@MtW124 said:
I’ve found that casinos are a great and free way to go through bills and change. I will sometimes go with a 20 and entertain myself by recycling the 20 though the slot machine and taking the ticket to the payout machine to get the cash without even spending a dime. Sometimes I get weak and pull the handle but most times not.
I have direct deposit. I go to my bank's ATM for cash,no fee use,and will w/d few 100 in 5,10, or 20's so can check the serial numbers or look for error bills.
Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
I have direct deposit. I go to my bank's ATM for cash,no fee use,and will w/d few 100 in 5,10, or 20's so can check the serial numbers or look for error bills.
I do the same at my bank. No fee atm and it disperses ones, fives ,tens, twenty’s and fifty’s up to ten ones per transaction.
A good day at the local Coinstar machine:
Two CineMark tokens, a Century Theatres StarCade token, a 1971-S cent, and several dimes including a silver 1946-D.
@WillieBoyd2 said:
A good day at the local Coinstar machine:
Two CineMark tokens, a Century Theatres StarCade token, a 1971-S cent, and several dimes including a silver 1946-D.
Pics...or it didnt happen!
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Yesterday at Morgan Hill Safeway, not a usual stop was looking for blueberries. Bright shiny silver quarter just sitting on the table-top of the CS, didn't even have to bend over to the return slot... 64D, 2nd quarter this month!
Been quite a while - I went in my local Hannaford and found two quarters glued together and about a dollars worth of Canadian dimes and quarters. Those are good around here for spending money so $1.50, went and did a little shopping. On the way out I saw a lady pouring a large bag in and heard the reject sound. I will sometimes just offer to buy the rejects. The lady said fine and reached in and handed me a bunch at the end I asked how much wanted for it and she said just keep it. She had a $320 slip from change and said she had enough of the change. I said thanks and left, I hadn't even looked when I got outside I checked and had a bit of a score with some silver. There was about $2.50 in spendable change, a few Euros and other oddities and the silver.
@Joe_360 said:
No Silver, no W's, nothing but a pocket full of change... Saved for a rainy coin show...
What's up with that gray looking quarter at the bottom of your picture?
From the picture, it looks like a very deep strike with very wide and squared rims.
Wayne
What's up with that gray looking quarter at the bottom of your picture?
From the picture, it looks like a very deep strike with very wide and squared rims.
Wayne
I think it is plastic play money?
@Joe_360 You are the undisputed Champion of Coinstar finds! It is unbelievable how much money you pull from the reject slot.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
What's up with that gray looking quarter at the bottom of your picture?
From the picture, it looks like a very deep strike with very wide and squared rims.
Wayne
I think it is plastic play money?
@Joe_360 You are the undisputed Champion of Coinstar finds! It is unbelievable how much money you pull from the reject slot.
Thank you DC, I am amazed at what people leave behind, unware or kids? I'll admit that I benefit from working at home and having 3 CS located close together on my route to feeding the Home Depot stray-cats....
@BLUEJAYWAY said:
No CS luck but have been lucky with the cash out machine at a local casino. 3 silver nicks,some wheat cents, and memorial copper cents. And a paper bill with a collectible serial number that I was able to sell for a profit. I usually at the casino cash out the vouchers when I can get back the most change.
That's a good strategy, our casinos have switched to printing you out another ticket for the change.
If you want to donate your change to the casino the casino makes that your first choice (like they are hurting for money) 😭 You have to go to a cash cage to Cash out any ticket with change (there you see the casino really has enough of people's money) 🤑
I always forget to glance at the Coinstar at my regular supermarket...
Last night I remembered.
It was two handfuls! Everything pictured plus about $3 more in change.
Anyone ever seen one of these piratey looking tokens? There's no writing on it.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Morning on the way to feed the cats, Mexican store, a Canadian dime and a 1951 Philly!
Afternoon stop at Safeway, this mid-age guy just arrived. He left all this change, with a 1964 Rosie, a Canadian 5 cent piece, a Euro, and even a Russian coin...
Well, after a three plus year dearth of coinstar scores, I finally hit the jackpot!
Since retiring, I live hours away from any coinstar units but do visit my old haunts near the city occasionally. Since before COVID, I have mostly come up empty with the exception of a couple of stuck together cents . Yesterday however, while visiting one of my old local market haunts, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I was greeted by a very FULL reject bin! Three handfuls, and aside from a couple of Canadian coins and a button battery- ALL SILVER! I was so excited that I nearly blew a fuse! Sure helped cheer me up as I’ve been pretty sick for the past three weeks.
I know there are others here that love and appreciate these finds so I’m thrilled to be sharing this for all you fellow Coinstar aficionados- our loosly knit shameless scavenging community…….
Interestingly though, in my excitement, I couldn’t help but to think of Ricko, and fondly remembering just how excited he used to get when stuff like this was shared ;-)
Cheers to you Ricko! Thinking of you buddy!
Even found a suspected 1917 standing liberty quarter in there- no reverse stars.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
@OAKSTAR said:
So educate me. I've had zero experience with an coinstar's. These machines reject silver??
Yes indeed. They reject foreign, damaged coins and silver based on weight and coin size. There is a reject bin that stuff drops into and some users neglect to check that before leaving to redeem their receipt for their deposited coinage.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
@OAKSTAR @nwcoast
In addition, the CS machine will also reject too many coins being inserted too fast, so you can find quarters, dimes, nickels, etc with no issues... But yes, silver is the BEST!
I have been looking at all four locations in my area and have still not found a single coin. The only thing I can think of is someone gets there before I do. Early bird catches the coins I guess! I will keep on though as persistence will always eventually payoff.
Shut out again today, sure do stare at that hidden catch compartment a lot now that I know it’s there. My imagination goes wild wondering what’s behind that keyed in area!!!
Today's my daughter's birthday, stopped at Baskin Robbins to get her an ice-cream cake. Stopped at the Safeway and got my own present, a 43 quarter and a 54 dime, nice! My good deed rewarded!!
Well, today was the day. I finally got some change out of one of our local coinstars. I always pass them and look but to no avail they have always been empty until today. My wife and I were at Walmart. We checked out and we’re walking towards the exit when I switched places with her so I could glance in the reject tray and wow I stopped in my tracks like a deer in headlights. My wife saw it too as she always looks too. I was frozen in my footsteps! She had to nudge me and say well, aren’t you going to get it !!!! That’s when I had in my hand my first taste of success from a long time of looking. It was awesome. Here is the bounty.
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I have direct deposit. I go to my bank's ATM for cash,no fee use,and will w/d few 100 in 5,10, or 20's so can check the serial numbers or look for error bills.
I do the same at my bank. No fee atm and it disperses ones, fives ,tens, twenty’s and fifty’s up to ten ones per transaction.
Been dry as a bone for quite some time. Not even any Lincolns, foreign, nothing.
But I'll keep trying. Ya never know when ya put your hand in that reject slot, what ya might find. 😊
Look who got LUCKY this morning, a SILVER QUARTER in the reject bin......
1962-D.....going into the 90% stash.......
this is the first time in like 5+ years this has happened to me....find a silver
dime from time to time, but this was quite the surprise!!!
TC71
A good day at the local Coinstar machine:
Two CineMark tokens, a Century Theatres StarCade token, a 1971-S cent, and several dimes including a silver 1946-D.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Pics...or it didnt happen!
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
I threw out one of the CineMark tokens as it was corroded and spent the modern dimes.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Someone don't like quarters... No silver or W's. $3.75 plus a Pilipinas 1piso
Yesterday at Morgan Hill Safeway, not a usual stop was looking for blueberries. Bright shiny silver quarter just sitting on the table-top of the CS, didn't even have to bend over to the return slot... 64D, 2nd quarter this month!
I’ve been checking our coinstars for awhile and always end up with nothing! Boy I sure would like to have my luck change!!! No pun intended 🤓
Today's find. Unfortunately no silver.
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
$2.44 in spending money at my local Kroger yesterday
How do people not know that there is a whole handful of change in the reject slot? Doesn't the machine remind you to check before you leave?
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Been quite a while - I went in my local Hannaford and found two quarters glued together and about a dollars worth of Canadian dimes and quarters. Those are good around here for spending money so $1.50, went and did a little shopping. On the way out I saw a lady pouring a large bag in and heard the reject sound. I will sometimes just offer to buy the rejects. The lady said fine and reached in and handed me a bunch at the end I asked how much wanted for it and she said just keep it. She had a $320 slip from change and said she had enough of the change. I said thanks and left, I hadn't even looked when I got outside I checked and had a bit of a score with some silver. There was about $2.50 in spendable change, a few Euros and other oddities and the silver.
jim
No Silver, no W's, nothing but a pocket full of change... Saved for a rainy coin show...
Shutout for dimes in September, but the 2023 streak continues, no shutout stacking! 1952P plus 5 more clads and a quarter!
Yesterday a 1000 dong coin from Vietnam dated 2003.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
What's up with that gray looking quarter at the bottom of your picture?
From the picture, it looks like a very deep strike with very wide and squared rims.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
I think it is plastic play money?
@Joe_360 You are the undisputed Champion of Coinstar finds! It is unbelievable how much money you pull from the reject slot.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Thank you DC, I am amazed at what people leave behind, unware or kids? I'll admit that I benefit from working at home and having 3 CS located close together on my route to feeding the Home Depot stray-cats....
That's a good strategy, our casinos have switched to printing you out another ticket for the change.
If you want to donate your change to the casino the casino makes that your first choice (like they are hurting for money) 😭 You have to go to a cash cage to Cash out any ticket with change (there you see the casino really has enough of people's money) 🤑
No the machine does not let the customer know.
Some of the newer ones have a video display of the coin return prompting people to check...
another hit at the Mexican store, 1944P Mercury, a 60D Lincoln and a 1968 Nickel, some change.
I always forget to glance at the Coinstar at my regular supermarket...
Last night I remembered.
It was two handfuls! Everything pictured plus about $3 more in change.
Anyone ever seen one of these piratey looking tokens? There's no writing on it.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
$1.88 U.S.
.80c Canada
10 groszy Poland
The cuprits, a few yukkers left for the lot sweepers
The entertainment can never be overdressed....except in burlesque
31c to offset groceries.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Two for Tuesday!
Morning on the way to feed the cats, Mexican store, a Canadian dime and a 1951 Philly!
Afternoon stop at Safeway, this mid-age guy just arrived. He left all this change, with a 1964 Rosie, a Canadian 5 cent piece, a Euro, and even a Russian coin...
May try for the Trifecta?!?
Well, after a three plus year dearth of coinstar scores, I finally hit the jackpot!
Since retiring, I live hours away from any coinstar units but do visit my old haunts near the city occasionally. Since before COVID, I have mostly come up empty with the exception of a couple of stuck together cents . Yesterday however, while visiting one of my old local market haunts, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I was greeted by a very FULL reject bin! Three handfuls, and aside from a couple of Canadian coins and a button battery- ALL SILVER! I was so excited that I nearly blew a fuse! Sure helped cheer me up as I’ve been pretty sick for the past three weeks.
I know there are others here that love and appreciate these finds so I’m thrilled to be sharing this for all you fellow Coinstar aficionados- our loosly knit shameless scavenging community…….
Interestingly though, in my excitement, I couldn’t help but to think of Ricko, and fondly remembering just how excited he used to get when stuff like this was shared ;-)
Cheers to you Ricko! Thinking of you buddy!
Even found a suspected 1917 standing liberty quarter in there- no reverse stars.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
That is a Coinstar haul that dreams are made of! One SLQ would be a find of a lifetime. Nine are just astronomical!
My Carson City Morgan Registry Set
Jackpot!!!
@nwcoast
Nice haul! I tip my hat off to you not only for the find of a live time, but remembering Ricko!
Ricko would always give me a Like when I posted on Coin Star finds! Nice job!!
That’s Terrific! What a great day you had, Congratulation's!
So educate me. I've had zero experience with an coinstar's. These machines reject silver??
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Yes indeed. They reject foreign, damaged coins and silver based on weight and coin size. There is a reject bin that stuff drops into and some users neglect to check that before leaving to redeem their receipt for their deposited coinage.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
@OAKSTAR
@nwcoast
In addition, the CS machine will also reject too many coins being inserted too fast, so you can find quarters, dimes, nickels, etc with no issues... But yes, silver is the BEST!
Thanks for that guys!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Just a week later.
Between Coinstar and my Costco free sample lunches my retirement plan has been working out quite well.
The entertainment can never be overdressed....except in burlesque
Todays find at my local Coinstar.....
I have been looking at all four locations in my area and have still not found a single coin. The only thing I can think of is someone gets there before I do. Early bird catches the coins I guess! I will keep on though as persistence will always eventually payoff.
$2.10 clad, a Canadian quarter and a 1940 Wheatie. No gutter. RGDS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
10/30, 1943P Mercury
11/1 1953P Rosie, the 2023 streak continues
Today, 11/4, took all 6 or 7 hand full to retrieve it all, no silver, lots of nickels and cents, total ~$5
@Joe_360
Greats score! Love to see it!
Congratulations! :-)
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
11/7 a lucky date! $2 in quarters, some change, One Penny, and a 1946D Rosie, 2nd for da month!
2 for Tuesday (kinda..) a 1962 Canadian 10 cent piece, 80% silver along with a dime and a Euro...
Shut out again today, sure do stare at that hidden catch compartment a lot now that I know it’s there. My imagination goes wild wondering what’s behind that keyed in area!!!
Today's my daughter's birthday, stopped at Baskin Robbins to get her an ice-cream cake. Stopped at the Safeway and got my own present, a 43 quarter and a 54 dime, nice! My good deed rewarded!!
Found this group of steelies last night at the local supermarket. Could have been a collection dump that day.
Jim
Well, today was the day. I finally got some change out of one of our local coinstars. I always pass them and look but to no avail they have always been empty until today. My wife and I were at Walmart. We checked out and we’re walking towards the exit when I switched places with her so I could glance in the reject tray and wow I stopped in my tracks like a deer in headlights. My wife saw it too as she always looks too. I was frozen in my footsteps! She had to nudge me and say well, aren’t you going to get it !!!! That’s when I had in my hand my first taste of success from a long time of looking. It was awesome. Here is the bounty.
Sunday Silver! 64D, a 2 Euro and 1960 Francaise 1 Franc , , some change, love it!