Strange Coinstar find
Yorkshireman
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After church today, I stopped at a grocery store on my way home to pick up something for lunch.
I always glance at the Coinstar machine as I head to the exit door. This time, I noticed what had to be a fistful of coins and thought I had struck pay dirt with 90%.
Instead I pulled out $1.29 in regular pennies, nickels and dimes (plus two British five pence pieces).
This is certainly not the most lucrative Coinstar find ever, but has to be among the most bizarre.
Why would they not have been accepted?
The world may never know....
Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
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Hard to believe that someone would be too lazy to scoop up $1.29 that was just laying there.
Maybe they don't know about the reject tray, or could be drunk, stoned, etc??????
They were most likely dumped in to the machine to fast, if the machine can't count them as fast as they go in the ones missed go in to the reject bin for reinsertion into the machine.
CS are ultra sensitive. If the coins are dirty, gummy, or corroded they get rejected. If they are even slightly rolled thin, ditto.
I would guess that if your "treasure " was scooped up by the original CS user and fed thru again, half of them would have been accepted. But some, that appear perfectly fine, are rejected over and over and over. They are fickle machines. So I would not call your find "strange" at all!
Every once in a while, I find a handful of coins such as this...just did yesterday...and posted it in an earlier thread. Not sure why they walk away and leave them...Cheers, RickO
A couple of weeks ago I found a solitary dime lying right on the small counter of the Coinstar machine. It had rejected and went into the reject slot, probably a couple of times and the person using the machine must have given up and just left the poor little 1964-D right there for me to come rescue. Once found a '52-D dime lying on top of the garbage in a trash can next to the machine at my credit union.
Cannot imagine throwing silver away.
For the same reason they throw away bottles and cans they paid a deposit on. When I see our dumpster brimming with bottles and cans I say to my self "Why don't you, the throw away crowd, go to the bank, get a roll of nickels and then throw it in the lobby trash receptacle on your way out".
At the 'world cubing' rubiks cube competition Saturday in Amherst Ma, kid drops three dimes on the floor. I picked them up and asked him if he wanted them. "They're just change" he said. 30 cents for me I guess, helped pay for the $14 parking fee.
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Forgive my ignorance- are the coinstar machines those at Wal-Marts where people dump change? If so- I'll get on the beat!
I quit looking in the coinstar machines in my area. I have never found anything. Always empty when I look. I've must have looked a hundred times at various locations and always the same result. It was insanity.
That's the type of machine in our Walmarts.
Shoot man- why give me a disagree for asking a question? Thanks for info though....