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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Ive read a few posts on roll hunting and I've heard about coinstars - theres a couple locally. But whats this about reject trays?
Obviously, they are full of the rejected coins, but is it free game? Can you just waltz in and grab a hand full?
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Moderator
 United States
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Free for the taking. But I have never found anything around me. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1510 Posts |
yep free--but I've never seen a handfull just one or 2
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8516 Posts |
Never seen anything. Kids are probably keeping it cleaned out.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1700 Posts |
I've seen too many, not just only a few.
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Moderator
 United States
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When you are using the machine you can hear a distinct "clink clang" when a coin drops in. Typically they only stay if someone is deaf or they don't care. A good majority of the time you can reinsert a discarded coin and it takes it a 2nd time
But it's free to take em just like in payphones.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1064 Posts |
Been checking the machines at my local supermarket for several years, 2 Chuck E Cheese tokens so far!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4897 Posts |
A couple years ago the pickins were better... used to keep track in 09-10 I found $2.60 face of .900.I did,however, recently find a silver roosie, two toonies and a gamming token. First find in a long while..
Edited by amida17
08/01/2012 6:41 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1770 Posts |
only thing I found in the coinstar machine was 67 cents once unfortunately none were silver
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Valued Member
United States
216 Posts |
Buddy of mine is a manager at a local grocery store. He said that he always checks. Found a few silver dimes and thats all hes ever found that was worth while. .900 for below face value, ill take it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was behind a guy at a Coinstar about a year ago. It dropped a bunch of dimes, and I bought them from him. They turned out to be almost all silver. I've found a few more since then, but it's rare.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
556 Posts |
I've only gotten a few foreign finds. Nothing too exciting.
50 Centavos coin from Mexico from 1993
1974 Canadian penny.
and two 1 Jiao coins from China. One's from 2008 and another from 2011.
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Valued Member
United States
60 Posts |
I've made a habit of checking when I see them and have had some luck. One time I found a toonie and a few other foreign coins that were rejected. There have been many times when I have found a handful of coins that were nothing special. I am lucky in that my girlfriend works a customer service counter a few feet away from a coinstar. In her three years of working there quite a few weird coins have been found or brought to her by customers who were upset the machine would not take them. One time an older lady had 10ish silver dimes and just wanted her dollar. My girlfriend tried to tell her that she could take them to any coin store or pawn shop and get more but she was insistent. Well I ended up getting some of the dimes for my collection. Besides that I have found a couple silver dimes in them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I check the one at the local Big-Y every time we go shopping, nada yet.. One of these times though ;)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
The homeless and unemployed scour those machines around here. In this town, picking 10-cent soda can returnables out of the ditch has become a full-time job for some.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
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Im always going into Walmart for money orders or whatever. I always check the coinstar! Last year I found four australian coins, two pennies and two nickels sitting on top of the counter. And just yesterday I checked the reject tray and found a 1954 silver rosie!  It made it worth losing my place in line. I've heard the coinstars ALWAYS reject silver.  Nine times out of ten though its empty. |
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Posted 08/01/2012 3:00 pm
