Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

If you like greasy cardboard masquerading as something palatable. Actually, curiously, they work in the arcade at a local bowling alley and that is where they will end up.

 

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Gotta love finding an early Washer!

 

Been a bit of a drought find wise until today, noticed the four coins peaking out of the reject slot and the one dime was a wee bit lighter in colour and my silver loving heart started thumping. I hurriedly placed the dime in my wallet and the other coins in my pocket thinking oh, cool, I found a 1964 silver dime.

After I got home I pulled the coins out and checked the dime more closely:



That is a nice EF-AU 1946, not a condition I would expect to find an early dated silver Roosevelt from.

 

I saw a teenager at the coinstar this morning at the local stop n shop. I watched from afar to see if anything landed in the reject slot. One penny did. I've found a 1943 steel in the reject slot in the past, so i stayed and watched. The machine really tells you to check the reject slot and the dump area. He checked several times, and found the penny, which he placed on the counter of the machine. I had just cashed in my recyclables, so i had a little loose change. I walked over and offered a quarter for his penny. He looked at me like i was crazy, but was more than happy to swap. It wasn't anything special, just a regular old penny. Wonder why the Coinstar spit it out?

 

Can't believe I'm the last post...
Same machine.

What the heck? The reject bin was to the top. I thought, holy moly, there's silver there! All those dimes! Nope. Why do they spit out so much normal change? Well over 2 usable bucks there.

 

Found these in my grocery store counstar. Have no clue why they were rejected

 

One lone cent in the Wal-Mart Coinstar. Good to see it's really old!

 

At least it wasn't a Chuck-E-Cheese token or a partial Zincoln.

 

Thats a pretty ancient vacuum.

 

So, if you use it do you get a bag that is a vacuum?

[Think about it.]

 

'43 steel cent. Weight and magnetic probably rejected it.

 

They spit out normal change when the internal sorter gets overwhelmed with junk getting dumped in it, in other words it avoids getting jammed by kicking stuff out. Another cause of normal change getting spit out is proximity to something that was rejected, in those cases the foreign were being rejected and the US coins went along for the ride.

 

Thanks for the explanation. I thought i had found a small hoard of silver dimes and wheat pennies, lol.

 

The only find this week other than some munchy looking zincolns like the one in the upper left corner.

 

2 us dimes, one cdn dime, and a cent in a coinstar a couple days ago.

 

2 Canadian 10c, and two narsty zincolns sadly no silver.

 

Not 100% sure you're aware. No pix means it didn't happen.

 

about two weeks ago checking a lot of reject slots I found a loon and a tune but not at the same time, I,ve
been finding lots of Canadian quarters , dimes, and nickels.

 

No pics means my lazy bum didn't go to all the work to take and upload a pic for non-silver or numismatic finds.

 

This a.m. two Canadian, one Poland and one Samoa. While I was there, the clerk was clearing a jam in the reject drop tube, the plug was a woman's platinum ring.