The OFFICIAL COINSTAR FINDS THREAD
georgiacop50
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Rather than happy hunter folk starting up a new thread every time something interesting gets snagged, I thought it might be useful to have an OFFICIAL place for them 
Previously my oldest coin found in a reject bin was a 1920 Lincoln cent. But yesterday Walmart yielded an 1892 Canada 5¢ silver!
and a small handful of the usual crap that included a 1941 wheat.
I included a previous coinstar Canada 1931 5¢ in the photo as it is a relatively "valuable" find as these things go.
I am in Florida.
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Most of these were my own rejects, but quite a few are coinstar finds... I get cent rolls from my bank and then cash them in for gift cards at the coinstar....
Living in New York I get a lot of Canadian coins... I save them up until my next trip to Canada where I give them back.... Its been about 6 years since the last time I took them back and I have $17.00 rolled + this pile.... I think I'm going to trade it for a silver maple leaf next time I cross the border.
Successful trades.... MichaelDixon,
Just pulled a 1 Singapore cent today
and a euro cent a couple of weeks ago
Yesterday I got a 1929 and 1942 pennies.
I never see anything at my grocery store coinstar. but a couple of weeks ago I picked out a pretty prooflike canadian quarter.
You were suppose to leave the coins in the bin for ME! LOL
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.BoA sent out my hoard of pennies, they don't have a coin counting machine. No $ deducted but it is a wait.
My coinstars have been devoid of 'rejects' for the last couple of weeks....seems it goes in cycles.... Cheers, RickO
Found/Free money is good money
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
1 euro cent about 3 weeks ago
1 Singapore cent (lower left) about 2 weeks ago
the rest came a couple of days ago.
Nice finds
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Euro's seem to show up frequently in the reject bin.... must be a lot of 'travelers' in my area....
Cheers, RickO
The most interesting item that I have found in a CoinStar-type reject bin was this penny altered to pass as a dime.
United States Cent 1946-S altered to pass as a dime
The coin was probably altered with a file to pass as a dime in a vending machine.
It weighs 2.67gm, is 19mm in diameter, and the sides are smooth.
I had heard of pennies altered this way but this was the first that I have seen.
Copper and silver have similar electrical properties and this was also the reason for replacing silver coins with copper clad coins in the 1960's.
On December 3, 2010 President Obama pardoned a man for doing this "coin mutilation" in 1963:
http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=797038
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Just the usual mix of US & foreign. But this is the first time I have had batteries in the mix!!
The half is 1977.
Yesterday I found handful of stuck together coins. it was kinda gross
No picture, but a battery, a couple Lincolns, a state quarter, and
Either an impair proof or BU 1956 Roosevelt with some nice album toning.
Uncle penny bags
FYI. Pennies are no longer legal tender in Canada. Unless you have numismatic value you'll be out of luck. Banks and merchants nor refuse them
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love the canadian 31 nickel
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Pennies are still legal tender in Canada. All Canadian money ever made, bills or coins is, and hopefully will always be, perfectly legal tender. Fact that it is recommended by the Feds not to circulate the pennies is simple. They want to remove them from circulation as they cost more to make than they are worth. And it is so much easier to do without them.
Any transaction can still include pennies. However, it is up to the merchant to accept or not. Banks are technically "not allowed" to give them out any longer.... but, some still do if you ask and they know you.
paper only transactions are still done "to the penny".
Again, Canadian pennies of any age, are legal tender!
Four dimes and nine cents.... one a 1918 wheatie....got a 1916 wheatie last week.... Cheers, RickO
A lot of work for 9 cents!!
At one time, for kids, that nine cents was significant.... I recall penny candy and five cent candy bars.... Cheers, RickO
Just got my wife to start checking about six months ago.
Most of the time, there's nothing, and I tell her that someone else probably just checked.
About 1 in 4 times she finds a few foreign or US coins. Found one silver dime about 3 months ago which was quite exciting and the first silver from circulation in years.
Question: Why the rejected US coins that look like they should have been accepted? I've checked weights on these and they are always right. They are not damaged. Is the electromagnetic signature wrong?
I'm sure that some cable television network has discussed a "reality" program involving alleged CoinStar finds.
It looks gold and I am reading ... "Brasher"
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Usually, I see nothing. Sometimes I see a handful of foreign coins. Over time, I've found just over 5 euros in euro coins ranging from one euro to one euro cent, I've also found over 5 Singapore dollars in change ranging from a Singapore $ to a Singapore cent.
I occasionally find some U.S. clad coins; I guess some people are lazy. Twice I have found a silver dime.
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"Sou Mangueira......."
Found my first silver ('64 dime) last week!
I got a 1943 steel cent the other day when dumping my stash in my bank's coin counter. Turned out it came out of my own stash.... I don't know how that slid by me going into the jug...
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Not a coinstar but the coin machine at one of my credit unions yielded this last Thursday.
Jackpot.
7 troy oz of silver ?
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Nice, my local grocery store coinstar machine has had a coupe of rejected deformed modern cents in the past seven years.
I use the machines every couple of months to clear out my change jar.....and they just do that occasionally. Maybe they get too many into the sorter at once, or a couple coins stick together, or something similar. I just keep an eye on the "reject" slot, and feed them through again. They seldom get rejected a second time.
I have never even seen a CoinStar machine
Various treasures of extreme value are located in that little square green hole in the middle of the bottom half.
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Never seen one anywhere that I go,,,, not in my grocery store,,,,,
update,,,,,
Humm,,,,,, I just Googled CoinStar Machine locations and it seems there IS one in the grocery that I go to every week,,,,,, and in the local Walmart,,,, guess I should pay more attention when I am shopping
The biggest supermarket by me has it in the most unusual out of the way spot. It's buried in an alcove surrounded by all the bread products.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
I work for a wine distributor here in the NE - I am in and out of a lot of stores(which is why I find good stuff) I notice that stores place them in some pretty odd places sometimes. Most of the time they are in the front of the store near the customer service counter. But they can be found by bathrooms, in vending machine alcoves etc.
@SaorAlba ... Wow... Now that is an amazing group of coins....I assume you get to check the machine or empty it .... no way all of that could be in the reject bin...
Congratulations on the best group of silver found I have seen posted here....or on other forums....Cheers, RickO
Saor - Wow! That looks to be an ENTIRE ROLL!
Well, just Love coins, period.
An OLD one! from a grocery store slot
A nice AU 1964-D quarter two weeks ago in a Coinstar. My oldest find was a couple of barbarous radiates (3rd - 4th century AD/CE imitations of Roman coins) two or three years ago. That was a surprise!
Only Coinstar machines I'm aware of nearby are at a grocery chain store and a Walmart. The Walmart one is right by the customer service counter with people lined up there all the time. No way any left-over coin gets past THOSE customers' eagle eyes! As a result, I have never found anything at those machines! ;-(
Four dimes and nine cents.... all modern.....@DBSTrader2... I agree about the Walmart Coinstar....never anything in there.....Cheers, RickO
My oldest find was a couple of barbarous radiates (3rd - 4th century AD/CE imitations of Roman coins) two or three years ago.
That's going to be hard to beat, but not impossible.
I've been waiting for someone to report finding anything "ancient". Those qualify. Congratulations.
I remember when candy bars went from 5c to 10c.
What a kick in the n*ts for a kid!
Thanks for the clarification. I go to Ontario every Summer. No merchants I have come in contact accept pennies. So they may be legal but difficult to actually spend. The US should follow suit, Canada is way ahead of us when it comes to common cents
I ALWAYS check the Coinstar machine at the supermarket. I find the occasional modern coins, foreign coins, game tokens, and sticky concretions of coins. On very rare occasion I have found a silver Roosevelt and even a Mercury dime once.
Today I glanced into the little reject compartment and saw a pile of quarters. I try to act cool and discrete when I am scooping out the stray coin or two, but when there is a large haul I abandon all decorum and just dig in with two hands. When I did this today I heard a strange high pitched clanking. It has been a while since I had a handful of silver......
Total count was 56 silver quarters, 21 silver dimes, and $1.20 in modern coins.
I still can't believe it.....
I keep thinking about the person who dumped their coins into the machine for grocery money and left over $150 in melt behind.
Considering one of the nicknames for money, that's actually a logical place for it.
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