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Quote: Just checked the coinstar and found a 1943 steel cent. It's my third steel cent at this coinstar machine. Fantastic! 
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Quote: Found this one today at Sprouts!!! First S found in the wild for me! Outstanding! 
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Quote: All have either been empty or have nothing but zincolns. Well, not even two weeks since I said it, and what do I find? These two beauties, for free! The dime was in the reject slot and the quarter underneath the machine. Yes, I sat down on the floor looking for coins (wasn't planning to, thought I had lost something, but it was worth it) And before you ask, the quarter is not the type B reverse. I checked.  
Edited by CalzoneManiac 02/12/2023 5:43 pm
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Very nice! 
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Two dimes (not silver) and 12 pennies in the rejection bin mostly due to sticky residue. However four of the Lincolns were wheaties: 1940 1929S 1927S and 1917.
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I found a 5 cent Euro on the ground in front of the CoinStar, and a cent and a dime at Pick N' Save yesterday. Last Saturday, I was at a credit union, and I found four cents and two dimes there in the reject slot of their coin counting machine. The bank I usually use has a coin counting machine, but it is behind the teller counter. The one at the credit union is in the lobby.
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Quote: Two dimes (not silver) and 12 pennies in the rejection bin mostly due to sticky residue. However four of the Lincolns were wheaties: 1940 1929S 1927S and 1917. Excellent! 
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Any time you can get a teens Wheat cent and a 20s with a mintmark, you've done well. Only about 14.2 million 1927-S cents were made. Compare that to today's cent mintages which are in the billions.
Edited by CalzoneManiac 02/16/2023 7:17 pm
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My first Twofer!
I walked into the local supermarket and there was a 2011 Philippines 1 Piso coin in the CoinStar return slot, so I scooped that up. After checking out half an hour later I passed by the same machine again and there were 18 assorted Lincoln Memorial and Shield pennies and a 2006 New Zealand 10 Cent coin. I must have just missed a user during my shopping.
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Outstanding! 
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Pillar of the Community
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After a long dry spell, I struck silver in the CoinStar return today  
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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I used to post on this thread all the time, kind of fell off the radar a few years ago because my local grocery store replaced the Coinstar machine with a generic looking bank coin counter that as far as I know, only rejects foreign coins as I've yet to find a silver dime or quarter in that one. That being said, I have 2 significant scores to report recently, a 1960-D dime that I found under the machine at a Walmart in IL, and a Polish coin from 1933. Not sure what it is but it's between the size of a nickel and quarter and is probably silver based on the ring noise it makes when you drop it on a surface. There's also the occasional pocket change that's under a dollar which I don't even bother reporting unless one of the coins is significant date wise, but I have found free money that way since I was last here.
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Found this little silver guy in a Kroger Coinstar this afternoon. 
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