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I found this waiting in the reject slot for me at Walmart. The little bag contained a 1962 silver dime and a few 40% silver half dollars.  |
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Do Coinstar machines work in a different way in USA ?
In the UK, you put coins in and get a cash voucher out.
They take a stiff fee (10.9%), too.
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11/07/2019 06:49 am
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Nieuw>>> Congrats!! Days like this are few and far between and I can imagine the great feeling you had when you stuck your hand down there.
Pertinax>>> It's the same here, although there is an option that gives you more money if you chose gift certificates instead of cash. I'm curious what coins it accepts in the UK; all Euros?
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Interesting. I could see the foreign coins left behind I have found them at coin stars myself. But why the heck would someone not take the us spendable coins. Makes no sense to me and the coins in the bag COME ON.
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Can I have the Chuckie Cheese token?....  |
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GF: Ill flip ya for it. Mouse face you win 25 Cent Play value I win.  |
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@Dave - the US coins were left because the person really had no idea what they were, they wanted their paper receipt. We're a paper and plastic society - 9 out of 10 don't carry coins or currency anymore. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
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atticguy.
UK machines take only Sterling currency (pounds and pence. _
There's quite a few foreign coins with the same size, weight and shape as UK coins but are worth far less. I suspect they would probably work - I wonder if Coinstar can check.
Are Canadian cents accepted as US cents in US Coinstar machines ?
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It's exactly something a USA youngster/teenager would have done. Not because they're unintelligent but ignorant.
They haven't a clue what, or why, those coins are. I've seen it first hand. And it's not like the Coinstar machine is going to educate them either.
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Are you in the USA? If not I could see them not knowing. Cause all of the U.S. coins are used today and spendable.The coins other then the 50cent's the token and the one foreign coins should have been taken by the machine. Well your win there loss nice find congrats.
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11/07/2019 12:37 pm
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Please note that I'm not advocating defrauding Coinstar; putting in foreign coins would be illegal.
I'm just interested in it from a social history point of view.
I remember that when I lived in London in the 1960s, I met several Germans who came solely to get cupro-nickel shillings (George VI after 1946 and Elizabeth II) to use in machines - for change, phone calls, railway tickets, etc instead of one Deutschemark coins. Shillings used in this way were known in Germany as "onions".
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Please note that I'm not advocating defrauding Coinstar; putting in foreign coins would be illegal. Coinstar usually spits them out, hence a haul like this found in the reject slot. |
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Are Canadian cents accepted as US cents in US Coinstar machines ? Pertinax>>>For the most part......yes. However, I've found that the machines are pretty temperamental with cents more so than any other coin value. Just a little nick or speck of dirt will get then spit out easier; whether they are Canadian or American pennies. Edited by atticguy
11/07/2019 5:00 pm
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