Nice little coinstar find at my local grocery store last night after work. I'm loving the silver dime and 71s penny. The rest will go to the giant sandbox at the city park for the old guy metal detecting.
Nice find. It's been so long since I've found any in my CoinStar machine, that I forget if I'm supposed to leave some or not.
I do and one out of every ten trips there the reject bin is completely full. I stopped taking it because I started to feel guilty. So now every once in a while if there's a few coins in the reject bin, I'll pull them out. But if it's a mound of rejected coins, I usually now just leave it. I kind of feel it's a setup and the store is watching on their surveillance monitors who's taking it. I really don't wan t to be labeled as a thief of any sorts.
Does anyone check the actual coin tray along with the discard tray? I occasionally get a coin from the actual tray. Either flat or leaning on the side like a quarter yesterday.
If no one is around It's a discard tray, just like tossing coins on the ground. But I see your point Spread the Wealth.
@VistaCruiser69 Nice 10 Drachmas from Greece. You didn't show it, but Democritus is on the obverse. Mintage 33.5 million, so pretty common.
Is that who that is? You can see somewhat of the outline of his head though on the reverse as seen in the picture.
I used Coinstar once and it tells you clearly on the screen as one of the steps before you agree that are done to Check the Reject Bin. But I guess a lot of people just... don't? I've never thought to check the machine's reject bin if I wasn't using the machine. Somehow, I believe those coin bin leftovers should be reserved for the people using the machine, since I suspect the machine is not always accurate and misses plenty of coins poured into them, so, maybe finding some that other people left behind is kind of like a way to even it all out. (Just my humble opinion. There is no right or wrong here and no judgment on anyone who searches for leftovers.)
We had a local AEA Credit union years back that had a coin machine. I was having a yard sale and got some small bills and 6 rolls of quarters. After the sale still had 5 sealed rolls and random change. I didn't want to stand in line for a teller, opened the rolls and dumped them in the machine. Should have been $50 and it counted $40 I had a friend watch the machine and stood in line for a teller...the teller said it wasn't their machine and would have to contact the machine company to sort it out.
