CoinStar Scores

[Gamma_Joe]

Today I cashed in some clads and zinc memorial cents into the local supermarket's CoinStar machine.

After keeping its 10%, it gave me back $3.18 in cash. That's a new battery for the Omega, and a cuppa coffee for me.

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On the "minus" side, it ate a badly corroded clad quarter that I put into it. It didn't give any credit for it, and it didn't reject it. It just ate it, keeping it inside its metal belly. I guess the CoinStar couldn't figure out what to do with it. Maybe the next guy will get it.

On the "plus" side, it spit out two coins that I didn't put into it. They must have been stuck in there from the last guy who used the machine.

Here they are (see the photo):

... a 1962 silver Roosevelt dime,

... a 2007 one cent from Trinidad and Tobago. (It's the first one I've ever seen.)

Pretty good day, all around. I'll take those two in trade for a corroded clad quarter, any time.

Joe

 

[JimmyCT]

Good score! I didn't know Coinstar makes change: Clad goes in, silver comes out! I love it!



I always look in the coin return area. I usually find Canadian, wheat pennies and sometimes silver Roosevelt dimes.

 

[coherent]

Go to one that will give you an Amazon gift card code instead.That way you get the total without them taking the percentage off.

 

[Flanaganj25]

one day i was dumping coins into the machine and i jammed it up somehow. the teller walked over and opened the machine, clearing the jam. she reached into a rejection coin catcher located inside the machine and handed me the contents. i noticed big coins landing in my hands and the sound of SILVER! she stated that these coins aren’t accepted and to keep them. upon checking the coins 3 were ike dollars and the other 3 were morgan silver dollars!!! unbelievable that someone thought coinstar would take those! over the years i’ve collected countless silver dimes, tokens, and foreign coins! i always check them when i walk by! makes you wonder when the person goes to collect from the con star once it’s full, what they find in that internal coin catcher? dream job for a numismatic nut!

 

[Gamma_Joe]

What an amazing find!

That's a good story to pass on to others who use the CoinStar machine for cashing in clads quickly, rather than cleaning and rolling them.

Sometimes I just load a bunch of clads into a tumbler, put in some liquid lime remover, let them tumble for a couple of hours, and then put them into rolls. (I have a coin sorter that does that job.) Other times, I just dump them into the CoinStar machine and let it figure it all out (and take its 10 percent profit).

But that score you made --- it's one for the ages!

Joe

 

[kschae4]

Yes, those CoinStar machines are finicky with coin acceptance. Glad to see that the teller/ customer service gal allowed you to keep those silvers. I think that there are quite a few grand kids raiding the coin collections that their grandparents had gifted to them, but the grand kids can't appreciate the coin collection and would rather cash 'em in.....