Can You Take Coins You Find In A Coinstar Machine?

If they were left in the reject opening why not? I've never found anything in that reject slot myself.

Sure you can. There is even a long running thread on here about just that topic...........
http://goccf.com/t/128850

Yes, I always check. Just found some Canadian over here (in Michigan). No silver yet.

Anything left behind is fair game in my book.

One time haul two years ago, 30+ silvers at a WM CS. Cup was overflowing, I believe people just passed it up.

Fun topic for this old man. I live in a cave and don't go out much. I can only extrapolate what a Coinstar machine might look like. I may even have seen one in the background of my vision. I don't honestly know. The interesting bit of your topic is remembering us young kids competing with old drunks to harvest coins from pay telephone coin returns.

For today's young 'uns on the opposite end of the spectrum, I'll tell that my youth held telephones with coin slots. The phones were housed in booths too large to fit in your pocket and they had lots of wires attached. Many were installed in mercantile establishments (also not pocket-sized). BELL TELEPHONE, a.k.a. "Ma Bell" held a monopoly. Competition was not a problem; they made lots of money, so you'd pass twenty or more if you walked a city block.

Local calls were a dime, but a caller to another city could not calculate his/her cost. The caller needed assistance from the long distance operator to get (and to stay) connected. Rolling through the coin channel, nickels, dimes and quarters triggered different sound signals for the operator to count. On connection you had exactly three minutes until a voice interrupted the call. "PLEASE DEPOSIT (NUMBER) CENTS FOR THE NEXT THREE MINUTES." It was impossible to coordinate length of conversation with payment surrendered. When you hung up Ma Bell expected you to freeze your gluteus maximus waiting in the dead space of the booth for the operator to run you bill and send your change. Many just hung up and left. Pickins' was good for kids and drunks! The drunks were mean and quite territorial in their attitudes, but us kids was small and fast.

So, when next you go to harvest coins from your Coinstar (?), please bow your head to aid your awareness that you are participating in and keeping alive a time-honored religio-numismatic ritual.

Kevin

Coinstar rejects are the new Pay Phone coin return slots.

(some will have no idea what I am talking about)

yes.

but if you pass them up & if just carl doesn't take them I will.