Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

I guess that's one term I could use for the gunk I saw caked on the floor when they moved the CoinStar in Food Lion.

 

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36 cents in the slot. I guess it's better than a kick in the head.
Barely.

 

Dime in the slot. That kick is coming closer to my head.

 

Skunked today, others are moving in on my honey holes.
Not many world coins in a while.

 

LOL. Must be the NEW guy. Probably a homeless person.

 

Usually just bad timing. I sent my son back in to the foyer once to collect about 15 bucks, that was when he was younger, Maybe I am battling him.

 

They're still out there . . . .

Z

 

1968 cinco centavos on the shelf with a few brownies, one I tossed and the other 2 cleaned up. NGC claims this is worth .20 cents in VF and .50 in XF (it's not XF but it is in very nice shape, in hand, crappy photo.) She will put it on a piece of jewelry.

 

An interesting one I found in a Coinstar mere minutes ago.

 

Could be a vise job. Paddy would know. If not it's a big score.

 

My wife lamented today that there were no lilies in the house for Easter, so while she and my three children were watching the Jesus Film, I quickly whipped up a batch of brownies (she's been craving a lot of chocolate recently), threw them in the oven, and snuck out to Jewel Osco for a bouquet. While out, I couldn't help but check the Coinstar reject bin, even though it's been empty for me for about a year. Lo and behold! A 1961 D dime. Between free silver and successfully surprising my wife with flowers, I feel very blessed.

 

Stop! Hammer time!

You can even see the print from the hammer head on the reverse.

 

Found .95 cents in the self serve change cup. I assume this was because of some error in rounding. The grocery stores (here) never round up, they only round down. So I am thinking they weren't expecting any change when they saw the amount, but I can't figure out the scenario.

 

Yeah, that one's a bit puzzling.

Harris-Teeter has a round-down policy as well. If your order is $1.04, and you put in a dollar bill, it waits patiently for the rest of your total. If you put in another dollar bill, it sucks it in, chews on it, then spits it (or another one) back out - and you're paid up. (You owe $1.04, but $1 isn't enough, but if you pay $2 you get $1 back in change).

 

The one I frequent has been shut down for a week, just opened up yesterday.

 

Our self-checkout machines will round any change up to the nearest nickel now so as not to need to dispense pennies. Was a funny situation once where someone was short 1 cent on their payment, so they put in another dollar... then the machine rounded their change of 99 cents up to a dollar, giving them a dollar back anyway.

We have a policy of keeping any abandoned change (I'll check it for any interesting coins, and trade out my change for it if there's anything worth keeping); quite a few people leave without bothering to take it.