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ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The bank where I go is in a market, and a couple of yards from a coin star machine. When making a bank deposit, I saw someone emptying a jar of coins into the machine. When leaving, he was gone and saw some coins left in the coin return.

Went over there. Found all kinds of stuff. 4.20 in Singapore Dollars, a 2 peso Mexican coin, 47 cents in U.S. clad / zinc coins, and the big score was a 59 D dime which looked to be in VF 35 or XF 40. Have not seen a silver coin in change in over 50 years.

Made my day a little bit better.
"Vou invadir o Nordeste,
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."

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    mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    Another life changing coin star find!
    Congratulations!
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    stashstash Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Hydrant
    I've never seen a coinstar machine. I've asked a few people if they know what a coinstar machine is. They don't. Where are the coinstar machines?


    Usually banks and supermarket stores ....

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    mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    5 silver dimes on Sunday. There are a lot of people who use coinstar here, that, let's just say, they are not from around here, so they have no knowledge of "older" coins/
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I routinely check the coinstar at the supermarket. Have found quite a bit of change in the

    last few weeks... no silver, ever. I have found quarters, dimes and cents though... best haul

    at one time was 73 cents total...Cheers, RickO
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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,690 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love how folks here spend thousands (millions?) on a single rare coin and still get the thrill of finding a VF Roosie in a coins to machine.

    Latin American Collection

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    ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
    About a year ago, at the same coin star machine, I found 4.50 in Euro coin in the till. You really never know what you will find in these things.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice pick, all I find are stupid 1943 wheaties.





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    kazkaz Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I peek at the return tray in the Coinstar at my local grocery store at least weekly; never found anything! Glad some of you are successful, so I'll keep looking.
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    COCollectorCOCollector Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's a "return tray"?

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    keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner. :smile:

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