First decent coinstar find

[azdirtdigger]

Finally found something worthwhile in a Coinstar. I look every time I walk by one. I've found a few modern or foreign coins, just nothing worth finding. Coinstar today was kind of stuck in the corner, away form the beaten path. Walked over while wife was checking out. $1.27 in coins with a 1964 Jefferson dime and a 1943 steel penny.
Persistence finally paid off!



Hope I start having more luck MD'ing now

 

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[Tommybuckets]

A Jefferson dime sounds like one fancy penny lol. Its Roosevelt, or as they say a 'rosie'. Nice work though. Now you're hooked.

 

[HuntH2002]

Nice finds. I haven’t found anything that good in months. Last good find was a 1961 50 groschen coin and after that its all been newer money foreign or not. Still looking.

 

[azdirtdigger]

WOW - I shouldn't try to multitask. I was typing while watching lunch on the stove, Of course it is a Rosie not a nickel

 

[xr7ator]

Nice!

 

[Rookster]

I'm getting use to being disappointed.

 

[xr7ator]

Keep checking, rook. It'll happen! Check around the basket and through the holes under the basket as well. I friend found a 62 rosie on the shelf behind the handle for the basket just a few days ago. Having an unsharpened #2 pencil and some two way tape will net you goodies that fell through the holes in the basket. I got my first silver from coinstar that way. It was a small sterling box chain necklace. Another fella on here told me aboout this as he got a gold earring that way.
I haven't found anything since Halloween 2017 when I saw two quarters and a dime in the reject slot and one of the quarters was a 1940.

 

[Megalodon]

I always peek at the coinstar reject bins. Lately the local Walmart coinstar tray has been empty. Found out why yesterday. I had noticed a young homeless couple camped out in front of the coinstar and yesterday walked past and overheard them discussing their finds in it and complaining about the foreign coins. They are there 24/7. Saw some of their clothes, shelter bits and personal items stashed among the Christmas trees that were for sale a few feet away.

 

[vpnavy]

..: NICE RECOVERIES AZDirtDigger :..
Here is my CoinStar Surfing Log!​

 

[Terry Soloman]

Way 2 Go!!!

 

[BLK HOLE]

Nice finds!

 

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[Coinstar magnet]

Good one! I'm sure you tested the "steel penny" with a magnet? A very decent find in my book!

 

[Coinstar magnet]

Brilliant idea xr7ator! Now I need to not look too conspicuous

 

[Coinstar magnet]

There seems to be "competition" everywhere...sort of like thrift store shoppers looking for finds...and thrift stores that know what is valuable and raising their prices...nighthawks detecting where they shouldn't...bank clerks collecting all the old coins...
I'm sort of rambling but you get the idea...