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mepotmepot Posts: 586 ✭✭✭
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Gotta love those coinstar machines.image My wife thinks I'm nuts for checking it ,but I can't

go in the store without a casual glance at the reject slot.image Am I the only one?


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1962 D dime,not sure what country the Euro's are from,and 2 Canadian quarters.Not bad for a quick trip for

for a gallon of milk.image
computer illiterate,becoming coin literate with the help of this forum.

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    RodiusRodius Posts: 857 ✭
    You are not the only one. I check when I go into the grocery store. In the past I have gotten some Canadian in the Noreast, and lots of Mexican when I was in San Diego.

    Good place to check
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    PentimentoPentimento Posts: 1,367
    Coinstar rejects US 90% silver? I didn't know that. Cool finds!
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I will definitely be checking the coin reject slot... thanks, Cheers, RickO
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    ZoomShadowZoomShadow Posts: 105
    I have found a 1925 Silver "five Centavos" and a $2 Euro coin among other things. I once heard a guy dumping loads of silver coins inside one. Too bad it was too late for me to stop himimage
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    BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    The Euros are Greek.
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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's nice to get silver at face.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,891 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's nice to get silver at face. >>



    Free is even better.......
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    flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    I had a pretty huge CoinStar haul a couple days ago. Apparently, the guy didn't realize that a bunch of his coins went into the reject slot. He was long gone by the time I got there, but there was $7.62 in change left over. If I knew who it was, I would've returned it, but finders keepers...

    No silver, though. The only interesting coin was an Austrian 2 eurocent.
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    COINB0YCOINB0Y Posts: 4,505
    What the hell!? A "rejection slot"? You mean all I have to do is find this on the machine?

    I've look at them before and I never knew of this little treasure hunt.

    Thanks for the info!
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    CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    I have my wife and kids look for me. So far, nada.
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    MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    I have a half jar of various tokens, foreign coins, mutilated coins, elongated cents and normal coins that I have rescued from the coinstar reject chutes. I have found just 1 silver Roosevelt and no other Silver coins though.
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    bouchardaboucharda Posts: 2,941
    I have never seen a coin in the reject slot...I suspect an store employee is on the watch image
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    bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    Finally struck silver!

    After maybe half a dozen "finds", I finally got a 1963 dime! image

    And a plastic button.image
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