Making Deals at the Coin Star Machine.

Nope...I think it's cause he really, really, really hates it there

 

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Okay, I'll bite.

What is a Coin Star, a coinmaster, or a machine in a bank?
I have never seen any of those in Chicago or anywhere else.

Do you mean an ATM? Those I have seen and used.


Thanks. : )

 

Nope not an ATM.
They are a machine that you can dump your change in and you get currency. They charge a fee but the fee is reduced if you take a give card instead (the retailer of the cards pay's their fee).

 

A gift card? I see. Thanks, Duke. : )

Funny, but I've never seen one or heard of coin machines like that before.

You have no idea how many coins I have found in pay phone coin return areas, and vending machines.
Wow. $1,000??? Maybe.

At Riverview Park, an amusement park in Chicago, long closed now, I walked through the Barrel of Fun which was a large tube with wooden floor inside, 360º of floor since it was rotating all the time at a speed that upset folks and they would fall over and roll. A man in front of me lost about $7.00 in quarters and a five dollar bill. I handed him the fiver and he told me to keep the change. It all fell out of my pocket and out of the Loop-o-Plane, my next ride. Drat!

Like most most collectors (LOL), I started with change from my dad's pants pockets. He didn't mind. I wasn't greedy, just persistent.

On my birthday one year, relatives and friends at my party passed around a baked bean pot and put a few coins in it then asked me to count the money. I counted it and they passed it around again to check my math, then told me to count it again, that I'd been wrong. I liked that game. The crockery pot made about four trips around the circle. Great fun. Then my dad gave me a genuine college football. I was in heaven, and I was rich, and I would become a football player. I was ten -- it was December 1st, 1952.

BTW, I got an allowance each week. It started at 50¢. It was $5.00 when I was a senior in high school. I had to do household chores to earn my allowance (pay).

 

I sell all of my silver to a coin dealer in the area. I am told that none of the silver U.S. coinage he takes in gets melted. It is all sold to a group of collectors and investors. Another individual buys every Lincoln Wheat Cent or Indian. He no longer has the bags of Wheaties that I would buy and search (20 years ago), then return the ones I didn't want at a slight discount. I recall paying $60 per bag of 5,000, I searched them with my son and we both have nearly complete collections as a result. I have upgraded most of my coins through the years, but some examples from those bags still remain in my album, and in my son's.

 

Wow... no coin counting machines in Chicago, but plenty of pay phones. Amazing...

 

I'm not referring to coin counting machines, which all banks have, and Brinks, and CTA.
It sounds like they are talking about machines you put coins into and get currency in return.
I haven't seen that. : )
The pay phones are mostly gone but you can find some at the airport, etc.

 

CoinStar machines here in California are mostly in the larger grocery stores, ppl drop their buckets of change in em and out comes a slip receipt then you take it to the checkout and you get the cash. Multimillion idea for whoever thought of it!

 

I'm sure there's CoinStar's around Chicago, you've probably just never looked for them. Here's what they look like;

 

Well, frankly, I haven't been out much in the past few years.
When I did, I was going someplace specific and not wandering around,
so I have missed a lot of changes.

I wish I could get out more but I can walk about a block, maybe.
A coin show would be too much, for example. : (

 

Okay, I finally got a 'coinstar' find. Standing in line at the grocery store I kept hearing coins hit the reject slot, remembering this thread I had to give it a shot. I went up to the lady and told her I would buy any coins that the machine rejects, she said that's not necessary and gave me the coins that were rejected. The outcome, some pennies that were stuck together and a 54' dime, I was happy.

 

Haha! It's funny how quickly times change... it's a little off topic but if you want a laugh, check out collegehumor.com's parody of "24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot".

 

Yes, there are CoinStars in the Chicago area.

 

Here's what a pay phone looks like.

 

I saw that.

Hilarious.