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Today at Safeway coinstar $2.27 in modern change 4 tokens, 2 Mexico coins and best of all a 1969 D Kennedy half dollar |
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Nice finds and the silver tops it off.  |
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No luck with coinstars so far but an odd story:
I used the self-checkout the other day, didn't notice anything walking up, scanning or paying with a card. When the receipt was coming out I SWEAR I heard a slight hint of change being dropped (which wouldn't make sense), looked down and there was $0.26 that someone ignored.
Nothing special but plain money and I don't know if it's just the hunting mentality hearing that sound or it actually did shoot some change out.
It would be a better story if the coins were out of the ordinary but I use the self checkout quite a bit and have never heard that OR found left change.
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12/23/2016 01:53 am
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I found $1.52 plus a Canadian quarter today. Haven't posted to this thread since August, but I figured I might as well do a year end wrap-up, even though I usually require silver to post. Total US coinage - since Aug 19, $5.13 including 8 quarters, 25 dimes, 4 nickles, and 43 cents. With: 6 wheaties (all common dates) 1 2009 birth place cent (tough to find in the wild) 10 copper Memorial cents and 26 zinc cents Foreign coins: 2 Canadian toonies   2 Canadian quarters A 1967 Canadian centennial penny and a 2006 penny And this stuff:   And some more tokens:   PS: I put $13.58 into the Salvation Army kettle last week. Money I found - more than half in Coinstar machines. I now have a nice headstart on '17. Edited by BigAppleBucky
12/23/2016 3:09 pm
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I thought that was $28 at first, but then noticed the decimal point.
Try throwing in a leading zero next time! Oh man I wished I could find $28 in change... That would be awesome... Think I might need a couple of bags to carry it out though...  |
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...and I don't know if it's just the hunting mentality hearing that sound or it actually did shoot some change out. Maybe it is like feeling those phantom vibrations from your phone even when your phone is nowhere near your body.  Quote:
I found $1.52 plus a Canadian quarter today. Haven't posted to this thread since August, but I figured I might as well do a year end wrap-up, even though I usually require silver to post Nice finds and thank you for the summary. Quote:
Oh man I wished I could find $28 in change... That would be awesome... Think I might need a couple of bags to carry it out though.. That would certainly be a nice problem to have.  |
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With the wife at Walmart yesterday morning making a couple returns and a guy was dumping some change into the coin star. I noticed him reach into the reject bin a couple times to try to put the coins back in again. After a couple times he gave up and left the coins in the bin to my delight. He took his receipt and walked away. I waited for him to get far enough away so I didn't look quite like a vulture. Lo and behold, 2 rosies and a canadian penny. I forgot to post this but I got 5 rosies a couple weeks ago from a retail register. That makes 7 silver dimes in the span of 3 weeks with very little effort. Not to bad for a guy who doesn't even roll hunt dimes.  |
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That's great. I guess that guy really hates holding onto change. Why not pick them back up and use them when possible? I have had no luck since November...
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While at Wegmans today, I saw a couple throwing money away cashing coins in the Coinstar machine. I struck up a conversation and they said this was all the change they had accumulated this year. I noticed the husband kept reaching into the reject bin, so I told him that the coins that kept getting rejected were either old, beat up, or foreign. He ended up giving me some of the foreign coins, along with a Canadian penny after all was said and done. Total amount of change: over $700 which equates to $70+ down the drain in processing fees.
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Well, thats what happens when you are personable!! Congrats on getting some free coins
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Nice finds, both. |
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Haven't posted in a long time, found 17 cents at a coinstar today and this was one of them. 1c 1943 s   |
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Nice steelie!! |
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Very nice! |
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Another picture worthy find happened today!  While I was getting food from Shoprite, I noticed a woman and a girl around my age dumping change into the Coinstar machine. I walked around the bakery and occasionally glanced in that direction waiting for them to finish, and when they did, there was over $88 in change dumped in (only $80.07 after fees) and sure enough, nobody bothered checking the reject slot, so I snagged everything leaving me with $1.05 in change, a Euro penny, a British pound, a button, and 2 of those flattened souvenir pennies you see at tourist attractions! (these ones were from Disney World so the family probably went there at some point) Edit: I later went to my grocery store closer to me and found another penny, a British penny, and a 1946 dime this time around! Edited by Coincollector110
12/30/2016 4:06 pm
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