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Quote: Do you guys look JUST in the reject tray on these machines? Or do you look around on the floor? I have never found coins this way. I only glance at the reject tray and immediate floor area as I walk by on my way out. I do not want to draw attention to what I am doing, in case someone is watching and gets their own idea. 
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Quote: I do not want to draw attention to what I am doing, in case someone is watching and gets their own idea. jbuck,....  I normally don't even look down at the reject bin. I stand by the machine and normally do something like check out my store receipt, while casually lower my other hand into the bin for a quick feel.  I too don't want anybody else to invade my lair. **PS: When I used to work, I often laid on the floor to check underneath the machine. I normally had a broom with me to make the customers think I was just doing normal cleaning**
Edited by atticguy 02/04/2016 6:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Went to the grocery store just to look despite the cold... skunked. Will see if there is anything later.
Update: Found a 1970-D penny after going back. I don't hoard copper LMCs like many of you do so you might see it later on if any of you decide to search CWR cents.
Edited by Coincollector110 02/14/2016 7:05 pm
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Found twenty-four cents in the reject tray at the grocery store awhile ago... When I saw the dimes I got excited hoping for a couple of Rosey's but alas, they were modern dimes... But hey, I left with my bill twenty-four cents cheaper...
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Free money. 
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United States
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I found $2.84 face value today plus the Mexican dollar. Since I last posted Dec 30, 2015, I have found $2.11 in common change plus this stuff: (so $3.41 in total + a foreign coin)   Normally I wouldn't think a dollar coin was all that special, but in a Coinstar machine? Who the heck throws away a buck? After years of not finding a silver quarter in the wild, my wife and I have each found one about six months apart. I wonder if this one had been disguising itself as a worn out 1965. :) I'll put $3.41 into my Salvation Army jar. That, plus what was already in the jar, makes my contribution for 2016 more than 2015 with about 10 months to go.
Edited by BigAppleBucky 02/15/2016 1:36 pm
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Quote: Normally I wouldn't think a dollar coin was all that special, but in a Coinstar machine? Who the heck throws away a buck? It is possible that it was part of a large dump, one where being off a dollar or two would go unnoticed. Sometimes the coins come in too fast for the machine and a few legitimate coins drop out. Regardless, nice finds! 
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United States
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Nice finds guys incredible to see just leave silver behind.
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United States
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Tunisia 20 millim 2007, 10 millim 1993 and 1 dinar 2007
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I came *this* close to striking silver today. I was in Safeway with my mother, and while she was buying groceries I waited near the Coinstar for three people to finish, who were dumping a 5 gal. bucket of coins. They (unfortunately) took the rejects, and toward the end, I saw them looking confusedly at a coin. I said that I collected coins and offered to tell them what it was. It turned out to be a 1930 Canadian dime, an easy problem-free EF. I would have offered them 50 cents or a dollar, but I didn't have any money on me.
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Now you've just made me want to say this again: ALWAYS HAVE CHANGE ON YOU. I make sure to have $10 in bills and almost a dollar in change on me at all times in case stuff like this happens, and if you're polite, maybe they'll give you the rejects for free like that one woman did when I explained that I collected odd looking coins.
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United States
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Today I found $4.24 in change, a 1953-D penny, and some foreign Australian coins in the Coinstar machine. First big score in awhile for me!
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