Over the weekend I found a pile of coins in the coinstar machine’s reject bin. All were just US coins except three of them. One is copper and I’m wondering where it’s origins are from. The other two I suspect may have silver content. Can anyone confirm? Thanks
Nice random finds The 'copper' one is actually bronze (88% copper/12% tin) Swedish 1967 - 1 ORE KM#820 Canadian 10c is .8 silver The GB 6d is unfortunately not silver. They were 50% silver until 1946
As mentioned, you did score one piece of silver there- the Canadian Centennial commemorative 10-cent piece is .800 fine. The British sixpence, alas, is just a few years too late to have had any silver content. But they're all pretty darned cool for CoinStar finds.
The 1967 commemoratives were released in both 80% silver and 50% silver versions, with mintage numbers for each in roughly the 30 million range according to Numista. To my knowledge, there is not an easy way to distinguish between the two.
Nice finds,don't know about the canadian dime silver content but this member seems to know a lot about them https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=278597.
Nice haul. I haven't found any in my CoinStar in months now. I think an employee saw me collect some coins a while back and now cleans it out regularly. Oh well.
The employees at this particular location where I found this haul do regularly check the reject bin. On average 9 times out of 10, when I'm walking into the store and an employee is walking past the machine, I see them looking in the reject bin. Apparently it's the day shift that does this, as most of my large hauls from this particular machine happened at night around 7pm.
I used to find foreign coins, washers, mangled coins, tokens and silver coins in the reject tray all the time at the coin star in Walmart here. It's been months since I found anything all all in it now. IDK if they employees are emptying it out or if someone else is silver hunting too...
