Coinstar Finds! (Including Bank Counters And Other Machines)

Nice finds!

It's been a long while since my last .25 broke the streak today. Sitting in the reject tray.

Fantastic!

Found 40 cents in clad dimes and a 1958 d silver dime since last week.

Let's keep the streak coming!

Thank you for the welcome, Jbuck. I'm really enjoying this thread and seeing everyone's finds!

Occasionally I get my hands on other things because I count the cashier's tills and deal with what's in the safe at the store, so I've gotten neat things from there too!

Fantastic!

Today I had my best Coinstar haul for ages! I only visited this supermarket as it sells my cat's favorite food, and stocks were getting low (he didn't appreciate the budget alternative I gave him yesterday).

I walked past the Coinstar and saw quite a few shiny things in the reject slot. A few scoops and they were in my pocket.

It more than paid for the cat food!
- 24 coins altogether.
- £2.40 in current British money, including the first two bimetallic £1 coins I have ever found in a Coinstar!
- One obsolete circular brass 1990 £1 coin
- One clad Washington quarter (1984P)
- One Canadian dime (1988)
- One South African rand (1995)
- One obsolete Belgian 1 franc (1989)
- One 2019 Romania 5 bani - Collection Addition!

By British standards, this was a great haul! We Brits tend to check the reject trays pretty thoroughly, as the loss of a few £1 or £2 coins could make a big dent in the weekly budget!

I have yet to find any silver in a British Coinstar machine. The most likely silver coins to find would probably be foreign ones such as pre-1968 Swiss or Canadian coins that someone might have brought back from a past holiday and found in a drawer. The UK has not issued silver coins since 1946 and they'd practically all disappeared from circulation by around 1975: the last ones (the old shillings and florins) were demonetized in the early 1990s.