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  • OnWithTheHuntOnWithTheHunt Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭✭✭

    19 cents US yesterday, no silver, a 1968 Canadian dime a 2 Eurocent. A couple of weeks ago I got a nice 1964-D Roosie and about 30 cents US and another Canadian dime.

    Proud recipient of the coveted "You Suck Award" (9/3/10).
  • goldengolden Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    2 cents today. Really been dry here.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lots of snow here... been housebound.... going out today, maybe the change has all accumulated and waiting for me..... :D:D Cheers, RickO

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    47c Canadian change
    49c in USA change

    Nothing numismatically wonderful.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭✭✭

    2 different machines, first one had the .31c Canadian, 2nd had the gold plated quarter and 2 OPA tokens? I believe these were some kind of war rationing tokens used during WWII.

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.

  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @blitzdude said:
    2 OPA tokens? I believe these were some kind of war rationing tokens used during WWII.

    yes, for gas, i believe.

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The OPA tokens were for food. I believe the blue points were for canned goods and the red ones were for meat.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    I have not been out the past two days...and it is snowing now - 9-12 inches expected. Cheers, RickO

    ugh!
    Good luck

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • DoctorKDoctorK Posts: 867 ✭✭✭

    $1.24 total today.

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    41c in change, and then I promptly dropped it on the floor after counting it and the dumb quarter rolled under the machine - just out of reach of my pen. :'(

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • GotTheBugGotTheBug Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 16, 2019 9:58AM

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've found a bit over a buck in US non-numismatic change in the last week. Only foreign besides Canadian is a Mexican Peso from 1994.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No luck for quite a while now..... I saw people scooping up their rejects a couple of times... :'( Oh well... good fortune is great... finding nothing is nothing lost. Cheers, RickO

  • OnWithTheHuntOnWithTheHunt Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭✭✭

    61 cents US today. No silver or Canadian.

    Proud recipient of the coveted "You Suck Award" (9/3/10).
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Two Canadian 5c coins - the older ones that were 100% nickel.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice silver quarter.... It has been weeks since I found anything.... Cheers, RickO

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Today the machine produced two clad dimes in the reject slot - so I checked under the machine to see if anything was hiding there and it sure was - a 1964-D Roosie got clever and hid under the machine so only I would get it.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Whilst I was intended to have been the recipient of the loverly 1940 washer above all I managed today was a measly 2015 Bahamas mini cent.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • stevekstevek Posts: 27,575 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    Nice silver quarter.... It has been weeks since I found anything.... Cheers, RickO

    Same here.

    Who do i write and complain to?

  • stevekstevek Posts: 27,575 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SaorAlba said:
    Today the machine produced two clad dimes in the reject slot - so I checked under the machine to see if anything was hiding there and it sure was - a 1964-D Roosie got clever and hid under the machine so only I would get it.

    Now that's some dam clever Coinstar hunting! :)

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    An amalgamation of several finds over the past few days:

    57 cents in regular US change
    42 cents in regular Canadian change
    a 5c casino token - huh, really?
    a Chuckie Cheese token
    a 1958 wheat
    and a 1942 Canada cent.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    11 crusty or dirty cents including a 1947-D

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A Saskatchewan 25c from Canada.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After a two month dry spell I found 16 cents today, three nickels and a penny.
    The penny was stuck to one of the nickels which possibly caused the rejection.

    :)

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    16c in American coins - nothing numismatic
    60c in Canadian - nothing numismatic.

    And a cent that looks like it got flattened on railroad tracks by a locomotive.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    March 1 at the local Coinstar:

    2 Denver Bicentennial Halfs
    2017 Denver Ozark Riverways Quarter
    1999-P Connecticut Quarter
    2006-P Nebraska Quarter.

    Not bad. Broke my dry spell.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rumor confirmed.

    This morning I was shopping at the local (Northern California) Safeway.

    I watched an employee walk up to the CoinStar machine and check the reject bin (she didn't find anything).

    :)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Been home-bound all week.... sick most of the time and a nasty major storm today....... so no finds at all. Cheers, RickO

  • ProfLizProfLiz Posts: 260 ✭✭✭✭

    Only one thin dime....but it was a '64 Roosie!
    Ends a long dry spell.

  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭✭

    My Mother-in-Law found me a 1951-D Washie in change the other day............ ends a long, dry spell for me as well ! :)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One thin dime for me late yesterday.... not even silver..... However, at least I found something... :D Cheers, RickO

  • stevekstevek Posts: 27,575 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    One thin dime for me late yesterday.... not even silver..... However, at least I found something... :D Cheers, RickO

    That could come in handy if ya ever had to make a phone call.

    Or maybe I'm thinking of a different century. ;)

  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nothing again. I'm in a weeks-long drought but the next best thing is reading about everyone else's finds. Too many people that know and are checking often in this area.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 27,575 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @sellitstore said:
    Nothing again. I'm in a weeks-long drought but the next best thing is reading about everyone else's finds. Too many people that know and are checking often in this area.

    Same here. But I've recently changed my Coinstar attack strategy to a two-prong approach. Rather than just passing by it after shopping on my way out of the store, i've added to my shopping route to also walk by it on the way in.

    Nothing thus far, but i hate the thought of someone else possibly getting that 1877 Indian cent because I didn't also check the Coinstar slot on the way in. :)

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    52c in US change - nothing numismatic.

    a 1939 Canadian GVI 5c coin to break the numismatic find drought.

    All this from three different machines.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nothing in the machine, however, I went to an appointment at the Doctor's office today... and, being the only one in the waiting room, I found a dime on one of the seats.....not silver though.... but a nice surprise. Cheers, RickO

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1 zincoln
    1 dime
    1 Canada 10c

    From two different machines.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    50c in assorted normal change in one machine.
    a 1943 blob mintmarked steel cent and an even more corroded 1943 steel cent in another.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • stevekstevek Posts: 27,575 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Thor11 said:
    seems to me store employees are hip to the hunt and are now cutting me off at the pass

    Well then we may have to join them. I've been considering taking a job at the supermarket as a bagger just to have first dibs at the Coinstar machine. In the job interview, i'm going to tell my prospective boss that i'll take the job, even if it's below minimum wage, even if there's no pay, but on one condition that I always work at the register closest to the Coinstar machine.

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I find lots of stuff because my job takes me in and out of a lot of stores.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SaorAlba -I find lots of stuff because my job takes me in and out of a lot of stores.

    I thinks that's called "fringe benefits".

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Today's tiny windfall:
    Canadian 1978 Quarter
    Euro 2000 2 cent
    Cayman Islands 1990 coin

  • goldengolden Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I got $1.71 with no silver.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It has been barren for a while now.... a big zero in both coinstar machines....I need to go to the store more often.... :D Cheers, RickO

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,946 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 11, 2018 9:00AM

    Today I saw a father and teenage son dumping a big load into the local Coinstar. I was ready to check out but instead hung around reading magazines waiting for them to leave. I kept hearing the pinging of coins hitting the
    reject bin.. After about 5 minutes I saw they wanted the coins getting rejected into the bin so I left....

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep.... when you see them realize the coins are dropping into the reject slot, it is over.... they scoop them out, re-send them through...and if any reject again, they pocket them to spend. Cheers, RickO

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