Interesting Discovery

[RyanChappell]

I know times are tough but come on guys, that's taking it a bit to far. That's kind of like shaking the new stand, hoping a quarter would fall out!

Back when Wal-mart had the self checkout lines, I started checking the bill dispensers for left money, after almost leaving a few 1s behind, lol!. The bill dispensers were about thigh level and easy to forget about when grabbing your groceries. I found a few bucks one time.

 

[itsaring!]

Back when Wal-mart had the self checkout lines, I started checking the bill dispensers for left money, after almost leaving a few 1s behind, lol!. The bill dispensers were about thigh level and easy to forget about when grabbing your groceries. I found a few bucks one time.

Thanks for the tip! Ours still have self check outs.On a side note.Some tough looking character a while back walks up to the self check out and grabs an empty bag.Then walks back around to a closed register and bags his stuff.Then gives me a look and walks right out the door.Wasn't none of my business!

 

[Pennyfinder]

I check 'em every time I see one. Nothing yet but strange looks from the grocery store staff

Yeah that's what keep ME from checking. There's one at my local Wal-mart but it's right in the customer service area and they watch it like a hawk (like you're stealing their money)! I don't dare touch it!

 

[LKLive13]

I check em every time im in the store! Im on a coin forum and there are actually guys who go on "coin star runs" when they have nothing to do... i think that may be taking it too far...lol!

 

[searcher sully]

Wow. People like you who have joined this forum lately and make posts like this just amaze me. Did you miss the post about FRIENDLY when you joined? The OP didn't post the the secret to finding the key to fort knox, he posted something that we all do which is to help other forum members maybe
get a hand up on finding some extra silver. Just like a lot of people do with MD'ing. (maybe you should go into the other sections with your sarcasm and chastise them to) Did you just join this forum to give the guy !!!! about his post? Better start searching the whole site about CRH cause a lot of us do it and a lot of us post about it. You're whats wrong with this hobby (both CRH and MD'ing), you want it all to yourself and nobody else to be involved.

Sorry Mods if I've crossed the line on this one but it really seems in the last few months that some newer posters have been joining and posting things that go against what this forum was meant to be. This guys post wasnt an attempt at humor but was just someone that thinks he has the secret getting pissed off at someone else for posting about something that way more people know about than he realizes. (run on sentance, I know). Cant we start weeding out these kind of posters?

Might as well tell everyone your favorite fishing spot too.

Where granny hides the mattress money?

The pin number to your ATM.

Stuff you type on the internet is not limited to just those who read this forum when key words are typed into internet search engines.

Would you be happy if 30 people with MD's were at your favorite park tomarrow? (and don't take the high road on that question just for the sake of saving face in a public discussion, we all would be a bit miffed if our actions lessened our gains in this hobby.)

 

[DIGGER27]

Might as well tell everyone your favorite fishing spot too.

Where granny hides the mattress money?

The pin number to your ATM.

Stuff you type on the internet is not limited to just those who read this forum when key words are typed into internet search engines.

Would you be happy if 30 people with MD's were at your favorite park tomarrow? (and don't take the high road on that question just for the sake of saving face in a public discussion, we all would be a bit miffed if our actions lessened our gains in this hobby.)

Wow. People like you who have joined this forum lately and make posts like this just amaze me. Did you miss the post about FRIENDLY when you joined? The OP didn't post the the secret to finding the key to fort knox, he posted something that we all do which is to help other forum members maybe
get a hand up on finding some extra silver. Just like a lot of people do with MD'ing. (maybe you should go into the other sections with your sarcasm and chastise them to) Did you just join this forum to give the guy !!!! about his post? Better start searching the whole site about CRH cause a lot of us do it and a lot of us post about it. You're whats wrong with this hobby (both CRH and MD'ing), you want it all to yourself and nobody else to be involved.

Sorry Mods if I've crossed the line on this one but it really seems in the last few months that some newer posters have been joining and posting things that go against what this forum was meant to be. This guys post wasnt an attempt at humor but was just someone that thinks he has the secret getting pissed off at someone else for posting about something that way more people know about than he realizes. (run on sentance, I know). Cant we start weeding out these kind of posters?

An anomaly, seems new and just doesn't realize how friendly the MD community really is compared to most hobbies.
Some of the beach guys out there seem a little more greedy about site selection, but not most of them that are members on this forum.
Most posts here were more about being amused that he "discovered" something that was obvious to most of us.
The OP seems to have a adult and logical sense about it all so no real harm done in this case.

Would you be happy if 30 people with MD's were at your favorite park tomarrow? (and don't take the high road on that question just for the sake of saving face in a public discussion, we all would be a bit miffed if our actions lessened our gains in this hobby.)

If this were true, I would never hunt with anybody that asks me to around my location, or share any tips about how I pick sites and hunt for jewelry, and 1/2 of my posts would be wiped out and erased from this forum.
Maybe I'm weird, but if I help someone find something that makes them happy it seems to make me happy.
Even if it happens at one of my sites that I hunt.
If I did a huge amount of research and somebody claim jumped me that would not make me happy, but most sites I hunt are public parks and open to everyone.

Also I have read that some members of some MD clubs can be very stand-offish and close minded about hunting sites, real jerks sometimes, too, but the ones in my club seem to be the opposite and most share most of their public locations and productive areas in parks and public places more freely.

 

[Digger-Dave]

Might as well tell everyone your favorite fishing spot too.

Where granny hides the mattress money?

The pin number to your ATM......

I laughed along with all of you guys on this post. We are sure that TrailDuster didn't mean to sound like it reads. I sent a PM to them and promissed to stay away from the machines in their home state.

Glad you all had something to elaborate with. I thought it was cool when I found my first silvers ala Coinstar mixed in with Canadian coins.

 

[hillbillydigger]

Back when Wal-mart had the self checkout lines, I started checking the bill dispensers for left money, after almost leaving a few 1s behind, lol!. The bill dispensers were about thigh level and easy to forget about when grabbing your groceries. I found a few bucks one time.

Is it considering stealing to do that? I'm not judging I'm just wondering because I recently found a $20 in the grocery self-checkout. I waved down an attendant and gave it to him. He seemed like it was a real hassle and he threw it up on his station angrily then left. I thought well that may cause him to have to file some sort of report and I caused him to have more work. Thought I should have kept that $20 and quit trying to be so saintly & helpful. One store near where I used to live had a problem with giving out too many $1 bills when they were new and would stick together, so I kept those freebies since it was in my own change back.

 

[Isaac43]

The only thing I find is crusty zincolns. I'll keep looking!!

 

[GoldenEagle]

Found a 1943 merc last week in a Coinstar. :-)

 

[KingTotsalot]

Last year one of my friends from work, her husband, was going into Walmart...when the automatic door opened, and the air rushed out, he spotted a $50 bill blowing out the door to him!

He grabbed it! And so would KT! Like to go to Wally world when they pay The King!

Principals the same...finder's keepers!

 

[Cat_Fish]

who bothers to check the reject bin?? Everyone does that! HA HA KT made his first find at his Local Kroger store the other day when He came across 7 pennies set out on top of the machine...they were all stuck together with old dried out bubble gum! someone had just set them out cause they would not go in the slots of the machine! HA HA HA

Based on recommendations from people here we too checked one out and found a 2cent Euro coin, a Canadian penny and a couple dirty old pennies, wont complain and we will be sure to continue to check-up on these! HH and Merry Christmas!

 

[montanamuzik]

Here is a funny story. Just got back from grocery store. A couple was dumping some plastic jars of coins in the machine so, well, ya, I wait around with my shopping cart to see if it spits anything out, It does. As the lady is dumping in coins the guy keeps grabbing a couple that it spits out, inspecting them for damage and tossing them back in. I can't resist. I see one looks like a shiny dime. Coins done ringing up I ask if I can buy the dime for 50 cents. (Thats all I had in my pocket) The guy shakes his head, smiles, takes my quarters and plops a 64 Rosie in my hand then says "Here have this one too" (The other reject. It was a new style cent. Wasnt sure why the machine didnt take it? Anyway. They were happy (and baffled) I was happy and just thought I was being rewarded for dropping three dollars in halfs (I had already checked) in the Salvation Army can on the way in. I probably would have given them melt if I had it but all I had left in my pocket was those two quarters and in all honesty I offered them the 50 cents before I even knew what the dime was. Soooooo..... Now I was thinking if I owned some coinstar machines I would see if the silver rejects could still be counted towards the ticket at face value but be spit out INSIDE instead of rejecting them back out as uncounted. How fun would that be to open the machine every time?

 

[Cat_Fish]

Do those machines reject silver by default...? Does anyone know how they work exactly at "reading" coins beyond basic shape through a hole....I too ended up with one of the brand new cents that was rejected recently...

Here is a funny story. Just got back from grocery store. A couple was dumping some plastic jars of coins in the machine so, well, ya, I wait around with my shopping cart to see if it spits anything out, It does. As the lady is dumping in coins the guy keeps grabbing a couple that it spits out, inspecting them for damage and tossing them back in. I can't resist. I see one looks like a shiny dime. Coins done ringing up I ask if I can buy the dime for 50 cents. (Thats all I had in my pocket) The guy shakes his head, smiles, takes my quarters and plops a 64 Rosie in my hand then says "Here have this one too" (The other reject. It was a new style cent. Wasnt sure why the machine didnt take it? Anyway. They were happy (and baffled) I was happy and just thought I was being rewarded for dropping three dollars in halfs (I had already checked) in the Salvation Army can on the way in. I probably would have given them melt if I had it but all I had left in my pocket was those two quarters and in all honesty I offered them the 50 cents before I even knew what the dime was. Soooooo..... Now I was thinking if I owned some coinstar machines I would see if the silver rejects could still be counted towards the ticket at face value but be spit out INSIDE instead of rejecting them back out as uncounted. How fun would that be to open the machine every time?

 

[demyansk1942]

where does the coin get rejected to? Don't the people just pick up the coins that are rejected and place in their pocket? I never look at those machines, where do you find the rejects?

 

[montanamuzik]

Tada!

 

[Jsparks]

My first mercury was from a CS return. Ill check it every time I see one. PERIOD. no shame I guess. Truly an Alabama redneck ROLL TIDE ROLL

 

[Digger-Dave]

where does the coin get rejected to? Don't the people just pick up the coins that are rejected and place in their pocket? I never look at those machines, where do you find the rejects?

The "bad coins" usually get tossed to a small door in the front of the machine. People might not have been aware of this. Here you will also find non-coins, but at one point I was able to find many useful coins. Good stuff was getting rejected!

 

[flyin-lowe]

I never knew they rejected coins prior to 64 that had no defect. As a matter of fact I have read a few threads on this forum of people who were CRH'ing by buying the bags of coins from the person who maintains the coinstar machine. They said they found silver in them.

 

[montanamuzik]

I never knew they rejected coins prior to 64 that had no defect. As a matter of fact I have read a few threads on this forum of people who were CRH'ing by buying the bags of coins from the person who maintains the coinstar machine. They said they found silver in them.

Dunno anything about how they work. All I know is there was two coins being rejected over and over out of hundreds or maybe thousands (guessing) and one was a newer cent and the other a silver dime. They both looked fine to me. (not bent, edges in good condition etc)