Found in a Coinstar, then the thief got it :0~

Was at a grocery store this morning, this is my sixth silver find in a coinstar machine this week:



Just after taking the picture above a little photobombing thief came along and pilfered it and took off into the dining room with it:



My 8 week old kitten Lyosha, less kitten and more shitten. He was a bit miffed when I got my coin back. He hangs around the table when I sift through rolls of coins etc.

 

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Let her collect ATB quarters while you go after what you want.

 

How do you find things in a Coinstar machine? Are they sitting in a "dud" tray or something? Or do you own one?

 

He wanted some money for some Catnip, should have given him some in return!

 

There's a reject tray in those machines. Sometimes they go unchecked by the user.

 

Always learning, thanks Rick!

 

it doesn't have to be JUST a coinstar machine. if there is a bank near you that has a coin machine you can find all kinds of goodies in there too

 

My cat is a "he", he also has an evil twin brother "Tyeni" that sometimes helps him in creating mayhem on the sorting table. Both of them are now 10 weeks old and sweet very loving black cats, which is a good thing because they are both stinkers. My oldest black cat is almost 20 years old, he never bothers with coins though - my model train was where he had his fun years ago.

 

I used to do very well finding coins in the reject slots of Coinstar machines. I would find silver coins, foreign coins and plentiful amounts of coins in the reject slots in general but about five years ago the finds suddenly dried up. Curious as to why this was, I subsequently observed someone as they emptied their change container into one of them. There was an animated video of a hand making a scooping motion into the reject slot!

The mystery was solved and to this day I'm lucky if I find a Chuck E. Cheese token left at the top of the machine. It surprises me that people still report finding anything on here from them. Maybe this video just displays at Coinstar machines in Southern California. However, if that is the case, I would wonder why it doesn't display on them nationwide by now.

 

It is a lot more hit or miss than it used to be, I know that store employees check them, other customers do also. I can go weeks without finding so much as a crusty zincoln then like last week churn up two silver quarters, one of them Canadian, and four silver dimes all in different machines. I find stuff in my several different credit unions fairly easily, they have a different machine. Machines in well lit areas tend to be poor places to find coin, but not very well lit areas in some grocery stores can be better since people don't see coins in the reject slot.

BTW the quarter above was from a machine in a well lit customer service area of a Wal-Mart, so I think it was just luck.