The OFFICIAL COINSTAR FINDS THREAD

OnWithTheHunt

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.

golden

2 cents today. Really been dry here.

ricko

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

SaorAlba

47c Canadian change
49c in USA change

Nothing numismatically wonderful.

blitzdude

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.

steveben

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

yes, for gas, i believe.

SaorAlba

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

Treashunt

@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

DoctorK

$1.24 total today.

SaorAlba

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. :'(

GotTheBug

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SaorAlba

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.

ricko

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

Tomthemailcarrier

Found this today at my local supermarket.

OnWithTheHunt

61 cents US today. No silver or Canadian.

SaorAlba

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

ricko

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

SaorAlba

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.

DoctorK

Today's find. The 2000 has had a rough life.

SaorAlba

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.

stevek

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

Same here.

Who do i write and complain to?

stevek

@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!

SaorAlba

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.

ricko

Four dimes...one Canadian and two silver ..... Yipppeeee... Cheers, RickO

SaorAlba

11 crusty or dirty cents including a 1947-D

SaorAlba

A Saskatchewan 25c from Canada.

WillieBoyd2

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.

SaorAlba

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.

BuffaloIronTail

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

WillieBoyd2

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).

ricko

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

ProfLiz

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

DBSTrader2

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

ricko

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

stevek

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

sellitstore

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.

stevek

@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.

SaorAlba

52c in US change - nothing numismatic.

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

All this from three different machines.

ricko

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

SaorAlba

1 zincoln
1 dime
1 Canada 10c

From two different machines.

SaorAlba

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

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stevek

@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.

SaorAlba

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

sellitstore

@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".

OnlyGoldIsMoney

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

golden

I got $1.71 with no silver.

ricko

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

ms70

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....

ricko

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