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