The OFFICIAL COINSTAR FINDS THREAD

Options
1…2122242627…51

Comments

  • No Headlights
    No Headlights Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Two Memorial pennies today ay Walmart Hoping for better next time.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @USMarine6 .... Go for it... after six or seven times, it does not bother you anymore... I was the same way...then, one day while checking out at the market, I saw a store manager pass by, look at the reject slot, and pulled coins out and pocket them. I said "Dang it, if he can do it, so can I." (I did not really say 'dang')....And from then on, it did not bother me at all. Cheers, RickO

  • tommy44
    tommy44 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Long ago while exiting the Atlanta airport I spotted a $50 under a row for seats backing up to the concourse passenger area. I picked it up and asked if anyone in the area dropped anything. Most people looked at me like I was a gypsy selling rosemary while others turned away. KEEPER!, paid for my parking.

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Today under the green machine I spied what looked like a new quarter, got it out from under the machine and it is a 2020-P Salt River. Imagine if it had the W mm.

  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    7 Lincoln’s 2 dimes and a nickel, NO silver.

  • Modwriter
    Modwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭
    Options

    @Modwriter said:
    I just got a 2004 Chuck E. Cheese token, 2 stuck together cents, and a road rash roosie.

    Found out the Chuck E. Cheese tokens are keepers. They are selling on the bay.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    I did not know the Chuck E. Cheese tokens have become a collector item..... None around here, but I get a lot of foreign coins from the coinstar, so could easily find one of those. Cheers, RickO

  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    The Chucky tokens are worth something particularly if they are from a particular city or town. The latter issued mavericks are not worth anything outside the restaurant.

  • Modwriter
    Modwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭
    Options

    @Pickwickjr said:
    My daughter was excited after she came home from shopping. Her coin star find tonight.

    What shape are the obverse of the memorial cents? The 64 Roosie is a keeper! Great find. I always get strange looks when I check the Coinstars. lol

  • Pickwickjr
    Pickwickjr Posts: 559 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    The flip side.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Silver is always a great find.... I have not found much silver lately though. Cheers, RickO

  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Three maverick tokens, a couple of zincolns and 35cents CDN.

  • No Headlights
    No Headlights Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Walmart Coinstar was out of order today. Oh well.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @Joe_360 .... Wow... an all silver haul.... That is awesome, never had a find like that.... My super treasure would be an accented hair Kennedy half ....not going to happen, but fun to imagine. Cheers, RickO

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    :o<3 Wow!! What a great find.... Congratulations... Cheers, RickO

  • Coinscratch
    Coinscratch Posts: 11,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @No Headlights said:
    Walmart Coinstar was out of order today. Oh well.

    So was mine last week - Spring, TX?

  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    The '57-D is the only keeper. Plastic to the trash the rest to the donation bucket

  • 291fifth
    291fifth Posts: 25,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    A big score yesterday evening at the local super market! More than 7 1/2 pounds of valid coins of Great Britain plus almost 8 Euros and about a dollar in Canadian. Not much US, about 50 cents.

    Now all I have to do is start taking international trips so I can spend the coins! :)

    All glory is fleeting.
  • 291fifth
    291fifth Posts: 25,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @Modwriter said:

    @Modwriter said:
    I just got a 2004 Chuck E. Cheese token, 2 stuck together cents, and a road rash roosie.

    Found out the Chuck E. Cheese tokens are keepers. They are selling on the bay.

    If that is the case then I'm rich!

    All glory is fleeting.
  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Ya know, I have to say this for its on my mind a lot. Here goes.
    "The new zinc U,S. 1 cent has the same properties as disappearing ink".
    Kinda self explanatory.

  • rln_14
    rln_14 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    The other day, at the Gilroy walmart, saw a 63 and 64 roosie, not in the return bin, but in the tilting loading tray, just stuck there, had to carefully use a key to retrieve them and not lose them down the chute

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @rln_14.... Is that Gilroy, California? Nice area, garlic capital of the U.S.. I had the best garlic relish ever at a bar/restaurant there....Cheers, RickO

  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @ricko said:
    @rln_14.... Is that Gilroy, California? Nice area, garlic capital of the U.S.. I had the best garlic relish ever at a bar/restaurant there....Cheers, RickO

    I remember they even had garlic flavoured ice creme there.

  • rln_14
    rln_14 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @ricko said:
    @rln_14.... Is that Gilroy, California? Nice area, garlic capital of the U.S.. I had the best garlic relish ever at a bar/restaurant there....Cheers, RickO

    @SaorAlba said:

    @ricko said:
    @rln_14.... Is that Gilroy, California? Nice area, garlic capital of the U.S.. I had the best garlic relish ever at a bar/restaurant there....Cheers, RickO

    I remember they even had garlic flavoured ice creme there.

    Yes, Gilroy ca, yes garlic Capital of the world, yes, a few fruit stands sell garlic ice cream, also you can get it for free at the Garlic Festival, which had to be cancelled this year because of the pandemic

  • tommy44
    tommy44 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    First score in a while, 51, 57-D, 63-D and 2015 roosies. Not in the reject bin but in the loading tray, never thought of looking there before but they stuck out like a sore thumb.

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • Mdcoincollector2003
    Mdcoincollector2003 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Score! I got a 1946 silver quarter. First silver quarter from a coin star, allready found a silver half and dimes now I just need to find a silver dollar.

  • WillieBoyd2
    WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    The local Safeway moved the Coinstar machine and I hadn't found anything for a month when last week there was a load of around 80 coins including German, Colombia, Canada, Brazil, Euro, and 20 from Trinidad and Tobago.
    Also some modern US coins, no silver, totaling around $1.00 worth.

    :)

    https://www.brianrxm.com
    The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
    Coins in Movies
    Coins on Television
  • Joe_360
    Joe_360 Posts: 1,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @rln_14 said:
    The other day, at the Gilroy walmart, saw a 63 and 64 roosie, not in the return bin, but in the tilting loading tray, just stuck there, had to carefully use a key to retrieve them and not lose them down the chute

    another from Gilroy here. I have pulled a a silver dime and quarter from that very machine...

  • rln_14
    rln_14 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @Joe_360 said:

    @rln_14 said:
    The other day, at the Gilroy walmart, saw a 63 and 64 roosie, not in the return bin, but in the tilting loading tray, just stuck there, had to carefully use a key to retrieve them and not lose them down the chute

    another from Gilroy here. I have pulled a a silver dime and quarter from that very machine...

    Oh oh, competiton, hehe...glad to know another "gilroydian" is present here on the forum

  • air4mdc
    air4mdc Posts: 956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    After about two years of checking the local Coinstar low and behold a 64 Washington quarter dollar. Yahoo!!!!

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Seems to be a lot of silver being found lately.... Nothing for me recently....Cheers, RickO

  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Found about $1.50 in two machines today, nothing savable though.

  • Joe_360
    Joe_360 Posts: 1,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Yesterday I found a 1943 steel Lincoln :)

  • Coinscratch
    Coinscratch Posts: 11,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    A friend of mine's wife's father passed away recently. The surviving mother had showed her daughter a large collection of coins in a safe. Upon hearing this news and knowing my hobby my buddy talked to his wife about valuing the coins properly and I was hoping to look at them this week. This past weekend they traveled again to meet with the family this time to divide up the estate between the siblings and allegedly pick up the collection so we could go through it thoroughly before co-signing it somewhere.
    Well, when they showed up the collection was already gone. One of the siblings mentioned they had signed it off to an auction house and managed $800.00 from the loose coins in a Coinstar machine.
    The End.

  • IkesT
    IkesT Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @CoinscratchFever said:
    A friend of mine's wife's father passed away recently. The surviving mother had showed her daughter a large collection of coins in a safe. Upon hearing this news and knowing my hobby my buddy talked to his wife about valuing the coins properly and I was hoping to look at them this week. This past weekend they traveled again to meet with the family this time to divide up the estate between the siblings and allegedly pick up the collection so we could go through it thoroughly before co-signing it somewhere.
    Well, when they showed up the collection was already gone. One of the siblings mentioned they had signed it off to an auction house and managed $800.00 from the loose coins in a Coinstar machine.
    The End.

    That's a shame - no doubt the family could have done better than face value on some of that material (and you could have potentially picked up some real bargains) had they given you a chance....

    That being said, what an ordeal to appraise someone else's collection - especially a large one - and then you have to deal with an ignorant, unreasonable, and/or conflicted group of people if you want to get anything out of it for yourself. You could have spent days appraising the collection and made reasonable offers on coins - and in the end, they still could have refused and decided to dump the coins you wanted in the Coinstar machine...In terms of dealing with the people, you probably dodged a bullet and saved yourself a lot of time and frustration, if that is any consolation...

  • Coinscratch
    Coinscratch Posts: 11,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 5, 2020 2:06PM
    Options

    @IkesT . I agree and realizing the many different issues that could arise, I went into it only to evaluate the collection however;) I did offer the ability to have any coins graded if warranted and/or wanted.
    But whatever, no biggie. The take away is the reason this thread exists and re-affirmation to check those reject slots.
    Somebody somewhere got a fist full of silver last week.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Nice ... A Merc... have not found one in a while....and a '42S cent as well... A good day at the reject slot ;) Cheers, RickO

  • Testoon
    Testoon Posts: 174 ✭✭✭
    Options

    I broke a long drought. A few days ago 2 cents, one a 1943. First steel in a long while! Then over the last two days 47 cents in US change, a Canadian quarter and cent, Spanish 20 euro cent, UK 10 and 5 pence. Nice to spot a pile of coins in the reject bin!

    Bill
    witty quote goes here
  • tommy44
    tommy44 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    A dime in the CoinStar reject slot, a Lincoln in the paring lot forty-six cents in the Little Caesars drive thru lane and the DOV only went down 650.19. Overall a pretty good day. :D

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Finding coins - anywhere - is fun... Those of us who grew up when coins had purchasing power (yes, even cents), still get a thrill when we spot one in the parking lot, or coinstar, or floor of the market. Cheers, RickO

  • ajaan
    ajaan Posts: 18,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @ricko said:
    Finding coins - anywhere - is fun... Those of us who grew up when coins had purchasing power (yes, even cents), still get a thrill when we spot one in the parking lot, or coinstar, or floor of the market. Cheers, RickO

    I agree. I still pick up cents off the ground .


    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don

Leave a Comment

BoldItalicStrikethroughOrdered listUnordered list
Format
SpoilerCodeQuote
Heading 2Heading 1
Emoji
:):D:(;):/:o:s:p:'(:|B):#:*<3o:)>:)
Url
Image
Align leftAlign centerAlign rightToggle HTML viewToggle full pageToggle lights
Drop image/file
Comment As ...

Categories