Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

I wasn't dumping but I check the reject slot for silver. This week I found a 1964 quarter.

 

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.55 cents in the cup at the self serve in the grocery. I am doing better there than at the Coin Star.

 

I found a couple quarter in the self checkout a couple days ago.

 

The wife found 3 quarters and a Philippines Peso in a coinstar today.

 

Went past the machine in food city and was happy to see a pile of coins in it. Not as cool as silver but I'm happy

 

The wife found these today at our Safeway Coinstar:

 

Found 3 wheat cents including 1940-S I needed for my book. There was 2 foreign coins I left.

 

No so much a find. I was dumping coins at the coinstar for a no fee gift card. When I was done, the machine said there was a issue. I got slip to cash with no fee. That works.

 

Any time I find something in a coinstar it’s covered in an unknown dark sticky liquid. Always fun.

 

The cent was in the reject slot, but being "hardcore" and I peek under the machine and found this filthy old quarter hiding out:


It pays to peek under the machine.

 

I've thought about it, but:

First, I get self-conscious enough already just walking by and scoping out the return slot on every visit, never mind the times I actually fish coins out of the slot. At my age, getting down on my hands and knees is kind of a production; I'd probably have associates running to see if I need medical help.

Second, when our local Food Lion was remodeling, they moved the CoinStar, and left its spot uncovered. Yeah, there were coins there. But they were embedded in half an inch or so of everything you can imagine building up on a grocery store's floor over a period of years. I looked at the coins, saw that the ones I could make out were modern clad, and decided I didn't have the stomach to go after them.

But, hey, if you or I sweep under the machine often enough, I guess stuff wouldn't build up that much!