Crazy day at the coinstar!

[washingtonian jr]

What’s up everyone!

I went to the grocery store late last night to pick up a few things and checked the coinstar like usual. It was only 15 minutes until close so I assumed someone had already picked it clean. Boy was I wrong!

This was the fullest I have ever seen a coinstar in my life. The coins were almost overflowing out the tray. It probably took 7-8 handfuls to fill my pockets.

I get home to see if I had anything old but no luck.
The weird thing is, I only found maybe 25 cents of American stuff, the rest was foreign. There were several euro dollars, a couple $2 Canadian coins, $5 pesos, pence, rupees, you name it. I’m assuming it’s all worth about $10 worth of US currency.


I honestly have no idea how the person putting their change in didn’t see how much they missed!

 

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[GB1]

usually foreign coins are not worth that much in the U.S.A but nice finds

 

[washingtonian jr]

usually foreign coins are not worth that much in the U.S.A but nice finds

I did the USD conversions to whatever coin it was and found out it was at least $10 US total.

 

[GB1]

oh sorry my bad its been a long day i am tired

 

[washingtonian jr]

oh sorry my bad its been a long day i am tired

Haha I get it. Mondays suck

 

[GB1]

yes they do

 

[OtakuDude]

How can you convert those foreign coins to US currency without losing value?

 

[washingtonian jr]

How can you convert those foreign coins to US currency without losing value?

I did a google search of the USD currency to different countries. For example, $1 Canadian is 77 US cents, or $5 Mexican pesos are 25 US cents. Not saying I’m gonna actually turn it in for US money, just curious to how much it’s all worth.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice haul. Congrats.

 

[MalteseFalcon]

When I find foreign coins, I don't really expect to cash them in, as these days most bank branches a) have ignorant employees who would not know the first thing about such a process b) due to the fact you have to go find a main bank where they may actually have a process to do so.

Last year I went to the local pizza joint, and when paying, I noticed a bunch of shiny weird coins in one space of the cash drawer. I asked what they were, and they turned out to be Jamaican 5-dollar coins. I asked if I could buy them, and the guy was not sure. I looked up the exchange rate and found each one was worth something ridiculous like 2 cents each. I showed it to the guy on my cell phone and he said he would ask the manager. A few days later I got hungry for pizza again and went in there (having forgotten entirely about the coins) and the guy said "Yes, the manager says I can sell them to you". Out of the original five, there were three left.

I have a rather large ziploc bag full of about a pound of foreign change I have accumulated in my lifetime.

One coin is pretty rare, a late 20s .720 silver 1/4 Quetzal worth about 50 bucks. I have gotten them all just from friends, or chance encounters in convenience stores, etc.

Nice haul on the Coinstar. That is an incredible find!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

WOW, that is a killer load of Coinstar coins!

 

[stealthycat]

I think the machine might have regurgitated them

I found one once and I filled two pockets full of coins and there was still more coming out of the machine - it was like it was emptying its guts to me

 

[Kray Gelder]

Score!

 

[washingtonian jr]

I think the machine might have regurgitated them

I found one once and I filled two pockets full of coins and there was still more coming out of the machine - it was like it was emptying its guts to me

Oh maybe! I never thought about that. There were so many coins from all over it would be surprising if it came from one person.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Looks like you will be taking a lot of vacations to spend all that foreign money !

 

[stealthycat]

Oh maybe! I never thought about that. There were so many coins from all over it would be surprising if it came from one person.

yeah I think the machines can fill up at some point, and then they glitch sometimes

 

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[BLK HOLE]

Nice score!!

 

[ivan salis]

since foreign coins are not cashed out by us banks --only paper bills for the most part are "exchanged" -- foreign coins as a rule are though of as "useless" in the USA -- ah not so says I --- I live in a small town in northern fla --that has a lot of long haul truckers that run to Canada quite regularly --so the local coin star gets lots of rejected canadain coins --which I collected until I had 50 bucks worth * I then went online and found a canadain coin store that sold us silver coins --filled out and printed the order form --used the canadain coins to pay the bill and return postage back to me --spent 6 bucks to mail it in us funds -- when I got the silver in --I sold enough silver to recover my 6 bucks "invested" --the rest was all "free silver"...