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Valued Member
United States
100 Posts |
Hi, I was at Meijer's today and I happened to walk past the coinstar machine and I saw an old lady dumping a whole bag of coins in the machine. I tryed to get a little closer look and I saw much silver and lots of pennies! I wasnt close enough but I bet she had many old coins in the bunch.
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And if you do know where in the world do all of them oldies go! I would love to get my hands on those collection bags!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1231 Posts |
I would have stopped and talked to her to see if I could buy the lot off of her. She might have sold them to you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
891 Posts |
Every time I go past one I look in the reject bin. I have found many foreign coins in there. I use the coinstar machine to dispose of the cents I find metal detecting. It's worth it to me not to have to wrap them. My bank only takes wrapped coins. Last month I took 2 coffee cans full of cents that I found. I can tell you each can holds roughly 3500 cents. Took a whopping 15 minutes to run the coins through. Boy did I get some looks. That thing makes a lot of noise.
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New Member
United States
32 Posts |
Myself and a friend of mine have both contacted Coinstar to ask about buying the bags that come out of them and they send you a generic email stating that they do not sell bags for 2 reasons. 1. "they are not in the business of selling coins" 2. "their machine does not accept half dollars, big dollars and foreign coins which is what is mostly collected by collectors." I guess they are unaware of all the silver or they really think people only collect those three types of coins. Talk about losing money. I bet people would even pay a little fee to get those bags. I know I would.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3098 Posts |
I don't know why, but once in a while the Coinstar machine would "vomit" a whole lot of pennies, and every time I check the vomit, there would be a silver dime...
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Valued Member
United States
86 Posts |
I walked past a coinstar machine in a grocery store in Mesa,Az during my trip out there at Christmas last year. I noticed the coin return was full. I grabbed the coins, there must have been $2-3. Most were pennies, a few nickels and dimes, and quite a few tokens of various kinds. I went through the pennies, and there were 15 or so Wheaties. I don't keep them, so I gave them to my brother. Now I can't walk past a coinstar machine without checking.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
EVERY time I see a CoinStar machine I stop and check! Drives my g/f crazy! Haven't found any silver yet, but I've found some interesting foreign coins.
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Valued Member
United States
195 Posts |
I always check the coinstar machine at the grocery store whenever I'm there. The best I've ever found was some Eurocent pieces.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
781 Posts |
the banks usually take bags of coins as well. that's how I dump all my returns after going through boxes...i usually take two boxes worth at a time...$200 in nickels, $50 in pennies...easier than wrapping, and no commission from the machine. the bank even provides the bags, big heavy duty coin-tainer bags, just gotta ask for em.
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New Member
United States
32 Posts |
I tried buying coinstar coins and the company sent me a generic email basically telling me that they did not sell their coins
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Valued Member
United States
81 Posts |
I was reading some where on the net, the company figures to take your coins, they are making some 20 dollars per hour to take your coins for you. That figure on average is a lot to pay someone to take your coins for you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
959 Posts |
I've been told by several people, including Coinstar, that the machines will not accept silver.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
Yep, Coinstars reject foreign coins for the same reason they reject silver coins- they do not match the electrical signature of modern circulating US coinage. |
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Valued Member
United States
369 Posts |
At the Wal-wart I work at they installed a Coinstar about 3-4 months ago. Every time I went to the service desk I would glance at it; usually there was nothing, but sometimes there were a few coins. I was never able to really see what they were, though, because I was working. But recently I discovered why there was seldom anything in the reject tray. The ladies at the service desk take them and put them in a plastic box behind the counter. (I guess they're not allowed to pocket it) So now I check the box and I'm going to "buy" anything that I want out of it. Upon discovery of this "plastic box of goodness" I pulled a 1964 D silver dime.  I wonder if you bolder guys, and gals, might try asking to look through this box. I bet they would let you, as long as they're not busy and have time to watch you.  This also assumes that all Wal-marts have Plastic Boxes of Goodness. Let us know if anyone tries this.  |
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Valued Member
United States
408 Posts |
I went to the credit union the other day to run some coins thru the Coinstar because they don't take wrapped coins anymore. I started with quarters and some coins came into the reject slot. I looked and found a 1980 Bermuda one cent and a nice 1929 Wheat cent and a nicer 1943 Wheat cent. It was strange because they must have been somewhere in the machine and the quarters loosened them up and dropped them in the reject slot. |
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Valued Member
United States
103 Posts |
just came back from my local Shaw's supermarket, and after checking the coinstar, I am the proud new owner of a 1998 Washington quarter in "excellent" shape...oh happy daze...   |
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Posted 03/28/2009 7:11 pm
