E. Cheese tokens that my kids oohed and aahed over.

You might wanna look at them again. Make sure they're not Washington Dollars.

oxy8890

<< <i>It had 25 Chuck E. Cheese tokens that my kids oohed and aahed over.

You might wanna look at them again. Make sure they're not Washington Dollars. >>




Now that's funny!

coinman420

<< <i>everytime I check a machine, it's empty - not very lucky that way I guess......... >>




same here, never get anything.

ricko

Yep.. those machines always seem to be empty.... one day I think I will bring a book and lunch and sit in front of the machine all day... maybe hit a treasure like the one posted above. Cheers, RickO

notlogical

What do you guys mean by "checking" a coin star machine? How do you check a coin star machine? I didn't know you could get anything out of them. I thought you could only put stuff in.

Pentimento

There's a reject slot for silver, canadian coins, and tokens and stuff. I tried checking it after reading about it on the boards, and I actually found a couple of silver dimes if I remember correctly.

notlogical

Thanks!

planetsteve

Uh, do these machines take halves?

Just curious...

TwoSides2aCoin

Recycling aluminum cans sounds more gratifying to me
then take that money, buy some rolls of coins at the bank and cherry pick. Try to find extra leaf, wide am's, doubled dies, or cheerio sacagaweas.... or any coin that will make MS68 or above.
(my humble opinion)

jerster

Found a silver dime in one a few weeks ago...

fishcooker

Uh, do these machines take halves?

Yup.

SilverEagles92

Sure do, I cashed in about $15 in halves just yesterday.

57loaded

<< <i>Uh, do these machines take halves?

Just curious... >>



they will eat anything, checking the vomit is what these guys are talking about, I guess all you guys ran out of pay phones?

i'm up too early for a Sunday, no offense.

Writersblock

<< <i>I guess all you guys ran out of pay phones? >>


Pay phones? Pay phones?? Have you tried finding pay phones lately? (Ok, you can find them in a few areas, but for the most part they have gone the way of the Dodo bird since everyone carries cell phones nowadays.)