Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

That might be the oldest Canadian in the thread. Have to check
jensenbay he gets a lot of Canadian coins.
The 76 is a keeper for sure.

 

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Not tooting my own horn here, but if I'm not mistaken, the oldest Canadian coin in the thread is my Far-6 1926 Canadian Nickel.

I also feel bad that you haven't found any CAD silver in the reject trays at all Mike I've found some. Dunno if I posted it here. I stopped posting my finds a while back, but I've found several coins since I stopped posting

 

I was just thinking pennies, but 1926 Nickel is awesome.
I got 2 modern Canadian dimes on the shelf the other day.
Today 17 cents. The other 4 cents are non Coin Star related found money pick ups.

 

Granted I'm somewhat new to cointalk. However, I have followed this thread for the better part of a year. Below is a 1960 Canadian Dime I found last year at a North Florida Winn-Dixie Coinstar machine.

 

how do you "key out" a coin?

 

Where the coins are put into the machine, there is a grill. They lift the handle up,
and the coins fall into a slot at the right end. Well if you go and look sometimes there are coins jammed in there. If the slot is too wide, very often they will fall into the machine. You can turn the machine on and get a ticket for 10 cents. But often if they are wedged in there, you use a key and get a decent grip on a rim (which is raised) and shoot the coin back to you.

By the way excellent 1960 dime, I am still looking for my first foreign silver, and I have quite a list of good finds. (Except for that.)

 

Moments ago, standing vertically in the corner of the reject tray.

 

i found a 2019 d cent in the reject tray. dont know why. i found better stuff in the parking lot. 1976 half, 1965 quarter and a 2003 dime

 

I don't mind when the homeless guys to get the machines first - they need a handful of pocket change more than I do, and any collectible coin they find is going to be spent and re-enter circulation. A non-collector might hide it away somewhere in a junk drawer, or even throw it out if they don't think it can be spent.

 

Has anybody been scouring the Coinstar machine's long enough to notice there is more time between Coinstar finds today than there were even a year ago? My area must have had a surge of lurkers joining this self proclaimed four star general of lurking in relieving the machines of their rejects.

 

Meow's best Coinstar find, a 1955p dime with very nice color. The fields are light to dark black, and the devices are silver. Hard to photo and show just how pretty it is. It even has a very slight cartwheel luster under the patina. And oh yea, it also has a die crack at the two o clock position on the obverse'.

The oddest Coinstar find; A batting cage token, with a guy in helmet holding a bat depicted. Meow cant seem to find it at the moment to show a pic.

 

If you are interested, you could submit this coin to CudsOnCoins as it is a spikehead and they don't have a '55.

 

Oh, Meow did not know they kept track of those.

 

Also, Meow thought that Cuds are chunks of die chip involving the rim. This is just a die crack.

 

I have 19 wheat cent spikeheads listed with them, the crack needs to extend from the head to the rim.

 

The only cud Meow has ever found does not seem to on their list either.

 

So they would have coins will have attributed to "MeowtheKitty" if accepted?

 

Yes, go to their site and look at the submission requirements, also you can see all the different types of coins they consider. My best is a 1909 spikehead.

 

Hmmm, but the pictures they require might be a too had for a Cat to produce.

 

True, they have changed their requirements recently and I am trying to figure them out as well. My first submissions were with an inexpensive USB camera, understandably, they want higher resolution now. You seems to have some coins that would fill some gaps in their lists.