Behold! Some spotty old stuff. An 1896 Austrian 2-heller and 1949-F West German 50-pfennig. I said "sort of" in the title because these appeared in the CoinStar reject slot after I ran my own change through the hopper. They did not fare so well in the bottom of my car console change compartment, which was truly disgusting since it was full of drink spills and accumulated fast food crumbs. I had to clean all that crud out of the corners after digging out the sticky change. I can only surmise that these two old European coins somehow escaped whatever bulk bag I was sorting and ended up in pocket change, making their way to the car console eventually.
Well, there was an old dinner mint in there with the change. (Fortunately still wrapped, or that stuff would've been even stickier.)
PS- if you were to forensically test that adhesion at 11:00 on the German coin (behind the lady's head) I am nearly certain you would find it to be a minuscule McDonald's french fry crumb. Should I do a taste test to determine that?
I see your basic problem here, don't you? You have obviously not fully committed to the idea that everything in numismatics is supposed to be "free" and/or a circulation find. You know - "what kind of error is this?" Note to newbs: This is a fantastically EXPENSIVE hobby when done for the profit motive. Rare coins are NOT just out there for the picking. Grow up and step away from the YouTube app!
The rare ones are the ones they pick out of circulation with their birthday USB microscope. And then breathlessly post them on CoinTalk. [ on steroids] BTW, I luvs me some Austrian 2 Heller - great strikes and durable as all git out.
I live close to Denver and Walmart was the only vendor with Coin Star and now have all been removed from there
They're handsome coins. I've found some nice ones in bulk lots (MS63-ish RBs, even). Still cheap even in UNC, but so what. They're cool. Since they don't bear the name of any country on them, they're a frequent stumbling block for novice World Coin collectors. I guess back in the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, one look at that double-headed eagle was all you needed. (Never mind Russia, Finland, etc, with their double-headed eagles at the time.)
I finally found some change in the Coin Star reject bin. A bent clad dime, and a 1964 D and 1953 D. The 64 looks remarkably clean and little wear. Finally, something to report
Cool...... I just found a couple of Canadian coins recently in a local coin star machine. It is always fun to find something!