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Quote:Free silver.  And we all LOVE free silver! Strangely, the past three straight silver dime CS finds for me have been either single coin finds, or with small change amounts... 13 cents the one time, and single dimes the past two... Quality over quantity as I like to say! CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Or something over nothing as I like to say. |
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Or something over nothing as I like to say. Though it is much more fun finding a dime worth $1.30-ish as opposed to just a dime... Today I found $1.58 and a 2 cent euro coin in my CS adventures... so I have enough to buy another silver dime if I want.  CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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04/04/2017 6:53 pm
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Winning! |
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Yes, winning! Another day, another silver dime... but this one wasn't free... A woman about my age was using a CoinStar for the first time at one of my supermarkets just now... I helped her out and it kept rejecting "normal" coins along with a couple of Canadian quarters and a Belize coin... right at the very end it rejected a silver dime... and I told her... she was going to keep it, so I offered $1 for it... which she took... and then 26 more cents fell into the reject bin when she was done - she told me to "keep it" so it cost me 74 cents... then found a quarter on the ground at a CVS store on the way back home...  CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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04/05/2017 5:08 pm
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Excellent work, John77.  |
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In a Coinstar's reject tray, I found a 1954-D silver Roosevelt, four newer Lincoln cents, a 1 Deutschmark coin from 1989, and a Bahamian 1 cent coin. An even better treat was finding a 1924 Buffalo nickel just sitting on the cashier's counter when I redeemed my bottle slip. I asked if anyone earmarked it, and offered a modern Jefferson nickel in exchange for it just to be safe. I certainly lucked out today.   Edited by SilverRoosevelt
04/07/2017 10:35 pm
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Today's find (no pics): 1995 Canadian quarter with gunk on it.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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I have never even seen a Coinstar machine, I've used some kind of change eating machine at the supermarket that gives you less than you put in it as a receipt I think. One time with that was enough. It took a percentage and the cashier gave me dollar bills for the receipt.
Never thought of looking in the "reject" tray?
I'll have to sit around and watch people put change in it next time I see one, and check the tray when I get there and after they leave. LOL
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@NickelGuy Beware! It has the potential to become addictive. However, it's always nice finding free money, silver or not. You may get some looks but, who cares?  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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If finds like this keep happening, I can get some free stuff the next time I'm in Canada! I found a Canadian dollar coin in my bank's coin counter yesterday.
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Success today! A dime stuck to a penny and a quarter stuck to a nickel! Also a 1985 Canadian dime, a 2007 5 cent Euro (Spain), a 1999 one penny (British), a 2012 one penny (Britain), and a United Arab Emirates coin about the size of a quarter with a coffee pot on one side.
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Found a 25 cent Eastern Caribbean coin.
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Good timing for finding a handful of money today. I took all of my pop cans back to the store this morning to get deposit refunds; which came out to $15.70. I was on my way to a coin show and needed the extra cash for possible coin purchases. On my way to the cashier, I stopped at the CoinStar machine and found the 'junk bin' was loaded------I found $2.40! (3 Canadian and 1 US quarter, 10 Roosevelt dimes, and 8 Jefferson nickels) Aside from the Canadian coins, I can't figure out why the machine had 'spit' out the rest of the coins, but, well,....who cares? Anyways, I had a total of $18.10 extra to spend at the coin show. I just ended up buying two Canadian dimes; a 1909 Victorian Leaf and a 1951 Double-Die reverse. I might go back tomorrow and pick up some supplies (2x2's and binder sheets). |
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