Coinstar finds

Last evening I went to the local store and saw a man at the Coinstar machine. He had a box of pennies (8"x3"x3") and was feeding them into the machine. He told me that he buys boxes and rolls of pennies to look for rare ones.

This morning I went to the bank next to the store to deposit a check. Later at the store, the Coinstar machine had some change, but not from the "penny man" last night. Ten dimes, one 1964 silver, two Euro coins, two copper pennies, and several Reagan pennies.

The silver dime was the first silver coin found this year.

 

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Reagon what?

 

Zincolns.

 

Latest Coinstar find, an elongated cent from Monterey, California.


Elongated cent - Monterey, California

The coin is recent zinc model as it weighs 2.5 grams and was probably sold at Monterey's Cannery Row tourist area.

 

After a drought of some weeks, this appeared:


United States cent 1927-D

Now to go out to my favorite speakeasy and see what the rumrunners have delivered.

 

After a two-month drought, today the local Coinstar machine had a pile in the reject tray.

There were about $2 in current US coins, a Chuck E. Cheese token, a car wash token, a New Zealand 10 cents 2006, an Israel 1 new sheqel 5954 (1994), a Hungary 10 forint also 1994, and two old US dimes, a 1964-D and a 1948 (my birth year).

 

I had an interesting Coinstar find today.

The local supermarket Coinstar machine has produced less material since it was moved next to the employee break room.

Today I walked by it and saw two obviously not US coins in the bottom.

One was a Russia (Soviet Union) 15 Kopeck coin dated 1987.

The other was a token issued by the Sears Company (Sears, Roebuck and Company) in 1986 celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the company.

It was made from copper extracted from the restoration of the statue which started in 1982 and was completed in 1986.


Token - Statue of Liberty and Sears Company Centennials
Copper, 23.0 mm, 4.44 gm

Obverse:
Statue Of Liberty head facing
CONTAINS AUTHENTIC MATERIAL
1886 - CENTENNIAL - 1986
LIBERTY
(Registered)(Copyright) 1982 SL/EIF, Inc. (Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island Foundation)

Reverse:
Radiating lines and large "100"
CELEBRATING SEARS NEW CENTURY 1886-1986

 

Today was the first good day at the Coinstar machine in a long time.

I found around $3.00 in modern US coins and six modern foreign coins.

The foreign coins were:
Canada 25 Cents 2013 Arctic Exploration Centennial (An unusual coin)
Croatia 50 Lipa 2006
Czech Republic 5 Korun 1993
Czech Republic 10 Korun 2010
Morocco 2 Dirhams 2002
Morocco 5 Dirhams 2002

 

Coinstar find Croatia 50 Lipa:

I found this neat coin in a Coinstar machine on December 12 2022:


Croatia 50 Lipa 2006
Nickel-steel, 20.5 mm, 3.65 gm
Obverse: VELEBITSKA DEGENIJA (Flower)
Reverse: REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA (REPUBLIC OF CROATIA)

The first coin from Croatia that I have ever encountered.

 

The only "Coinstar" machine that I have seen is in the lobby of the Credit Union that I bank at. I have seen where there were several Coin Star members have gone through the "reject" tray and it made me wonder what I would have to do to get permission to exchange the coins in the reject tray with U.S. coins. Is it as easy as getting permission from the manager, or do I have to pay a fee? ("Tongue in cheek")
The teller that I use to contact about questions has retired. Do you think I would have to speak to the manager? Anyway, I would like to try my hand at collecting from the reject tray.

 

Walk over to the CS machine.
Look down into the reject tray.
Also look at the perforated tray above.
Notice coins in either place?
Remove them.
Place in pocket.
Continue on with your business.
No coins?
Continue on with your business.
Lather, rinse, repeat next time you visit the CS machine.

 

Today was the second good day at the Coinstar machine recently.

I found around $2.00 in modern US coins and four modern foreign coins.

The foreign coins were:
Britain 20 Pence 2011 (Royal shield)
Canada 10 cents 2018, 1987, and 1960 (silver!)

The find included two United States 2019-S American Memorial Park Quarters clad

 

I went to the supermarket today and walked by the Coinstar machine.
There was a gray dime in the reject bin and I picked it up.
It was a 1944 Mercury in pretty good shape.
Where has it been for the past 78 years?

 

This penny was not a Coinstar find but came from a supermarket change dispenser:


US Cent 1919-S (Weight 3.00 gm)

It lost some weight during the past 100 years.

 

Ah, if only it were ten years older...

 

Grocery shopping today.
Found a dime and cent on the floor.
Coinstar was good for the rest sitting on the counter.
2 Canadian cents
2 Euro
1 US cent
1 US Dime (couldn't narrow down the gum brand)
and a marine corps toys for tots token.

 

Ha, FDR in an Elvis wig. Ok, I'm easily amused.

 

I like those. Have a babe Ruth one from his house

 

Does he know you took it?