Coinstar

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by Cloudsweeper99, Feb 14, 2007.

  1. Cloudsweeper99

    Cloudsweeper99 Treasure Hunter

    I was walking past the CoinStar machine at the supermarket and someone left behind a 25 cent coin from Aruba, a Euro cent, and a token from a local sports arena. Nothing of great value but three new items for me. Now I'm going to have to check it every time I go there.
     
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  3. Aidan Work

    Aidan Work New Member

    Those are nice finds,but which country is the 1 Euro-Cent coin from?

    Aidan.
     
  4. flaminio

    flaminio New Member

    CoinStar machines are modern day treasure hunts. I give a scoop every time I pass one by, hoping to find something spiffy in the reject bin. Usually it's nothing, but sometimes there are some neat foreign coins, arcade tokens, and the like -- and sometimes silver. CoinStar rejects silver coins, and I've pulled silver dimes and quarters from the rejects.

    My biggest score was when apparently someone didn't even realize there was a reject slot, and I found over seven dollars in change there. Nothing special, except for a well worn Austrian 2 eurocent.
     
  5. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    Nice, my son used to work in a supermarket, and found a silver dime for me once in the reject slot.
     
  6. Cloudsweeper99

    Cloudsweeper99 Treasure Hunter

    There is no country name on the cent. The date is 2002 and there is a letter 'D' next to it.
     
  7. Aidan Work

    Aidan Work New Member

    If it has oak leaves & a 'D' mintmark,then it is from Germany.Could you please post some photos so the we can confirm the identity?

    Aidan.
     
  8. acanthite

    acanthite ALIIS DIVES

    I search a Coinstar every time I see one, and have never found anything. I'm surprised that people find them to be worthwhile, but I keep looking anyway.
     
  9. Cloudsweeper99

    Cloudsweeper99 Treasure Hunter

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    This is it. Small coin. Not the greatest scans. The coin still has a good amount of the mint luster that doesn't show in the scan.
     
  10. Aidan Work

    Aidan Work New Member

    Cloudsweeper99,that 1 Euro-Cent coin is definitely from Germany.

    Aidan.
     
  11. Cloudsweeper99

    Cloudsweeper99 Treasure Hunter

    Okay, thanks. I was a little surprised that it has the word "cent" on it because I thought that was an english and not international term.
     
  12. Aidan Work

    Aidan Work New Member

    The reverse is actually inscribed 'Euro Cent'.I prefer to hyphenate the denomination as 'Euro-Cent'.

    Aidan.
     
  13. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Actually it is a very European term as it is derived from the Latin term for hundredth and many European countries had terms for their low valued coins that were 1/100th of their basic unit that had names based on the "cent", centimes, centisimo, centesimi, centas, centavo and so on
     
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