Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

Three really corroded zincolns that I threw into the dustbin.

 

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You threw it in the trash? If I were you I would have taken it to the bank and exchanged it for newer cents. I just can not even think about throwing away money! How sad throwing away money no matter how beat up it is.

 

I've tried to redeem corroded up cents and it is a real crap shoot. And you have to pick your battles - I don't care to do it over three cents I found in a coinstar.

 

"Find a penny, pick it up..."

...and you stand a small chance of wrenching your back, or getting hit by a car that doesn't see you, or even just getting something nasty on your hands.

Between the diminished value of the cent, and the composition change that has them oozing mildly toxic and potentially corrosive chemicals once they're damaged, we've reached a point where "picking up a penny" is more likely to be BAD luck.

Maybe it's easier if you tell yourself "they aren't really money any more".

 

I just don't bend like I used to.

 

I know that feeling.

 

Anybody have a best time of day to check the coinstars?

 

Well... Instead of throwing it away, you should leave it there for someone who might want it and have use for it. Just my opinion.

 

I see your point however, every penny counts. I myself being young and certainly not rich, I like to save them up. I tend to pick up evey coin I find. last year I found over five dollars in pennies alone. I will have to count up the rest of the change and let you guys know just how much I found. I found over one hundred dollars in coin alone last year around my high school. Just looking at my stats, I bet it would change your opinion on the topic.

 

I'm sure there are many of us that frequently come across damaged coins. I keep a jar for all the mutilated coins I come across. While it may be a fools errand, I figure in about a decade I'll have enough busted coin to ship back to the Mint for redemption.

 

So a summary of what happens to coin machine etc finds:

Silver - save
wheats etc - save
regular change - into donation bins, Wal-Mart and Kroger have them
foreign - save
damaged - save, mostly bents that I flatten with a hammer.
damaged but heavily corroded - dustbinned.

 

You forgot all the coins stuck together with chewing gum and other unknown disgusting substances... ;-)

 

QCC
Coinstar discovery
5 dimes no silver
7 Lincolns including a 1936 Wheatie with a small T in trust???
57 cents

 

Oh, I soak those in hot water.

Todays finds including a couple of stickies:

40c in Canadian dimes
10 cents in Canadian 5c
1 Canadian plated steel cent
Two dimes
2 stuck together cents

 

Today's coinstar find was a empty 2009 mint set with all the coins cut out but none of those coins were in the reject bin, in the reject bin was a just 1993 canadian half dollar.

 

One Canadian 10c
2 USAsian dimes.

 

2 dimes: one cdn and one usa in a coinstar.

 

Nothing in the coinstar machine at the supermarket. Figured I would go to the customer service counter and buy a book of stamps since the price is going up 2 cents a piece tomorrow. Got 10 cents change. Happened to be a 1964 dime. Saw the toning first and new right away. Doesn't show up as good in the pic. I guess the government raising the price of stamps deserves some credit for this find.

 

20 cents, 1 nickel, 18 dimes, and 8 quarters in a coinstar.

 

One thin dime
10 cents