Another Coinstar Save

[CW3(ret) US Army]

Went to the supermarket the other day. As usual I checked the coinstar machine. There was nothing in the reject chute but on the counter top was a Roosevelt dime laying face down. It was a silver 1963. Scooped it up & went my merry way. Another save from Coinstar for the good guys.
HH
Gary

 

[mxh5891]

I checked my local grocery store coinstar today too. No silver but I did find a reject bin full of coins. About $1.00 in clad coins plus two foreign quarters. Can't remember where they were from but they were new clad ones.

 

[barneyb71]

I'm lucky if I find a few cents at any coinstar machine....nice save!

 

[Oquario79]

It's been months since I've found a coin or 2 in any of the coinstar machines near me. I wonder if the grocery workers like a vulture wait and lurk around...

 

[FormerTeller]

It's been months since I've found a coin or 2 in any of the coinstar machines near me. I wonder if the grocery workers like a vulture wait and lurk around...

I suspect that is the case where I live. I have never found anything in the coinstars.

 

[mxh5891]

I think it's all about timing and being in the right place at the right time. Just think about how many people use it and how many kids that walk by each minute. I check every time I am near one..I have found silver on two occasions out of the hundreds of times I checked. I probably 90% of the time find nothing and the other 9.9% of the time it's foreign or clad.

 

[boogeyman]

I suspect that is the case where I live. I have never found anything in the coinstars.

Take a pencil with a little gum or that sticky putty with. Look under the screen of the chute. Can guarantee you won't find coins, but you'll end up with a bunch of earrings & studs!! I can't count how many CZ & diamond studs I've pulled out, along with a lot of gold too! The cool thing is the kids etc. Can't get to them unless they have one of boogeymans sticky stick retrievers!

 

[Rick624]

I've scored a few silvers on coinstar, when I see someone using it I tell them my Bank charges 5% instead of the 10.8 % I then offer to buy their rejects got a 1916 Barber dime that way and scores of foreign coins. Along with wheats , rosies, and a 64 Washington.

 

[basque-man]

Nice save!!!

 

[mxh5891]

I just got back from the grocery store and it pays to look under the machine as well. I saw something under the machine and I was almost positive it was a penny. I decided to bend over and pick it up anyways in case it was a wheatie. To my surprise though it was a dirty 1943 Mercury dime. That is now my 3rd silver coin found at a coinstar.

 

[ArkieBassMan]

I suspect that is the case where I live. I have never found anything in the coinstars.

I've got you beat by 1 crusty zincoln.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

There's a coinstar at my local Walmart but it charges the 10% extortion rate unless you get some ridiculous gift card to some restaurant. I have wanted to creep around it looking for discards but I feel mighty conspicuous doing it. Might have to just take a peanut butter jar full of change with me and pretend I'm interested in dining at Chili's with a budget of $7.84 while I raid it for lost silver.

 

[Oquario79]

On 9/12/2015 I posted that it had been months since I found coins at the coinstar. It's still months but at the coin machine at my bank while waiting for teller to change bags she pulls out change that was stuck and gives it to me... was about almost $2.00 in change along this with this beauty....

 

[CW3(ret) US Army]

It's been months since I've found a coin or 2 in any of the coinstar machines near me. I wonder if the grocery workers like a vulture wait and lurk around...

It's hard to say as most of the time I don't find anything in the reject chute. Tonight at the coinstar I did find $.11 (clad dime & star back zinc penny).
HH
Gary

 

[Trezurehunter]

Our coinstar is always empty. Guess I get there to late.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Yet another coinstar save, great grab Gary!!

 

[KevinInColorado]

Found myself behind a guy with a big bag of coins at the coinstar. He checked all his rejects but left the stuff he didn't want on the shelf of the machine. Thanks dude!
5 Canadian quarters, a few Brazilian coins and US too. Good fun...now if only I knew where I could use the token!?

 

[boogeyman]

Found myself behind a guy with a big bag of coins at the coinstar. He checked all his rejects but left the stuff he didn't want on the shelf of the machine. Thanks dude!View attachment 1215199
5 Canadian quarters, a few Brazilian coins and US too. Good fun...now if only I knew where I could use the token!?

Have you looked it up on the net or token books? Almost fell off the chair when I found out what some of my Chuck E Cheeze tokens were worth. Yup! couldn't believe people collected these either!

 

[boogeyman]

It's been months since I've found a coin or 2 in any of the coinstar machines near me. I wonder if the grocery workers like a vulture wait and lurk around...

If you see the loss prevention people or a security guard close by, you know where they went. My trick was to use gum on a pencil to grab jewelry out of the tray (with the holes) almost always found earrings & charms.

Has anyone noticed the coinstars kick out wheats? One of the service guys told me one of the tests were weight. Wheats weigh more so the machine thinks they're slugs. Anyone else see this?

 

[KevinInColorado]

Today as I went thru the grocery store checkout I noticed a woman dumping hundreds in coins into the coin star. Lots of coins falling in the reject bin. I waited and offered to buy her rejects. She thought she knew what she was doing and kept a silver Rosie but sold me the rest for a dollar. I got a 5 euro cent, two clad dimes, a modern nickel AND A '66 half dollar!!!View attachment 1265131
As you can see the color is even different! Love it.