Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

The first time I looked in a Coinstar machine I found a French silver 20 centimes coin. I also found a 1905-O dime. None of my other finds have been anywhere nearly as spectacular.

 

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Stopped by my dump bank to get rid of a coffee can full of searched cents. On checking the reject tube, found a 1960 dime mixed in with my reject cents. Score!

But wait, there's more!

Near the end of my count the machine jammed. One of the tellers opened 'er up made a few tweaks and then shoveled all the loose coins back into the hopper.

When he told me the machine was good to go, I brushed through the hopper just out of curiosity and turned up a '52 dime and a '36 quarter in addition to $1.45 of other assorted clad quarters and dimes and a '97 Canadian quarter.

That more than paid for my gas while running errands this morning and sent me home with a big smile on my face... although now I'm sitting here wondering what other gems the guy before me let roll through the machine.

 

A toilet token and a cent from a Floridian zoo.

 

Not exactly a coin tube. But, my wive emptied all the change out of her purse this weekend and there was a 1941 silver quarter!!!! She's so lucky. I've never, ever seen a silver quarter in circulation in my life!

 

2007 - Singapore 50 cent piece
1995 - Brasil 10 centavos
2005 - Euro 2 cent
1973 - UK "new penny"

+3 zinc pennies

 

Back in 2008, I ran across a dime that kept getting rejected by the coke machine. I originally thought it was a fake. I was about to toss it but something kept telling me to keep it, so I kept it. I dug out 3 years later and looked up the date. Sure enough, it was silver. That dime kick started my interest in silver coins.

 

Two wheats in the reject slot when I hit the bank last time. 1952 + 1928S (very worn). FREE....along with a clad dime, 2 other copper pennies, and a Canadian quarter. Free !

 

1 dime and 2 zinc cents, under the machine, along with a piece of glass. serves me right for going under the machine

 

I found a silver dime a couple of months ago under the coinstar machine. Served me right just fine thank you.

 

Sitting all alone by herself in a grocery store Coinstar this morning. Made my Sunday morn all the betters and it has been a good day ever since.

 

Found my first free silver today - 1946 dime. Also a Canadian quarter and a couple of clad dimes.

 

got a 2008 dime and a 1943 steel cent from the reject tray. Still wondering how the cent got past the magnet.... Also got two rejected zinc cents from the wastebasket next to the machine not sure why i decided to get them lol

 

Finally found something in a Coinstar reject bin! Walked by the machine at the local grocery store and there was a HANDFUL of coins in the bin. Grabbed 'em and took 'em back to the car.

Alas...a random collection of small foreign coins and some junk. Here's the tally:


Jamaica 1996 five dollars
United Arab Emirates 1 Dirham
Switzerland 2012 20 (cents?)
Eesti Vabariik 2008 1 Kroon (Estonia)
Canada 2008 10 cents
Canada 1984 10 cents

Euro 2007 1 Cent
Euro 2009 1 Cent
Euro 2007 5 Cents
Euro 2002 5 Cents (Ireland)
Euro 2008 5 Cents (Italy)

4 US Cents, from nasty to really nasty

Plastic "School Money" cent
Squished cent "Seattle Washington" skyline
Miner Mike's Fun Center token "Lake of the Ozarks"

Rob

 

Got another "watch" battery this last week. About 10 of those just this year.

 

10p UK 2012

 

I found a steel penny underneath the machine. It's rough but it's a real 1943-S (I think it's an S, it could be a D) penny.

 

Three quarters, a dime(all went into the Salvation Army kettle) a Canadian 25 cents from 2009 commemorating Women's Hockey, and a Belgian 5 Euro cent from 2009.

 

Peeked at the reject slot of the Kroger CoinStar, and saw maybe a dozen coins in it. Mostly Zincolns, with one copper cent... and a 1954-D dime.

There is something better than getting silver for face value: getting it for free!

(I did put the re-rejects on the CoinStar counter for the next person, and replaced the silver dime with a clad one, so I guess this only counts as a face-value find. I figure there are kids, and maybe some down-on-their-luck adults, who'll get more joy out of 11 cents than I got out of the silver dime...)

 

Two Canadian 10 centers, and a Canadian 5 center.

 

I never checked the coinstar machines, but I was leaving the grocery store one night and was walking by and looked over and saw two coins in the reject slot. One was a regular canadian quarter and the other was a silver 1964 Roosevelt dime. Now I look over every time I go to the store.