1867 No Rays Shield Nickel Found In Coinstar Reject Bin - Page 2

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Gothic Florin Pillar of the Community United States 2541 Posts	Posted 11/18/2009 09:59 am Congrats, I know we had all been waiting with baited breath for a while to see someone find one of these. Report this Post to the Staff
DNA Pillar of the Community United States 2734 Posts	Posted 11/18/2009 6:38 pm Quote: I see a container of Nic-A-Date in your future! I prefer vinegar, myself. I had a 1913-S Type 2 in my 'circulated Nickel finds' box for 20+ years (yes, it was received in my change long ago), and didn't know it, until it took a month long bath in vinegar last year! I was looking at all the braids on the Phillies with a loupe, checking for a 16/16 DDO... Quote: ...an 1857 half-dime... The Shield nickel was rejected for its .7mm smaller diameter (20.5mm, vs. 21.2mm for 1883-current Nickels), so of course the Half-Dime would also be spit out.... Report this Post to the Staff
coretj Valued Member United States 436 Posts	Posted 12/31/2009 12:48 am Wait! So let me get this straight. You can go into a store that has a coinstar machine and get the manager to open it up. The Machine has a separate compartment inside for bad coins other than the chute on the outside. And then if you find something you only have to give them face value for it? Report this Post to the Staff
coretj Valued Member United States 436 Posts	Posted 12/31/2009 5:13 pm Please someone explain this to me in more detail Report this Post to the Staff
DNA Pillar of the Community United States 2734 Posts	Posted 12/31/2009 10:15 pm The only place that the rejected coins go to is the outside tray. All of the coins that are accepted go into the main metal coin box. The Buffalo nickels and Wheat Cents were all accepted by the machine. They were sitting on the top of the pile of coins and were easy to pick out (obviously, no coins had been cashed in after them). I may have missed a couple more of them that fell in deeper with the other coins, who knows? They wouldn't have had any obligation to open up the machine on my behalf, or sell me any of the coins, if they had not wanted to. I would have gladly paid them 2×face for those no-date Buffalos and Wheaties, but I offered to pay face value and they agreed. My paying face value covered the store for the value of the redeemed Cents and Nickels, and I bought the manager lunch as a thank-you for his effort on my behalf! Report this Post to the Staff
Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 12/31/2009 11:14 pm the best I ever got was a 1886 type 2 Indian Head cent Report this Post to the Staff
coretj Valued Member United States 436 Posts	Posted 12/31/2009 11:33 pm DNA, Thank you SOOOOOO SO SO SO much, I'm going to go around to different places I know that have those machines day after tomorrow and try to see if they will let me search through. This is awesome info Report this Post to the Staff
DNA Pillar of the Community United States 2734 Posts	Posted 01/01/2010 1:22 pm Keep in mind that not all of the stores that have a CoinStar machine have 'store access' to that machine. There are also two kinds of CoinStar machines, the smaller kind and the larger kind. I suspect that the larger machines are emptied only by CoinStar personnel, while the smaller machines are used by 'CoinStar partners' who can use the machine to count coins for the store's business purposes (surcharge-free). In this case, the machine was at a grocery store, so they obviously benefit from having a machine that they can use to count the coins that they tender during the course of business. Also, remember that I had an 1867 Nickel in my hand to show the grocery store people, and even non-collectors are impressed by a coin of that age. I may have not bothered to try and persuade them to open the machine, if not for that I was having terrible suspicions that a bunch of Seated Liberty-era coins had just been cashed in, and that I could have made the greatest CoinStar 'save' ever in the history of numismatics! Report this Post to the Staff
Pinenut Valued Member United States 462 Posts	Posted 01/08/2010 3:57 pm After reading about the CoinStar attribute of silver rejection, I hurried on over to the one nearest my home. Sitting on top was a nice 1959 quarter. A few days later I found about a dollars worth of change in the a reject bin of a non-CoinStar machine including two PGA Club tokens and a 1936 LWC! Report this Post to the Staff
mdh157 Pillar of the Community United States 952 Posts	Posted 01/08/2010 4:06 pm lol.....now I am gonig to check the reject bin every time I go by a machine....this is great news Report this Post to the Staff
AMetalHound Valued Member United States 97 Posts	Posted 01/08/2010 7:42 pm I cant belive some of these finds...I too will be going by my coinstars and the like in hope of finding something nice Report this Post to the Staff
jkc32 Valued Member United States 111 Posts	Posted 01/10/2010 4:32 pm Great finds. After reading the threads this past week finding these "rejects" seems more commmon than I would have thought. Report this Post to the Staff
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