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Do you guys go to Wal-mart like everyday or something? |
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Quote:Normic67Do you guys go to Wal-mart like everyday or something? I take my dogs out for a run in the mornings. On the way home I usually stop at my local grocery to buy whatever my wife tells me to and a newspaper, especially since the stationary store when out of business and I can't get the paper there any more. I've only been in Walmarts when I'm away from home. I have no idea where the one nearest me is, but I know it's not close. About every other week I go to a grocery store farther from home to get stuff my local store doesn't carry, and I'll check there. In recent months I've convinced my wife to start checking when she goes. It didn't hurt that her first ever check resulted in a beat up silver dime. Since then we've had discussions about how to subtly check without giving the game away. |
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Finds over the last month, or so. Sparse until today's merc.   |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Nice find! Wonder why the others reject?
Did you try to put them through again.
The Canadian penny may be different.
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04/24/2014 4:19 pm
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United States
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i would never try to put a silver coin back into the machine...what if it actually takes the coin? Then you lose.
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United States
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My best find, besides a couple of foreign coins, was a nice and shiny 1943 steely. Nothing else though.:(
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United States
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Finds since April 24. No silver or any great value. My international "collection", however, continues to grow. In addition to the coins pictured, common circulating coins include 2 quarters, seven dimes and 11 cents for a total of $1.31 which will go to the Salvation Army at Christmas time. The four wheats include that massively corroded '43, probably the saddest steely I own.   Israel, Canada, Mexico, Ireland and, I think, that Euro originated in Greece. Has anyone seen the token before? Probably from an arcade.   |
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United States
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Found a 2 cent Euro in the rejection box of a Montana coinstar
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United States
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All at once, I found a 1941 dime, an Irish Euro, a 1983 English half penny and 10 pence in perfect condition, and a New Mexico and New York bus token. Nothing valuable but interesting to me. The dime wasn't even in the reject slot. It was sitting on top of the machine like someone found it and didn't want it.
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United States
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My "haul" since July. Not much. The best find was by my wife last week. The East Caribbean States one dollar is probably worth almost one dollar. http://www.catawiki.com/catalog/coi...-dollar-1981   I can understand the foreign coins and the chewed up cents being rejected, but I wonder why the good cents, nickels and dimes were. Seems odd. Well, the Salvation Army will benefit from those. |
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United States
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After months of checking, I finally saw something shiny in the coin return as I walked into the grocery store. Full of hope and excitement, I reached in and pulled out.....
...A 2013 shield cent. I guess I'll keep looking.
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United States
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Got my first coin star find in a few years - 1988 (I think) Canadian dime. I don't know how you Canadians do it, but with or without my glasses I had a hard time reading the date.
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United States
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2 Silver Dimes Last week, 1960 and 64.
Was quite shocked.
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United States
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I got a Canadian quarter out of the counter at the bank tonight. The reject tray was empty when I started and it kept kicking out a few of my nickels and cents and then it jammed up. The teller opened it up and cleaned the sensor and at the end of dumping there was it was in the reject tray.  |
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United States
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I went to the store and was going to check the Coinstar, but there was a guy at it who looked like he was maybe 16. He had a BUNCH of rolls of wrapped coins in this box at the machine. I was watching him dump all the contents into the Coinstar. I obviously could not see what the dates were on the coins he was dumping, but based on the look of the wrappers and box, I think they were pretty old. I offered to give him $5.00 over the face value of what he had wrapped, but he said he wanted the gift card option and would not sell. GRRR! I didn't have the stomach to watch him dump a possible gold mine into that all-consuming pit of darkness that is the Coinstar machine.
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