A Coinstar Find To End All Finds

[Heartkill]

First off, hope every Veteran past and present out there had an enjoyable day.

I can't technically take credit for this find since my wife is the one who grabbed 'em, but there part of "our" stash now. This all started at Kroger. We wanted to pick up a nice bottle of wine to end our evening with and as I'm at the register, wife strolls over to the Coinstar machine, looks back like her ass is on fire, and starts stuffing her pockets. At first I thought she found a bunch of regular old rejects, foreign coins, etc. - no... oh no... she knew they were silver just by the sound. When we got out to the car I thought I was having an out of body experience. We managed to calm ourselves enough to get home and sort them out. This is what she found: 145 silver Roosevelts, 46 Mercs, 2 silver quarters, 6 zinc pennies, 1 copper penny, 1 wheat penny, 5 steel 1943 pennies, 1 2001 nickel (odd), 1 '68 Canadian dime, 1 1938 half-penny, a 1921 Italian? 10c, 1962 Ireland 1 Scilling, a 2004 coin with Arabic writing (no idea what it could be), 1971 British New Penny, 1929 German 10 Reichspfennig and a 1934 German 1 Reichspfennig. So in total, $19.68 in change, almost $400 in melt value... lesson learned - CHECK THE COINSTAR REJECT TRAY! And now for some pics

The pile


Spread them out a bit


Silver Roosies


Mercs


Quarters


The junk and foreign stuff

[Devil Soundwave]

Taching! Nice find dude. Total win.

[dakota1955]

she was taught well

[Kurr]

Sounds like somebody got robbed. Who is in such a hurry as to leave THAT much in the reject tray?

Good score for you though! WHAT A HAUL!!

[TXBullion]

And here I am getting excited over the dirty and ugly abes that it wont process that people leave behind

Thats a great score and probably a record coinstar find for us searchers would be my guess

[Rodebaugh]

Holy crap! this calls for two bottles of wine!

[Thogey]

I agree with Kurr some idiot probably stole them them, got frustrated and left when the machine kept rejecting them.

This is not the typical elderly old lady situation.

[Country]

Totally unbelievable!!! Super Congrats...

I never see anything in the coinstar reject trays around here.

[agmoose]

And I damn near wrecked my car when I got a silver Canadian Quarter in change at a fast food joint!

Wow - congrats. I checked two coinstars today - got one 1991 Penny. LOL.

[billo]

Amazing! True, strange situation of how those coins got there.

[Heartkill]

It had to have been a big stash because of the few older foreign coins. We were both wondering who would just leave almost $20 in face of coins there. My wife said as she was scooping out a handful another load would drop down. There was a group of carts in front of the machine and that's what I think kept them hidden, unless someone had just dumped them and we were in the right place at the right time.

I get jacked up when I pull one 40%er out of box... were both still in shock over this. Country, I might have to have my wife sign up and stake her claim. She's a lucky one

[blackrabbit]

Give that woman some extra loving!

[smalltimeopn]

Holy cow!!! Awesome score!!!
I don't use coinstars, only the machines at BBT's. From time to time I find small rocks, trash, and so far 2 foreign coins (1 is my avatar). Your score is a home run to center field with the bases loaded! Congrats!!!

[beauanderos]

I hope you're going to reward her appropriately! Hint, hint... southernbelle has a ryedale she wants to trade for $400, maybe she'll take dimes

[TXTim]

Outstanding!!!

[AGCoinHunter]

Holy chit. Amazing CS find. Where am I when the reject bin is full like that? Congrats!

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

And I thought the $3 face of silver I've found so far at the coinstar was good! Great score!

[ScottyTX]

Wow, I once drove all over town checking 10 coinstars and founs 7 mexican coins and a mercury dime that cured me Three things come to mind, and ederly woman cashed then in, but most of them are used to rolling up change and putting it in the bank so.... #2 Some kid went to dump Paw Paw's change jar... #3 any pants sagging individuals walking around outside??

[PennyPauper]

So Sweet. Congrats.I have my one daughter trained to check any coin machine we pass be it in a bank or market,she usually finds something.Can't wait to tell the wife about this find,maybe I won't get so many eye rolls now. Best part of your find is if you wait a few days,weeks it will be worth even more the way silver is taking off. Reinforces my thought that the explosion in coin counting machines are the best thing that happened for coin searchers ever.

[Heartkill]

Wow, I once drove all over town checking 10 coinstars and founs 7 mexican coins and a mercury dime that cured me Three things come to mind, and ederly woman cashed then in, but most of them are used to rolling up change and putting it in the bank so.... #2 Some kid went to dump Paw Paw's change jar... #3 any pants sagging individuals walking around outside??

We were thinking either a kid raided a hand-me down stash and got so frustrated the machine wouldn't take the coins or #3... although this was in a decent area of town.

So Sweet. Congrats.I have my one daughter trained to check any coin machine we pass be it in a bank or market,she usually finds something.Can't wait to tell the wife about this find,maybe I won't get so many eye rolls now. Best part of your find is if you wait a few days,weeks it will be worth even more the way silver is taking off. Reinforces my thought that the explosion in coin counting machines are the best thing that happened for coin searchers ever.

I think these are the best times ever for coin searchers, whether you do customer rolls, boxes, bags... anything to get a shot at someone else's desperate need for worthless FRN's. Add to the fact that the holiday shopping sprees are just around the corner, I see more big scores in the future.

[NiBullionCu]

First of all congrats on the score of a lifetime!

The 2004 arabic coin looks to be a Pakistan rupee.

[beauanderos]

I check the coinstar bins when I'm near one, but have never found anything. Nice score. My finds in bank boxes of halves is in an uptrend. There's still silver out there, and it's coming out of the woodwork with the rotten economy, so I guess, good news/bad news.

[misteroman]

I hope you're going to reward her appropriately! Hint, hint... southernbelle has a ryedale she wants to trade for $400, maybe she'll take dimes

No she doesn't 'hint hint'
Incredible job there man. I've only found canadians in there. Coins not people

[MO-SILVER!]

I have only found a chewed up 1962 nickel in coinstars. Oh well ill keep checking!

[AGCoinHunter]

Dont forget to check under the CS machine. I find lots of change all the time under coin counters.