coinstar finds

[Mercuryman]

Very impressive haul!

[hobo finds]

Nov. Constar and found on the ground finds

$1.02 USD

.01 - 2
.05 -
.10 -
.25 -
.50 -
$ - 1.00 bill

Tokens

Obsolete

Misc

Pocket Change

[hobo finds]

Coindood that is just crazy, good finds as always. Good thing they left the container it probably helped remove the coins somewhat quicker.

[coindood]

Very impressive haul!

Coindood that is just crazy, good finds as always. Good thing they left the container it probably helped remove the coins somewhat quicker.

Thx. I still can't believe it.

This same place has recently added a shallow trash can and I'm regularly finding stuff in there too. It's sort of isolated too, in a closed off vestibule where the only reason to enter that area is Coinstar or to buy bags of charcoal. It reduces foot traffic which is probably why it wasn't noticed till I got there. All plusses.

Here's the mega-score breakdown:

1.06 (cents)
1.15 (nickels)
5.00 (dimes)
20.75 (quarters)

Canada 25 cents (2002-P)
Ecuador 5 centavos (2003)
Great Britain 5 pence (1991)
Switzerland 20 rappen (1955)

Ballomatic golf token (ND)
Unknown token (below if anyone wants to take a crack at ID-ing it, 26mm, reverse is blank)

[TXSTARFIRE]

So how much coin would a person have to bring in to get that much in the reject chute, or was this an accumulation from multiple folks? I suppose no way to tell, but a lot of coin was probably put in the machine to get that large of a haul from the reject chute. Did they all look like reject material or do you think something was wrong with the machine?

Sweet score!

[coindood]

So how much coin would a person have to bring in to get that much in the reject chute, or was this an accumulation from multiple folks? I suppose no way to tell, but a lot of coin was probably put in the machine to get that large of a haul from the reject chute. Did they all look like reject material or do you think something was wrong with the machine?

Sweet score!

I was trying to figure it out too. There was so much that any more rejects would have spilled out onto the floor, so you know that probably happened at some point while they were dumping. None of them looked like problem coins, apart from the foreign and tokens. If the Clorox container was theirs and full upon arrival, it probably held ~$100, since what I snagged filled it up about a quarter of the way.

[TXSTARFIRE]

I had a thought, what happens when the machine is full? Does the coin just go directly to the reject chute? Do the Coinstar machines become full at some point and no longer accept coin?

[coindood]

I had a thought, what happens when the machine is full? Does the coin just go directly to the reject chute? Do the Coinstar machines become full at some point and no longer accept coin?

Yes they do. Usually the monitor will display that it's full and can take no more.



I encounter this more often than I care for. Not sure what happens if it reaches capacity during a count.

Once in awhile I've seen people have to call a store employee over becuase it's thrown them some kind of error message. Most of the time it's to unjam it because of damaged or gunky coins or maybe something non-coin-ish has gotten stuck in the mechanism.

[cwgii]

One penny on floor beside machine. Second store,,4 dimes.

[cwgii]

2 pennies in change return
Another had a penny and mangled dime

[coindood]

In a year of insanity like 2020 you try to find safe havens, which for me was my weekly Coinstar runs. And perhaps the Coin Gods responded with compassion because despite losing almost an entire month due to lockdown, this year was one for the record books: A new high US total; the most number of countries; my oldest year discovery and the biggest single Coinstar haul. This was also the tie breaker year for the Silver Dime vs Wheaties battle when they ended 2019 with 13-13 apiece. Wheaties took the crown by a score of 9-7 (22-20 over all).

The only point of frustration was my apartment complex parking lot finds. My goal was to average a penny a day ($3.66) but I came up just short at $3.53

December totals [2020 GRAND TOTALS]

1¢ - .43 (7.39)
5¢ - .25 (6.00)
10¢ - .90 (22.00)
25¢ - 1.75 (46.50)
50¢ - 0.00 (.50)
Total - 3.33 (82.39) <---New record!

1946-D Roosie included in Dec total

Bahamas
1 cent (2015)

Great Britain
1 farthing (1945)
1 penny (2009)

Israel <---38th new country for 2020!
1 new sheqel (2017)

Mexico
50 centavos (2002, 2006)
1 peso (2017)
5 pesos (2014)
10 pesos (1998, 2017)

Spain
2 euro cents (2013)
1 euro (2003)

Flattened penny
Knott's Berry Farm Mystery Lodge

Galaxy Games/No Cash Value token
Eagle/No Cash Value token

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2020 stats


Oldest
US - 1909 VDB wheatie (oldest CS find ever!)
Foreign - 1945 Great Britain farthing

Face
Canada - C$6.19
Euro - €4.12
Great Britain - £1.14 (includes 6p old currency converted to new 3p)

Biggest Coinstar hauls
268 coins- 11/29 - (US: .01x106, .05x23, .10x50, .25x83, Canada(x1), Ecuador(x1), Great Britain(x1),
Switzerland(x1), Ballomatic golf token, Unknown token (stylized wheat stalks? Y?)
67 coins - 10/3 - (US: .01 (x37, 1941 wheatie), .25 (x30), Germany(x1))
33 coins - 11/15 - (US: .01 x29), .10 (x3), Urban Necessities token
23 coins - 4/23 - (US: .01 .05 (x2), Canada(x7), Philippines(x10), Romania(x1), Singapore(x1), Empress Casino token)
16 coins - 4/24 - (US: .01 (x7) .25, Austria(x1), Germany(x1), Great Britain(x1), Italy(x4), Singapore(x1))
15 coins - 9/7 - (US: .01 (x7), .10 (x4), .25 (x4))


Wheaties (9) - 1909 VDB, 1929, 1937, 1937-D, 1940, 1941, 1941-D, 1944-S, 1952-D
Silver dimes (7) - 1917, 1944, 1946-D, 1952-D, 1952-S, 1959-D, 1964-D
Silver quarter - 1943-S
Silver half - 1976-S

Silver tally - $1.45/face = $22.07/melt (at current $26.42/oz)

...and various tokens, flattened pennies, etc.

Five countries that have always appeared since I began tracking each month (2016-2020)
Canada, China, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico

2020 Countries (38) <---New record!
Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, China Rep (Taiwan), Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago

All countries 2014-20 (66)
Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, China Rep (Taiwan), Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Is., Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela

Coinstar/ground searching 2009-2020 ---> $404.16


And finally, some of the always interesting non-coin stuff found in and around Coinstar machines this year.

[hobo finds]

Dec. Constar and found on the ground finds

$1.08 USD

.01 - 8
.05 - 2
.10 - 4
.25 - 2
.50 -
$ -

Tokens
Dynamite Car Wash

Obsolete

Misc

Pocket Change

[hobo finds]

2020 Year end Coinstar and Found on the ground finds

$16.80 USD
$.10 Canada
$16.50 Pesos Mexico
.10 franc Switzerland
.01 Euro

Obsolete coinage / note
$1 mexico peso
1$ French franc

Tokens
Car wash 1$
6 Dynamite car wash
1 CoolDrive

Misc
$11.00 winning lottrry tickets

Pocket Change Finds
1945 wheat cent

[coindood]

1st Coinstar run of 2021 was productive! 47 cents including a whopper of a wheatie - 1924.

Can it go wire-to-wire as the oldest of the year? In 364 days we'll find out.

Good luck in 2021 everyone!

[cwgii]

Credit Union ,coin reject, penny Canadian nickel, $1,2 Mexico

[Recyclersteve]

In the last several days I found 2 cents.

No biggie except that one of the pennies was a nice XF 1952-P.

[thecrazyone]

Found an 1889 US 3-Cent Nickel today!!!

You have no idea how siked I am !!!!

I know this post was a while ago, but that kind of find has to be 1 in a million!!

[thecrazyone]

I checked the one at WM today and there was nada. I did find .05 in pennies nearby, though.

[thecrazyone]

Coindood, how often do you hit CS? And why do so many copper cents get rejected??

[coindood]

Coindood, how often do you hit CS? And why do so many copper cents get rejected??

I have a regular "circuit" of four machines within a couple of miles of me. If it's a nice enough day and I have time there are three more I can hit that about doubles my mileage. I usually combine it with shopping but not always, sometimes it's just stop, look, grab and leave.

I confine those trips to my days off and I can usually hit the 4-machine route one or two times a week.

Should also add that my totals include "found on the ground" coinage, anything abandoned in checkout stand change dispensers...pretty much anywhere coins are found. If it's laying around unclaimed, it becomes part of the totals. 99% of my foreigns are CS finds though.

Dunno if it's strictly the copper that gets them rejected. Most of the CS pennies I find are damaged, sticky or have some other physical issue that causes the machine to spit them out. One constant however - if there's ever a wheatie, 99% of the time it's pre-1940. One theory is that those are so worn that they can't pass the discriminators.

[thecrazyone]

Have your circuit visits changed at all with COVID?

[coindood]

Have your circuit visits changed at all with COVID?

Not as much as I thought.

March/April saw the steepest decline in CS activity, when staying home was new and no one knew how severe this would be. But by May I was right back to my regular routine.

[thecrazyone]

Have your circuit visits changed at all with COVID?

Not as much as I thought.

March/April saw the steepest decline in CS activity, when staying home was new and no one knew how severe this would be. But by May I was right back to my regular routine.

Do any of the staff talk to you as you do your rounds?

[coindood]

Do any of the staff talk to you as you do your rounds?

I have a strict "no eye contact" policy with staff.

But sometimes that's unavoidable. There's the occasional "Can I help you?" which is employee-ese for "WTF are you doing?" I just say no thanks and move on. And with "team members" positioned at the doors to ensure the mask mandates, encountering them has become more common. I do have one buddy who works at one of my stops who saves stuff for me. But apart from that, I don't engage. It helps if the machines are located away from the main doors.

[thecrazyone]

Do any of the staff talk to you as you do your rounds?

I have a strict "no eye contact" policy with staff.

But sometimes that's unavoidable. There's the occasional "Can I help you?" which is employee-ese for "WTF are you doing?" I just say no thanks and move on. And with "team members" positioned at the doors to ensure the mask mandates, encountering them has become more common. I do have one buddy who works at one of my stops who saves stuff for me. But apart from that, I don't engage. It helps if the machines are located away from the main doors.

I do the same when I check out car washes.

One of my sons scored .51 at a self checkout on Sunday. Welcome to the sickness, lol!