Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

I envy that impressive pull of Australian coins.

 

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Big pile of change in the Harris-Teeter machine this evening -- one or two foreign, two or three dollars worth of quarters, nickels, dimes, and cents, mostly stuck together in pairs. No silver. I'll confess that I took a few quarters for use in Aldi carts, but left the rest for someone else.

 

While the Bahama quarter (1966) is the correct size, it is made out of nickel
and weighs 6.9 so I am not going to try it. I did put in a Bahamian penny
which was the right size and weighed 2.5.
Bahamas and Panama are always 1-1 with the USD and many of their coins
will fit our coin machines and ours in theirs.
So I don't know what the deal is with the quarter.

 

ummm, Bahamian pennies are tiny. There is no way to confuse a Bahamian penny for a US penny.

In fact, the only Bahamian coin that is even close would be the quarter. Their nickels are bigger than ours, and their dimes are a star-shaped coin.

 

Yes it was Bahamas. It was the same sized lined up with a stack up pennies and I weighed it at 2.5 and the coin acceptor did not reject it.
Here are the specs from 1990-1999
Diameter 19.02 mm
Weight 2.5800 g
Material Copper Plated Zinc
Ours are 19.0 and 2.5 copper plated zinc.

While the quarter was the same size the weight was too heavy at 6.9g compared to 5.67g and the metal content was nickel.

 

Helped a older man at the coinstar yesterday. He gave me all the rejects. About $13 in Canadian and a little from Mexico. I gave $5 for it. Both are happy.

 

1962-D dime.

 

1964 Roosie and 1941 wheatie today in the coinstar reject tray..

 

Took longer than I expected to get pics.

 

Seems like a French trade token?
What is that?

 

From CVS - bicentennial quarter and SILVER dime!

 

Today's Coinstar finds— a pair of Rosies (1953-D and 1963-D).

 

Handful of mostly foreign change today.

Nearly 5 Euros worth (including a pair of 2 Euro coins)

80 cents Canadian

50 Kopek (2003)

Swiss 10 rappen & two 5 Rappen coins

1992 UK 10 pence (discontinued larger size)

53 cents modern US plus a 1941 wheatie. Was there a change in weight or composition in 1941 that accounts for so many coins from that year being rejected?

 

No. Usually, if they dump too many coins in at once that can cause it.
Also, once a coin gets rejected (foreign coin, wrong metal) often some perfectly good coins behind them get swept down with it.
There can be a machine malfunction.
There is also an internal reject bin. As I watched a guy service the machine one time, and he dumped out some mangled dimes and pennies as well as a nice Eisenhower.

 

Had two good visits to the coinstar at my local grocery store. The first visit resulted in a silver dime and a 25 Kurus coin from Turkey. Tonight didn't have any foreign coins but did have another silver dime. I'm happy to say that I have reached the point where I can tell if its silver waiting in the reject bin on sight before I grab whatever is in there.

 

Reached into a reject tray and scored a pile of sticky cherry cola coins.
A quick acetone bath helped a little.




.

 

I usually just use dish soap and water. I soak them in a mug I use for my treasure hunting coins that need to be cleaned up.
The goo comes off, I dry them with a paper towel and they are spendable.

 

Been on at least a few months drought until today. Not quite the motherlode but hopefully this'll get things started again.

Washer
Cent
Nickel
Mexican peso

 

Some euro cents and coins from the Philippines.

Though my favorite has to be the beat up 43-P war nickel

 

I just went to cash in some coins at a local credit union this afternoon and ended my skunk streak with a generic version of a Coinstar. Ended up finding an Eisenhower Dollar along with a pair of elongated cents from Universal Studios Orlando, and a mangled dime to round it out.