Does Coinstar Make You Go Crazy?

I have approx. $1600.00 in roll coins in my house that I have compiled over the last 5 years or so. I had been stashing it away for a vacation or something.

Now that I have been bitten by the collecting bug....I am in the process of breaking all rolls open and sorting through it all!

I am through about $160 worth so far and havent found anything accept 2 wheaties. Although I'm sure there are things I don't know to look for. It seems like all I come across are '64 Jefferson nickles, and 65 wash. quarters.......I almost feel like its all been picked through...but I have a ways to go. Hopefully I get lucky!

And I could really use a good magnifying glass!

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Originally posted by Tpatna

Do you guys think, most people look for old coins before they dump them, or do most people just cash in? All I know, when I saw that person dumping a 5 lbs coffee can full of half dollars, I could just not stop wondering if any were silver.....

Tim

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I doubt it, I know before I started collecting a quarter was worth 25 cent no matter what date the dern thing was, as long as it was a Washington quarter it was worth 25 cent to me and thats all I expected to get out of it and I am sure that collectors that do search change are in the minority. Up until I joined this forum I still felt the same way, if it wasn't different from anything I regularly saw in pocket change that that is what it was, just pocket change worth face value. I knew nothing about key dates of specific coins all I knew was I liked the look and feel of Morgan dollars and wanted as many as I could get my hands on and anything else that looked like stuff you would get from the local corner market was only worth face value. I used to save all my change just because I didn't want it weighing down my pockets, of course I would take all the pennies out and toss them in the garbage before dropping the silver colored change in the 5 gallon buckets. Of course my views have changed a little now but then I didn't think a penny was worth the hastle of having it weigh the pockets down in your pants so I have probably threw away more pennies than alot of people have in their collections because I practiced this from 1986 when I got my first job all the way through around 2005. And when I first came to this board and read that some big names on this board was proud enough to put in their sig line that they collected licoln cents I was flabergasted and thought it had to be someone high up on the forums grand child or something and had been here since the conception of the forum and thats how they had so many posts and everyone knew them, of course like I said now my views have changed but that is just the way it was a short time ago

only benefit to coinstar where I live is it spits out sacagawea's every once awhile. same with the post office.

otherwise, people just dump loads of change in there not knowing what they are throwing away.