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Coinstar Rejecting Copper Lincolns?

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 Posted 07/29/2012  11:07 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bkprewitt to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I had recently bought a bag of $50 in cents from my credit union's coin counting machine to see what I could find. I thought I had sorted out all of the copper before taking to a CoinStar machine to turn my undesirables into an Amazon gift card.

I had checked the reject tray before starting and noticed nothing. At the end, there were a handful of cents leftover, most of which were 1982 and earlier coins I apparently missed in my original search.

I've heard of coin-counting machines being configured to reject silver (in fact, a gentlemen at the credit union said that their machine rejects silver). Odd that they'd be configured to reject copper, especially a CoinStar machine.

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 Posted 07/30/2012  04:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add n9jig to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I just dumped my change box yesterday and I know there were dozens of coppers included. The only coins that were rejected were a dime and a couple quarters, which went through the second time.

Sometimes the machine will reject coins when it gets overwhelmed by too many coins, it may well have been coincidence that the coins rejected included a few coppers, perhaps they settled and congregated so that they were the overflow.

CoinStar used to identify and report cents separately by composition. I stopped seeing that about a year or so ago but I wouldn't be surprised if they still separate them into different hoppers for whatever reasons.
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I just started using Coinstar to dump my pennies, and it tends to start rejecting more pennies the faster I try to feed them into the slot. Maybe the heavier coppers are more prone to be rejected to avoid a jam, but if you re-feed them it'll take them.
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