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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bugo, post: 2346320, member: 53226&quot;]A post on another thread on this forum got me to thinking about Coinstar machines and demographics. You have many variables when it comes to each Coinstar machine. Is the machine in a wealthy or poor part of town? Is it in a big city or a small town? Rural or urban? College town or military town? What parts of the country are the machines in? Age?</p><p><br /></p><p>The Coinstar machine that I usually check is in a neighborhood of upper middle class homes and a neighborhood of wealthy homes. This particular store is always cleaner and a much more pleasant place to shop than many stores owned by the same company. I live in a medium sized city in the lower midwestern United States. I usually end up checking the Coinstar machine anywhere from 3 times a week to up to as many as 10 a month. I&#039;ve been checking the Coinstar machines for about 2 1/2 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>Over the last 6 months or so I&#039;ve found several silver coins in this machine. Most of them have been FDR dimes but one was a 1966 80% Canadian quarter. I found a 1905-O dime not too long after I started looking. And the very first time I ever checked the bin, I pulled out a French 50 Centimes 83% silver coin. I&#039;ve found a few other interesting coins, mostly foreign, and a couple of tokens. I wonder how many silver coins I would have found in another city in another state where everything else was equal or how many I would have found if I lived in a retirement town or a college town. I wonder if I had been in the poorer part of town, if I would have found any silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>What demographic do you see that are mostly responsible for accidentally selling silver quarters for 22.5 cents? What demographic would be in possession of silver coins, but didn&#039;t know that they were anything special? Would 40 year old dads be more apt to look through their change for silver than 45 year old dads? Would a rich person not care enough to go through his change? Are there big jugs of change that are suddenly being dumped? The musings are endless.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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