Coinstar

Nothing. Never found anything.

Last time I dumped my coins I found at the coinstar machine: Two different buttons, a piece of a shoelace, and the cap from the valve stem of a bicycle tire innertube. What a score!

Speaking of coin gambling, a fun game I found is something I call vending machine gambling. If you put a coin in a soda machine or other such similar machine, then push the coin return, it will give you back a different coin than the one you put in. I do this with quarters to try to find State Quarters that I don't have. I never find anything spectacular, but I did find a Yellowstone quarter a couple months ago from a Coke machine.

At the local coin stars and TCF counters, this year I've found 5 silver dimes, 2 steel pennies, dozens of mexican, canadian, british and Euro coins and about $1 in regular old US coins.

I wouldn't go on a coinstar circuit unless you plan on hitting a bunch of banks on the way. I just check them on the way out of the grocery store when I'm there or when I'm dumping coin.

My wife says I embarrass her when I check the rejection bins, but I keep doing it anyway.

I find a lot of foreign money, a few silver dimes, and 2 War Nickels.

Thought this was a good idea just didn't have the $ to follow through. I called up coin star to see if it was possible to look though the change at some point. I was told no. But. When they empty the machines I could purchase the bin of coins. Its all done with the Internet. Remotely they know how much money is in that machine. But first I would have to mail a $40 deposit to their main HQ. with all my information. Then I could choose a machine and wait for it to be emptied or they would let me know what one was due to be emptied in my area. I'm like ohhh yea were going to hit the jack pot here. Until they told me they average approx $900 - $1300 a Pick up. That's a little too much money for me right now even though your pretty much getting your money back. in Coins) I never sent the $40 in with my information. But while talking to the guy he told me a few Wholly Crap stories. Gold Coins S vBD ect. Then when your all done all you have to do is wrap the coins and bring them to a bank. Or bring it back to a coin star. lol but for that % they charge to count your coins I wouldn't recommend it. And its not always on the money. You can use the menu button on the machine to get the phone number. Or on the side/ face plate or send them an email https://www.info@coinstar.com . . Hope this is useful to some of you.

i found a chuckie cheese token.. ill keep trying

I've mentioned before that my local coin shop at one point was able to buy CoinStar reject bags - everything that was rejected ended up in these bags, NOT in the front of the machine - from the Brinks company, and I've found everything listed above plus guitar picks, St. Christopher medals, silver coins and coins from several hundred nations ... and heavily-damaged or encrusted coins, washers, slugs, paperclips, and enough lint to stuff a pillow (for a dog, maybe) and enough dirt to grow a petunia. And one gold coin, a 2.5 1945 Mexican peso, and other moderately-valuable coins which had to have come from someone's purloined collection. Plus a few LMC's, nickels, and clad dimes and quarters which should have gone through but for some reason didn't. Going through these bags is a great way to keep an idiot like me busy for hours!