Coinstar

Littleton coin are the owners coinstar they wont let you see what they have in them. because they bag them and sell them to fools who sign up for there coin programs

Our credit union just installed a machine. I'm tempted to ask them to watch for rejected coins, and save them for me.

Why would a wheatie end up in the reject slot? They are the same as all pre-1982 pennies and I can tell you with 100% certainty that all copper cents are not rejected. While I've never tried to run a wheatie through one of those machines, I don't know how the machine would distinguish it from a post-1958 copper penny.

Yesterday, I was at a Commerce Bank dumping a looked-through box of Nickels I'd picked up earlier that day (found a silver and a no-date Buffalo). About a quarter of the way through, my machine chipped in and said that I had filled the bag nd assistance is needed. I call the teller over and he opens it up to change it. Then my kid cousin says "wow look at all those coins stuck in there" pointing at the tube. The teller must have figured they were ours so he scoops them out and throws them on the counter. I tell my cousin to pocket them, we'll go through them latter. Needless to say he got a 1943 Quarter, a couple canadian nickels and cents, a 1956 half-penny coin from somewhere I don't recognize, and two or three chinese coins (I think Mao is on one of them) Imagine what awaits in those bags for us to find. Next time I fill a bag and its not really crowded in there, I'm gonna ask if I can buy a bag or two. Worse than can do is say no :)

--Gary

i work for commerce, its impossible to buy the filled bags because sometimes they aren't correct in the amounts they contain, they get shipped to commerce's reserve bank where they put them into the boxes that you get at the bank, ive found all sorts of things stuck in those machines though, Peace dollars, silver quarters, tons of Walking Liberty halves, even some old german 1 pfennigs from the late 1890's.