@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!"
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@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.
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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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@ballistic_kennedy....Welcome aboard.... and a nice coinstar find. I found a dime yesterday in the coinstar also... However, it was not silver and it was the only coin in the slot. Cheers, RickO
@SaorAlba said:
"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!"
Loudly breaking wind near the Coin star will usually clear it out rather quickly.
(The area around the Coinstar, that is. )
@mannie gray .... Now that is one I have never thought of....I bet it would work...Of course, it may get you thrown out of the store before you get to check the reject bin... Cheers, RickO
It's been quite the drought but finally today the coinstar gods decided to gift me $1.42 clad and a 64 Kennedy complete with the nasty. After a quick soak in the Weimans off to a 90% roll it goes. Love free silver.
@blitzdude said:
It's been quite the drought but finally today the coinstar gods decided to gift me $1.42 clad and a 64 Kennedy complete with the nasty. After a quick soak in the Weimans off to a 90% roll it goes. Love free silver.
Nice find.
It amazes me that people will.leave money just sitting there.
Early Christmas presents from Coinstar : Within the past few weeks I have found the following DIMES 1951 1953-D 1956-D 1957 1990-S PROOF and just last night a 1917 Walker.
The other day I went to the Coinstar machine to check on the reject slot and there was an older lady trying to figure out how to use it. I helped her, but tried to convince her to join a credit union where most of the time the machines are free to use. The machine in that store was charging 11.9% - highway robbery IMHO
In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
@SaorAlba said:
The other day I went to the Coinstar machine to check on the reject slot and there was an older lady trying to figure out how to use it. I helped her, but tried to convince her to join a credit union where most of the time the machines are free to use. The machine in that store was charging 11.9% - highway robbery IMHO
If you are only running twenty or thirty dollars through, and you are going to the home grocery store (Coinstar location) anyway, that 11.9% is a wash. But running $200 through, you go the other direction to the further away located bank branch, where the transaction is free or only fifty cents. Three dollars is meh, thirty dollars is something else.
I have three credit unions, two of them are completely free for non-commercial customers, one charges 2% over $100. Even the solitary bank that I deal with that has a coin machine only charges 5%. The one time I used a Coinstar was when my wife was going to make an Amazon purchase. I found the machine obscenely slow and annoying.
In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
Wow...Kennedy halves in the reject slot.... amazing... Never found a half dollar coin in a coinstar....Definitely the season for cashing in coin hoards....Cheers, RickO
How reliable are the Coinstar sorters? I've only grabbed a few coins from the reject slot. I know that TD Bank closed up theirs because of complaints from shorting customers and the only time I used one it shorted me. They gave me what I was owed after I told them but it was a pain in the butt. After that I only use my credit unions which is reliable and free but will still usually run a few rolls through it before I dump in an uncounted bag. Lately all I see are kids running to the Coinstar machines to check them so no finds in a couple months in my area...
@ricko said:
Wow...Kennedy halves in the reject slot.... amazing... Never found a half dollar coin in a coinstar....Definitely the season for cashing in coin hoards....Cheers, RickO
I found one recently that I was too busy at the time to post here - a '43-S Walker at my credit union when they still had the old machine that had a little plastic door over the reject slot. Now they have a spanking new very slow and inconvenient machine that is a complete PITA to use.
In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
Found a 1958 Roosevelt dime about three week ago. This makes 4 silver dimes found since I started checking - three Roosevelts and a mangled Mercury. It would be great to find a silver quarter, but so far nothing but clad in that area, plus a few Canadian quarters, including the 1973 Mounted Police issue.
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@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.
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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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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!
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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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Yesterday was my first silver find in a Coinstar. 1946 Roosevelt dime among a few bucks of regular pocket change.
Thanks for letting me join, really new to collecting.
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@ballistic_kennedy . Welcome to the forum and the bug. I caught it a couple years ago and can't seem to shake it. Nor do I want to
@ballistic_kennedy....Welcome aboard.... and a nice coinstar find. I found a dime yesterday in the coinstar also... However, it was not silver
and it was the only coin in the slot. Cheers, RickO
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If you raise your children right, they will bring you silver...... from the Coinstar!
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Cool.
Loudly breaking wind near the Coin star will usually clear it out rather quickly.
(The area around the Coinstar, that is. )
@mannie gray ....
Now that is one I have never thought of....I bet it would work...Of course, it may get you thrown out of the store before you get to check the reject bin... 
Cheers, RickO
It's been quite the drought but finally today the coinstar gods decided to gift me $1.42 clad and a 64 Kennedy complete with the nasty. After a quick soak in the Weimans off to a 90% roll it goes. Love free silver.
Nice find.
It amazes me that people will.leave money just sitting there.
Early Christmas presents from Coinstar : Within the past few weeks I have found the following DIMES 1951 1953-D 1956-D 1957 1990-S PROOF and just last night a 1917 Walker.
My best coinstar find ever. 6:00 a.m. at a Kroger’s.
Wow nice score
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Tis' the season of giving I think. So, I left the reject slot full of crusty zinc.
I'd have gone to the bank for that - not giving $29 to Coinstar!
We need to have this shirt made with a big arrow pointing down with "Check the slot" on it.
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If you select option to receive gift card instead of cash there is no fee. Amazon, Cabela's, Lowes, Home Depot etc.
I didn't know that. Interesting.
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The other day I went to the Coinstar machine to check on the reject slot and there was an older lady trying to figure out how to use it. I helped her, but tried to convince her to join a credit union where most of the time the machines are free to use. The machine in that store was charging 11.9% - highway robbery IMHO
Nothing today but 93 cents in change. Nothing interesting
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If you are only running twenty or thirty dollars through, and you are going to the home grocery store (Coinstar location) anyway, that 11.9% is a wash. But running $200 through, you go the other direction to the further away located bank branch, where the transaction is free or only fifty cents. Three dollars is meh, thirty dollars is something else.
I have three credit unions, two of them are completely free for non-commercial customers, one charges 2% over $100. Even the solitary bank that I deal with that has a coin machine only charges 5%. The one time I used a Coinstar was when my wife was going to make an Amazon purchase. I found the machine obscenely slow and annoying.
Wow...Kennedy halves in the reject slot.... amazing... Never found a half dollar coin in a coinstar....Definitely the season for cashing in coin hoards....Cheers, RickO
Yea, I probably should have in this case. I could of carried them in several trips a lot quicker than the hour it took at coinstar.
And for free.
How reliable are the Coinstar sorters? I've only grabbed a few coins from the reject slot. I know that TD Bank closed up theirs because of complaints from shorting customers and the only time I used one it shorted me. They gave me what I was owed after I told them but it was a pain in the butt. After that I only use my credit unions which is reliable and free but will still usually run a few rolls through it before I dump in an uncounted bag. Lately all I see are kids running to the Coinstar machines to check them so no finds in a couple months in my area...
Jim
I found one recently that I was too busy at the time to post here - a '43-S Walker at my credit union when they still had the old machine that had a little plastic door over the reject slot. Now they have a spanking new very slow and inconvenient machine that is a complete PITA to use.
Found a 1958 Roosevelt dime about three week ago. This makes 4 silver dimes found since I started checking - three Roosevelts and a mangled Mercury. It would be great to find a silver quarter, but so far nothing but clad in that area, plus a few Canadian quarters, including the 1973 Mounted Police issue.