Well,
Found some electric box slugs when a bank removed all coin machines.
Had to break down all of them. Wow those magnets are powerful.
Oh ya some coins also.
paperclips. keys ,watch batteries and a whole lot of goofey stuff
Don't want to be Debbie Downer here but for those of you finding lots of silver coins and the occasional rarity, variety, gold coin, etc...as an FYI... a local cop here was telling me how they're asking businesses to specifically train cameras on their Coinstar machines as they are a go to place for dumb thieves to cash out stolen coin collections.
@telephoto1....That does not concern me.... should the authorities want to discuss with me any coins I may have retrieved, I will certainly be willing to help. Cheers, RickO
Picked up 11 cents the other day, the dime was 1964.
I don't know if someone has mentioned this but in addition to checking the reject slot, check the in-feed tray for stuck coins and also press the cash out button. I jiggled the tray a few times and pressed the bottom, after the machine thought long and hard (ha) it issued a receipt for 8 cents!
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@fastfreddie said:
Picked up 11 cents the other day, the dime was 1964.
I don't know if someone has mentioned this but in addition to checking the reject slot, check the in-feed tray for stuck coins and also press the cash out button. I jiggled the tray a few times and pressed the bottom, after the machine thought long and hard (ha) it issued a receipt for 8 cents!
Uh, yeah, I have found a few silvers and wheats thrown back into the feed in tray!
In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
And this morning went to the institutional retail feed facility and found 53c on the sorting tray, not the reject slot. No silver or goodies, but happy all the while.
In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
@ricko said:
I have not checked the feed in tray.... never thought there would be anything left in there.... Oh the treasures I may have missed... Cheers, RickO
I need a coinstar jacket so, I can slide the machine over and look under it
@ricko said:
I have not checked the feed in tray.... never thought there would be anything left in there.... Oh the treasures I may have missed... Cheers, RickO
I need a coinstar jacket so, I can slide the machine over and look under it
The Thanksgiving God (The Lord of hosts) has smiled on me!
I will be cooking a turkey this afternoon, bought most of the stuff early yesterday. Because of the discount card at the home grocery store, I got a 22 pound frozen turkey for only $8.30!
But there were several holiday week discount items that had numeric limits, so I decided to go back this morning. And there was a whopping total of 42 cents in the Coinstar return slot, viz -
1963 Philadelphia silver quarter! So I have one more thing to be most thankful for!
@ricko said:
I have not checked the feed in tray.... never thought there would be anything left in there.... Oh the treasures I may have missed... Cheers, RickO
I need a coinstar jacket so, I can slide the machine over and look under it
@steveben Thank you. I have found maybe five silver dimes in the Coinstar reject slot this calendar year, and one or two silver quarters. Very very fortunate these eleven months.
I have recieved one silver dime in normal retail change in 2019, IIRC.
I have the ability to immediately distinguish the color difference between most silver and clad coins. A helpful thing for a coin person.
@BillDugan1959 said: @steveben Thank you. I have found maybe five silver dimes in the Coinstar reject slot this calendar year, and one or two silver quarters. Very very fortunate these eleven months.
I have recieved one silver dime in normal retail change in 2019, IIRC.
I have the ability to immediately distinguish the color difference between most silver and clad coins. A helpful thing for a coin person.
could just be coincidence, but when i see the 62 nickel and the 63 quarter together, and based on the look of the 63 quarter, i imagine someone had just dumped an old jar of change into the coinstar you found these in. who knows how long those have sat around. it's possible they were in circulation, but i like to think they sat in a jar or desk for a while before you got them.
@steveben There are a number of threads here where 'the big thinkers' aren't realistic about the present coin handling habits of the Amercan public. There is a lot of coinage thrown into change jars, and a long time can elapse between the times when any specific coin is used in commerce. I have two large coffee cans of clad and bronze coins that my Dad set aside about 1981. I can tell the date they must have been accumulated because there are zero zincents in either can. I really need to cash them in and buy a little bit of 90% silver with the proceeds.
But, I generally think that any silver dimes and silver quarters are slim pickings, and simply something over-looked. If you look at the photograph I posted, the "3" in "1963" looks like a "5" because of the grunge. So it could have been easily missed.
1964 was a long time ago, and relatively few forty year old adults are still left from that time - so their Coin hoards have generally gone to the coin dealer or the bank before now. We tend to forget, but 4% interest on bank or savings and loan deposits used to be easy to obtain, and there was a bit of time when 12% on bank deposits was possible. This caused many coin hoards and banknote hoards to be cashed in too. The present very (historically unusual) low interest rates make keeping coin and cash in hand at home less expensive in terms of lost income.
I was at Kroger today, and saw a lady dumping a coffee can full of coins in the coinstar. She repeatedly checked the reject slot, and reinserted the coins. I stood by acting as if I was checking my phone. As soon as she left, I immediately swooped in and snagged a 1954 quarter. No other coins were in the slot.
My first Coinstar find on Friday: two non-silver Canadian dimes (1987, 2015), a 1940 S Wheatie, a 2001 1 Euro coin from Spain, and a 1952 D Roosevelt. Pretty cool!
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@CoinHoarder said:
I was at Kroger today, and saw a lady dumping a coffee can full of coins in the coinstar. She repeatedly checked the reject slot, and reinserted the coins. I stood by acting as if I was checking my phone. As soon as she left, I immediately swooped in and snagged a 1954 quarter. No other coins were in the slot.
@RockyMtnProspector said:
My first Coinstar find on Friday: two non-silver Canadian dimes, a 1940 S Wheatie, a 2003 1 Euro coin from Spain, and a 1954 D Roosevelt. Pretty cool!
Yep... I have often watched the coinstar while checking out....and usually use the aisle closest to the machine....For the most part, people do clean out the reject slot. Not always... Cheers, RickO
"Coinstar Stalking" - yeah, waiting in the background, hovering - pecking on phone like you are busy texting. Trying to send subliminal messages to the person at the machine, "Okay, you're in a hurry, step away from the machine and take your slip to the cashier - and please forget to check the reject slot!"
In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
@ricko said:
I have not checked the feed in tray.... never thought there would be anything left in there.... Oh the treasures I may have missed... Cheers, RickO
I need a coinstar jacket so, I can slide the machine over and look under it
I have shamelessly done it. The gap is very narrow. The only thing I ever found was a large Chinese coin. I can't remember what it was specifically but I think it was equivalent to our dollar. I remember having to get something that fit under there to slide it out.
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Oddly enough, two different countries, both 1997. On top is a Chinese Yi Yuan. More interestingly on the bottom is a South Korean 100 Won. The person depicted is Admiral Yi Sun-Sin. Here's a portion of his story from Wikipedia:
"Admiral Yi Sun-Sin; April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean naval commander famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon Dynasty, who became an exemplar of conduct for both the Koreans and Japanese.[1] Despite the fact that he had no prior naval training, Admiral Yi was never defeated at sea nor lost a single ship under his command to enemy action, and military historians have placed him on par with Admiral Horatio Nelson as one of the greatest naval commanders in history."
@BillDugan1959 said:
Steel Cents don't come out and into the reject slot here, they just get swallowed without credit. Same with Eisenhowers.
A bank I used to work for had a machine that swallowed all rejects. The 3rd party vendor would come out to empty it and put all the rejects in a ziplock and take them. He said they all had to be turned in. There was always some interesting stuff in it.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Weird I found a silver dime in the coin star on Black Friday at a Walmart. Last year on Black Friday the same thing happened at the same store/machine.
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Well,
Found some electric box slugs when a bank removed all coin machines.
Had to break down all of them. Wow those magnets are powerful.
Oh ya some coins also.
paperclips. keys ,watch batteries and a whole lot of goofey stuff
I truly envy everyone with their awesome finds here...... the lone Coinstar I pass at Walmart's or the occasional one elsewhere are always bare!!
The drought I have suffered through was broken when I visited the credit union the other day:
McLovin those 64 and 64-D quarters!
SILVER!!!!!! Never found a silver quarter yet myself
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That is an outstanding haul....and silver too.....Cheers, RickO
@SaorAlba you get some hauls for sure! nice one
it seems like there is more and more showing up in circulation. but, maybe we just have more information now.
8 cents today.
Dry in my area...
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Nothing in months. Damn spellcheck
Today a Portuguese eurocent, a British 5p coin and an Estonian 2 krooni banknote in the trash can next to the coin machine at my credit union.
In one more day, it will be exactly one month since my last coinstar finds.....dry spell with no sign of relief. Cheers, RickO
Bit of rain after a Coinstar dry spell - two fused zincents and a 1964-D Roosevelt- at the home Grocery store today:
Silver is always good....Cheers, RickO
Don't want to be Debbie Downer here but for those of you finding lots of silver coins and the occasional rarity, variety, gold coin, etc...as an FYI... a local cop here was telling me how they're asking businesses to specifically train cameras on their Coinstar machines as they are a go to place for dumb thieves to cash out stolen coin collections.
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Has anyone else noticed that 1965 dated quarters are often (always?) rejected?
@telephoto1....That does not concern me.... should the authorities want to discuss with me any coins I may have retrieved, I will certainly be willing to help. Cheers, RickO
@telephoto1 The cops can have all the Chuckie Cheeze tokens!
Picked up 11 cents the other day, the dime was 1964.
I don't know if someone has mentioned this but in addition to checking the reject slot, check the in-feed tray for stuck coins and also press the cash out button. I jiggled the tray a few times and pressed the bottom, after the machine thought long and hard (ha) it issued a receipt for 8 cents!
@fastfreddie ....
I never thought of that....Congratulations on the silver dime....Cheers, RickO
Uh, yeah, I have found a few silvers and wheats thrown back into the feed in tray!
And this morning went to the institutional retail feed facility and found 53c on the sorting tray, not the reject slot. No silver or goodies, but happy all the while.
I have not checked the feed in tray.... never thought there would be anything left in there.... Oh the treasures I may have missed...
Cheers, RickO
I need a coinstar jacket so, I can slide the machine over and look under it
Definitely.... I think the janitor at the store probably moves the machine and scoops it all up....Cheers, RickO
Too easy. https://www.dynamicdesigntshirts.com/view/2660/coinstar-company-logo-t-shirt
Change the shirt color to green and it will look
The Thanksgiving God (The Lord of hosts) has smiled on me!
I will be cooking a turkey this afternoon, bought most of the stuff early yesterday. Because of the discount card at the home grocery store, I got a 22 pound frozen turkey for only $8.30!
But there were several holiday week discount items that had numeric limits, so I decided to go back this morning. And there was a whopping total of 42 cents in the Coinstar return slot, viz -
1963 Philadelphia silver quarter! So I have one more thing to be most thankful for!
Most excellent dude
@BillDugan1959 great find!
@steveben Thank you. I have found maybe five silver dimes in the Coinstar reject slot this calendar year, and one or two silver quarters. Very very fortunate these eleven months.
I have recieved one silver dime in normal retail change in 2019, IIRC.
I have the ability to immediately distinguish the color difference between most silver and clad coins. A helpful thing for a coin person.
I found a Showa 52(ca. 1978) Japanese 100 yen on Friday. No silver.
could just be coincidence, but when i see the 62 nickel and the 63 quarter together, and based on the look of the 63 quarter, i imagine someone had just dumped an old jar of change into the coinstar you found these in. who knows how long those have sat around. it's possible they were in circulation, but i like to think they sat in a jar or desk for a while before you got them.
@steveben There are a number of threads here where 'the big thinkers' aren't realistic about the present coin handling habits of the Amercan public. There is a lot of coinage thrown into change jars, and a long time can elapse between the times when any specific coin is used in commerce. I have two large coffee cans of clad and bronze coins that my Dad set aside about 1981. I can tell the date they must have been accumulated because there are zero zincents in either can. I really need to cash them in and buy a little bit of 90% silver with the proceeds.
But, I generally think that any silver dimes and silver quarters are slim pickings, and simply something over-looked. If you look at the photograph I posted, the "3" in "1963" looks like a "5" because of the grunge. So it could have been easily missed.
1964 was a long time ago, and relatively few forty year old adults are still left from that time - so their Coin hoards have generally gone to the coin dealer or the bank before now. We tend to forget, but 4% interest on bank or savings and loan deposits used to be easy to obtain, and there was a bit of time when 12% on bank deposits was possible. This caused many coin hoards and banknote hoards to be cashed in too. The present very (historically unusual) low interest rates make keeping coin and cash in hand at home less expensive in terms of lost income.
I was at Kroger today, and saw a lady dumping a coffee can full of coins in the coinstar. She repeatedly checked the reject slot, and reinserted the coins. I stood by acting as if I was checking my phone. As soon as she left, I immediately swooped in and snagged a 1954 quarter. No other coins were in the slot.
Another Kroger run for ice cream last night and found roundness in the hole
My first Coinstar find on Friday: two non-silver Canadian dimes (1987, 2015), a 1940 S Wheatie, a 2001 1 Euro coin from Spain, and a 1952 D Roosevelt. Pretty cool!
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
coinstar-stalking
we're all guilty of it i am sure.
It can become addicting
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Yep... I have often watched the coinstar while checking out....and usually use the aisle closest to the machine....For the most part, people do clean out the reject slot. Not always...
Cheers, RickO
"Coinstar Stalking" - yeah, waiting in the background, hovering - pecking on phone like you are busy texting. Trying to send subliminal messages to the person at the machine, "Okay, you're in a hurry, step away from the machine and take your slip to the cashier - and please forget to check the reject slot!"
I have shamelessly done it. The gap is very narrow. The only thing I ever found was a large Chinese coin. I can't remember what it was specifically but I think it was equivalent to our dollar. I remember having to get something that fit under there to slide it out.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Today's haul from the local Safeway's Coinstar.
Two clad dimes, a 2016 Canadian quarter, and nice little 64-D Roosey!
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@Dave99B ....Congratulations on the silver... we all look for those little beauties...Cheers, RickO
FINALLY. At Walmart:
Oddly enough, two different countries, both 1997. On top is a Chinese Yi Yuan. More interestingly on the bottom is a South Korean 100 Won. The person depicted is Admiral Yi Sun-Sin. Here's a portion of his story from Wikipedia:
"Admiral Yi Sun-Sin; April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean naval commander famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon Dynasty, who became an exemplar of conduct for both the Koreans and Japanese.[1] Despite the fact that he had no prior naval training, Admiral Yi was never defeated at sea nor lost a single ship under his command to enemy action, and military historians have placed him on par with Admiral Horatio Nelson as one of the greatest naval commanders in history."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin
I do not actively collect foreign coins, but I save them when I find them. This will be my first from South Korea.
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Holy guacamole, two days in a row!
3 Steelies, no mint marks......
Still no silver but it's still fun!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Steel Cents don't come out and into the reject slot here, they just get swallowed without credit. Same with Eisenhowers.
A bank I used to work for had a machine that swallowed all rejects. The 3rd party vendor would come out to empty it and put all the rejects in a ziplock and take them. He said they all had to be turned in. There was always some interesting stuff in it.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
I have frequently found foreign coins in the coinstar reject bin...but only once a steel '43 cent....Cheers, RickO
Weird I found a silver dime in the coin star on Black Friday at a Walmart. Last year on Black Friday the same thing happened at the same store/machine.
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