Machine Finds Thread (add your own!)

I was dumping several one-gallon milk jugs into a Coin Star when I heard a clunk from the reject chute.  I was a live bullet from my .38 Special that got mixed in with the change!  Yikes!

I always walk by the Coinstar machine and glance in the reject tray. The store that I frequent has it's Coinstar next to the scratch ticket vending machine. Nothing in the tray, but on the floor in front of the scratch ticket machine I noticed something folded up. Without missing a step I scoop it up and continue to walk on. Outside I unfolded a $20. See, scratch tickets are lucky even if you don't play!

[1997 ten pence from Great Britain]

Next to the CoinStar machine today... one 1997 ten pence from Great Britain.

  Coinstar yesterday

   Mojo

Has any one ever had a store employee question you on why you are taking something out of the machine and walking out of the store?

Just paranoid I guess. My local coinstar had 7 tokens and a dogtag in the brochure holder last week. It took me 3 tries to get everything out. Those tokens make a lot of noise clinking on the plastic brochure holder which is just slightly smaller than my hand. So it is a tight fit.

Was dumping halves today at my credit union.  I reached into the reject bin and pulled out a steel penny and a earring or lapel pin? It's stamped 10k. HH!

humm --seen a diamond stud earring and a silver post type and a live 22 bullet --in the catch pan below the dump tray-- time for a long pair of tweezers or a long 90 degree bent needle nose plier --to clean it out with --after I offer to "remove" the live bullet from the tray -- I bet the manager will have no problem letting me do it

Was dumping halves today at my credit union.  I reached into the reject bin and pulled out a steel penny and a earring or lapel pin? It's stamped 10k. HH!

Nice find!  10K Gold!!

I've been checking Coinstar machines for the past 3 yrs. and have found probably 15 silver Rosie's, one silver quarter, quite a few wheaties, foreign coins, and of course clad. 

A few of you have mentioned finding coins on the magnet of some machines.  I was unaware the machines had a magnet to catch rejects.  Is the magnet accessible without the machine being opened?

Thanks!     

The "magnet" that I check is not for CoinStar, but in the coin sorting machine at my dump bank's lobby.

From said magnet, on April 26th:

Canada, 10 cents (1998)
France, 2 eurocents (2004)
France, 5 eurocents (1999)
Mexico, 1 peso (2007)
Mexico, 5 pesos (2002)
Spain, 2 eurocents (2001)

arghh coinstar was empty but the copy machine next to it had a nickle and a pennie in its reject / change slot 

I found a dime walking out of the casino today. That was after dropping a c-note. Dang Indians can eat steak tonight...again

I wiped the magnet of the coin machines i used today. i got 2.61 Canadian, a neat religious token and three 1943 steel pennies. and a couple computer CMOS batteries, a hairpin, a washer...

...........from the (inside) reject bucket (yeah,they let me check it while they're changing out the bags) of the coin counter of one of my regular banks......

....a '79 Canadian dollar coin

well 5 crummy zinc cents and a abused looking dime --hey .15 cents toward a free lotto ticket --

Anybody hunting Canadian coins?

I tried a coinstar reject slot for the first time yesterday and found a 2007 D penny

2 dimes, 2 pennies on the floor of the casino in Elko, NV.

1 - 1960 penny in the Coinstar.
HH, S_F

I went to dump some halves and heard some coins in the machine when I started it. I pulled all these out except the war penny. A teller gave it to me. She found it in a penny roll. 3 of the coins are 1 British pound. 3 British pounds equals $5.87. One of the coins is a 1931 and magnetic. Not a bad score.

Nice haul, Silver_Fox !!

~Silverthorn

from the magnet yesterday:

Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM)
Canada, 5 cents (1977, 2002-P, 2006-RCM, 2007-RCM)
Canada, 10 cents (1977, 1986, 4x 2007-RCM)
Canada, 25 cents (2005-P)
Brazil, 5 centavos (2002)
Mexico, 2 pesos (1994)
Spain, 1 euro cent (2005)
Spain, 5 euro cents (1999)
-------------------------------------------
CAN$1.06 + EUR 0.06 + MXN$2.00 + BRL 0.05 = 1.39

Went by to check the Green Machine on the way to an in store dump bank. I saw a girl kept pulling a coin out of the return and put it back in. It kept spitting it back out. I went over and could see it was a silver quarter. I gave her a 50 cent piece for it. 50 cents for a 1964 quarter. Not a bad trade.

[one Merc, also a 1945-S]

My best Coinstar score to date today!! A gal was dumping in a full tub of coins the size of a red vines licorice container. I did my bit of shopping and checked it out afterwards. Jackpot!

 - one wheatie (1945-S)
 - 36 pennies
 - 6 nickels
 - one Merc, also a 1945-S (my first Coinstar silver)
 - 16 dimes
 - 4 quarters
 - 2 Canadian pennies (2006, 2007 RCM)
 - 1 Canadian dime (1995)
 - 2 Germany 5 euro cents (2002-F, 2002-G)

That's $3.37 face value, not counting the silver content or foreigns. Great score!

I think I posted this a while back but not sure but I found $14.71 sitting in a Coinstar tray one day as I was leaving the grocery store.  I literally had to reach in 3-4 times grabbing a handful of coins each time and tossing them quickly into my purse.  The machine is up front close to the customer service desk (where you turn in the coinstar tickets for redemption) and being the semi good samaritan that I am , did glance over there to see if maybe whoever had left all that change might still be up there redeeming their ticket so I could let them know they left quite a chunk of change behind but there wasn't even a clerk up there.   Finders keepers.  Nothing of great worth but it sure was exciting.

I went through $100 worth of half dollars.  Not one silver, not even one 40% !!  Skunked!  I will try again this week.

~Silverthorn

I was dumping the second of two skunk boxes of halfs and swept the magnet for a $2 Canadian coin and 2 steel pennies(for a total of five this year).

[1941]

From the magnet (and the reject tray):

United States, 1 cent (1941, 1995, 1996, 2006, 2007)
Canada, 5 cents (1979)
Canada, 10 cents (1992)
Canada, 25 cents (1968 nickel, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1986, 1987)
Canada, 1 dollar (1992)
Cayman Islands, 25 cents (1996)
Ethiopia, 50 santim (1996)
France, 1 euro cent (1999)
Germany, 2 euro cents (2002-G)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1986, 2003)
Great Britain, 2 pence (1996)
Italy, 1 euro cent (2005)
3x Italy, 2 euro cents (2002)
South Korea, 100 won (2007)
5x Thailand, 1 baht (1988-2005)
Thailand, 1 baht (1996)
Thailand, 2 baht, World Health Org. commemorative (1990)
--------------------------------------------------------
USD$0.05 + CAN$2.90 + KYD$0.25 + 0.50 ETB + 0.10 EUR + 0.04 GBP + 100 KRW + 8 THB = USD$3.78

today I got a 1922 Italian 1 Lira coin

from the magnet:

Canada, 5 cents (1980)
Cayman Islands, 10 cents (1999)
France, 2 francs (1993)
India, 1 rupee (2002)

While dropping off some rejects, found a couple of (common) Ikes in the inside reject bucket, when they had to change out the bags.

2 penny's on the green machine.

Green machine today, one 1942 d wheat penny

Pulled out of the trash bin in the coin  machine today.

[Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!]

Heeey !!!  Mah shirt button !!!

[Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!]

Heeey !!!  Mah shirt button !!!

PM me your address and I will trade it back to you for a 40.......LOL

Under machine finds.
2 quarters
1 dime
1 penny

An extra penny was added to my dump, and when I cashed out, the teller handed me a 1939 wheat.

While dropping off some rejects, found a couple of (common) Ikes in the inside reject bucket, when they had to change out the bags.

Picked up four more (common) Ikes today, while dropping off some rejects, in the inside reject bucket, when they had to change out the bags.

[Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!]

Heeey !!!  Mah shirt button !!!

PM me your address and I will trade it back to you for a 40.......LOL

I LOST that shirt years ago on a very rough night !!

[Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!]

Heeey !!!  Mah shirt button !!!

PM me your address and I will trade it back to you for a 40.......LOL

I LOST that shirt years ago on a very rough night !!

Been there, done that.

23 steel pennies today from the magnet.

23 steel pennies today from the magnet.

   Now thats nice. 

 Mojo

I went by the Green Machine like I always do at the market. I could see a lot of change in the return. It took me four scoops to get it all.
When I got home there was:
16 cents in pennies
$1 in nickles
$2.70 in dimes
$15.25 in quarters

Total: $18.95

The down side, no old coins.....LOL
I just wonder how long they had been sitting in there. You snooze you lose.

HH, S_F 

coin star always rejects silver...I find a silver dime in the reject slot at least once a week. One time I found 4 silver dimes..all '46 and one canada dime and one wheat penny....hapy dayz

Went to make a dump today and had to wait for a woman to use the machine. She dumped a bag of coins and it sounded like her car keys went with it. Thumping and grinding. I hoped she hadn't broken this machine too. When she was done, she smiled and took her receipt to the teller. I turned the machine on but before dumping coins in, I checked the reject tray.  $3.45. I assume some if not all of them belonged to the woman. I would have told her, but I figure if she don't know how to use the machine and collect the rejects, she should continue to use the machine. 

I assume some if not all of them belonged to the woman. I would have told her, but I figure if she don't know how to use the machine and collect the rejects, she should continue to use the machine. 

My feelings exactly.

A quarter and  a penny in the green machine today. Then I went to the bank in side the same supermarket and got $21 loose in halves. $19 of it was 40%ers. I love that market.

67 cents at the coin machine today. Two of them were WHEATS. A 1942 and a 1919.

Among the abandoned wrappers and baggies on the Coinstar machine today were three dimes and two chewed up pennies. 32¢ profit baby!

Still finding (common) Ikes in the (inside) reject bucket of coin counting machines; while they're changing out the bags.  Picked up three more already this week.

At the supermarket, there happened to be a pile of mixed coins sitting unhidden atop the CoinStar machine's ledge, and a small cloth bag on the floor nearby.

United States, 1 cent (1985, 1994)
United States, 10 cents (1969-D, 1973-D, 1995)
Canada, 1 cent (2004-P)
Canada, 10 cents (2004-P)
Canada, 25 cents (1977)
Bahrain, 50 fils (1965)
France, 1 eurocent (2001)
France, 2 eurocents (2000, 2004)
France, 5 eurocents (1999)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1979, 1981, 1987, 1999, 2002, 2003)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1990 x2, 1995)
Greece, 2 eurocents (2002)
Peru, 1 centimo (2007)
Peru, 10 centimos (2003)
Peru, 20 centimos (2007)
Peru, 50 centimos (2007)
Peru, 1 nuevo sol (2007)
Peru, 5 nuevo soles (1995)
Singapore, 1 cent (1992)
Spain, 1 eurocent (1999)
Spain, 2 eurocents (2000)
Switzerland, 10 rappen (1977)
Taiwan, 1 dollar (?)
-----------------------------------------
USD 0.32 + CAN 0.36 + BHD 0.005 + EUR 0.13 + GBP 0.21 + PEN 6.81 + SGD 0.01 + CHF 0.10 + TWD 1.00 = USD $3.859

The bag earned me a five cent discount at the a register, the store's usual bounty for reusing bags.

The other day I filled the coin bin of the self serve coin machine and asked to check the inside coin reject slot.

Ended up with the following:
3 US dimes
2 US pennies

16 Foreign:
France, 1 Euro Cent (2001, 2007),
Italy, 1 Euro Cent (2002),
Kazakhstan, 2 Tenge (2005), 
Mexico, 1 Centavo (1964),
Netherlands, 1 Euro Cent (2001),
Singapore, 1 Cent (1995(2), 2000(2)),
South Africa, 1 Cent (1996 Zulu Legend),
Spain, 1 Euro Cent (1999, 2001, 2003),
Trinidad and Tobago, 10 Cents (2005),
Turkey, 5 Kurus (2006)

1 Duluth/Superior Transit Token

Green machine.
1 Canada 5 cent
1 Arabic writing coin the size of a nickel
1 quarter in parking lot at bank.

I found one canadian dime in the reject tray yesterday... but it was after I dumped like $150 in dimes in... so does that still count if I found my own coin? =)

~Dave

Green machine.
1 Canada 5 cent
1 Arabic writing coin the size of a nickel
1 quarter in parking lot at bank.

Your Turkish "nickel" may be worth around $30.  Mine was, I got it in change over 40 years ago!

I found one canadian dime in the reject tray yesterday... but it was after I dumped like $150 in dimes in... so does that still count if I found my own coin? =)

~Dave

Nice try.....not...........LOL

In the reject tray:

Turkey, 50 bin lira (2003)

28 cents, reject tray in the green machine.

I found a 2002 UK 1 penny at my supermarket.  It was all by itself on the floor about 15 feet from the CoinMaster machine.

I found a 2002 UK 1 penny at my supermarket.  It was all by itself on the floor about 15 feet from the CoinMaster machine.

Sounds like next time the coins will be jumping in your pocket...LOL

Green machine, 2 cents woo hoo.

from the magnet:

Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM x2)
Canada, 5 cents (2001-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1986, 1988, 2000)
Canada, 25 cents (1968 nickel, 1969, 1974, 1989, 2006-P)
Canada, 1 dollar (1994 war memorial)
Austria, 5 eurocents (2005)
Italy, 1 eurocent (2002)

56D wheat, kinda banged up and one ugly, POS zinc penny.

1992 rat token -- (chucky e cheese)

A bunch of foreign coin- Canadian, Kenyan, Euro, and a few others
A Sears 100th anniversary token
Yet another steel penny

all off the magnet

Green Machine--15 zincs and a dime...

A bunch of foreign coin- Canadian, Kenyan, Euro, and a few others
A Sears 100th anniversary token
Yet another steel penny

all off the magnet

fyi, the sears token is coated in copper from the statue of liberty

HH
-GC

sweet metal from lady liberty --how neat is that? way cool.

A bunch of foreign coin- Canadian, Kenyan, Euro, and a few others
A Sears 100th anniversary token
Yet another steel penny

all off the magnet

fyi, the sears token is coated in copper from the statue of liberty

HH
-GC

supercool! thanks for the info. 

Put $1 in the coke machine at work the other day.  Got my $.80 diet coke and 2 dimes change.  One was a '59! 

Two foreign coins:

1982  2P eire ( Ireland)
2 New Pence (UK)

i was on ebay today there is a guy called estates-by-wieght he is selling bags of pennies that are unsearched and beefed up with special 25c georges seated 10c merc rosie ikes seateds that are silver  5c 1c that are s svdb wheats indians steel and some have silver certificates   some bags range from 29.00 to 65.00 plus 10.00 shipping and handling you can buy one or more bags and only pay shipping on one bag i am gonna try one bag and see what i get cant beat 30.00 if you can make a 100.00+ all you can do is go look at it he says he is one of the top reputable hoard and stash buyers in the country.

estates-by-wieght

No seller by that name on Ebay. Please cut and paste it here or better yet post an item #.
Thanks, S_F

Try inserting the word "weight" in place of "wieght."   

The seller is offering an alleged but very good deal!  I am very interested in learning how you make out with the transaction.

~Silverthorn  (rides again... )

Nabbed a nice little stash today while getting hand rolls at the supermarket bank branch:

8 state quarters
1 nickel
2 pennies

for a total of $2.07 legal tender ;)

as well as a 5 Euro piece.

~Dave

[might]

Try inserting the word "weight" in place of "wieght."   

The seller is offering an alleged but very good deal!  I am very interested in learning how you make out with the transaction.

~Silverthorn  (rides again... )

It is estates-by-weight. Interesting but a classic type Ebay offer. You might find a ....blah..blah..blah...

the key word is MIGHT --- as in a 1000 lb bag of money flying in a plane MIGHT somehow fall from the plane and land at your feet --- MIGHT rates right up there with Could happen * and MAYBE --- AND OF COURSE  you have 0% recource against said seller --since he did not say you will find ----- he said you might find (which also means you might not find) ie no promises  ----  but  go get $30 worth of pennies at a bank and look thru them --you MIGHT FIND indain head cents and wheat cents --and steel cents --cost a mere 1 cent replacement cost per find -- no finds rerol and mark the rolls cash em back in  cost $0 -- you can do nickles -- dimes --quarters ect its called Coin Roll Hunting --or CRH for short.

Found next to machine.

8-  5cent Euro
8-  2cent Euro
7- 1Penny UK
4- 5Pence UK
1- 10Pfennig
1- $5 Jamaica
1- 50cent Mexico
1- $1 Mexico
1- 1Piso Phillipines
3- 10Cent Barbados
1- 5cent Barbados
1- 25cent Barbados

I find coins all of the time in these machines.  Since we are keeping track, I will start keeping track and reporting.  I am confused about this "magnet" thing.  Is there a magnet readily accessable on Coinstar machines or is it inside?
And... how do you get a look in the reject bucket on the inside?

Thanks in advance

Good luck at the Green Machine. 58 cents. One of the dimes was a 1958 silver. Woo Hoo.

And... how do you get a look in the reject bucket on the inside?

Thanks in advance

Every time I fill a bag, the teller has to remove it and put new one in. While she has the machine open, you can see the inside reject tray. I always ask to empty the contents. Mostly get beat up pennies and dimes, dirt and candy wrappers, a couple pins, screws, paper clips etc. One machine rejected $20 of my coins into it. I'm glad I got those back. I hate to hear one or more of my coins hitting that reject tray, especially if I don't fill the bag and get a look at what the machine is stealing from me. But on the bright side, I almost always find coins in, or under the machine.

At my CU on Friday, the reject tray had 3 quarters, 3 pennies, 1 Mexican Peso, and a Canadian Quarter

green machine nada -- but the xerox machine next to it --10 cent canadain 

i found a wheat penny 1910 at a coin star at the grocerie store last week i lost it at the work bench at home gotta clean up so i can find it

3 nickels and 2 penny's in the stamp coin return.

$10, Coin Machine Junk Reject Box.

Dumped some halves today, filled up the bag in the machine, and from the reject tray I got

$1.05 Canadian
25 cents Cayman Islands
10 Bolivian centavos (1937)
100 Yen (1955)
5 Euro cents
$1 Bahamas
1 Garden State Parkway token
and several other generic tokens

While dumping, I found these in the reject tray:

Canada, 1 cent (1991)
France, 5 eurocents (2002)
Switzerland, 10 rappen (1962)

Unrelatedly, I found a 1945 wheat penny on the sidewalk outside the Post Office on Monday.

I got a bunch of foreign coin and a couple more steel pennies from the last few trips to the machine.

I checked the reject tray in a Coinstar machine today and got a surprise! There was a handful of change! I scooped it out and got 2 quarters, 2 dimes, 1 nickle, 24 zinc pennies and 8 copper pennies! $1.07 in change. There was no silver except 1 of the dimes which was a 1915 Barber dime! Someone had drilled a hole in it but I still thought it was a pretty neat find! 

I checked the reject tray in a Coinstar machine today and got a surprise! There was a handful of change! I scooped it out and got 2 quarters, 2 dimes, 1 nickle, 24 zinc pennies and 8 copper pennies! $1.07 in change. There was no silver except 1 of the dimes which was a 1915 Barber dime! Someone had drilled a hole in it but I still thought it was a pretty neat find! 

Nice score sneak. I found 2 Brit coins today while dumping.

more foreign coins and a diary key.

8 pennies
8 dimes
1 nickle
2000 Republica de Guatemala 10 Centavos
Unidentified Oriental coin, 1mm larger than penny, bald guy facing left on obverse.

I got a 'Heroes of Desert Storm 1991" $5 coin issued from the Marshall Islands from the coin machine at the bank today.

1964 D dime
1992 D lincoln cent
1996 D lincoln cent
2007 D lincoln cent

My first silver find at the Coinstar.

1964 D dime
1992 D lincoln cent
1996 D lincoln cent
2007 D lincoln cent

My first silver find at the Coinstar.

Congrats on your first free silver. Also congrats to Mark on the 'Heroes of Desert Storm 1991" $5 coin. Beats the heck out of my .22 cents yesterday.

From my favorite magnet & reject tray:

Canada, 1 cent (2004-P, 2007-RCM)
Canada, 5 cents (2003-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1973, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1998, 2006-P, 2007-RCM, 2008-RCM)
Canada, 25 cents (2006-RCM)
Belgium, 5 eurocents (2003)
France, 1 eurocent (2004)
Germany, 2 eurocents (2002-D, 2002-G)
Germany, 5 eurocents (2002-F)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1988)
Italy, 1 eurocent (2002)
Italy, 2 eurocents (2002)
Netherlands, 25 cents (1963)
Russia, 10 rubles (1993)
South Africa, 20 cents (1997)
Spain, 2 eurocents (2004)
-----------------------------------------------------------
CAD$1.12 + EUR 0.20 + GBP 0.01 + ZAR 0.20 = USD$1.406

[1997 1 cent from South Africa]

In the reject tray, a 1997 1 cent from South Africa.  Woot.

Every now and then, I cycle nickels through a vending machine at work, and infrequently I find an old Jeff.  Normally I don't post my finds from this method as they are unspectacular nickels such as the 1940-P.  But yesterday I got a 1955-P nickel, and any nickel with a mintage of less than 8 million is worth writing TNet about.

Checked the coinstar on the way out of shopping center - 1st find!

3 Quarters
3 Pennies non-copper
1 Canadian Dime
1 Singapore Dime
1 English penny