I think my largest face vale haul ever. No silver but $4.30 US including my first ever COINSTAR "Golden Dollar", a James Garfield, 2.22 British Pounds and 50 Centavos Mexico. Took three handfuls to scoop it all out of the reject bin.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
@nwcoast
Not quite the treasure find that nwcoast got in October, but the biggest find that I ever had.
Most know that there 3 Coin Star machines within a 1,5 block distance that I hit daily on my way to feeding stray cats at the Home Depot. But yesterday my wife said that she had a taste for pizza for lunch. She ordered and I went to pick them up, on the way were those same 3 Coin Stars, so I decided to check..
The Mexican store was empty, next was Nob-Hill. Well the return was so stuffed, I could barely get my hand in. Pulling out some of the change I saw mostly corroded pennies. They looked so bad, I thought about leaving, but I put them in my pocket and grabbed another hand full, and saw silver. It took about 6,7, 8 handfuls to finish... Getting home, after washing up and eating, I went back to the coins.
Wow, with all the pennies, I did not realize just how much silver there was!
Obviously, some kid swiped Grandpa stash...
51 silver dimes total! All dates were from 1950 to 1955 with 1 outlier a 1957 and 3 Mercury dimes. I removed the corroded pennies and there were ~60 wheat cents. 1 1927 Canadian Nickel.
I thanked my wife and gave her full credit for wanting pizza that this time! Hard to believe, but yet true!!!
Today’s find. First silver for 2024.(From a coinstar that is)
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@Joe_360 said: @nwcoast
Not quite the treasure find that nwcoast got in October, but the biggest find that I ever had.
Most know that there 3 Coin Star machines within a 1,5 block distance that I hit daily on my way to feeding stray cats at the Home Depot. But yesterday my wife said that she had a taste for pizza for lunch. She ordered and I went to pick them up, on the way were those same 3 Coin Stars, so I decided to check..
The Mexican store was empty, next was Nob-Hill. Well the return was so stuffed, I could barely get my hand in. Pulling out some of the change I saw mostly corroded pennies. They looked so bad, I thought about leaving, but I put them in my pocket and grabbed another hand full, and saw silver. It took about 6,7, 8 handfuls to finish... Getting home, after washing up and eating, I went back to the coins.
Wow, with all the pennies, I did not realize just how much silver there was!
Obviously, some kid swiped Grandpa stash...
51 silver dimes total! All dates were from 1950 to 1955 with 1 outlier a 1957 and 3 Mercury dimes. I removed the corroded pennies and there were ~60 wheat cents. 1 1927 Canadian Nickel.
I thanked my wife and gave her full credit for wanting pizza that this time! Hard to believe, but yet true!!!
That's incredible!
Type collector, mainly into Seated. -formerly Ownerofawheatiehorde. Good BST transactions with: mirabela, OKCC, MICHAELDIXON, Gerard
@Joe_360 said: @nwcoast
Not quite the treasure find that nwcoast got in October, but the biggest find that I ever had.
Most know that there 3 Coin Star machines within a 1,5 block distance that I hit daily on my way to feeding stray cats at the Home Depot. But yesterday my wife said that she had a taste for pizza for lunch. She ordered and I went to pick them up, on the way were those same 3 Coin Stars, so I decided to check..
The Mexican store was empty, next was Nob-Hill. Well the return was so stuffed, I could barely get my hand in. Pulling out some of the change I saw mostly corroded pennies. They looked so bad, I thought about leaving, but I put them in my pocket and grabbed another hand full, and saw silver. It took about 6,7, 8 handfuls to finish... Getting home, after washing up and eating, I went back to the coins.
Wow, with all the pennies, I did not realize just how much silver there was!
Obviously, some kid swiped Grandpa stash...
51 silver dimes total! All dates were from 1950 to 1955 with 1 outlier a 1957 and 3 Mercury dimes. I removed the corroded pennies and there were ~60 wheat cents. 1 1927 Canadian Nickel.
I thanked my wife and gave her full credit for wanting pizza that this time! Hard to believe, but yet true!!!
That’s a GREAT score Joe!
Gotta love it! Pizza too!
Congratulations :-)
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WOW, great find. There only 2 CoinStar machines in my area that I'm aware of. I do check them when i go past them. I found some loose change in, but no silver. I just don't understand how people don't check the coin return drawer. I guess they in in too big of a hurry to look there. Nice find.
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I've tried different strategies. Using my right hand, using my left hand, closing my eyes and then feeling around the reject slot, etc. Nothing seems to work. 🤔
@stevek said:
Dry as a bone for me, at least for over a year.
I've tried different strategies. Using my right hand, using my left hand, closing my eyes and then feeling around the reject slot, etc. Nothing seems to work. 🤔
maybe you are not holding your tongue in the proper position.
Last night’s finds: 1 cent at one coinstar, and 89 cents at another plus 12 cents on the ground for a total of $1.02.
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Solid finds! - Silver has never been more difficult - just
one 1960's dime in the last two years. But here are
some interesting finds from grocery change machines
output, just this last week :
Yesterday I tried my hand at a vending machine, putting $3.15 in it . I hit the change back button, but I only got a $1.05 back. It wouldn't give me any more. I had to go to the front desk to get my money back, and someone got a free soda. I feel blessed to get my money back.
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Alright, February 1st, nice start, nice haul, 3 silver dimes, 1 64D and 2 63D's. and pocket full of change... At the top are two coins stuck together...
I had a good haul on Jan 31 at a grocery store.
There were 2 small peanut butter jars blue lid and pink lid variety wondering if they were in a hurry to leave the containers behind.
The reject slot took 2 plus handfuls and I dropped some on the floor that quickly found their way under the machine (DOH)
You just know something good escaped
$3.84 in US coinage and some from across the border.
A 1956 quarter and a 1944 wheat cent.
Never found a coin at the "Star". But probably due to I only see one infrequently. Maybe I should scan the parking lot more intently on the way in/out of the Walmart.
Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
The "Great one" Wayne Gretzky once said, "You will find no silver coins in 100% of the Coin Star machines that you don't check" Okay, maybe he was really talking about taking shots and scoring goals, but the principle still applies here...
Talked myself into stopping at the CS at the Nob Hill on the way home. Glad I did, He shoots, he scores!! There it was a lonely Mercury dime left by. It wasn't even in the return slot, it was still sitting on the lift-arm for loading coins.
Ugly Mercury, cannot even see the date yet, so I have it soaking in Acetone. I'll post another picture to see the results...
Did two different coin stars on Thursday.
The one at the credit union yielded a clad quarter and the grocery store yielded 3 quarters of which one was Canadian and the other 2 were clad. No silver.
Wayne
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I posted my ugly Mercury dime find from 2/3 where you could not read the date and stated that I would soak in acetone and post results after. See before and after photo's. The coin also needed a little rub from a sponge. Mint turned out to be a 1943S. Also found a 1964 dime on Sunday, also very dirty so soak it also and before and after photo's after the Mercury.
Mercury before:
Mercury After:
Today’s find: not at a coinstar, but at one of those similar coin counters at publix. This was all by itself under the machine and beats my oldest Canadian nickel that I had found by 16 years.
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We have a new coin star searcher.
My wife goes to the local grocery store, I stay home.
I asked her to pick up some scratch tickets for me.
The coin star machine is located directly in front of the lottery exit line so while she is playing with her pocketbook, she notices that there are coins in the reject slot.
She proudly gave them to me when she returned home.
No silver but 2 dimes, 2 Lincolns and one nickel.
Wayne
Kroger today
As I approached the machine, I see a couple small coins in the slot. Thinking rejected silver, but nope, two clad dimes.
At least i wasn't skunked.
Went into the credit union to make a withdrawal and the teller handed me a Canadian 10c that she had found in the reject slot of the coin machine - a 1960 .800 fine coin.
In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
Grabbed 21c of modern junk out of the Coinstar in Wegman's today. Yay me!
The slot was filled with cigarette ash, so I assume someone just dumped an entire ashtray into it.
A classy bunch we are in Jersey, I tell you!
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"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
My wife is not feeling well, so I ran to Safeway for her at noon today, 2 silver pieces just sitting there next to each other in the return, a 57P & a 52S...
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1st find for March Sunday the 3rd, 1964-D. I have to mention this, I have now found silver in the Coin Star 18 months straight! The last time that I did not find silver was November 2022 (most all document here). I hope to keep this streak going!
@Joe_360 said:
1st find for March Sunday the 3rd, 1964-D. I have to mention this, I have now found silver in the Coin Star 18 months straight! The last time that I did not find silver was November 2022 (most all document here). I hope to keep this streak going!
That’s great, I usually check twice or more weekly, but I only found four silvers last year and one so far this year. You must have a good area.
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Jackpot today. Nearly $2.50 in small, and I mean small, change, nothing bigger than a dime US, a couple of Canadian dimes, a quarter with Queen Elizabeth on the obverse from the East Caribbean States, (never heard of it). Had to scoop 4 times to get it all. Oh yeah, 3 of the US dimes were silver.
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@OnWithTheHunt said:
Jackpot today. Nearly $2.50 in small, and I mean small, change, nothing bigger than a dime US, a couple of Canadian dimes, a quarter with Queen Elizabeth on the obverse from the East Caribbean States, (never heard of it). Had to scoop 4 times to get it all. Oh yeah, 3 of the US dimes were silver.
What were the dates on the silvers?
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@OnWithTheHunt said:
Jackpot today. Nearly $2.50 in small, and I mean small, change, nothing bigger than a dime US, a couple of Canadian dimes, a quarter with Queen Elizabeth on the obverse from the East Caribbean States, (never heard of it). Had to scoop 4 times to get it all. Oh yeah, 3 of the US dimes were silver.
What were the dates on the silvers?
54P 62D, 63D
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@OnWithTheHunt said:
Jackpot today. Nearly $2.50 in small, and I mean small, change, nothing bigger than a dime US, a couple of Canadian dimes, a quarter with Queen Elizabeth on the obverse from the East Caribbean States, (never heard of it). Had to scoop 4 times to get it all. Oh yeah, 3 of the US dimes were silver.
What were the dates on the silvers?
54P 62D, 63D
Nice, I haven’t found a 54-P yet.
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I think my largest face vale haul ever. No silver but $4.30 US including my first ever COINSTAR "Golden Dollar", a James Garfield, 2.22 British Pounds and 50 Centavos Mexico. Took three handfuls to scoop it all out of the reject bin.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
2 for 2024, lone dime, 1963-D. This one from Nob Hill
@nwcoast
Not quite the treasure find that nwcoast got in October, but the biggest find that I ever had.
Most know that there 3 Coin Star machines within a 1,5 block distance that I hit daily on my way to feeding stray cats at the Home Depot. But yesterday my wife said that she had a taste for pizza for lunch. She ordered and I went to pick them up, on the way were those same 3 Coin Stars, so I decided to check..
The Mexican store was empty, next was Nob-Hill. Well the return was so stuffed, I could barely get my hand in. Pulling out some of the change I saw mostly corroded pennies. They looked so bad, I thought about leaving, but I put them in my pocket and grabbed another hand full, and saw silver. It took about 6,7, 8 handfuls to finish... Getting home, after washing up and eating, I went back to the coins.
Wow, with all the pennies, I did not realize just how much silver there was!
Obviously, some kid swiped Grandpa stash...
51 silver dimes total! All dates were from 1950 to 1955 with 1 outlier a 1957 and 3 Mercury dimes. I removed the corroded pennies and there were ~60 wheat cents. 1 1927 Canadian Nickel.
I thanked my wife and gave her full credit for wanting pizza that this time! Hard to believe, but yet true!!!
Today’s find. First silver for 2024.(From a coinstar that is)
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That's incredible!
Type collector, mainly into Seated. -formerly Ownerofawheatiehorde. Good BST transactions with: mirabela, OKCC, MICHAELDIXON, Gerard
That’s a GREAT score Joe!
Gotta love it! Pizza too!
Congratulations :-)
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WOW, great find. There only 2 CoinStar machines in my area that I'm aware of. I do check them when i go past them. I found some loose change in, but no silver. I just don't understand how people don't check the coin return drawer. I guess they in in too big of a hurry to look there. Nice find.
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Successful Transactions with more than 100 Members
Dry as a bone for me, at least for over a year.
I've tried different strategies. Using my right hand, using my left hand, closing my eyes and then feeling around the reject slot, etc. Nothing seems to work. 🤔
Two Jefferson nickels and two Memorial pennies this week. Still staying retired though!
maybe you are not holding your tongue in the proper position.
Full return slot, No silver, $4.00 in quarters, and a key, lol!!
One clad dime.
After a long dry spell many coins left in bin: no silver, one wheat cent, 7 Euros and quite a few other coins
Nice finds
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
A French Euro cent dated 2014.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Last night’s finds: 1 cent at one coinstar, and 89 cents at another plus 12 cents on the ground for a total of $1.02.
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1946 silver dime plus assorted coins
Nice, first year of issue... P or D?
1946 P
I do my share of buying, but finding silver makes this hobby fun.
Solid finds! - Silver has never been more difficult - just
one 1960's dime in the last two years. But here are
some interesting finds from grocery change machines
output, just this last week :
Clad dime and 2c Euro today.
DPOTD-3
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Yesterday I tried my hand at a vending machine, putting $3.15 in it . I hit the change back button, but I only got a $1.05 back. It wouldn't give me any more.
I had to go to the front desk to get my money back, and someone got a free soda. I feel blessed to get my money back.
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Alright, February 1st, nice start, nice haul, 3 silver dimes, 1 64D and 2 63D's. and pocket full of change... At the top are two coins stuck together...
I had a good haul on Jan 31 at a grocery store.
wondering if they were in a hurry to leave the containers behind.
There were 2 small peanut butter jars blue lid and pink lid variety
The reject slot took 2 plus handfuls and I dropped some on the floor that quickly found their way under the machine (DOH)
You just know something good escaped
$3.84 in US coinage and some from across the border.
A 1956 quarter and a 1944 wheat cent.
Never found a coin at the "Star". But probably due to I only see one infrequently. Maybe I should scan the parking lot more intently on the way in/out of the Walmart.
The "Great one" Wayne Gretzky once said, "You will find no silver coins in 100% of the Coin Star machines that you don't check" Okay, maybe he was really talking about taking shots and scoring goals, but the principle still applies here...
Talked myself into stopping at the CS at the Nob Hill on the way home. Glad I did, He shoots, he scores!! There it was a lonely Mercury dime left by. It wasn't even in the return slot, it was still sitting on the lift-arm for loading coins.
Ugly Mercury, cannot even see the date yet, so I have it soaking in Acetone. I'll post another picture to see the results...
Posted 4/5
Before soak:
After Soak:
Did two different coin stars on Thursday.
The one at the credit union yielded a clad quarter and the grocery store yielded 3 quarters of which one was Canadian and the other 2 were clad. No silver.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
1 clad dime, but hope remains!
Today: Two tries yielded two zincolns.
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I posted my ugly Mercury dime find from 2/3 where you could not read the date and stated that I would soak in acetone and post results after. See before and after photo's. The coin also needed a little rub from a sponge. Mint turned out to be a 1943S. Also found a 1964 dime on Sunday, also very dirty so soak it also and before and after photo's after the Mercury.
Mercury before:
Mercury After:
Rosie 2/4 Before: 1964D Reverse
Rosie 2/4 After:
Before: Observe
After:
Good show. My coin star is empty all day, everyday.
I can't remember the last time I found silver. I'm due!
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"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
@DCW
Good luck, consistency will pay off in the long run...
Today’s find: not at a coinstar, but at one of those similar coin counters at publix. This was all by itself under the machine and beats my oldest Canadian nickel that I had found by 16 years.
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My 1st PRC coin.
Found at a QFC yesterday.
It was with 2 U.S. quarters I left
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The entertainment can never be overdressed....except in burlesque
We have a new coin star searcher.
My wife goes to the local grocery store, I stay home.
I asked her to pick up some scratch tickets for me.
The coin star machine is located directly in front of the lottery exit line so while she is playing with her pocketbook, she notices that there are coins in the reject slot.
She proudly gave them to me when she returned home.
No silver but 2 dimes, 2 Lincolns and one nickel.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Kroger today
As I approached the machine, I see a couple small coins in the slot. Thinking rejected silver, but nope, two clad dimes.
At least i wasn't skunked.
Went into the credit union to make a withdrawal and the teller handed me a Canadian 10c that she had found in the reject slot of the coin machine - a 1960 .800 fine coin.
Found this 1963 Canadian quarter at the Meijer's Coin star today. It was with a beat up 1964 Jeff nickel.
Grabbed 21c of modern junk out of the Coinstar in Wegman's today. Yay me!
The slot was filled with cigarette ash, so I assume someone just dumped an entire ashtray into it.
A classy bunch we are in Jersey, I tell you!
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
I picked up a '39 nickel,
and put all my "old" nickel
finds over the last few weeks
together - a very nice set !
My wife is not feeling well, so I ran to Safeway for her at noon today, 2 silver pieces just sitting there next to each other in the return, a 57P & a 52S...
Last week’s find. Kind of PL.
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1st find for March Sunday the 3rd, 1964-D. I have to mention this, I have now found silver in the Coin Star 18 months straight! The last time that I did not find silver was November 2022 (most all document here). I hope to keep this streak going!
That’s great, I usually check twice or more weekly, but I only found four silvers last year and one so far this year. You must have a good area.
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Jackpot today. Nearly $2.50 in small, and I mean small, change, nothing bigger than a dime US, a couple of Canadian dimes, a quarter with Queen Elizabeth on the obverse from the East Caribbean States, (never heard of it). Had to scoop 4 times to get it all. Oh yeah, 3 of the US dimes were silver.
What were the dates on the silvers?
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54P 62D, 63D
Nice, I haven’t found a 54-P yet.
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joe_360: Does your Jan 20th find qualify as a "KEY date"?!
So far in 2024: I found a Canadian ‘Loon” dollar, 2 circ common Mercs, 4 video game tokens, and 6 modern foreign small change.
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