The OFFICIAL COINSTAR FINDS THREAD

SaorAlba

@Thor11 said:
Would it not make more sense for CoinStar machines NOT to reject silver ??

If there weren't machines NOT rejecting silver I wouldn't be searching BWR dimes or halves. A lot of machines reject silver, but some older machines that don't sort by electronic means but by weight within a tolerance still take silver.

OnWithTheHunt

Clad dime and 3 Lincolns today.

ricko

I imagine the coinstar people feel that the small amount of silver that may be found when a machine does NOT reject silver, is not worth the wages they would pay to have people search the coins. Cheers, RickO

blitzdude

@Thor11 said:
Would it not make more sense for CoinStar machines NOT to reject silver ??

The machine determines denomination by weight. That's why it "rejects" silver, Canadian coins etc. I suppose if they wanted to change the technology of the machine and retrofit every machine currently in service they could keep everything. Then I guess technically they would be stealing your silver and foreign coinage.

SaorAlba

4 clad dimes and a Canadian 10c coin.

SaorAlba

@blitzdude said:

@Thor11 said:
Would it not make more sense for CoinStar machines NOT to reject silver ??

The machine determines denomination by weight. That's why it "rejects" silver, Canadian coins etc. I suppose if they wanted to change the technology of the machine and retrofit every machine currently in service they could keep everything. Then I guess technically they would be stealing your silver and foreign coinage.

One of my commercial banks still uses a coin counter that they have owned since the late 1950s - it doesn't reject silver and when they had some metro bus accounts it was worthwhile to buy up bags of dimes and quarters. When the metro bus company went to another bank the amount of silver dropped off precipitously and I stopped buying bags.

SaorAlba

Not really a coin machine find, rather an interesting circulation find at the meat market today:

Normally I would pass on getting Canadian in change, but this one with the lousy picture is a keeper.

tommy44

A record haul at my local grocery COINSTAR today. In fact more than all my finds to date combined. Except for some crud on the Cumberland Gap quarter I'm still scratching my head as to why they rejected.

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ricko

Still batting zero..... longest drought I have had.... :'( Cheers, RickO

OnWithTheHunt

1 Zincoln today

SaorAlba

1 Canadian 25c coin and two tokens for a local zoo.

Smudge

Full reject bin today. I thought jackpot, but nooooo. 26 cents only 3 coppers. One PGA tour Partners club token.

WillieBoyd2

After a drought of some weeks, this appeared:

United States cent 1927-D

Now to go out to my favorite speakeasy and see what the rumrunners have delivered.

Smudge

@tommy44 said:
A record haul at my local grocery COINSTAR today. In fact more than all my finds to date combined. Except for some crud on the Cumberland Gap quarter I'm still scratching my head as to why they rejected.

The dime on the right looks FB. Too bad if it's not silver. FB Roosies are not easy to find.

Kkathyl

this thread reminds me of the old Phone booths. Have any of you found anything interesting in your prior life when phone booth existed

SaorAlba

Yesterday zilch

Today, three dimes a zincoln and a 1963-D dime

SaorAlba

@Kkathyl said:
this thread reminds me of the old Phone booths. Have any of you found anything interesting in your prior life when phone booth existed

Yes

Yes, but I only know of one phone booth in a grocery store now and don't even check it at all - nobody likely uses it.

MsMorrisine

1965 quarter from a almost always dry machine

No Headlights

@Kkathyl said:
this thread reminds me of the old Phone booths. Have any of you found anything interesting in your prior life when phone booth existed

When I was about six my mom took my older brother on some errands. She went in a store I asked my brother if he wanted to race to the phone booth and check for change. He said no. When I checked it there was $1.40 in it. It was 1963, and my weekly allowance was .25. Quite a haul!!!!

Smudge

If someone is loading coins into it, as soon as they finish, check it.

OnlyGoldIsMoney

@Kkathyl said:
this thread reminds me of the old Phone booths. Have any of you found anything interesting in your prior life when phone booth existed

Circa 1965-1969 I faithfully checked every phone booth coin return slot I came across. The occasional dime or quarter mightily enhanced my $1 per week allowance.

Today I still check the much depleted number of phone booths I encounter. Earlier this year I found 50 cents that went into my dedicated "found money" jar. The last time I tallied the found money jar the total was a bit over $200.

Smudge

3 zincolns and a Canadian dime today. NO silver.

OnWithTheHunt

Slightly OT but the mention of phone booths reminded me of this story that was regarded as fact at the newspaper where I started my career years ago, when pay phones were common. One of the veteran sportswriters, who actually was quite wealthy but known to co-workers as especially "thrifty", was in the habit of checking a particular pay phone on his walk home after his late night shift. This was known to some local cops, who worked the midnight shift and had seen him do it many times. One night, one of the cops salted the coin return with a handful of change. As the sportswriter drew within sight, the cop jumped out of his cruiser, walked up to the phone, and made a great show of pulling coins out of the return slot. The look on the guy's face could only be imagined by those who knew him.

asheland

I got nothing here!

SaorAlba

A measly zincoln.

ricko

Nothing.... again.... still...going on three weeks now. Ever since the machine broke down and they fixed it. Maybe they fixed it to send the rejects to an internal collection pot for the service guy.... What a revolting development that would be.... Cheers, RickO

SaorAlba

A couple of rotten zincolns.

Got a '47 ML Canadian cent in change though.

kevinstang

Got silver today! Must be my lucky day- short to trip to local casino won $120, stopped by grocery store bought a $1 scratch off and won $50, then noticed coins in reject slot and the sight of silver! Ended up mostly Canadian ( I live right on border) but a well circulated 1950 Rosie was in the lot!

georgiacop50

@blitzdude said:

The machine determines denomination by weight. That's why it "rejects" silver, Canadian coins etc. I suppose if they wanted to change the technology of the machine and retrofit every machine currently in service they could keep everything. Then I guess technically they would be stealing your silver and foreign coinage.

I seriously doubt that. No way they are being weighed at the rate those machines sort/count. They are more likely rejected or accepted according to their electromagnetic signature.

stevek

I'm beginning to understand how those desperate and wandering in the desert begin to see things that aren't there such as an oasis with a stream of cool fresh water.

I've been "desperate and wandering" for so long now walking past the Coinstar machine with no reward, that I've found myself looking into an obviously empty Coinstar reject bin, but staring at it and hoping that something is in there. I've been seeing silver dimes and quarters that in reality are not there.

I need to see a good psychiatrist about this affliction but I haven't found any doctor yet who will treat patients seeing mirages in the Coinstar reject bin.

SaorAlba

The past couple of days finds
39c in regular US change
3 Canadian cents
1 1917 wheat
1 1941 wheat.

OnWithTheHunt

Picked up 2 quarters, a dime, nickel and cent from 2 machines, grocery store and Walmart, while running errands today.

WillieBoyd2

Yesterday, three clad dimes and a clad quarter.

Today, a clad dime, a rubber washer, and a 2" nail.

I'm on a roll!

ricko

Well...much like @stevek I am in my longest dry spell ever... and just yesterday found myself staring at the reject slot... then squinting, because the chipped paint in there 'might' have been concealing a coin... but NO... nothing, nada, zilch, zero... :'( Cheers, RickO

asheland

I always look, but haven't found any silver yet. Regular change and foreign, yep. But never silver.

stevek

@asheland said:
I always look, but haven't found any silver yet. Regular change and foreign, yep. But never silver.

Last year, i found a 1962 and 1964 Roosie each on a separate occasion....so i figure there's always hope.

Never give up.

ricko

Never, never, never ever give up.... (one of my favorite Churchill quotes).... And so, I keep looking for coins in the reject slot... Cheers, RickO

telephoto1

Finding the occasional odd silver coin/wheat cent/ foreign coin is one thing, but when you start finding large amounts of silver and even the occasional gold coin, you gotta know that stuff was likely stolen and dumped by an ignorant thief who knew no better and just want to convert the "change" to cash.

stevek

@asheland said:
I always look, but haven't found any silver yet. Regular change and foreign, yep. But never silver.

i guess long term memory kicks in at what, around 4 years old? I guess for some it's a bit sooner or later, but I can't recall ever not having a Lincoln cent Whitman album. So at a very early age, pre-memory, my Mom bought me the Whitman album and I loved getting the "pennies" and putting them in the album. A sense of accomplishment and accumulating wealth, or whatever it was. The bottom line is it was fun to do then, and it is still fun to do now.

Of course then it progressed to nickles, dimes, 2 x 2's, higher grades, slabs, etc, etc, etc...we all know the story. But I mention all this to say that even though I really don't technically have any interest in collecting foreign coins, it is still a bit of fun to get them in the Coinstar bin and look at them just because they are coins.

I realize many of these foreign coins are worthless as legal tender anywhere. I think for example that all French franc coins are no longer legal tender as of 2012. I'm not up to speed on how the Euro thing affected the legal tender status of other European coins, and I don't really care all that much. And I have no desire to buy those foreign coin lots seen on Ebay for cheap. However getting some foreign coins for free in the Coinstar bin, with the hope that some may be silver, and the quick enjoyment of looking at them because they are coins, well that's not all bad.

seanq

Been having some luck recently, over the past few weeks I've come up with the following:

• 1962 Roosevelt Dime
• two 1943 Lincolns (I winced when I imagined how many wheat cents the machine probably accepted that day)
• $0.77 in corroded quarters, dimes, and cents, plus a 2032 watch battery

Sean Reynolds

ricko

Still nothing for me... this may be my longest drought since I started checking the machine......@stevek...I enjoy the foreign coins I find as well... I do not collect them (though I do accumulate them )...Though I have saved coins from the various countries I have lived and worked in....I have found foreign coins, slugs, game tokens as well as the occasional silver and wheaties.... never gold though.. Cheers, RickO

stevek

@ricko said:
Still nothing for me... this may be my longest drought since I started checking the machine......@stevek...I enjoy the foreign coins I find as well... I do not collect them (though I do accumulate them )...Though I have saved coins from the various countries I have lived and worked in....I have found foreign coins, slugs, game tokens as well as the occasional silver and wheaties.... never gold though.. Cheers, RickO

"accumulate"...yes, that's also the right word for my foreign coins.

And they are probably worth the melt value for aluminum, zinc, copper, nickel or whatever else cheap metal is in them. LOL

OnWithTheHunt

Two clad quarters, one clad dime, a Canadian quarter and two Canadian dimes from the machine at the grocery store today.

Swampboy

I found 46 cents in good old U.S. pocket change one day last month.
Go figure

I never posted it to this thread but about a year or so ago on consecutive Saturdays I found one lone silver roosie sitting in the same machine.
What are the odds of that?

Treashunt

@ricko said:
Never, never, never ever give up.... (one of my favorite Churchill quotes).... And so, I keep looking for coins in the reject slot... Cheers, RickO

Churchill looked for coins in the reject slot?

SaorAlba

3 Canadian 10c coins
1 Canadian 5c coin dated 1964
and three zincolns.

Rich49

Wouldn't it great to find one of these ? I keep hoping

Smudge

Silver Rosie today, and a star note $1 in change.

ricko

You guys are killing me.... I went to the market twice yesterday... skunked both times.... :'( Cheers, RickO