Coinstar Rejection Reasons

Maybe it was full

Must have been silver! Everybody knows that those machines reject silver!

Me personally, I wouldn't worry about a machine rejecting 3 cents after it successfully accepted 4097 cents. I'd probably leave them in the reject tray for the next person (hoping for silver) to find. (that's the mischievous side of me). Others would just spend them as you did.

Oh ; they were probably the ultra rare Aluminum cents that spit out .

You can get full value if you pick a gift card. A lot of people just get Amazon cards with it instead of losing the percentage for the cash.

I'm now second guessing my Ikes in the machine. I also dropped around #30 to $40 in pennies, nickels, and dimes in that same batch. For those who know, you see your counts on their screen, and then it prints a paper ticket that you take to the cashier and they pay you cash. After that, you no longer have record of exactly what you deposited. I assumed since no Ikes dropped out the reject tray that they were accepted. I did hear a lot of clunking going on inside that box and heard things sound like they dropped on the floor of the unit. I need to go back with a controlled experiment. I'd hate to know I just gave them $10 in Ikes.

It's just the silver ones that are on the unacceptable list so theoretically they should take normal ones.

Their unacceptable list is actually quite hilarious since you know someone almost certainly tried everything on it.

"1943 US pennies, acorns, alcohol wipes, animal crackers, animal or human teeth, bandages, batteries, beads, bells, belt clips, bent coins, bolts, bottle caps, broken glass, bullets, buttons, candy, candy wrappers, cardboard, cat litter, chains, clay, commemorative coins, confetti, contact lenses, cotton balls, cotton swabs, crayons, cuff links, damaged coins, dirt, dirty coins, dog food, drill bits, ear plugs, earthworms, Eisenhower silver dollars, erasers, feathers, finger nails, flash drives, foam objects, foreign coins, fossils, french fries, fruit snacks, glitter, gold fish, grass, guitar picks, gum , gum wrappers, gummy worms/bears, hair clips, hay, jar lids, jewelry, key chains, keys, lint, marbles, matches, miniature dice, mints, mud, nails, name tags, nuts/bolts, paper clips, pen caps, pencils, pills, pine cone parts, pins, pipe cleaners, Play-Doh, playing cards, POGs, pop can tabs, popsicle sticks, quilt squares, ribbons, rocks, rubber bands, rubber lid seals, sand, screw driver bits, screws, SD cards, seeds, shells, soap, soda, springs, stickers, tape, tie tacks, tire caps, tissues, tokens, tooth picks, tree bark, twigs/sticks, vegetables, wall hooks, washers, watch bands, wheat, wires, yarn"

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Just picturing some of those provided quite a laugh.