Finds are picking up! Two months in a row now finding a coin at least 100 years old! Hopefully some silver soon. A large cent (Canadian) was definately a surprise!! Found last Friday at a grocery store coin star
Yep.... Reject slot been empty for a few weeks now.... I believe the attendant for the self checkout stands (right behind that station) has been clearing it out. Cheers, RickO
Thought I had a shot today when I pulled out a 1968 Canadian dime... featherweight under 2.1g and stuck to a magnet like Sharon Stone stuck to Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct.
2 Canadian nickels, 1968 dime, one Canadian cent and a non-copper Lincoln... better than a sharp stick in the eye but still in a silver drought!
We are checking the coin return on coin stars. Found a half inch washer 😊the machine tends to kick out anything it doesn’t recognize as us coinage. Sometimes it kicks silver coins gold coins non-us and washers and buttons
Yesterday, I was leaving Kroger after buying some milk. I decided that I better check the coinstar before I left. I forgot to check it when I entered the store. I scooped some change out, and quickly scanned it. At first, I thought that I had two Canadian quarters, two Canadian nickels, a Canadian cent and a clad Roosevelt dime. However, I was wrong. What I thought was a Canadian cent, was a 1943 D cent, and what I thought was a clad dime, turned out to be a 1964 D dime.
@ricko said:
Yep.... Reject slot been empty for a few weeks now.... I believe the attendant for the self checkout stands (right behind that station) has been clearing it out. Cheers, RickO
Yep, that's direct competition I have the same thing going on at my Kroger. Recently though they moved the machine to the service desk area
The last thing I got was a washer. Today I felt like I was in a dang casino. Handful just sitting in the return. No silver no non US just a handful sitting there saying howdy 🤠
@Joe_360.... WOW!! You got a W quarter in the Coinstar reject bin?? Amazing.... Outstanding haul overall... that is a real pile of change. But a W quarter... first one I have heard of from the Coinstar. Cheers, RickO
Silver drought is over(1952-D Dime)... For those that complain about us "cleaning up" after others, please leave the Name, address, birth date, first pet's name and Social Security number of the coins' former owner so I can return it.
Those are both nice groups of coins. I am entering another drought period. I gladly scoop up the coins from the reject bin - if I can get there before the store manager (who pockets them) or the check out clerks (who also pockets them). The store manager told me that.... Cheers, RickO
@ricko said:
Silver dimes are found quite often in the coinstar reject bin.... seems they are easily overlooked. Cheers, RickO
Another silver surprise today... and maybe a dime error coin?? Looks to me to be too clean to have been done post mint. If I can't get a definitive explanation of the dime, may start a quick thread for error experts to chime in. I don't follow errors at all.
It appears to have been spooned.....Edge is repeatedly tapped (some do it with a spoon, can be done with other tools). Was often done to make a ring. Cheers, RickO
@ricko said:
It appears to have been spooned.....Edge is repeatedly tapped (some do it with a spoon, can be done with other tools). Was often done to make a ring. Cheers, RickO
Has to be machine done, smooth all the way around. I guess post mint damage of some type because I can't come up with a reasonable way a dime can end up with a smaller diameter at the mint.
I've been on a pretty long dry stretch lately, I've seen more other people than ever checking the return slot too. Finally today I broke the streak. A bunch of silver including a Barber dime, that's truly a first! Plus some Canadian and common US coins. The penny sandwich wouldn't separate even with boiling water, that's a new one.
@hiwatt .... Wow... Now THAT is a haul.... I have had that happen only twice in the years I have been checking the reject slot. Congratulations.... Cheers, RickO
I have found nothing, cashiers/managers clean it out or check every day. However I did find one penny sitting on top where you dump the coins. It was a 2009 log cabin bright and shinny found earlier this week. Why no one else picked it up is beyond me.
At my local Walmart there was a bunch of coins/etc. on top of the machine. Most of it was just clad coins stuck together.
Then...two silver Roosies. My first Coinstar silver. Plus a few arcade tokens.
Found $2-3 in Canadian coins recently. Saving them for the next trip to BC.
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Finds are picking up! Two months in a row now finding a coin at least 100 years old! Hopefully some silver soon. A large cent (Canadian) was definately a surprise!! Found last Friday at a grocery store coin star
The manager at a local bank collects the rejects from the coin machine for me. I don't think we've been in for over a year, until today.
Lots of Canadian, some old and new British pound coins, and this old WWII-dated silver quarter from Canada.
Nothing here except the sounds of crickets, and the occasional button or bent paper clip.
Yep.... Reject slot been empty for a few weeks now.... I believe the attendant for the self checkout stands (right behind that station) has been clearing it out. Cheers, RickO
Found today, 1st Silver for July. 1964 Denver
Found this $1.66 one day earlier this week in a single machine!!
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At first thought the Bronze Dollar was some type of trash token!! 😂
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Thought I had a shot today when I pulled out a 1968 Canadian dime... featherweight under 2.1g and stuck to a magnet like Sharon Stone stuck to Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct.
2 Canadian nickels, 1968 dime, one Canadian cent and a non-copper Lincoln... better than a sharp stick in the eye but still in a silver drought!
How are you guys finding these coins? I thought you had to put change in these CoinStar machines to get paper money back?
Ever Onward
We are checking the coin return on coin stars. Found a half inch washer 😊the machine tends to kick out anything it doesn’t recognize as us coinage. Sometimes it kicks silver coins gold coins non-us and washers and buttons
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
Yesterday, I was leaving Kroger after buying some milk. I decided that I better check the coinstar before I left. I forgot to check it when I entered the store. I scooped some change out, and quickly scanned it. At first, I thought that I had two Canadian quarters, two Canadian nickels, a Canadian cent and a clad Roosevelt dime. However, I was wrong. What I thought was a Canadian cent, was a 1943 D cent, and what I thought was a clad dime, turned out to be a 1964 D dime.![:) :)](https://forums.collectors.com/resources/emoji/smile.png)
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Yep, that's direct competition I have the same thing going on at my Kroger. Recently though they moved the machine to the service desk area![>:) >:)](https://forums.collectors.com/resources/emoji/naughty.png)
Sounds like stealth mode now or perhaps a buyers club group who can organize the runs😊😂😁
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
The drought has been broken... Two quarters, two dimes, a nickel and a cent. No silver... But happy to find some coins... finally. Cheers, RickO
It's always nice to find something that isn't a pair of nasty stuck-together coins or a barely recognizable Lincoln Cent.
@EagleScout2017.... Well that is different... I would keep that one. (From a fellow Eagle Scout) Cheers, RickO
I just got paid today (at the coin star), got me a pocket full of change, over 6 dollars in quarters plus one W!! dime & Nickels
The last thing I got was a washer. Today I felt like I was in a dang casino. Handful just sitting in the return. No silver no non US just a handful sitting there saying howdy 🤠
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
@Joe_360.... WOW!! You got a W quarter in the Coinstar reject bin?? Amazing.... Outstanding haul overall... that is a real pile of change. But a W quarter... first one I have heard of from the Coinstar. Cheers, RickO
Found a Japanese 50 Yen coin from 1981 a few days ago beneath the coin counting machine at Publix.
Silver drought is over(1952-D Dime)... For those that complain about us "cleaning up" after others, please leave the Name, address, birth date, first pet's name and Social Security number of the coins' former owner so I can return it.
Mark
It was a hodgepodge mix that I scooped from the rejection bin the last time I found a sizable amount
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Those are both nice groups of coins. I am entering another drought period. I gladly scoop up the coins from the reject bin - if I can get there before the store manager (who pockets them) or the check out clerks (who also pockets them). The store manager told me that.... Cheers, RickO
I always liked double D's... Monday morning find, two Dimes, 57D & 64D... I'll take it!
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Silver dimes are found quite often in the coinstar reject bin.... seems they are easily overlooked. Cheers, RickO
Another silver surprise today... and maybe a dime error coin?? Looks to me to be too clean to have been done post mint. If I can't get a definitive explanation of the dime, may start a quick thread for error experts to chime in. I don't follow errors at all.
It might be a dryer coin? 🤓🙀
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
It appears to have been spooned.....Edge is repeatedly tapped (some do it with a spoon, can be done with other tools). Was often done to make a ring. Cheers, RickO
Has to be machine done, smooth all the way around. I guess post mint damage of some type because I can't come up with a reasonable way a dime can end up with a smaller diameter at the mint.
Clad quarter and two Memorial pennies today.
Bunch of junk, and a 64 quarter today. Ends a looooong dry spell.
Found a quarter, a 2021P Roosevelt dime, a Jefferson nickel a 1946 Wheatie and a two cent Euro... Cheers, RickO
A solitary dime, and a dirty look from a lady walking into the store.
I wear those looks as a badge of coin hunting in the wild!🤓🙀
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
I've been on a pretty long dry stretch lately, I've seen more other people than ever checking the return slot too. Finally today I broke the streak. A bunch of silver including a Barber dime, that's truly a first! Plus some Canadian and common US coins. The penny sandwich wouldn't separate even with boiling water, that's a new one.
I have found that when you hear the machine clicking, get ready to pounce.
@hiwatt .... Wow... Now THAT is a haul.... I have had that happen only twice in the years I have been checking the reject slot. Congratulations.... Cheers, RickO
Not as good as last time but a score is a score 8 cents!😉
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🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
Wow... that nickel spent some time in a busy parking lot.... Cheers, RickO
Nice, 9/18: 1946S Dime and (oddly enough) a 1946P Wheatie, plus an extra couple of bucks in change...
Got a 43 Mercury , a steel cent and some junk today.
Friday at my local Kroger, $1.87 spendable change pus a 2C Euro from Spain and a 1964 Roosevelt dime.
First find in over six weeks.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Here's my Sept. 6th loot. Nothing work keeping.
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I have found nothing, cashiers/managers clean it out or check every day. However I did find one penny sitting on top where you dump the coins. It was a 2009 log cabin bright and shinny found earlier this week. Why no one else picked it up is beyond me.
1919 Cent, Gaming Token and two Silver Dimes...
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At my local Walmart there was a bunch of coins/etc. on top of the machine. Most of it was just clad coins stuck together.
Then...two silver Roosies. My first Coinstar silver. Plus a few arcade tokens.
Silver dimes (usually Rosevelts) are the most common silver finds in Coinstar reject bins... Always welcome though. Cheers, RickO
Found $2-3 in Canadian coins recently. Saving them for the next trip to BC.
Wife found these the other day. Nothing special.
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Found 10/9, Mom's Birthday. 1962D quarter and 1964P dime...
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@Joe_360 ... Double silver... very good. I have not found anything other than one damaged zincoln for about three weeks now... Cheers, RickO