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Elcontador
Elcontador Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm still shocked. I found a 1907 D Barber Dime yesterday. Has been cleaned and it looked like something took several bites out of it, in addition to scratches on the obverse device. If it didn't have any problems, it would probably be VG 8, as it has full rims and the L is visible in Liberty. If this coin could talk, it would have some interesting stories to tell.

Don't have a pic. Seems like taking a pic on my phone, transferring it to an e-mail, then to a device and then cutting and pasting is too much work for this guy.

"Vou invadir o Nordeste,
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."

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  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Amazing find!

    Congrats

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • TopcatCoin
    TopcatCoin Posts: 100 ✭✭✭
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    Wow, 115 year old silver. Congrats! TC

  • MarkKelley
    MarkKelley Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I got a very corroded 1898 cent from Publix a couple weeks ago.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That is an amazing Coinstar find.... Definitely a keeper, even with the damage. Cheers, RickO

  • Elcontador
    Elcontador Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Usually there's nothing in the reject slot. Once I found $5 US in various denominations. Another time 5 Euros in small denominations, which I took to Slovakia and spent.

    The biggest stash was $1.50 U.S. plus 26 silver dimes. That will never happen again. One would think if someone is putting coins into a machine and a large number of them are rejected, he / she would at least look them over one more time.

    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @WAYNEAS ... Nice silver quarter... Welcome to the Coinstar club.
    @Elcontador .... 26 silver dimes??? All at once?? Wow... Super Coinstar treasure.
    Cheers, RickO

  • ms71
    ms71 Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    You can hear the coins falling into the reject receptacle. Never understood why people leave them there.

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    Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't an optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.

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  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Elcontador said:

    Don't have a pic. Seems like taking a pic on my phone, transferring it to an e-mail, then to a device and then cutting and pasting is too much work for this guy.

    Don't feel bad. I was getting ready to take a picture the other day and I ran out of film!

    Congrats on a great find!! 👍🏻

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • 7Jaguars
    7Jaguars Posts: 8,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If you have I-phone you can post pics easily to this site as I do it all the time even though I have limited IT skills....

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • MJPHELAN
    MJPHELAN Posts: 820 ✭✭✭
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    Anyone here guilty of watching someone at the Coinstar and taking the rejects after they leave (instead of pointing out the coins in the bin)? I am...

    Mark
  • Elcontador
    Elcontador Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @MJPHELAN said:
    Anyone here guilty of watching someone at the Coinstar and taking the rejects after they leave (instead of pointing out the coins in the bin)? I am...

    I would not do that. Recently, I saw a guy drop some currency on the ground and chased him down to give it to him. It's just the right thing to do.

    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • WAYNEAS
    WAYNEAS Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Today's coin star finds.

    I found a .25 cent, 1999 P Georga in nice condition, 8 zincolns and a .25 cent 1955 British Caribbean Territories, Eastern Group.



    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • ajaan
    ajaan Posts: 18,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Found 21c today in Coinstar machine. First find in a long time.


    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have seen - on two occasions - folded $20 bills on the floor of a checkout aisle as an individual was leaving. Both times I picked them up and caught up with the individual. Both times they were incredibly grateful - it was obvious that it was important to them, and also they were the ones that dropped the money. Now, coins in the reject bin... I pick them up when I find them. If I saw the person leaving them, I would tell them.... But once gone, they are mine. Cheers, RickO

  • Glen2022
    Glen2022 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭✭
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    Checked several coinstars in last two week: zilch, nada, nothing.

  • JWP
    JWP Posts: 37,334 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Gettimg ready for a trip.to Disney land. Just found this treasure in a coin star machine today.
    I think I won the lottery.🤩🫅🎰🎲💰🪙💰

    USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
    Successful Transactions with more than 100 Members

  • mr1931S
    mr1931S Posts: 7,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Elcontador said:
    I'm still shocked. I found a 1907 D Barber Dime yesterday. Has been cleaned and it looked like something took several bites out of it, in addition to scratches on the obverse device. If it didn't have any problems, it would probably be VG 8, as it has full rims and the L is visible in Liberty. If this coin could talk, it would have some interesting stories to tell.

    Don't have a pic. Seems like taking a pic on my phone, transferring it to an e-mail, then to a device and then cutting and pasting is too much work for this guy.

    why deal with email? Take the picture on your cell phone and then load it into your computer.

    "Two things are infinite: human stupidity and the universe; and I'm not sure about the universe."
    -Albert Einstein-

    Mistakes are natural. But repeated mistakes without reflection are something else. That may be the “stupidity” he was referring to. In research, he admitted uncertainty openly. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” This shows humility. Even a Nobel laureate accepted doubt. That humility makes the quote less cynical and more observational.

  • mr1931S
    mr1931S Posts: 7,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Glen2022 said:
    Checked several coinstars in last two week: zilch, nada, nothing.

    Start holding your mouth different than you usually do as you approach the Coinstar.

    "Two things are infinite: human stupidity and the universe; and I'm not sure about the universe."
    -Albert Einstein-

    Mistakes are natural. But repeated mistakes without reflection are something else. That may be the “stupidity” he was referring to. In research, he admitted uncertainty openly. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” This shows humility. Even a Nobel laureate accepted doubt. That humility makes the quote less cynical and more observational.

  • jmlanzaf
    jmlanzaf Posts: 43,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @mr1931S said:

    @Elcontador said:
    I'm still shocked. I found a 1907 D Barber Dime yesterday. Has been cleaned and it looked like something took several bites out of it, in addition to scratches on the obverse device. If it didn't have any problems, it would probably be VG 8, as it has full rims and the L is visible in Liberty. If this coin could talk, it would have some interesting stories to tell.

    Don't have a pic. Seems like taking a pic on my phone, transferring it to an e-mail, then to a device and then cutting and pasting is too much work for this guy.

    why deal with email? Take the picture on your cell phone and then load it into your computer.

    4 years later?

    Posting the picture directly from your phone would be the easiest way.

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