Coinstar

I am lazy. For cheap oddball coins. I just go the the dealer's junk boxes. Some of the most curious coins I have found come from this source. Sometimes, I just pick the most unidentifiable coins, just for the challenge.

With this strategy, the find rate for valuable numismatic items is surprisingly high, and you get the fun of trying to identify some or all aspects of them. Some of the best value for money items I have came this way. Sometimes years can pass before a full attribution can be achieved.

The reason you can get away with it is that the dealers haven't the time to investigate all of what first appear as low value coins. It is a bit raking over old mullock heaps at old mining sites. I have done this with sapphire and opal mullock heaps.

Once, I found a G/VG 1935 D quarter in the coinstar at my local supermarket

It is worth looking. Last year I found over $3.00 in face 90%. None so far this year but I am up over $5.00 in Canadian coins. And seven or eight various Euros€. Seems I'm at the store almost everyday so why not look?

I found a nice 1956-D wheatie in VF/EF. The date was obscured with some gunk so I had to do some light fingernail conservation to reveal it :)

There's never anything when I look.. People are just too frugal around here! :P lol

still nothing, not even a steel canadian cent

found a 1988 1 pfennig, 1991 1 sen and a canadian penny....to the world coin jar!