Reject Tube & Coinstar Finds

Funny what ends up in people's change jars. Got an undated (or rather formerly dated) Seated Liberty dime that was turned into a love token. Blew me away when I saw it.
A guy came into the store I worked at with $400+ in change. Coin counter got clogged about half way through the batch. I walked over to help him, figuring the bag inside was full. Sorter was still spinning so I opened the top cover and found it was this little gem caught in the slot. The machine ended up rejecting a 1944 1 Rupee that's .500 silver, a 1861 Half Penny from Britain, a 1940 2 1/2 centesimos from Panama, and an 1863 IHC (sadly with a hole in the center) after we got it going again. Guy wasn't interested in the rejects and so I asked if I could have them. He even handed me a watch battery and some buttons that got rejected. Didn't keep those obviously.

I can post pics of the other coins if anyone is interested.

 

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Great find on that love token. Looks great.

 

Thanks.

 

That love token is cool! Found $1.14 in US change today at the Walmart coinstar but no silver.

 

Please post more pictures, I think we all here would love to see them!

 

Canada 25 cents
4 USian dimes
6 USian cents
1 1944 Wheat
1 NAMCO token.

 

One Canada cent in a coinstar.

 

I wish NAMCO tokens had numismatic value, I'd be rolling in money right now!

 

32c in cents - including the sole numismatic treasure a 1919 wheat
15c in nickels
$1.30 in dimes
1 Bahamas cent 2015
1 Canadian 10c

 

Today's coinstar find was $2 in quarters.

 

How do you get "coinstar finds"? Do you just happen to walk by and get lucky at finding money in the reject tray or...?

 

That's exactly what you do! 70% of the time will be nothing, 25% of the time there will be something of little value (corroded penny, arcade token, low-value foreign coin), and that remaining 5% is when you find a handful of mixed change or maybe a silver coin or two.

I've also found the occasional coin in the hopper (where you pour the coins in), on top of the machine, or near it (i.e. on the Red Box kiosk that's next to many Coinstars in my area).

 

2 zincolns and a quarter - to the Habitat for Humanity donation box.

 

Nice, I was thinking all these people worked for Coinstar or something doing service & repairs on the machines. How often you check it? Every time I look, I find zilch.

 

I work in liquor sales so I hit a lot of stores during the course of the day, the percentages in theshoegazer's post seem pretty accurate though. Some stores I never find anything - others I find stuff more often. Some of it depends on the lighting where the machine is, some is the demographics of the people using the machine etc. The one store that is worst for finds is Wal-Mart, usually their machines are in well lit customer service areas and either the person using the machine cleans out the reject slot or the Wal-Mart employees clean it out to supplement their meager incomes.

 

Today's coinstar find was $3.43 in change and in that change was a 1964 silver dime.

 

Today a miserable plated Canadian cent and some rolled cent from Chicago.

 

Found these on the hopper the other day! Caymans!

 

Steel Penny found in a reject batch. Whaddayall think? Keeper?
Before pics



Then two days soaking in vinegar ---> after pics

 

Yea I'd keep it but then again I haven't found one yet

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