Food Lion is a much more common sight in North Carolina and Virginia. However, there’s a few scattered locations in Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia. There’s still one operating in St. Mary’s Georgia if I recall correctly. From what I understand Food Lion downsized considerably.
Speaking of Food Lion, found a bunch of coins in the Coinstar there today, including this bad boy! Food Lions are like 7/11s here in SE VA, they're everywhere.
I finally remembered to check the coinstar yesterday for the first time this year lol...got a whole handful! I'm thinking about getting the one in the middle graded, it's clearly a rare mint error! I think maybe it was struck by a meteor!
Checked the coin machine at my credit union this afternoon, another member was in the lobby yapping on a phone and gave me a funny look for looking at the machine. Then I checked the rubbish bin next to the machine because people oft throw out rejects, and sure enough there was some barely identifiable thing that looked coinish but rough. I picked it out, put it in my pocket and forgot about it until this evening when I put it under the glass and photographed it: Well it appears as though this is a 1945-P war nickel that some sop just cast off into the rubbish bin! Saved from the perfidy of an eternity in some smelly landfill.
One Australia 10 cent One Bermuda 25 cents One Cayman Islands 25 cents All on the tray of a coinstar.
I found my first silver coin this week in the machine at Stop & Shop, a 1962 dime. It came with 3 washers and 2 parking lot pennies.
This (from yesterday) is a pretty typical find for me. Common coins and coin "sandwiches" of 2 or 3 coins stuck together with some nasty sticky substance. Gross, but I pour some boiling water on them in a small container and they separate pretty easily.
My bank has a coin counter, and the employees are told to throw anything they find in the reject bin into the trash. I always check the trash can next to the coin counter.
Oh yeah! I found a Spanish 100 pesetas, large silver coin from 1966 in the trash can once - an employee threw that and a lot of other stuff out with it.