an 1890 Indian Head penny in a CoinStar machine. Pretty neat for me. She didn't care. First one I've ever seen. Ryan
Ryan, I understand from your post that you received an Indian head cent and it is the first one you have actually seen. So far, so good (I hope) Now for the "title of your post" and the rest of your thread about 'she didn't care;, I can' t figure out what it means. Could I get you to decipher it for an old, old man. Please.
My daughter was walking past a Coinstar, stuck her hand in and found a handful of change. The penny was in the pile. I happened to look through what she found and saw it. She's seven so wasn't interested, though she feigned an "Oh!" just to amuse me. Like I said, it's the first Indian penny I've seen, but I just started rooting through coins a couple weeks ago. Ryan
Thank you Ryan, I can sure appreciate what you have said and do understand your thrill at finding such a coin. Sounds as if your daughter is "good luck" and you should take here shopping all the time.
That's a nice find! Don't you wonder who had this sitting unnoticed in a pile/jar/drawer of change? And how come they didn't notice the coins when they fell into the reject bin? How do things like that slip by other people?
I think a lot of people don't really pay any attention to change, especially when most of it's pennies. Anything less than a greenback isn't worth their time. Ryan
I just joined CoinTalk... so please bear with me if this is a stupid question... Ummm... what's a CoinStar machine? (I'm guessing we don't have them in Canada)
I think it's a machine in which you put a bunch of change and get bills in return. Never used one though so I could be wrong.
Thanks I figured it was something like that... makes sense that it would spit back out a penny then, I guess. Machines don't usually like coppers.
The Coinstar machines around here spit out a little slip of paper which you take to one of the registers (they're in grocery stores mostly) to redeem for about 90% of the value of the coins you dump in. It seems interesting to me that the Indian Head should be among the coins the machine rejected. I wonder if they are a bit off-weight from the more modern pennies.
