Oldest coin I have ever found - came from a coinstar

[CJ9]

Coinstar yesterday gave up this well worn, Queen Victoria 1870 Canadian quarter. Denomination above the date is worn off (can barely make out the C in "cents"), but the date is readable.
Oldest coin I have ever found (if you count coinstar finds as CRHing).

Also coughed up 18c in clad







Thanks for looking

 

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[FAT SEXY]

I really need to start checking the coin star machines

 

[Customx_12]

Just in the coin return slot or what?

 

[islamoradamark]

Man thats great

 

[TheMastermind]

Nice find! Congrats!

My oldest coin found also came from a reject tray: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coins/372566-1828-classic-head-half-cent.html

I miss TD Bank coin machines, I found sooooooo much silver and other goodies in them over the years before they got rid of 'em.

Took me a few years, but two rolls of silver quarters were amassed just from TD Bank reject tray finds.

 

[Poor Mans Gold]

Back in the day, I used to go to TD Bank to dump my coins. Usually when they saw me parking, they would go over to the machine and pull it open. Once I could see the reject wasn't working. Looking up, I could see it was clogged. I was able to unclog it and all the "reject coins" were coming down. Upon looking at the coins, I found an 1820 One Cent coin. It was a VG coin. Now I check the Coin Star every time I see one. I do find silver dimes. The coin star I was at in San Antonio, I saw nothing in the eject tray. But looking on the floor to its right, I found a 1925 Mercury dime.

 

[CJ9]

Just in the coin return slot or what?

Yep, in the return slot

 

[CJ9]

Nice find! Congrats!

My oldest coin found also came from a reject tray: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coins/372566-1828-classic-head-half-cent.html

I miss TD Bank coin machines, I found sooooooo much silver and other goodies in them over the years before they got rid of 'em.

Took me a few years, but two rolls of silver quarters were amassed just from TD Bank reject tray finds.

Man, TD machines were a silver mine for me. I would jit 2 or 3 of them in a day and find all sorts of goodies. The best was at the branch closest to where I live would often have one of the bags blocking the return chute. I was able to put my hand in there and move it aside and get piles of rejects. I was sorely disappointed when those shut

Also found over $1,000 in Canadian coins mostly in the magnet under where you put the coins in. When I was in canada a few years ago was able to turn them all in for cash, at a TD nonetheless.

 

[CJ9]

Back in the day, I used to go to TD Bank to dump my coins. Usually when they saw me parking, they would go over to the machine and pull it open. Once I could see the reject wasn't working. Looking up, I could see it was clogged. I was able to unclog it and all the "reject coins" were coming down. Upon looking at the coins, I found an 1820 One Cent coin. It was a VG coin. Now I check the Coin Star every time I see one. I do find silver dimes. The coin star I was at in San Antonio, I saw nothing in the eject tray. But looking on the floor to its right, I found a 1925 Mercury dime.

Yeah, TD was a silver mine for me. Found tons of silver. I really miss those.

 

[vpnavy]

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[TheMastermind]

Man, TD machines were a silver mine for me. I would jit 2 or 3 of them in a day and find all sorts of goodies. The best was at the branch closest to where I live would often have one of the bags blocking the return chute. I was able to put my hand in there and move it aside and get piles of rejects. I was sorely disappointed when those shut

Also found over $1,000 in Canadian coins mostly in the magnet under where you put the coins in. When I was in canada a few years ago was able to turn them all in for cash, at a TD nonetheless.

Same here! I collected a few hundred in Canadian from cleaning the magnet over the years. Visited Niagara Falls a few years back and walked over the border and cashed them in at the first casino I came across and had an awesome day and night on the town in that resort area in Canada.

My best haul from a blocked TD reject chute was just under $172.

TD Bank coin machines were absolute gold and silver mines!

 

[NSR60]

Nice find, CJ. Like the stories about finding Canadian coins underneath the magnet. Only recently did I realize that nickel was magnetic. (It doesn't work with our five-cent pieces because they're mostly copper.)

Since older Canadian coins are almost pure nickel, the five-cent coins have a higher melt value than the dimes. If the price of nickel rose by about 10 percent, they would actually be worth more.

 

[CJ9]

Same here! I collected a few hundred in Canadian from cleaning the magnet over the years. Visited Niagara Falls a few years back and walked over the border and cashed them in at the first casino I came across and had an awesome day and night on the town in that resort area in Canada.

My best haul from a blocked TD reject chute was just under $172.

TD Bank coin machines were absolute gold and silver mines!

Wow $172 at one time - that tube must have been completely jammed up. I never used to count mine out individually, but there were times where I got like 15 silver quarters at once, and plenty of silver dimes. Like you, I think I must have found upwards of 2 or even 3 rolls of silver quarters from those machines over the course of years. I also found over 2,000 Mexican pesos, and when I crossed the border in San Diego several years ago (I put the coins in my carryon luggage on the plane across the country), I cashed all those in and got a few Coronas (with plenty left over). I gave all the Euros I got (anything above 10 euro cents) to my mother a number of years ago when she went to Europe, and I am still siting on plenty of British coinage that I have yet to get rid of.

And the final take on those machines was that when they settled the lawsuit for miscounting, I got a few hundred bucks as a parting gift deposited into my account there. And like you, I still miss those. It was like you were CRHing just to get a volume of coins to dump in the TD machine because there was always good stuff in there. With them gone, I don't have a place to dump coins in a machine anymore - now I have to re-roll.

 

[CJ9]

More from the same coinstar on 10/20

Was back in the supermarket on the evening of the 20th and picked up this 1954P silver dime and 6c in clad out of the coinstar - I think the dime is a proof.

 

[TheMastermind]

Wow $172 at one time - that tube must have been completely jammed up. I never used to count mine out individually, but there were times where I got like 15 silver quarters at once, and plenty of silver dimes. Like you, I think I must have found upwards of 2 or even 3 rolls of silver quarters from those machines over the course of years. I also found over 2,000 Mexican pesos, and when I crossed the border in San Diego several years ago (I put the coins in my carryon luggage on the plane across the country), I cashed all those in and got a few Coronas (with plenty left over). I gave all the Euros I got (anything above 10 euro cents) to my mother a number of years ago when she went to Europe, and I am still siting on plenty of British coinage that I have yet to get rid of.

And the final take on those machines was that when they settled the lawsuit for miscounting, I got a few hundred bucks as a parting gift deposited into my account there. And like you, I still miss those. It was like you were CRHing just to get a volume of coins to dump in the TD machine because there was always good stuff in there. With them gone, I don't have a place to dump coins in a machine anymore - now I have to re-roll.

When I didn't have the funds to do serious hunting, I would spend my lunch hour seeing how far $2 would take me...

1.) I would pick up a roll of nickels at whatever bank, search through the roll...
2.) Dump them at the first TD Bank I came across...
3.) Take whatever overage or whatever I found in the reject chute, cash the $2 in for another roll of nickels...
4.) Search through the roll...
5.) Dumped the $2 in nickels at the next TD Bank...
6.) Take whatever overage or whatever I found in the reject chute, cash in for another roll of nickels...

Etc., etc., etc. on repeat until my lunch break was over.

Once I got back into work I'd tally my overages and reject chute finds up.

Was fun to see how much I could turn $2 into within an hour's time.

 

[HuntH2002]

Nice scores!