Don't forget to check those coinstar reject bins! Feel free to pile on any recent or big finds you've had.
In the past few months I’ve found a 1943 steel penny and a very worn Buffalo nickel in the coinstar reject bin at my local grocery store
In regards to coinstar rejection bins, is there a threshold to what you should turn into the store as lost & found? I'm asking because last week I found a very large amount of coins in the coinstar rejection bin at my local grocery store. I could not believe how many coins were in there. I was literally putting fists of coins in my pocket, while thinking that at any moment now I'm going to hear someone saying....."ahhh sir....that's not yours". Well, no one noticed and I walked out of their with at least a pound, maybe even two, of coins. I felt a little guilty and wondered if it would have been better that I turned it in. Getting home I took a picture of the pile of coins. I then went through them all. Nothing notable worth saving, lots of foreign coins too. And then a few days later, it happened again, but this second time it was about only half of the amount it was compared to the previous time.
nah, keep 'em. The person who put in the coins doesn't know that they weren't counted and were rejected, so they won't ask the 'lost & found' for them. The store makes enough money on the machine, and is happy, plus it doesn't belong to them. Have fun. [please Pm me that address, I'll check whenever you don't have a chance ]
I can't understand why so many coins were rejected. I understand all the foreign coins, but there were dimes, nickels, quarters and pennies that weren't old or damaged. First thought was that there must be some silver in there that was rejected, since silver coins weigh differently than modern coinage. But nope, not a one. It was like $5.00 in US coins and then the foreign coins.
Not long after the CoinStars appeared in our local grocery, I found a pile of money in the reject bin, gathered it up, and took it to the customer-service counter. They looked at me like I had two heads. Apparently they thought it should belong to whomever picked it up first. These days, I leave anything non-collectable on the counter of the machine. I usually go by the machine when I come into the store, and if I put US money on the counter, it's usually gone by the time I check out. I figure there are plenty of people who need it more than I do, and they also need it more than than the people who (a) are willing to pay the 11% CoinStar tax for redemption and (b) can't be bothered to check the reject slot when they're done dumping.
Stuff a teddy bear, it's the perfect use for lint, pocket, dryer, belly button, wherever you find it! LOL.
it's quite common for people to just leave the rejects behind and not bother with them. Some people pull them out of the return and put them on the shelf, some just leave them in the return. Some take them with them but it's mostly badly mutilated coins or foreigns what are most folks gonna do with that? their plan was to turn change into bills, not start a world coin collection. hahaha If the machine isn't doing a run at all and nobody is there it's fair game.
Nice haul, those 100 yen coins are almost a buck each! Last find for me was a lone silver dime. It's happened a few times since I learned to check.
