Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

1963 silver dime at Walmart CoinStar.
Not a DDR Proof
Still melts at $4.77
I was going to take the picture of the dime in the reject tray but I didn't want to attract attention.

 

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Been a bit of a drought at the Food Lion CoinStar lately. Just ran over there this afternoon, and it was empty, just as it has been the last several visits. (I think once there were a couple of rotted Zincolns sitting on the counter; I left them there.)

 

On a road trip and stopped in s store for snacks and drinks. The coin star was in a secluded spot and was calling me. I checked it on the way out...

A peace bridge token, 2 silver dimes and a bunch of spenders!

 

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70 cents in the self serve change cup. Why wouldn't I take it?
I would and I did and I don't feel bad about it. In fact I am kind of proud of myself.

 

Tell me this isn't a scratch lottery ticket tool.
The coin star was good for $0.36.

Is someone not breaking even on scratch off tickets or was it just time for a new tool?
How bad are the odds of your running it through the CoinStar machine

 

I don't CoinStar machines. Just ATM's for the real good stuff.

 

One of the local casino's has a $20 match play blackjack voucher on Thursday through Sunday.
If I make the 16 mile round trip and manage to get a playable hand with the coupon voucher I get rewarded.
Sorta like an ATM

 

Can't tell from the photo but it looks like a counterfeit. (The heavily damaged quarter).

 

Wow that was/is a crappy picture.
I enlarged it, but it's still a crappy picture.
The flattened areas look like they were rubbed flat and some metal rolled over the edges.
Maybe a Poor Attempt at a Guitar Pick.

 

I used to be able to take all the mangled and mutilated coins I found at Coin Star and metal detecting, and turn them in to my CU once a year and they would give me face value for all of it, and they have to mail it in to the mint/Fed. I think the program was off and on. Mafia guys were turning in millions of slug half dollars claiming they came out of junked cars. So after they abused and cheated the system they stopped it. Then they started it again but my place won't take them. I could mail them in, but it would cost me $10 or more to mail in $2 worth of mangled coins.

 

About 85 cents worth of modern coins in a coinstar today.

 

Between the machine, self checkout and a vending machine I got this. Have yet to find a silver coin but I'm gonna keep looking.

 

I thought the Mint permanently ended the mutilated coin redemption program last year. Did they restart it? I've been waiting years to be able to redeem mutilated coins.

 

SO? That's why I always dig them metal detecting. I was wondering who was behind it. Now I know.

 

I have to roll all of my return change and just mix in the bad ones as I go, never more than one per roll, and have never had any blowback from the bank.