Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

That's a nice haul. I've never kept count on foreign, or modern US, thatd b much too painstaking. But I do have a running tally of silver over the course of about 2 years of searching

Qtrs (2)
60D
64

Dimes (7)
46
59
61
61D
64 x2
64D

Have also found some cool local exonumia. Most of this has all come from the same location, though. I don't make it a special task to go out and search CSs. Always brightens up your day to add to the collection for the super low price of free!

 

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I should have kept count, but I didn't cause I never thought I would pull so many silvers. Has to be at least 25 Rosies and 7 quarters the nickel (and the 40%). The nickel is my favorite.
No foreign silver, every 1968 Canadian stuck to a magnet at light speed. I did pull this bizarre Kansas sales tax token the other day. Made in 1937.
2 mils. They sold 500 for a dollar. They were very popular initially but fizzled by 1939 and they were gone. Retail value in top condition $3 although people are scamming on EBay for more. This one is prob. $1.
I do have a beautiful coin from Brazil (coin star) when I get a photo I will post it. I thought it was some kind of Euro as the design is similar. It's worthless, but it's really a great looking coin.

 

Finds from the past two days. So thankful the coin star is back up and running.

 

Brazil 10 centavos 2014. The reverse looks like it is 10 Euro cents.
In hand, it's AU and a nice gold color.

 

I'm loving those coins with the fish on em... cool designs! And take a coin and a fish and I'm 100% reeled in... I know stupid pun. Fishings my other favorite hobby though so they're definitely interesting.
What is the country of origin?

 

Bahamas. The three small zinc coins, the 10 fish cents and the sailboats are all from there

 

Clipped planchet or PMD?

 

The guy was servicing the coin star. I don't know where he pulled them from but there were a bunch of mangled pennies, a mangled dime, some normal dimes (didn't look like silver) and a really nice 1974 Eisenhower dollar. I asked him if I could have the Marge Simpson pressed coin and he said yes.

 

1940 1942 mercury dimes.

 

C. Optical illusion

Lol... I was holding it with one hand while taking the picture with the other. I think my finger just cast a shadow.

 

Nice finds!
I've heard (and seen on this forum) of people finding Mercs in a CS tray, I've yet to be so fortunate myself though.

 

You should repost that picture with my question in the error coins thread on Apr 1 and see what arguments unfold lol

 

Same in the Bahamas.

This may be true lots of places, including Paris' famous Stamp and Coin market, as did many another Paris retailer. (You may remember seeing that scene in Hitchcock's Charade.) Many of the vendors there recognized the accents of young Americans as myself and were quick to ask about what change might be in a our pockets (this was in 1958). One vendor's eyes gleamed with excitement as I pulled a Walking Liberty Half out of my pocket change. I came away with more stamps for it than I could have ever hoped for, including a mint 1930s Air Mail Special Delivery that had been my holy grail for most of my young, stamp-collecting life.

 

1942 Australian silver threepence.

 

One time there is a silver Rosie on the shelf. So I can imagine they kept putting it in, and it kept coming out the return slot, when they finally gave up and just left it on the shelf. So I have it now.
And 2x I found silver dimes on the floor in front of the machine.

 

It happens. I found another a few months ago.

 

1964 Silver Dime by silverman987 posted Aug 31, 2017 at 12:45 PM

One of my first silver finds since I started checking the Coinstar reject tray.

 

So the silver dimes weigh more than the clad, and they get rejected as a foreign coin, or slug. But the zinc pennies are 2.5 grams and the copper 3.1 and they take both of those. So why are these rejected by weight?

 

The machines must be calibrated to accept both, which would make sense due to the still quite high percentage of copper pennies in circulation. Silver coins must be infrequent enough to not make financial sense for coinstar, etc. to bother with.

 

I had not thought of the Coin Star machine as a potential for the occasional lagniappe before. Is there a best time of day/week to check these machines? Do most of you who check the machines do so frequently or just every once in a while?