You know you have a problem when .....

coinstar rejects silver?

 

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When Dealer's are calling you up and giving you first shot at a lot of coins they just got a at show...I just cant say no "sometimes"...today I picked up for my Modern Silver Commems collection the 1995D Olympic Blind Runner, 1997 Jackie Robinson Silver Uncirc 1$, and the 1996D Gymnastics "Rings" coins..I just got in the mail 2002 1oz AGE Uncirc, 2005 Platinum 1/10 th MS-69, 1988 1/2 AGE Uncirc, and 1996 AGE 1/2 0z uncirc all MS 69, oh yea the 1996 National Community Service 1$ is on the in as well...Whew!!!! Time to take a break...

RickieB (the B is for Broke)

 

...when you see others having some kind of type set and you want your own unique type of type set albums. And when you calculate how much you need to collect all, it comes out to a horror price :EEEK!

And the sad bit is, you are just half way through and the very last few cost too much

 

Yep. Coinstar determines what a coin is by its weight. The weight difference between silver coins and clad ones is significant enough for the Coinstar machine to pick it up and reject them. The weight is also the reason Coinstar rejects darkside and greyside coins.

As for me, I knew there was trouble when I began redesigning one of the closets in the guest room to hold my coins, and then began limiting who could stay as a guest by whether or not I could trust them to not rummage through the coins (sorry mother-in-law, you've got to stay at the nearest hotel, which happens to be about 15 miles away).

 

For me it was when I over heard the lady at the local cafe I frequent say to one of her co-workers "Here comes that guy with all the funny coins". So I used two SAC's, two SBA's, an Ike, four Kennedys and some new bison nickles to pay for lunch one day.

O.K. maybe not one day but it wasn't more than twice a week.

 

Next time, instead of spending it, you send it to me please!

 

Join the club, we have T-Shirts and coffee mugs.

 

Send me one please!

 

You train your kids to haunt the coinstar machines as soon as we get into the store so they can enrichen their burgening coin collections.

 

You know you have a problem when .....
1. Your "slabbed" coins form a stack taller than you.
2. You've actually stacked your "slabbed" coins to see if they are taller than you.

:smile

 

Wow I thought I had a lot of time on my hands when I weighed myself in pennies.

Well I weighed myself than calculated how many pennies I weighed. I then proceeded to weigh out a bag and took it to the bank to count and compared it to the first number to see how correct I was. I was only off by .32 cents.

Yes I know I need help!

 

$.32 could be the difference in a meal or a trip to the restroom. That is really accurate. That is also really pathetic :mouth: . I have to say - figuring your weight in pennies is worse than stacking your slabs.

 

When I almost broke my toe on my penny change jar, which is a gallon wine jug, each demonation has its own jug

 

When you go blind from searching rolls.

When you get carpal tunnel from wrapping too many rolls.

When the choice comes to go to work or to search the rolls you bought off of ebay, you would rather stay home.

When your coin returns weigh more than you do and you need a rolling suitcase to get it outside and into your car.

When your milage and handling is effected by having so many coins in the back seat.

When the back of the car is 2" or more lower from all the weight.

When you have to make 2 or more trips to bring coin into the bank.

When the teller says damn that's a lot of coins!

When you have to lie where you got all your change and mint boxes from.

When you return $200 or more in pennies in a single trip.

When you have to get coin from one bank and make returns to another bank so they don't catch on.

When you get the your return back as change from everyone in town for weeks.

 

The branch at my bank already has the change request form filled out by the time I get to the counter, lol. They know me well for my half dollar and nickel searching.

 

You intentionally use the biggest bill you have when buying stamps at the post office vending machine so you have more dollar coins to search through.

The businesses you frequent recognize you as "the half dollar guy" because of your tendency to spend the half dollars at their places that you rejected from your roll searching.

You resurrect a thread that's been dead for two weeks because you suddenly thought of 3 more reasons why you're more obssesed than you previously thought, lol...