Best Recent CoinStar Finds

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Nice, anything silver is a good find.

In 2019 or early 2020 my supervisor told me she found a big dump of 'old coins' in the Coinstar at the grocery store I worked at back then.

There were 30 plus silver dimes, about half were Roosevelt, half were Mercury, and there was a single 1897 Barber dime.

We also have a user here who found a 1/10th Oz. gold coin in Coinstar.

 

What's your best recent CoinStar find? Mine is this 1943 Mercury dime, which I would have graded F-VF back in the good ole days (1950s and '60s). It's obviously not a rare coin or even a scarce one, but I like it for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it's the right color for a circulated dime. For another, it's my wife's birth year, and when I showed it to her, she asked if she could have it for her beginning set of birth year coins. I say beginning because she has only one other piece in it, a well-circulated steel cent. If you happen to have a similarly circulated 1943 nickel, quarter, and half dollar, give me a holler.

 

Here's my best find:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/reject-tube-coinstar-finds.201092/page-56#post-2464301

 

That ^ would actually be worth the trouble!

I'm kind of surprised that Coinstar didn't have the forethought to account for silver coinage and so forth. It seems as though they would want to give people 10 cents for their dimes and 25 cents for their quarters, but kick the silvers off into a separate internal bin.

But then again, they probably did account for these possibilities and determined that it wasn't worthwhile (editing the evaluation software would have been easy, but adding another bin to each machine might have been preventative). Dunno.

 

You've got two threads for this. So I'll put this in both I guess.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/reject-tube-coinstar-finds.201092/page-56#post-2464301
^That's my best score.

 

I'd like to think that is is because of the moral implication of taking the more valuable silver coins for themselves at face, rather than returning to the customer.

No clue, though.

I'd be pretty mad if I lost a few silvers to a stupid coinstar.

 

One of my best finds so far. I’ve also found a couple of modern Cuban coins in the same machine.

 

Amazing!

 

I know... when I saw the size of it and that it was copper I figured a cool foreign coin. I was floored when i pulled that out of the slot. I NEVER expected to find something that old and in an odd denomination.

 

I supposed that I've become cynical enough to not bother considering moral implications in corporate decision making processes

 

And I have never found anything. But, congradulations to everyoone else around here except me.

 

That is a nice Mercury Dime!
Was is the only coin at the machine, or was it with other coins?

 

Can't say I blame you.

 

My local CoinStar has been dry as a bone for many months now. Of course it doesn't help that I only get into town, to check it, about once a month. I think an employee saw me collect rejects one time, and now checks it like a hawk. I would, if I worked there.

 

I just put my Birth Year (1945) set together.

Not sure why it took me so long to even think about doing it, but now it's done.

I PMed you about the other coins you need for your wife's set.

 

Congratulations

 

It was with other coins but was the only notable one.

 

For years I've told myself that I really should keep a record of my wife and my CoinStar finds but have never gotten around to it. Today, however, is the beginning of my record. I found 4 cents (pennies) in the CoinStar at our local Walmart. They all went into my penny jar of junk cents. The dates ranged from a 1985-D in terrible condition (damage) to 2020-D. Denver-minted coins are much more common in my area, and this was also true for the city where I grew up and did most of my roll searching. There and then, I found 2 1914-Ds, both in G-VG condition.