18 FIC's - Found In Coinstar Reject Bin

Hello eveyone,
Today I went to a Kmart where they have a Coinstar machine. I was hoping for some silver as I have found in the past.. Not today. Just 17 Foreign Coins (Non US).

I want to share my FIC's with you..

All..


9 Various from Japan


5 and 10 Euro.. Spain and France


China


4 different Queen Elizabeth coins
Canada, Great Britain and Australia


And a mystery coin.. Help me with this one
20 LIPA

 

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Croatia 20 Lipa

 

Someone had a good vacation.

 

Ok.. Thanks!

I think Lira is Italian.. It's Lipa

 

the HRVATSKA is a Croatia Coin I think

 

"Maslina" in Serbo-Croatian means "olive"

 

Reminds me of business trips in the past. No time to hit the Exchange to cash in for US currency, so I often returned with foreign coinage. I wasn't much of a foreign coin collector, but it has grown on me over time. Interesting Coinstar finds.

 

only things I find in Walmart coinstar return slots so far is lint

 

The banks throw these in the trash. Literally. But that's where you want to go for these. At one point we had so many bags I was giving them away to the kids.

 

Nice pile of 100 yen coins! Even if they don't have numismatic value, almost a dollar each face value isn't bad...

 

I corrected it. Got mixed up. The Serbs and the Croatians speak the same language, however, the Serbs use the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatians use the Latin alphabet. I was confusing the P with a Cyrillic "R".

 

It's ok I never noticed it's all "GREEK" to me anyway

 

Wow, I am surprised you even found a Kmart. Thought they finally went the way of the dodo. I always disliked Kmart, even though that's where my parents first met in 1974.

As for the coins, that's a nice haul from a reject bin. I haven't had that kind of haul in a very long time.

Usually, if it's a common Mexican or Canadian coin in the tray, I just leave them.

 

Geez some of you guys are lucky as can be.There are 3 stores with coinstar machines on my daily route to and from work. About 3 or even sometimes 4 times a week I stop JUST to check the machines. Been doing it for 2 1/2 years now so far, in 2 1/2 years I have found a whopping 2 wheaties and one bent up 1986 dime. Thats it. I hear all these stories very frequently and thats about all that keeps me doing it. Stories exactly like this one. Maybe someday! But I ain't holding my breath.

 

Well paddyman, finally, my granddaughter and I found a '62 silver Rosie yesterday in Story Book Park. Congrats on your find, but ours is better, haha.

 

I'd be willing to say someone got a pound of world coins and then put them through the CoinStar just to see if any would register and pay them in US currency. They didn't give a hoot about the coins, so left all of the rejects and collected on the ones that registered as real US coins, if any. Just a thought.

 

Cool..
I would take 1 Silver Dime over 100 Foreign coins anytime!

I have thousands of foreign coins I've been hoarding over 35 years!

 

Paddyman98 finally admits he's a hoarder...no coin left behind...!

 

The two coins you, @paddyman98, have labeled "China" are not both Chinese. The one on the left - the larger bronze one - is Japanese. 10 yen - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces922.html. The smaller one does look to be a one jiao (ten fen); the Chinese version of a dime.