Sixteen cents... nice... No Wheaties though...Well, I would not complain... My coinstar has been barren for a while.... may check the Mall machine today.... Cheers, RickO
Yesterday I finally hit a good coinstar... at the market, I noticed activity at the machine...so, after checking out, I walked past it and 'voila'... One quarter, two dimes and a zincoln....47 cents.... Cheers, RickO
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No luck in the mall yesterday.... nothing in the parking lots....should have checked the loading dock area...forgot that one....Cheers, RickO
Malls aren't usually that good imo, except for the water fountains . but mall security might get mad if they see. Drive thru windows are reliable, as long as no one sees.
It is always interesting to think.......................who made that elongated cent and......................who tried to run it through a coin counting machine
I would assume that it was two different people
@1630Boston said:
It is always interesting to think.......................who made that elongated cent and......................who tried to run it through a coin counting machine
I would assume that it was two different people
The elongated penny is a souvenir bought from & made by Aquarium of the Pacific. It is near the Queen Mary & the LB Covention Center (LB Coin Show) in Long Beach.
A couple of years ago, I found an elongated cent in a parking lot (Sam's I think).... It was pretty chewed up, probably still have it in a junk jar somewhere... Cheers, RickO
Still zero... I make it to the market almost every day... the mall once a week... and nothing now...for two weeks or more.... nothing in parking lots either... Cheers, RickO
Now that is strange.... I never thought of this... you mentioned the change tray at check out counters. Now that I think of it.... they do not have them anymore at my supermarket... I wonder when - and why - they eliminated them. Cheers, RickO
@ricko said: @KollectorKing.... Really?? I did not know that.... thought they had the weight/count thing to prevent it. Guess I was wrong.... Cheers, RickO
it's not the weigh/count thing. It's people shop lifting goodies using the self check out register
to flee the market.
First find in a month or so for the five-year old, who runs and checks the Coinstar machine while I'm self-checking the groceries. When we find a small number of foreign coins, but no US at all, I think that someone deliberately left them for others to find.
Yesterday, on my way out of the supermarket, I was walking to pass the coinstar, with the purpose of checking the reject bin. The older fellow in front of me, looked, bent down, and scooped a batch of coins..then double checked to be sure there were not more...... GRRRRRRR.... Right before my eyes.... Cheers, RickO
@ricko said:
Yesterday, on my way out of the supermarket, I was walking to pass the coinstar, with the purpose of checking the reject bin. The older fellow in front of me, looked, bent down, and scooped a batch of coins..then double checked to be sure there were not more...... GRRRRRRR.... Right before my eyes.... Cheers, RickO
My haul from grocery store coinstar today, even one from Cuba! $1.61 USA including a red-brown 1958 wheat, a Canadian dime (nickel not silver)along with 2 pennies, a british 3 pence and the 1989 Cuban coin
@kevinstang said:
My haul from grocery store coinstar today, even one from Cuba! $1.61 USA including a red-brown 1958 wheat, a Canadian dime (nickel not silver)along with 2 pennies, a british 3 pence and the 1989 Cuban coin
@kevinstang.. Nice haul... haven't seen a British 3 pence in a while... I think I have a couple somewhere from my time in England and Scotland...Must be in my foreign coin bag. Cheers, RickO
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Sixteen cents... nice... No Wheaties though...Well, I would not complain... My coinstar has been barren for a while.... may check the Mall machine today.... Cheers, RickO
Looks like you've got at least two copper pennies...not a terrible thing
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my coin star has been empty for quite a while. one of these days
No luck in the mall yesterday.... nothing in the parking lots....should have checked the loading dock area...forgot that one....Cheers, RickO
Anyone ever check the 'snow melt' areas at the mall parking lots where they pile all of the snow in the winter, and then it melts?
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CoinStar was empty on the way into the store. Did a double take on the way out. Bingo! 4 dimes (2 US 2 Canadain) 3 cents (2 US 1 Canadian)
Every year.
Plus the snow pile melt around the local pond for the annual hockey puck harvest.
Have you found anything, I have not
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I have checked the snow pile area each year... have not found anything... more luck around parking meters though....Cheers, RickO
Jackpot at local Wal-Mart Coinstar this afternoon. First hit in a long time, also found a Lincoln cent in the parking lot on the way in.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Nice Coinstar finds.
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Yesterday I finally hit a good coinstar... at the market, I noticed activity at the machine...so, after checking out, I walked past it and 'voila'... One quarter, two dimes and a zincoln....47 cents.... Cheers, RickO
Malls aren't usually that good imo, except for the water fountains . but mall security might get mad if they see. Drive thru windows are reliable, as long as no one sees.
2 dimes 6 pennys. Nothing interesting.
2004 canadian nickel last monday
I picked up a 49-d silver rosie a couple weeks ago in local grocery store machine, second silver dime of the year- got a merc earlier in the year.
Yesterday....... wait for it........ Two modern zincolns..... Wippy dippy dooo....
Cheers, RickO
end of drought :
Not bad... and a unique penny souvenir.. Cheers, RickO
It is always interesting to think.......................who made that elongated cent and......................who tried to run it through a coin counting machine
I would assume that it was two different people
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
The elongated penny is a souvenir bought from & made by Aquarium of the Pacific. It is near the Queen Mary & the LB Covention Center (LB Coin Show) in Long Beach.
A couple of years ago, I found an elongated cent in a parking lot (Sam's I think).... It was pretty chewed up, probably still have it in a junk jar somewhere... Cheers, RickO
Canadian dime and a German 5 pfennig.
Nothing today... again... for the last couple of weeks....I think the cashiers are getting the rejects... Cheers, RickO
Jackpot finds today including 1 90% roosie. Can anyone tell me what the strange looking qtr-size coins shown on top are?
source - coinstar at Ralphs
recap:
qtrs: 10
dimes: 16 + 1 90%
nickels: 3
pennies: 12
unknown: 3
I would consider that a jackpot too. :
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Those three at the top look like game tokens.... they sell them at video game emporiums and use them for plays.... Nice haul...Cheers, RickO
Last night 2 quarters 4 dimes US and a Canadian quarter and dime.
Today another US dime and a Malibu Grand Prix token.
All modern.
Still zero... I make it to the market almost every day... the mall once a week... and nothing now...for two weeks or more.... nothing in parking lots either...
Cheers, RickO
banged up penny found at coinstar,
the rest from change tray from self check out register.
Now that is strange.... I never thought of this... you mentioned the change tray at check out counters. Now that I think of it.... they do not have them anymore at my supermarket... I wonder when - and why - they eliminated them. Cheers, RickO
some markets in socal have eliminated self check outs due to rise in theft rate.
@KollectorKing.... Really?? I did not know that.... thought they had the weight/count thing to prevent it. Guess I was wrong.... Cheers, RickO
it's not the weigh/count thing. It's people shop lifting goodies using the self check out register
to flee the market.
Oh wow.... did not realize that... there is a clerk in constant attendance at our self check lines....not sure if that can prevent it... Cheers, RickO
another jackpot, with a possible "01p" roosie + a 90% dime to boot:
recap:
us quarters 5
cn quarter 1
dimes 8
90% dime 1
1 nickel
4 pennies
1 10p eire aka republic of ireland
Nice haul.... been quite a while since I saw a pile like that.... Cheers, RickO
First find in a month or so for the five-year old, who runs and checks the Coinstar machine while I'm self-checking the groceries. When we find a small number of foreign coins, but no US at all, I think that someone deliberately left them for others to find.
Yesterday, on my way out of the supermarket, I was walking to pass the coinstar, with the purpose of checking the reject bin. The older fellow in front of me, looked, bent down, and scooped a batch of coins..then double checked to be sure there were not more...... GRRRRRRR....
Right before my eyes.... Cheers, RickO
Ouch & double ouch!!
pulled a dollar bill from the return at the coinstar today.
Really??? Now that is the first I have heard of that happening.....
Cheers, RickO
Is that even possible? Maybe the clerks were bored and put it there
today's find:
Very nice... even a restroom token.... I wonder why the new nickels are being rejected.... Cheers, RickO
My haul from grocery store coinstar today, even one from Cuba! $1.61 USA including a red-brown 1958 wheat, a Canadian dime (nickel not silver)along with 2 pennies, a british 3 pence and the 1989 Cuban coin
Congrats!
someone found 4 quarters and felt guilty
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@kevinstang.. Nice haul... haven't seen a British 3 pence in a while... I think I have a couple somewhere from my time in England and Scotland...Must be in my foreign coin bag. Cheers, RickO
Silver!!