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Yesterday when I walked into a store, there was a green metal box on the counter of the coinstar. I checked the reject slot, the tray, and under the machine, (Late evening, store pretty empty, and then opened the box because sometimes people leave a few coins in the container they brought them in. Upon opening the box, I could tell there was some good stuff in there, with different sized copper and silver colored coins, but didn't know what to expect. I believe they likely dumped the rejects in the box when they were done and abandoned them there. I didn't want to rifle around in it in the store, so I grabbed it and took it home. The coins were from 9 countries, and there was a cool token that i'll get to. USA: 2000 D penny 1941 penny 1951 D dime Canada: 1968 Dime 1968 Quarter 1957 Nickel 1943 Tombac Victory nickel- Iv'e been considering buying one! Philippines: 1971 Limampung sentimos Brasil: 1937 300 reis France: 1924 chambres de commerce de france bon por 2 francs I thought this was a token but turns out it's a coin. Italy: 1939 10 centesimi Mexico: 1942 10 centavos 1945 5 centavos Uk: 1927 British penny Switzerland: 1892 5 Rappen. This is in excellent shape, and does not look like 125 years old at all! It's at least AU! The token is from the V.F.W. National home, for Christmas 1934. On the back there is a horseshoe and some 4 leaf clovers and says Help the kiddies. It wishes good luck and health in 1935. Sorry for the wall of text, but I'm really excited!      Edited by Illegaltender
05/07/2017 12:13 pm
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 ....what a great find ! Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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United States
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Today, TreePaad token (Malta, NY) and a 1947 P nickel. Also, one of my regular stops where I never find so much as a dead zincoln? There is a camper, I've met him three times, just hangs around the machine. Creepy!
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Today I found twelve of the ugliest, dirtiest, stickiest Lincoln Memorial pennies I've ever seen. I threw two of them away due to them missing about 30% of their intended metal. The others I threw at my cement driveway to separate the ones stuck together. It's probably the first time I felt sorry for finding free money.  |
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Sorry for the wall of text, but I'm really excited! No apology necessary. Keep calm and share on!  Quote:
Today, TreePaad token (Malta, NY) and a 1947 P nickel. Nice finds! |
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Found a toy plastic penny at the Wal-mart coinstar on Saturday in the dumping tray. No actual coins though... |
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Yesterday, I found 48 perfectly fine Lincoln cents, two foreign coins, and a piece of a rotted zincoln.
The good Lincolns were probably rejected because some were stuck together and the rest were sticky with some unknown substance, but probably something like dried soda pop.
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Quote:Found a toy plastic penny at the Wal-mart coinstar on Saturday in the dumping tray. No actual coins though... That plastic penny is probably worth more than a penny.  |
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My wife was at Krogers yesterday and found 2 no cash value tokens 3 zincolns and best of all a really nice 1969-s proof. I would have liked to seen her find them as she hates me checking in the machine when I am with her. So she walks by and thinks I should look and she sees the coins in there and says to herself "great" (hoping there were none in there) there's coins in there I hope nobody's watching me. Now she's probably hooked!
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Nice finds by the wife, qaman, especially the proof! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Another good day yesterday: 1964 dime 1985 pound 1997 pound 1996 2 pence 1978 2 pence 1997 50 pence 1992 10 pence 2004 20 pence 1982 20 pence 2008 5 pence 1999 British penny 1980 British penny 2 euro Netherlands 2001 1 euro Luxembourg 2002 50 euro cents Luxembourg 2002 20 euro cents France 2002 5 euro cents Netherlands 1999 1 euro cent Belgium 2001 1 euro cent Germany 2002 Canada 5 cents 2003 1 japan yen 1 Swiss franc 1987 Italy 200 lire 1979 2 Austrian shillings 1973 & 1998 5 pfennig 1972 10 pfennig 1988 Turkish 1 lirasi 2010 & 2011 Barbados 10 cents 2008 Tanzania 50 senti hamsini Kyrgyzstan 5 com 2008 10 com 2009 4 new countries, (Tanzania, Turkey, Luxembourg, and Kyrgyzstan) is not bad either!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You've had some very nice hauls recently, Illegaltender! I wonder who's dumping all these foreign coins? 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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Nice finds, Illegaltender! |
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United States
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Whenever there's a plastic bag left on the counter, that's always a good sign. Sure enough, there was a handful of change in the reject slot, so I grabbed it and got 64 cents and a Planet Fitness token.
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From my WM, Two Cents - 1964D and a brilliant 2017D but with bad rim damage :( |
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