Coinstar Finds! (Including Bank Counters And Other Machines)

Nice! Silver is certainly more fun to find, but that many quarters add up.

Nice merc!

Very nice! He's in nice shape after 73 years.

Yes he is, IllegalTender!




Thank you, jbuck!

And the CS day got even better! I decided to do a late afternoon run, and found a common LS cent at my first machine...

At the second machine, a couple about 5 years or so older than me was dumping what would turn out to be over $1,250 of change into a machine... I sat and waited for a few minutes and then struck up a conversation with them. They were both friendly. I noticed he would scoop the rejects and put them in a jar. He let me look and I saw some normal American quarters in there along with the requisite Canadian and Mexican coins and offered to give him half dollars to put through the machine in exchange. So he took them and was happy. I found a thrashed 1954-D Wheat cent. He let me exchange that too... then he started putting the rejects on the top of the machine's counter... I gave them some more half dollars... and amongst the coins was a 1963-D dime... the machine them decided that it had enough and told them they had to finish their transaction when they had cashed in about $1,075 dollars worth. They then started over and he let me pull the coins out of reject bin as they came out... A One Pound coin like the one I found the other week came out and I told him it was worth about 1.30 U.S... Then a 1954-D dime came out and he asked if it was silver... I said it was and he told me to keep it. Needless to say, I was very happy! He then told me he had inherited a collection of Buffalo nickels from a relative who was a vendor and asked me if I knew of any reputable coin dealers in the area, so I gave them the name of the one I've been doing business with for 40 years (which was like 1/4 mile away). We exchanged names and bid farewell.

I then went to my 3rd machine and believe it or not, more dumping was happening... 46 cents was in the reject bin... I offered to give them "normal" coins for it, but they said keep it. There was nothing special in there, but it was more free money!

Same Coinstar machine today $2.88 in modern change and a 1954 Roosevelt dime plus found a $15 winning lottery ticket in the parking lot at work

I'll post pics later, but today I found a five dollar Hong Kong coin, 1943d penny, 4.50 in Euros, a Bahamas cent, and a magnetic 2011 Canadian cent. There was also a 2008 Vancouver Olympics quarter.

Hopefully my luck holds for my driving test today. (I'm 16)

Good luck on that! I took mine earlier this summer. If you're taking the written test, it's a piece of cake (at least in my state). For the behind-the-wheel test, just a couple pieces of advice: 1. Don't take your eyes off the rear while backing up. Even if you just glance forward, they mark you down. 2. Don't take your corners too wide or too close. I got marked down a bit for each of those things, although I still easily passed.