The OFFICIAL COINSTAR FINDS THREAD

ricko

Coinstar machines have been devoid of found treasure for the last month or so.... :'( Glad to see some are finding some silver... Cheers, RickO

SaorAlba

Not a bad day at a coinstar machine for me, almost $11 bucks in Canadian, a 40% half and... drumroll puhleez a 1964 90% half and a couple of Ecuador, English and a fake Spanish cob.

grip

Great haul for sure.

BillDugan1959

Jimminey cricket! That's a haul!!!

ricko

@SaorAlba Holey Moley.... What a haul... Is that '64 Kennedy an AH?? Wow... great find... Cheers, RickO

YQQ

Am simply curious about this:
can anyone claim ownership of the rejected coins if left in the reject bin??

steveben

@YQQ said:
Am simply curious about this:
can anyone claim ownership of the rejected coins if left in the reject bin??

they are rejects by nature

steveben

@SaorAlba that might be the haul of the year so far

Treashunt

@steveben said:
@SaorAlba that might be the haul of the year so far

ditto!

BillDugan1959

@YQQ said:
Am simply curious about this:
can anyone claim ownership of the rejected coins if left in the reject bin??

The practical answer is 'Yes'.

The former owner (or the business where the Coinstar machine is located) could possibly take a 'finder' to a civil Court, but in my home county it costs something like $320 to file the simplest lawsuit. Go fish for thirty-two cents in rejected coins.

As has been noted in this thread a few times, if the former owner is not gone too far away, and they notice what is happening, there is always the potential for an outbreak of fisticuffs.

SaorAlba

The Canadians really are doing their best for paying my way to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto! The 1955 3 mills coin from Cyprus is a neat little find.

stevek

Coinstar has been bone dry for many months.

So anyway last Friday I'm at the bank depositing the company checks, and complete spur of the moment, i decide to get ten rolls of Lincolns just for the yell of it and old times sake.

Nothing but garbage, except amazingly, and I almost missed it because i was basically keying in on brown coins, a 1945 in AU condition with a lot of original mint luster. Does have some spotting.

Must have been in someone's coin jar or something for a long time to retain luster like that.

OnWithTheHunt

11 cents a few days ago, First find in weeks.

asheland

Dry for me lately.

WillieBoyd2

This bright and shiny 1959-D cent was received in change today:

United States cent 1959-D

joeykoins

@georgiacop50 said:
An OLD one! from a grocery store slot

Hmmmmm! I know this is from 2017 but when I seen the coin's rim (1920), aren't the proofs the ones with the wide rims? Hmmmm?
Oops, never mind. I just remembered the earliest proofs stopped at 1916.

SaorAlba

This is almost the sum total of finds from five different coin machines today. Unfortunately I lost the most exciting find, ie the plastic play penny, in my car, but the silver stuck to my paws like they had glue on them. Yes, a '59-D and two 64-D dimes, a '46 and a 64-D quarter and the usual Canadians and regular USAsian coins.

1630Boston

That's great @SaorAlba

georgiacop50

Woooo Hooo! 1964 dime last nite at the grocery! I am now rich!

BTW I have a bunch of coins need counting and just learned that (locally any way) 99% of banks have phased out coin counting for their customers. There is a credit union in town that will count free with a $100/day limit but you have to have an account, or it is 10% fee. How bout the banks by you?

ricko

I posted this yesterday in the coinstar thread on the MD forum.... However, it should go here as well -
Wow... another jackpot.... four quarters, nine dimes, two nickels and nine cents... no silver or wheaties... but still, a nice handful in the reject slot.... Cheers, RickO

stevek

Every time I look in the Coinstar bin for many months now, it's like a desert. Last time I thought i saw a sagebrush in there.

I'm glad others are having much better luck.

Hemispherical

ricko

Success again yesterday.... Four quarters (one Canadian), seven dimes (one Canadian) and a zincoln... Cheers, RickO

littlebear

RickO, you are on a roll! Congrats!
Larry

ShipwreckCoinHunter

Found this in my cash register at work

Smudge

Got a * note $20 in change today. Ranked pretty high on the scale.

ricko

Well... it continues... at least a little.. found one quarter yesterday in the reject bin...not silver though. However, it now resides in my pocket... Cheers, RickO

BillDugan1959

Today at the Coinstar in WalMart - twenty three cents including a 1964 D Roosie dime:

This was off my normal route a bit (by about thirty miles), as I was taking my Mom to do some shopping.

Hemispherical

@BillDugan1959 said:
Today at the Coinstar in WalMart - twenty three cents including a 1964 D Roosie dime:

This was off my normal route a bit (by about thirty miles), as I was taking my Mom to do some shopping.

Ah silver!

The rest looks like someone’s metal detector finds cash-out.

blitzdude

Been in quite the silver drought but finally today the reject slot yielded a well used 51-D Roosie. 26 cents Canadian and 11 cents modern.

BillDugan1959

@Hemispherical said:

@BillDugan1959 said:
Today at the Coinstar in WalMart - twenty three cents including a 1964 D Roosie dime:

This was off my normal route a bit (by about thirty miles), as I was taking my Mom to do some shopping.

Ah silver!

The rest looks like someone’s metal detector finds cash-out.

Actually, the Cents looked like incredible, unbelievable error coins! One million dollars per pop!

seanq

Last week I saw an ebay auction where the seller asked for help identifying a strange "silver quarter" he'd pulled from a Coinstar reject slot. It turned out it was struck on a nickel planchet. He updated the description (and lowered the price) after I messaged him, the closed auction is here:

https://ebay.com/itm/Error-U-S-Quarter-1972-D-quarter-on-a-nickel-planchet-5-0-grams-/123718869122

Sean Reynolds

SaorAlba

About 1.5 weeks worth of coin machine finds, unfartunately no silver :'( But the Swiss Franc, Russian 2 Ruble and Bolivian 10 centavos coins were pretty cool. Wish I knew where a carwash takes the carwash tokens I keep finding. My buggy is filthy.

Hemispherical

@SaorAlba

Hard to see the token in the pic, but Numista has what looks like what you got:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces49950.html

SliderGuy

Found this one a few years ago still don't know the value of any.

SliderGuy

Mdcoincollector2003

@SliderGuy said:

Awesome find! It is a 1792 king Louis XVI French 12 Deniers it was made between 1791-93 there were 4.7 million made however it is only worth about 2-4$. PM me if you want to do a trade I would love to have a French coin with the last French king.

ricko

@SliderGuy....That is an amazing coinstar find.... I have found all sorts of foreign coins, fake coins, tokens and damaged coins.... never one like that...Great find...Cheers, RickO

golden

Got .16 today. No silver.

mvs7

My daughter and I have been pretty much striking out for about a year at the local Coinstar machines even though we check consistently on every visit to the local supermarkets... occasionally random modern US or foreign, but nothing worth more than 25c at a time. Yesterday, the six-year-old scored big time, with 80c in 90% (all '64, outside of a '58-D quarter), a 1966 40% half, seven golden dollars, another 1.03 in modern US, two game tokens, and 35c modern Canadian. She was big time excited... first time we've gotten some silver in quite a while. Still possible to find stuff, I guess!

SaorAlba

My finds from yesterday:

The 1956 dime and the Albanian coin were the highlights.

@mvs7 your daughter is lucky!

SaorAlba

Checked the machine at the credit union when I went in this afternoon:

Four silver dimes!

Hemispherical

@SaorAlba Your hitting the silver dime jackpots!

What is that a rubber/plastic cent looking thing?

ricko

@mvs7....Wow...nice haul....a lot of silver... check if that Kennedy is an Accented Hair...Cheers, RickO

ricko

OK...just got back from the market.... Four quarters in the reject slot....three new and one 1965.... Cheers, RickO

KollectorKing

From Albertsons coinstar, 1 & only coin in the reject slot; they must have taken the pennies, nickels etc & left this for me

KollectorKing

From Ralph’s

DiggerJim

My very first Coinstar find!!!
At Walmart.
I can’t believe you guys got me checking coin returns like I used to do when I was a kid checking phone booths.

But this hobby is great fun!!

This find was nothing special and very crusty. 😳

Testoon

1946-S dime today!

MaineJim

First silver in a while today with a 1940 mercury plus another bucks worth of clad and a few dollars in Canadian which are easy to spend up this way. Funny thing was I checked the machine when I entered the store and it was empty and on the way out I found it pretty much filled with coins. Got a bunch of Euro dollars also which will come in handy next time I'm over there!

Jim