@Coinscratch said:
Coinstar was built with the coin collector in mind
I found these today after dumping 14 boxes in. Yes it was empty when I arrived.
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now i'm curious. if someone got out the roosevelt, washington, lincoln etc from 64 forward, just how long it would take to fill up the albums from coinstar alone. perhaps even a type album. really only for those that regularly find coins in coinstar.
my skill set, good fortune etc resides in just buying type/collector coins outright. i have virtually no abilities to get stuff from banks, coinstars etc so i cannot participate. i'm honestly trying to think of a single time i found anything in a coin reject slot. bank, pop machine, vending machine, bank, coinstar, telephone or whatever. i honestly think i'd do better just looking for street/parking lot coins ironically.
there is a coin/currency exchange at an airport well over an hour away i think i could do something with but that is too far for my desire to try. if i lived with 10 min or so, i for sure would be meeting with them weekly.
@ricko — I like to imagine that it toured the world in the bilge of a guano barge since it was in such cosmopolitan company. A good match for the sewer set.
Today, I went shopping at Wally World. When we entered, I told the wife I had to go check the coin star. I'd catch up with her.
I found two lousy Canadian dimes.
After we finished our shopping, and checking out at the u-scan, I told the wife I had to check the coin star again before we left.
I saw a nice little pile of change in the reject slot. I anxiously scooped the coins out. I quickly scanned the coins. It was a mixture of US and Canadian. I did not notice anything that looked like silver. I pocketed the coins and we went home.
When I got home, I grabbed the magnifying glass and inspected the coins. To my delight, I found a 1959 D Roosie dime. It now resides in my 90% dime tube.
I went to the CU to get the half dollars and cents. I asked a guy feeding the coin star to sell his coins. I got a bag of 680 quarters. The San Antonio W showed up seventeenth.
Well, today I stopped at two Coinstar machines... The first = nothing. The second, well, a nickel and two Roosevelt dimes.... One was a silver 1964. The other a 1985 P. Yeeeaaayyy, broke the drought and got silver. Cheers, RickO
When I check the Coin Star, I look all over as you never know where you may find the coins. I once kicked a "Tide" bottle sitting next to the machine and it was still full of coins!
Here a tip:
Many times, I will find coins still logged in the entryway where the coins slide into the machine (See photo)
Using a standard business card fold in half (see photo) and use it like twisters. With the card folded in half, slide it so that one side of the card is under the coin, and one side is over, clamp down and remove the coin easily - They might be silver?!?
@milbroco said:
Well, any silver in that Tide bottle? What was the total in the bottle?
Hi Bob,
Yes, from (found) my original post on Feb 22, 2022 with picture
Post: interesting Sunday. coin slot empty. Saw Tide bottle on the floor next to the machine, kicked it and heard the rattle of change. Open and poured the hand full of coins in hand-pocket. Home got one silver (54) dime (# 5 for February), two wheat pennies (41 & 44) and 5 60's nickels. Plue some coins for the bank...
@Joe_360 said:
Using a standard business card fold in half (see photo) and use it like twisters. With the card folded in half, slide it so that one side of the card is under the coin, and one side is over, clamp down and remove the coin easily - They might be silver?!?
twisters = tweezers?
i'm not picking, just trying to visualize in case i run into a situation like you mention, which seems feasible.
I went to the supermarket today and walked by the Coinstar machine.
There was a gray dime in the reject bin and I picked it up.
It was a 1944 Mercury in pretty good shape.
Where has it been for the past 78 years?
@Joe_360 said:
Using a standard business card fold in half (see photo) and use it like twisters. With the card folded in half, slide it so that one side of the card is under the coin, and one side is over, clamp down and remove the coin easily - They might be silver?!?
twisters = tweezers?
i'm not picking, just trying to visualize in case i run into a situation like you mention, which seems feasible.
I actually used this Tweezer technic today for my 1st 2023 silver find! A 1963D Dime. Nothing in the return, 3 coins in the tray-slot. One Canadian cent.
I had been reading about coin-star finds, but had been reluctant to look. Eventually I did,
and found a 1933 dime and a canadian penny. Next time , nothing. My wife thinks I'm nuts. Then nothing for weeks. This is a Stop & Shop. Last time, honest to God, a double handful, pennies, nickels,
dimes, mostly recent. BUT, a 50 eurocent from the Netherlands,1999,
and a 100 Kronur from Iceland, 2011. I came away with a total of $2.73 American spending money!
@Spawnfreek.... Yep... feast or famine mostly.... Once in a while, a huge pile is found... usually only a few... or none - as the last week or two has been for me. Cheers, RickO
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Coinstar was built with the coin collector in mind
I found these today after dumping 14 boxes in. Yes it was empty when I arrived.
.
now i'm curious. if someone got out the roosevelt, washington, lincoln etc from 64 forward, just how long it would take to fill up the albums from coinstar alone. perhaps even a type album. really only for those that regularly find coins in coinstar.
my skill set, good fortune etc resides in just buying type/collector coins outright. i have virtually no abilities to get stuff from banks, coinstars etc so i cannot participate. i'm honestly trying to think of a single time i found anything in a coin reject slot. bank, pop machine, vending machine, bank, coinstar, telephone or whatever. i honestly think i'd do better just looking for street/parking lot coins ironically.
there is a coin/currency exchange at an airport well over an hour away i think i could do something with but that is too far for my desire to try. if i lived with 10 min or so, i for sure would be meeting with them weekly.
This with a bunch of commonwealth coins:
@Fraz... That quarter spent a lot of time in the ground... Likely a metal detector find. Cheers, RickO
@ricko — I like to imagine that it toured the world in the bilge of a guano barge since it was in such cosmopolitan company. A good match for the sewer set.
Today, I went shopping at Wally World. When we entered, I told the wife I had to go check the coin star. I'd catch up with her.
I found two lousy Canadian dimes.
After we finished our shopping, and checking out at the u-scan, I told the wife I had to check the coin star again before we left.
I saw a nice little pile of change in the reject slot. I anxiously scooped the coins out. I quickly scanned the coins. It was a mixture of US and Canadian. I did not notice anything that looked like silver. I pocketed the coins and we went home.
When I got home, I grabbed the magnifying glass and inspected the coins. To my delight, I found a 1959 D Roosie dime. It now resides in my 90% dime tube.
@CoinHoarder ... Nice pile of coins.... 1959 was a good year, I joined the Navy then.
Cheers, RickO
$1.74 in change including 3 pre-1982 copper cents and this.....
My first ever COINSTAR find of a elongated cent (or "squished penny" as my daughter calls them).
This one from a pennycollector.com machine at Madame Tussauds San Francisco depicting Coit Tower.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Found this in the return slot of the coin machine at my credit union today.
delenda est WitterU
considering the "haphazard" way you imaged that coin, gotta say, NICE JOB!
looks like a great camera phone.
gratz
Yeah much better than my last camera phone. The camera on my last one was nothing more than hot garbage.
delenda est WitterU
A clad and a 1964. Finding free gutter metal never gets old. RGDS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
Constar's have been devoid of reject coins for a while now....
About due for a big find... Cheers, RickO
Well it;s been nearly two months and no sharing as yet. Please share before the suspense gets to me!
have u asked the establishment IF they accumulate rejects or the like.
Today was the first good day at the Coinstar machine in a long time.
I found around $3.00 in modern US coins and six modern foreign coins.
The foreign coins were:
Canada 25 Cents 2013 Arctic Exploration Centennial (An unusual coin)
Croatia 50 Lipa 2006
Czech Republic 5 Korun 1993
Czech Republic 10 Korun 2010
Morocco 2 Dirhams 2002
Morocco 5 Dirhams 2002
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
we'll probably never know why but there is no way having 2 sequential denominations for 2 different countries like that as a coincidence!
I'm in a drouth, no finds since October. still have some time in December...
I went to the CU to get the half dollars and cents. I asked a guy feeding the coin star to sell his coins. I got a bag of 680 quarters. The San Antonio W showed up seventeenth.
Coinstar find Croatia 50 Lipa:
I found this neat coin in a Coinstar machine on December 12 2022:
Croatia 50 Lipa 2006
Nickel-steel, 20.5 mm, 3.65 gm
Obverse: DEGENIA VELEBITICA (A flower)
Reverse: REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA (REPUBLIC OF CROATIA)
The first coin from Croatia that I have ever encountered.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! The November drought is over, a silver dime fine....
@Joe_360.... Silver is always welcome.... and in the Coinstar reject slot, it is almost always dimes... Cheers, RickO
Today was the second good day at the Coinstar machine recently.
I found around $2.00 in modern US coins and four modern foreign coins.
The foreign coins were:
Britain 20 Pence 2011 (Royal shield)
Canada 10 cents 2018, 1987, and 1960 (silver!)
The find included two United States 2019-S American Memorial Park Quarters clad
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Nice finds... My market machines have been totally empty lately.... Longer than usual drought. Cheers, RickO
Perhaps the jackpot is right around the corner. Patience and persistence always seem to pay off. RGDS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
2nd 64D dime find this month! Acetone bath forthcoming. Only shut-out two months (Mar/Nov) this year, good 2022!!
Silver from the Coinstar reject slot is always welcome... and usually a Rosie dime..... Cheers, RickO
I found a clad dime glued to a zinc cent. Pic in “don’t mix” thread. Don’t miss it!
Well, today I stopped at two Coinstar machines... The first = nothing. The second, well, a nickel and two Roosevelt dimes.... One was a silver 1964. The other a 1985 P. Yeeeaaayyy, broke the drought and got silver. Cheers, RickO
A couple of zincolns and an Australian cent from 1966.
A single 64 Rosie today in the reject bin at Kroger.
When I check the Coin Star, I look all over as you never know where you may find the coins. I once kicked a "Tide" bottle sitting next to the machine and it was still full of coins!
Here a tip:
Many times, I will find coins still logged in the entryway where the coins slide into the machine (See photo)
Using a standard business card fold in half (see photo) and use it like twisters. With the card folded in half, slide it so that one side of the card is under the coin, and one side is over, clamp down and remove the coin easily - They might be silver?!?
Photo coin star entryway:
Photo of folded card:
Well, any silver in that Tide bottle? What was the total in the bottle?
Bob
email bcmiller7@comcast.net
Hi Bob,
Yes, from (found) my original post on Feb 22, 2022 with picture
Post: interesting Sunday. coin slot empty. Saw Tide bottle on the floor next to the machine, kicked it and heard the rattle of change. Open and poured the hand full of coins in hand-pocket. Home got one silver (54) dime (# 5 for February), two wheat pennies (41 & 44) and 5 60's nickels. Plue some coins for the bank...
Sweet. Nice little find there.
email bcmiller7@comcast.net
Note to self.... 'Look for Tide bottles by the Coinstar.'.....
Cheers, RickO
Well... yesterday... two dimes and one nickel.... no silver.... Cheers, RickO
Nice 2009 Lincoln Presidency Coin Star find. And Philly to boot!!
twisters = tweezers?
i'm not picking, just trying to visualize in case i run into a situation like you mention, which seems feasible.
@LanceNewmanOCC
No worries, you are correct Sir. I've done it 2 or 3 times since this post. Thanks
In this case the D is actually the more valuable one. But I think either of the Presidents P or D are tough to find in 67.
I went to the supermarket today and walked by the Coinstar machine.
There was a gray dime in the reject bin and I picked it up.
It was a 1944 Mercury in pretty good shape.
Where has it been for the past 78 years?
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Two cents and a nickel.... Nothing special yesterday. Cheers, RickO
Lucky 7s
True, but I live in CA so I mostly get D coins. Thanks
Nothing in the Walmart Coinstar today, but 26 cents in the parking lot.
I actually used this Tweezer technic today for my 1st 2023 silver find! A 1963D Dime. Nothing in the return, 3 coins in the tray-slot. One Canadian cent.
I had been reading about coin-star finds, but had been reluctant to look. Eventually I did,
and found a 1933 dime and a canadian penny. Next time , nothing. My wife thinks I'm nuts. Then nothing for weeks. This is a Stop & Shop. Last time, honest to God, a double handful, pennies, nickels,
dimes, mostly recent. BUT, a 50 eurocent from the Netherlands,1999,
and a 100 Kronur from Iceland, 2011. I came away with a total of $2.73 American spending money!
@Spawnfreek.... Yep... feast or famine mostly.... Once in a while, a huge pile is found... usually only a few... or none - as the last week or two has been for me. Cheers, RickO
I always say, "Ride a hot streak" Back-to-back silver finds, this time a 1954S.
