And a lonely cent on another pass by the machine - poor little lost 78 year old curmudgeon - minted in San Francisco no less! For some reason this machine seems to be picky with older cents. Not that I mind!
Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
Another silver find today! Got a 64 quarter about three weeks ago, just snagged a dime. Maybe if I keep reaching in there as I walk by I'll eventually get a silver Kennedy?
The Coinstar bin at my local supermarket has been dead empty for weeks. I suspect that i may have some competition, and if I find out who they are, there is going to be hell for them to pay, spoiling my Coinstar fun like that.
I was in the checkout lane... in view of the coinstar machine, which I intended to check as I left. As I watched, a store manager came by, looked down at the reject slot... stopped and scooped a handful of coins out...
Really ticked me off.... from now on I will check on my way IN....Cheers, RickO
@ricko said:
I was in the checkout lane... in view of the coinstar machine, which I intended to check as I left. As I watched, a store manager came by, looked down at the reject slot... stopped and scooped a handful of coins out...
Really ticked me off.... from now on I will check on my way IN....Cheers, RickO
The store manager? Why that dirty little (censored)
Coinstar has been very dry since Christmas time or thereabouts. Yes, I think the word has gotten out about the reject slot, but I also think that a number of people have used up a lot of their hoarded change and next it takes a while to build up enough again to be worthwhile to run through the slot.
BUT, the grocery store has a new wonder! For years now, my favorite or home grocery store had long resisted putting in self-checkout lanes. But hired help is hard to get and hard to retain, and they finally eliminated two of the twelve checkout lanes and installed four self-checkout stations in those spaces.
While most people use some form of electronic cards, these self checkout stations will take in cash bank notes and coins for purchases, and they will dispense cash and coin for change (they even have a cash-back feature for debit card users).
In the short time since they were installed, I have found three or four one dollar bills in the area/ slot for dispensing bills and receipts, and maybe two dollars in loose change in the change cup! Taa-dahhh!
So this new technology has made a small offset to the drought at the Coinstar machine.
Look at (or utilize) the self-checkout stations and maybe you will find something too.
Finally got the courage up to check a machine after seeing an eccentric old woman, finely dressed, dumping an old peanut butter can. Like the saddle ridge hoard.
@TwoSides2aCoin.... Holey moley.... that is a Coinstar find of the millennium...Absolutely incredible.... makes me want to set up a tent by the machine in my local market....Cheers, RickO
@ricko said: @TwoSides2aCoin.... Holey moley.... that is a Coinstar find of the millennium...Absolutely incredible.... makes me want to set up a tent by the machine in my local market....Cheers, RickO
My brother Ricko.... believe me friend, I’m just a story teller. I bought those in the shop at grey sheet bid . But it seemed like it would make a good “tale”.
@TwoSides2aCoin said:
Finally got the courage up to check a machine after seeing an eccentric old woman, finely dressed, dumping an old peanut butter can. Like the saddle ridge hoard.
Score !
ly dressed,
cas
h in
Wouldn't that be cool if PCGS slabbed the coins as the "Great Coinstar Find" LOL
@Thor11 said:
Coinstar charges between 7-10% for the privilege of taking your change ?
No wonder we find so many goodies in the reject slot.........who in their right mind is going to shell out that much from their change ?
There are some stores out there that will give you 100% of the Coinstar deposit in food or merchandise.
@ricko said: @TwoSides2aCoin.... Holey moley.... that is a Coinstar find of the millennium...Absolutely incredible.... makes me want to set up a tent by the machine in my local market....Cheers, RickO
My brother Ricko.... believe me friend, I’m just a story teller. I bought those in the shop at grey sheet bid . But it seemed like it would make a good “tale”.
And I was just getting ready to quit my job and become a full time Coinstar searcher, perhaps going into 50 or more stores per day. LOL
@Thor11 said:
Coinstar charges between 7-10% for the privilege of taking your change ?
No wonder we find so many goodies in the reject slot.........who in their right mind is going to shell out that much from their change ?
If you redeem for a gift card the 7-10% fee is waived. You get the full value of what you dumped in the machine. My local coinstar just started offering ebay gift cards. Sweet.
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
@TwoSides2aCoin said:
Finally got the courage up to check a machine after seeing an eccentric old woman, finely dressed, dumping an old peanut butter can. Like the saddle ridge hoard.
Score !
I have this exact fantasy every time I stick my fingers in that reject tray. Did get a Canadian .25c this week, better than nothing.
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
I was dumping some halves from CRH when some odd change started appearing in the reject chute. There was about $1 in miscellaneous nickels, dimes and cents, euro cents and canadian dimes and nickels. There was one wheat cent and one slight off-center cent that made it interesting.
That off - center cent is cool.... I have never found one of those... since you were dumping halves, I wonder where these coins came from?? Cheers, RickO
I have to admit.......... I'm jealous of all the silver, foreign, & fun oddball finds posted by folks here, especially when my experience with Coinstar machines have resulted in NOTHING left behind.
But today at a different Walmart, my luck took a turn for the better!
While in line to be rung up at the register, I hear a long clatter of coins being dumped into & counted at the Coinstar machine right at the end of my register. It was an older lady dumping coins in for what must have been a minute straight or more! I thought the noise would never stop!
It seemed to take my slower-than-normal Walmart cashier forever to ring me up, all the while I kept glancing at the Coinstar machine in the hopes that no customer (or employee) would steal any rejects out from under me.
FINALLY, I was all paid-up, and made a bee-line for the machine. I wasn't even shy about it this time........
@DBSTrader2 said:
I have to admit.......... I'm jealous of all the silver, foreign, & fun oddball finds posted by folks here, especially when my experience with Coinstar machines have resulted in NOTHING left behind.
But today at a different Walmart, my luck took a turn for the better!
While in line to be rung up at the register, I hear a long clatter of coins being dumped into & counted at the Coinstar machine right at the end of my register. It was an older lady dumping coins in for what must have been a minute straight or more! I thought the noise would never stop!
It seemed to take my slower-than-normal Walmart cashier forever to ring me up, all the while I kept glancing at the Coinstar machine in the hopes that no customer (or employee) would steal any rejects out from under me.
FINALLY, I was all paid-up, and made a bee-line for the machine. I wasn't even shy about it this time........
And THIS time, I was finally rewarded with :
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
**a 1968-D Roosie !!! **
Dang Coinstar machines.............
Seems like everything was going right, and then it was like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. LOL
@ricko said:
That off - center cent is cool.... I have never found one of those... since you were dumping halves, I wonder where these coins came from?? Cheers, RickO
I think they were backed up on the magnet where the Canadian coins were stuck. I gave the chute a bit of a shake and out the coins came. Once they started coming out I shook it a bit more and they all rolled down into the slot. I bet there are many more interesting things hiding in there on a daily basis.
Comments
One Canadian dime Saturday..... not silver.... Cheers, RickO
Two Chuckie tokens from the 1990s. Big whoop.
And a lonely cent on another pass by the machine - poor little lost 78 year old curmudgeon - minted in San Francisco no less! For some reason this machine seems to be picky with older cents. Not that I mind!
23 cents US today. Nothing special.
Same here... two dimes and three cents... no silver, no wheaties....Though one dime and one cent were stuck together... Cheers, RickO
One Canadian 10c and a Zincoln. Nothing exciting.
Latest Coinstar find, an elongated cent from Monterey, California.
Elongated cent - Monterey, California
The coin is recent zinc model as it weighs 2.5 grams and was probably sold at Monterey's Cannery Row tourist area.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Another silver find today! Got a 64 quarter about three weeks ago, just snagged a dime. Maybe if I keep reaching in there as I walk by I'll eventually get a silver Kennedy?
55c in US change
20c in Canadian change
Nothing numismatic
The Coinstar bin at my local supermarket has been dead empty for weeks. I suspect that i may have some competition, and if I find out who they are, there is going to be hell for them to pay, spoiling my Coinstar fun like that.
Canadian 25c coin yesterday. Whoopie
I was in the checkout lane... in view of the coinstar machine, which I intended to check as I left. As I watched, a store manager came by, looked down at the reject slot... stopped and scooped a handful of coins out...
Really ticked me off.... from now on I will check on my way IN....Cheers, RickO
The store manager? Why that dirty little (censored)
A crusty clad dime was the only find today.
Big haul ever for me in terms of sheer mass! Had to grab 2 handfuls to get them! Grocery Store
Alas, nothing good, but over $3 US.
Some kind of "dog . tag" , holed, reads Bark Avenue
A Jeff with a clip.
A fully PL Canadian dime.
11c was all today.
Coinstar has been very dry since Christmas time or thereabouts. Yes, I think the word has gotten out about the reject slot, but I also think that a number of people have used up a lot of their hoarded change and next it takes a while to build up enough again to be worthwhile to run through the slot.
BUT, the grocery store has a new wonder! For years now, my favorite or home grocery store had long resisted putting in self-checkout lanes. But hired help is hard to get and hard to retain, and they finally eliminated two of the twelve checkout lanes and installed four self-checkout stations in those spaces.
While most people use some form of electronic cards, these self checkout stations will take in cash bank notes and coins for purchases, and they will dispense cash and coin for change (they even have a cash-back feature for debit card users).
In the short time since they were installed, I have found three or four one dollar bills in the area/ slot for dispensing bills and receipts, and maybe two dollars in loose change in the change cup! Taa-dahhh!
So this new technology has made a small offset to the drought at the Coinstar machine.
Look at (or utilize) the self-checkout stations and maybe you will find something too.
The coin machines in several of the stores I have been in in the past couple of days have been filled up and sending people elsewhere - so no finds
Finally got the courage up to check a machine after seeing an eccentric old woman, finely dressed, dumping an old peanut butter can. Like the saddle ridge hoard.
Score !
ly dressed,
cas
h in
Today's find...
Okay, okay...they were my coins.
Lance.
@TwoSides2aCoin....
Holey moley.... that is a Coinstar find of the millennium...Absolutely incredible.... makes me want to set up a tent by the machine in my local market....Cheers, RickO
My brother Ricko.... believe me friend, I’m just a story teller. I bought those in the shop at grey sheet bid . But it seemed like it would make a good “tale”.
@TwoSides2aCoin...
Okay... I was hooked, reeled in and put in the creel. 
Great story... well, we can all dream anyway.... Cheers, RickO
Wouldn't that be cool if PCGS slabbed the coins as the "Great Coinstar Find" LOL
There are some stores out there that will give you 100% of the Coinstar deposit in food or merchandise.
And I was just getting ready to quit my job and become a full time Coinstar searcher, perhaps going into 50 or more stores per day. LOL
If you redeem for a gift card the 7-10% fee is waived. You get the full value of what you dumped in the machine. My local coinstar just started offering ebay gift cards. Sweet.
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
A good day at Coinstar:
US 1935-S cent, one each small British, Canadian, and Australian coins, and three "Classic Club" golf tokens.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
I have this exact fantasy every time I stick my fingers in that reject tray. Did get a Canadian .25c this week, better than nothing.
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
Nothing in the coinstar all week, however, I did get a '58D in change.... Cheers, RickO
An enormous haul today:
France 10 Francs 1990
Korea 500 Won 2005
3 Japanese coins totalling 12 yen
1 Thai Baht coin
A 25c casino token
3 Canadian 5c coins
7 Canadian 10c coins
8 Canadian 25c coins
2 Canadian loonies
2 Canadian twoonies
4 Wheat cents including a 1926 and three 1941's
3 Zincolns
2 nickels
5 dimes
2 quarters
And last but not least a Department of Homeland Security employee pin. Guess I have a new job finally.
wow
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
@SaorAlba....That is a major haul.... I am still at zero in both machines that I check... Cheers, RickO
Another mini-haul this time
7 Zincolns
1 nickel
1 dime
1 Canadian $1 coin from 1994 - Vimy Memorial
Well, it sure ain't the Treasure of the Sierra Madre...but I'll take it.
I know nothing about foreign coins - first time I've seen a 1, 2, 5, or 10 cent Euro so that was semi-cool.
I was dumping some halves from CRH when some odd change started appearing in the reject chute. There was about $1 in miscellaneous nickels, dimes and cents, euro cents and canadian dimes and nickels. There was one wheat cent and one slight off-center cent that made it interesting.
Jim
That off - center cent is cool.... I have never found one of those... since you were dumping halves, I wonder where these coins came from?? Cheers, RickO
55c in Canadian dosh
$2.42 in USA dosh, from two machines.
I have to admit.......... I'm jealous of all the silver, foreign, & fun oddball finds posted by folks here, especially when my experience with Coinstar machines have resulted in NOTHING left behind.
But today at a different Walmart, my luck took a turn for the better!
While in line to be rung up at the register, I hear a long clatter of coins being dumped into & counted at the Coinstar machine right at the end of my register. It was an older lady dumping coins in for what must have been a minute straight or more! I thought the noise would never stop!
It seemed to take my slower-than-normal Walmart cashier forever to ring me up, all the while I kept glancing at the Coinstar machine in the hopes that no customer (or employee) would steal any rejects out from under me.
FINALLY, I was all paid-up, and made a bee-line for the machine. I wasn't even shy about it this time........
And THIS time, I was finally rewarded with :
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
**a 1968-D Roosie !!! **
Dang Coinstar machines.............
Seems like everything was going right, and then it was like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. LOL
stevek........... you got THAT right!! (love your pic, by the way!)
I think they were backed up on the magnet where the Canadian coins were stuck. I gave the chute a bit of a shake and out the coins came. Once they started coming out I shook it a bit more and they all rolled down into the slot. I bet there are many more interesting things hiding in there on a daily basis.
Jim
My first find ever - two 1941 wheat cents!
British 20 pence coin - on the machine but not in the chute. It joins my stash of British small change.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/gold/liberty-head-2-1-gold-major-sets/liberty-head-2-1-gold-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1840-1907-cac/alltimeset/268163
One thin dime today.... not silver..... but broke the drought. Cheers, RickO
I have to admit, not sure what is up with the "hauls" lately, but I really don't mind...
The numismatic treasures are as follows:
1943-D cent
1940-D nickel
1952-D quarter yay silver!
Another 2012 Loonie
Another twoonie
Britain 1 pence 2012
Thai Baht coin, not sure on date.
The last couple of weeks have accumulated C$14 in loonies and twoonies - will come in handy when flying out of Toronto soon.