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Well, I had a record-setting CoinStar find last night. There were 25 coins in all. My previous record was 23. The (hopefully) spendable change added up to $1.82. I don't know my previous record but it would have been a mere fraction of that. (Conveniently, I also found a dime on the floor nearby.) And when I was grabbing the coins I noticed the reverse of what I originally figured would be a Barber dime. It turned out to be even older than that -- an 1878 Seated Liberty dime! So that's now the oldest coin I've ever found (and the 2nd oldest coin in my entire current collection). BTW, this is the 4th time I've found a coin over 100 years old in the same machine. Here's a better picture of the dime than what I originally posted. And, yes, I know the dime is in rough condition.  Edited by SquareCircle
04/30/2024 8:33 pm
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Great find, SquareCircle!
I was at my local supermarket this afternoon and found a coin in the Coinstar reject slot - but it was only a 2017 5 pence piece - free money anyway!
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I was at my local supermarket this afternoon and found a coin in the Coinstar reject slot  Quote:
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free money anyway! 
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Coinstars have been pretty dry lately.
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That dime is awesome. I can't imagine someone just carelessly spending it!
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That dime is awesome. I can't imagine someone just carelessly spending it! Well, I imagine that your average CoinStar customer is someone with a huge container of coins and pretty much no idea of what interesting items might be among them. And if he happens to notice an unusual coin in the midst of all his change, he'll have no idea what it is because he's not a collector. He probably won't even care what it might be. That said, I do have to wonder how some of the coins I've found -- and some of those shown in this thread -- ended up in some random person's big bucket of coins. And the dime I found is certainly no exception to that!
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05/02/2024 09:43 am
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Well, I imagine that your average CoinStar customer is someone with a huge container of coins and pretty much no idea of what interesting items might be among them...  Their loss, our gain.
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What an incredible find congrats  |
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Imagine if that 1970-D nickel had full steps.
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Ok, I'm wondering how many machines some of you are checking every day to get the finds you're posting about. I am on a 20 machine dry spell right now, and it's from a variety of Walmart stores as I've been making deliveries to them for work. I'm honestly wondering if I'm unknowingly competing with store employees that see something shiny and take matters into their own hands as they see everyone who dumps change into there. |
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Quote:Ok, I'm wondering how many machines some of you are checking every day to get the finds you're posting about. I am on a 20 machine dry spell right now, and it's from a variety of Walmart stores as I've been making deliveries to them for work. I'm honestly wondering if I'm unknowingly competing with store employees that see something shiny and take matters into their own hands as they see everyone who dumps change into there. Well, there are only 3, maybe 4 machines that I get to check on a regular basis, and only one of those has ever yielded much of anything for me. On average I get to check that one less than once a week. I think the main difference between that one and the others is that no one can see if there's anything in the reject slot unless they make an intentional effort to do so. The slot is dark and recessed, not to mention consistently dirty, which makes me suspect that store employees don't pay any particular attention to it.
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