Coinstar Score!

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BustHalfBrian
BustHalfBrian Posts: 4,200 ✭✭✭✭
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$30+ face value, consisting of $22 in quarters, $6 modern dollars, and a few bucks in dimes/nickels/cents (didn’t count those). No silver coins, unfortunately. This is my second big score at the grocery store near my work, the first being last year when I found $40+ face in 90% silver (unbelievable, I know). I’m not sure why the CoinStar machine rejected all the clad coins this time. Perhaps the machine malfunctioned, since all of these coins appear to be undamaged and aren’t silver. However it may have happened, it led to an overfilled reject bin that I gladly emptied!

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  • CRHer700
    CRHer700 Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Good find!

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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's his soup money now 😋

  • WAYNEAS
    WAYNEAS Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    BINGO!
    Wayne

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  • SurfinxHI
    SurfinxHI Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    zoinks!

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  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice score. Never found a dime or a cent.

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  • BustHalfBrian
    BustHalfBrian Posts: 4,200 ✭✭✭✭
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    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    Nice score. Never found a dime or a cent.

    I usually find nothing! And I look practically every day. I happen to work right next to a store with a CoinStar machine, so I am in a unique position that allows me to check on a daily basis.

  • golden
    golden Posts: 10,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice score.

  • EagleScout2017
    EagleScout2017 Posts: 242 ✭✭✭
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    Well, I guess I won't bother to run next door to check the Coinstar next time I'm over at your shop.

  • rte592
    rte592 Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I usually find something, but $30 fv,
    What the heck would make someone leave that behind?
    Wow. Some people just are oblivious to their surroundings.

  • Creg
    Creg Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 29, 2024 10:15PM
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    I thought that I found a lot last time, dang, wild!

  • mr1931S
    mr1931S Posts: 7,308 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wow. Some people just are oblivious to their surroundings.

    A very aware, very kind person stuffed that reject bin full with coins for a stranger to find. Paying it forward is what the practice is called.

    "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.

  • CoffeeTime
    CoffeeTime Posts: 142 ✭✭✭
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    Great find. I typically only find one coin. Finding that much is unique

  • jacrispies
    jacrispies Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BustHalfBrian Don't get too excited when you lose it at the poker table next week :D

    That's a hefty score, even for it being regular change, congrats!!

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  • 1Bufffan
    1Bufffan Posts: 675 ✭✭✭✭
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    who do you think was watching?? waiting for someone to make a haul like that.

  • EagleScout2017
    EagleScout2017 Posts: 242 ✭✭✭
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    @rte592 said:
    I usually find something, but $30 fv,
    What the heck would make someone leave that behind?
    Wow. Some people just are oblivious to their surroundings.

    To be fair, it was Irvine. $30 is chump change for the average Irvine resident.

  • rte592
    rte592 Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 25, 2024 6:15PM
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    $0.77 US
    $0.50 Canadian
    2-1 francs :o have to see if the 1950 is silver... Nope Copper nickel.

    Found in a coinstar tray wedged on the right side...had to use a car key to retrieve.

    Mexican money was found on the floor, coinstar at Walmart.

  • stevek
    stevek Posts: 32,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's a nice score. My area Coinstars have been dry as a bone for at least the past few years.

    Not even a corroded Lincoln for crying out loud. 😢

    The parking lots have been better. 😂

  • Coinscratch
    Coinscratch Posts: 11,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sometimes the machines will malfunction and kick out a couple of handfuls.
    It happened to me recently, and I had to Hurry up and pull them before they started spilling on the floor.

    I also had a few rolls worth of 1943 steelies that I purposely left behind in the reject bin.

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