Well sort-of. Since I was on an errand near an Albertson’s store I decided to check the return bin of the coinstar machine Located there. It was so full, the coins were backed up into the machine, so I casually filled both pants pockets without really looking at the coins. Given the large pile of coins I had visions of many pre-1965 silver coins and wheat cents, unfortunately my little score turned out to be more than 100 modern issue UK pence coins in various denominations, a few euro's, a couple tokens and about $ 00.85 cents in clad US coins. I was disappointed to say the least, I’ll just ad them to my growing pile of world coins, since I only collect US, I have no idea what I’m going to do with all this. I won’t complain too much, after all I did come out $00.85 ahead.
Thanks,I can't help but wonder what i would have found if the coins all been old US because i know the coinstar rejects most of the old silver and wheat cents.
Hrm... checking the return bin on a coinstar machine... I didnt think that you could do that... then again Ive used coinstar once in my life so... Tell me is it worth it?
Hey, I look at all of those types of things. About a year ago I went to the bank to deposit my paycheck. The ATM is right by the second set of doors leading into the lobby. I always peek into the bill tray to see if anyone left anything behind. This time they had. Sitting there was a nice, crisp $20 bill. Thank you, very much.
I do at every store I go to. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I feel if they didn't bother to check the return, it's fair game to anyone who walks by. That would, of course, be me Great finds by the way!
I was walking past a CoinStar once and couldn't help but see a lady with about 1gallon of coins putting them in there.....I also saw that alot of them were coming right back out.....so I hung around and when she was done asked her if she wanted to sell the ones that were rejected.....she said....Oh no honey....they are just alot of old coins....and with that walked off.....and so there went tons of nice coins maybe. Speedy
I get a keeper out of the CoinStar about once a month. Last week I got a steel cent. In February a silver dime. I've pulled tons of Canadian and a few other foreign coins plus tokens.
I wen't thru the pile of coins today , this is the list 78-1 pence UK 27-2 pence UK 24-5 pence UK 2-10 pence UK 2-20 pence UK 1-2 pound UK 12-5 ptas-Spain 3-1 eurocent 1-5 eurocents 2-10 eurocents 1-1 euro total 143 coins all dates are 1980's or newer It dosn't amount to much but i still don't see why the guy just left it in the machine
