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New Member
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I work in a store that has a 'coinstar' machine. Well, one day while going about my business, I heard that familiar 'ching, ching, ching' of silver in the machine up front. So when the guy left, I go to the manager and ask him if I can buy all the quarters, halves and dollars. This was not unusual, as I have bought a couple of dozen bags of cents from the machine in the last few years (looking for indians mainly). Anyway, he agree's, and I come away with 3+ rolls of 40% Kennedy halves, a few 90% halves - including bennies, and several O - mint Morgans! I still can't believe that people don't know what it is that they have! Jim |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Congrats gridiron, there seem to be a lot more people dumping Morgans into change machines these days. A sad sign of the times. Also,  |
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Valued Member
United States
303 Posts |
I thought the silver coins would go into the reject bin and the customer would then take the coins?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
Around here Coinstar services the machines and the stores do not have keys/access to them. (And silver does show up in the outside reject slot on them)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
625 Posts |
Never seen a machine that would process a large dollar. What kind of machine did you say this was?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 ..... " Morgans in a Coinstar ?"........  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
2668 Posts |
Is it a Coinstar or a coinstar-type machine? Welcome to CCF, you'll find people here extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of money and collecting. This is definitely the place to ask your coin and paper money related questions, for answers without bad attitude! |
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 United States
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Nice finds!  I assume his use of 'coinstar' is as a generic term and not specifically a Coinstar branded machine. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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my coinstar machine don't even take some of my cents and dimes let alone morgans
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Large size dollars tend to get stuck in the collecting basin of coin machines. I've picked up many ikes checking the basins, as well as one morgan. The dollars are too big to fit through the reject shoots, so they stay on the basin until removed by a teller or someone else like me :)
-XoG
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The Coinstar at my bank has a warning on the screen NOT to put the large size dollar coins in it OR Steel cents!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
505 Posts |
I have it on good authority,that coin changing machines will not accept coins as large as a morgan or Peace dollars..... |
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 United States
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What company of machine was it? Almost all are treated the same way as a Coke machine. The local shop never has control over the machine as it'd be too easy to steal from it.
Morgans in a coinstar seems highly unlikely as it would automatically reject them
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Posted 11/24/2009 12:45 pm
