Coinstars - Rejection Trays?

I was behind a guy at a Coinstar about a year ago. It dropped a bunch of dimes, and I bought them from him. They turned out to be almost all silver. I've found a few more since then, but it's rare.

I've made a habit of checking when I see them and have had some luck. One time I found a toonie and a few other foreign coins that were rejected. There have been many times when I have found a handful of coins that were nothing special. I am lucky in that my girlfriend works a customer service counter a few feet away from a coinstar. In her three years of working there quite a few weird coins have been found or brought to her by customers who were upset the machine would not take them. One time an older lady had 10ish silver dimes and just wanted her dollar. My girlfriend tried to tell her that she could take them to any coin store or pawn shop and get more but she was insistent. Well I ended up getting some of the dimes for my collection. Besides that I have found a couple silver dimes in them.

The homeless and unemployed scour those machines around here. In this town, picking 10-cent soda can returnables out of the ditch has become a full-time job for some.

I'm picking up quite a few euro coins from the reject box, which is great, because we can use them when we visit family in Europe.

Well, I seem to always fill the machine when I return my searched cents and the teller has to come over to switch the bag in the machine.
The tellers are letting me grab the coins in the internal reject tube. I examined the machine when they opened it. Internally, they get rejected coins in two places:

1. Underneath the slot where you dump in the coins there is a magnet. It attracts all of the coins with any metal that would cling to a magnet. It was loaded with canadians.
2. At the bottom center of the machine, there is a tube that usually contains rejected coins. I guess this is the tube that feeds the slot outside of the machine where you can find reject coins when you dump, or where others who dump forget to take them. I guess it sometimes gets blocked, and the coins don't go into the external reject tray.

The teller said these were my rejects, since I was the last to use the machine. I didn't argue. It contained 5.46 dollars/cents in Euro's(about 6.50 US worth), and .31 cents in US. It's a good way to grab those coins if they open the machine after you dump, because you were the last person to use the machine.

Thanks for the reply - they've carted away both coinstars in my area! I went to check it and it was gone, went to see if the other was still there and zip. Gone too. Must not have been very successful.

However, I do think its awesome that people, even if they are homeless, go picking through rubbish for cans. More recycled.

I checked at my local grocery last week and found a Canadian quarter, Canadian cent, Japanese (Korean?) coin about the size of a dime but aluminum - haven't ID'd it yet, and a US cent ground down to the diameter of a dime. Years ago in California, I walked by one and saw a coin sitting right on top. It was a british pound coin (silver I believe) that wouldn't go through so someone just abandoned it.

Never found anything