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Re: coinstar finds

Postby TwoAndAHalfCents » Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:58 am

Found in the Coinstar machine while dumping a bag a zinc today:

- Parking token

- Philippines 1 Peso (http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1681.html )
This one has an exchange value of $0.02447 but a metal value of $0.06332.

- Spain 2 Euro (http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces88.html
Two euros is around two and half dollars. Not a bad find. :thumbup:
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby uthminsta » Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:18 am

Coin return slots are ALWAYS empty here. But we were visiting the in-laws over Thanksgiving, and got 28c at one coinstar. That same night, I found exactly 28c again in the parking lot of a movie theater! :)
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby cwgii » Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:55 am

always finding stuff., today there were 5 tokens, 5 pennies and a 1952 belgium franc
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby spacemanX » Sun Dec 09, 2012 6:12 pm

local coin counter (non coinstar)
1 bahamas penny in trash

coinstar
12 cents - copper
1 english penny
2 each german 1 pfennings
1 bahamas penny
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby uthminsta » Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:36 pm

spacemanX wrote:local coin counter - 1 bahamas penny in trash ... coinstar ... 1 bahamas penny

Shoot! I wish I could find Bahamians. I have a page of those in a binder.
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby spacemanX » Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:26 pm

uthminsta wrote:
spacemanX wrote:local coin counter - 1 bahamas penny in trash ... coinstar ... 1 bahamas penny

Shoot! I wish I could find Bahamians. I have a page of those in a binder.



take a cruise over and spend them all. life is good :wave:
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby Saabman » Mon Dec 31, 2012 10:03 pm

Just a quick trip down to the grocery store for some adult malt beverages, checked the coin star and lo and behold.......9 silver Rosie's!!!!! Wooohoooooo!


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Re: coinstar finds

Postby plus1hdcp » Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:40 pm

Just got back from the coinstar to exchange a bag of zincs for a Lowes gift card to get some paint. My son found $1.43
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby hobo finds » Tue Jan 01, 2013 4:56 pm

Saabman wrote:Just a quick trip down to the grocery store for some adult malt beverages, checked the coin star and lo and behold.......9 silver Rosie's!!!!! Wooohoooooo!


Happy New year to you all!!!!


That find paid for your beverages :thumbup:
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby bookshelf » Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:02 am

Found silver today - 1964 US quarter!
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby MUTiger » Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:12 pm

I did not find anything in the reject bin but I did leave 3 nasty, corroded, missing metal zinc pennies in the reject bin of the coinstar after dumping $75 today for Amazon certificates for lights on my new garage. These pennies are the type that you run through 5 times and they still get rejected. Somebody will reach in there and think they hit the jackpot. :lol: :lol:

The last batch of about 8 of them I put in my scrap steel bucket.

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Re: coinstar finds

Postby knibloe » Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:11 pm

I have been telling my wife for a couple of years to check the coin stars. She complains that she never finds anything. Yesterday she came back from the store and gave me a handful of change:

1 dime
1 1961 canadian nickel
1 2006 canadian nickel
2 copper canadian pennier
9 LMC
1 1940 wheat penny

Said there was money in it on the way in and on the way out the the 1961 was in it, so she checked it twice and scored twice.

Way to go baby!!!
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby bookshelf » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:30 pm

Found a 1974 quarter as I was dumping about $20 in pennies. Tossed the quarter in with the pennies. Then I filled up the machine! Had to pay the 9.8% fee! :evil:

Had a penny roll under the machine. When I went to retrieve it, found a bunch of loose change. I was able to get back my penny plus $1.35, including 3 copper pennies!

Time to look under the Coinstar each time I dump some pennies.
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby hobo finds » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:34 pm

Pocket the quarter and pay no fee on it.... :P
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby agmoose » Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:12 pm

.22 Canadian
4 Wheaties
1 Bahamas penny
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby MUTiger » Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:35 pm

Based on Bookshelf's post I looked under the coinstar machine today and found a dime.

I left a nasty corroded zinc in the reject tray for the next guy. I put it through 5 times and it got rejected.

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Re: coinstar finds

Postby Franco American » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:10 pm

Found a sticky clad dime in the coin return chute
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby MUTiger » Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:26 pm

Found one zinc and a Mexican $1 the other day.

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Re: coinstar finds

Postby bookshelf » Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:00 pm

I guess this week has been lucky for me. Today's Coinstar find was a 1954S Roosevelt dime.
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby Dano » Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:10 pm

My son always checks the coinstar too. The other day he found a 1953-D Roosie!
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby Numis Pam » Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:24 pm

Just made my second coinstar find.... 2 stuck together nickels...1 zinc cent...and.... :clap: DrumRoll Please.... :D
a 1952 silver Rosie!!! cha-ching!!!
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby RedRockGirl » Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:24 pm

2 Steel and a 39 Wheat.
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby TheJonasCollegeFund » Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:24 pm

Numis Pam wrote:Just made my second coinstar find.... 2 stuck together nickels...1 zince cent...and.... :clap: DrumRoll Please.... :D
a 1952 silver Rosie!!! cha-ching!!!

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Re: coinstar finds

Postby silverflake » Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:30 pm

Coinstar find at Kroger today:

1 dime (not silver)
2 pennies (neither copper)

12 cents I didn't have before checking.
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Re: coinstar finds

Postby hobo finds » Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:35 pm

silverflake wrote:Coinstar find at Kroger today:

1 dime (not silver)
2 pennies (neither copper)

12 cents I didn't have before checking.


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