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There is a LOT of activity on the Coinstar thread- something like 1,000 posts and almost 100,000 views.

This thread is NOT for saying, "Hey, today I found 11 cents."

Instead, I'd like to know- what is the very best thing you found at a coinstar machine.

I'll start because mine is easy to remember even well after the fact. And I'm gonna cheat slightly because my find was on the floor next to the Coinstar machine. But my best find was a tougher date Indian cent (1872) in Fine to Very Fine condition. I can't remember anything else found that comes close.

Ok, on my 50th birthday many years ago I found a $100 bill on the floor of a local Sam's Club- ON MY BIRTHDAY no less! So I guess we can broaden this a bit and include other valuable finds that weren't necessarily in or on a Coinstar machine.

What were your historic finds?

Probably this from Feb 2022, which is simultaneously my oldest found US, foreign and silver coin.

I probably posted this somewhere here but a couple years ago I checked out at the Kroger with my wife and as we walked toward the coinstar at the exit, from 15 feet away I could see the reject bin filled with something. I mumbled to my wife to cover me, why I don't know. But she stood blocking anybodies view of me and I shoveled out a massive handful of what I originally thought was tokens but shoved the pile into my coat pocket and walked out. We reached the car and I pulled out 19 B.U. sacagawea dollars and 2 clad quarters! Ok, sure no collection value but come on, $19.50 sitting in the reject bin? Come on coinstar peeps, check your bin. But thanks for not!

silverflake wrote:I probably posted this somewhere here but a couple years ago I checked out at the Kroger with my wife and as we walked toward the coinstar at the exit, from 15 feet away I could see the reject bin filled with something. I mumbled to my wife to cover me, why I don't know. But she stood blocking anybodies view of me and I shoveled out a massive handful of what I originally thought was tokens but shoved the pile into my coat pocket and walked out. We reached the car and I pulled out 19 B.U. sacagawea dollars and 2 clad quarters! Ok, sure no collection value but come on, $19.50 sitting in the reject bin? Come on coinstar peeps, check your bin. But thanks for not!

This makes me wonder if a CS machine would reject Ike dollars…

My best coinstar finds:

1 1967 JFK
3 Mercs
3 Rosy's
2 Washington silver quarters
5 War nickels

Haven't found anything decent for a while now... just some ugly zincs and newer dimes.