Coinstar reject bin finds

I find gaming tokens, silver dimes, and Canadian coins mostly in the reject trays.

 

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I saw an older woman feeding the CoinStar in the grocery a week or so ago, and heard some coins hitting the reject slot. She tried a few times to put them through, then gave up. I tried to get through the line and talk to her, but by the time I finished, she'd visited the service counter and left.

When I walked by the CoinStar, I spotted one coin left in the edge of the reject tray -- a '46 Roosie.

I went up to the service counter and asked if people ever bring coins that the CoinStar rejects. The guy said "yeah, we'll usually take them". I asked if a lady had just brought some coins by; he said, "yeah, some dimes".

Long story short, I got to look through the dime tray and pulled four more silver Roosies. So, 40 cents for 5 silver dimes.

I really wonder how much silver doesn't get rejected, though. I've just got to get up my nerve to accost people who're trying to re-feed coins through. (I've only done it once, and it turned out what they had was sticky pennies. )

 

Checked 3 coinstars today. #1 had a 42s cent and a 2 eurocent. #2 nothing. #3 had 22 cents including a 41s.

 

I found a Euro and a thin wheat penny.

 

found a fake plastic dime but I'm still gonna keep it

 

I check those pretty frequently here in a couple stores. But the homeless pier those reject trays religiously and hang out in front of the store looking for handouts.

 

BenjyH_2009 what is the link to your metal detecting forum?

 

Was out later today and checked one more... 64 dime

 

I've taken to putting uninteresting stuff from the reject slot -- Zincolns, mostly -- on the machine's "tabletop" for the next person to take. I guess I figure there are people who need pocket change a lot more than I do. That, and I've found interesting things there myself -- some people leave rejected foreigns there, and I once found a nice AU 1964 quarter just sitting there under the display.

 

Found a quarter and 2 cents today.

 

Looked many times...found Nodda

 

Quite interesting to find tokens - especially when the business minted onto the coin no longer exists.

 

Checked two today... one had 2 cents and the other nothing.

 

I checked the one near me, 2 loonies, and 3 twonies.

Will come in handy next weekend when the wife and I hit Niagra Falls, Ont for our anniversary.

 

Found some extremely old coins that I can't identify and need to have them looked at.

 

I always check but rarely find anything in Coinstar. Their slot is too obvious and I think kids tend to notice any coins in there, since I've seen kids looking at it before. What I like is our grocery stores have TCF banks inside, and they have their own coin machines. The reject slot on these has a cover over it, so it's easier for people to miss. Usually I find nothing, but a few weeks ago I found 38 coins, including 36 pennies, a dime and a Hong Kong 10 dollar coin.

 

Here's a good one, Sittiing on the coinstar machine, I find a bag full of cents, I grab the bag and continue with my shopping (the machine is located inside the store). When I get home I check my find and I find, there is 11 clumps of 3 coins each, glued together. Several of the clumps show at least one wheat penny.
Upon breaking them apart, there is a total of 6 wheaties, 41,45,49,52,56,58. The rest are all from the 60's, the newest is 1969. All of the 68's and 69's look pretty much uncirculated (except for the blob of pink glue). So I am guessing these were glued up sometime in 1969 and have sat somewhere since then.
Nothing of any value, I just wonder what their story is?

 

I saw a lone penny in the coinstar inside Winco the other day...I didn't go for it because it was a lone memorial cent AND my wife was with me and she gets all kinds of bugged out when I go check the slot. Thinks it is trashy...I don't care how trashy I look, if it might be silver I am diving in head first!

 

I checked two coinstars yesterday. #1 had 8 cents and #2 had a canada quarter. That came in handy as I am in Canada today.

 

forgot to post this but a couple months ago found about 12$ a couple wheats and a silver rosie