I usually find nothing in the Coinstar.......

GKL · Nov 10, 2020

.....but I still check since it's right near the store exit and today it surprised me with $5.18 !
(can't understand how people miss it but had no way to tell who left it)

LovestheShiny! · Nov 10, 2020

Same here. TWO silver Rosies in a few years of checking at a local grocery store, and one huge clad find ($15+) is about all I've ever pulled out of the reject slot...

davidlhyde63366 · Nov 10, 2020

nice haul

Wom 27 · Nov 10, 2020

Two days ago I spotted a pile of coins. I grabbed without even looking. Had to be something,right? It was 25 pennies and to make things worse, it had to be a fellow swinger. I could tell by the condition !

kingman mikey · Nov 10, 2020

Big score

John Madill · Nov 11, 2020

Fort Knox....

Basic training, 1971.

It was back in the day of payphones.

There was a loooong row of phones set up for trainees to phone home.
Drill sergeants would often come through holding a cup of coffee in one hand and check the coin returns.

Never saw them find something but they must have from time to time.

KOB · Nov 11, 2020

John Madill said:
Basic training, 1971.

It was back in the day of payphones.

There was a loooong row of phones set up for trainees to phone home.
Drill sergeants would often come through holding a cup of coffee in one hand and check the coin returns.

Never saw them find something but they must have from time to time.

Reminds me of being a kid. I used to go around and stuff a piece of paper up in the coin return. Go back the next day and clean up !

Kellyco · Nov 12, 2020

That's brilliant. As a habitual pay phone digger I could kick myself for never thinking to look in one of those contraptions.

amc rulz · Nov 12, 2020

Nice score Gary, it really does pay to check!

diggin4clad · Nov 12, 2020

nice grab Gary......

rx8driver · Nov 12, 2020

yep 3.19 wal mart 2.27 safeway maybe coinstar season?

GKL · Nov 12, 2020

LovestheShiny! said:
Same here. TWO silver Rosies in a few years of checking at a local grocery store, and one huge clad find ($15+) is about all I've ever pulled out of the reject slot...

davidlhyde63366 said:
nice haul

Wom 27 said:
Two days ago I spotted a pile of coins. I grabbed without even looking. Had to be something,right? It was 25 pennies and to make things worse, it had to be a fellow swinger. I could tell by the condition !

kingman mikey said:
Big score

John Madill said:
Basic training, 1971.

It was back in the day of payphones.

There was a loooong row of phones set up for trainees to phone home.
Drill sergeants would often come through holding a cup of coffee in one hand and check the coin returns.

Never saw them find something but they must have from time to time.

KOB said:
Reminds me of being a kid. I used to go around and stuff a piece of paper up in the coin return. Go back the next day and clean up !

Kellyco said:
That's brilliant. As a habitual pay phone digger I could kick myself for never thinking to look in one of those contraptions.

amc rulz said:
Nice score Gary, it really does pay to check!

diggin4clad said:
nice grab Gary......

rx8driver said:
yep 3.19 wal mart 2.27 safeway maybe coinstar season?

Thanks everyone !!!!

I think I remember as a kid checking the coin return tray of pay phones, and soda machines, and candy machines :lol:

Hey, back then you could buy a candy bar for a nickel or a bottle of soda for 10 cents !

As a kid you felt like.......

(I guess we still feel like kids now too :lol:

)

k2gleaner · Nov 12, 2020

Sweet. You beat my latest haul by about 50 cents!

k2gleaner

dirt dick · Nov 12, 2020

Nice haul! You were in the right place at the right time. :gettinmoney:

Speaking about Phone booths .... ( Ha ha what are those?)
Back in the Late 70's on my daily paper route,
I would check a phone booth everyday on the corner of a main street business district, one day I got a buffalo nickel !

Wolf-Dog · Nov 13, 2020

Nice job, Gary! :good:

hoser · Nov 13, 2020

Now that's what I'm talkin about. Well done.

maxxkatt · Nov 14, 2020

For this whole year have found nothing in coinstar machines. I guess due to the coin shortage. Even found a store with 2 coinstar machines side by side. whoa, must have been a high volume of people cashing in coins. Still no coins in the return slots at that one this year. Good catch GKL!!!!!!

(not sure why image is on its side, was correct on my PC)

amc rulz · Nov 14, 2020

maxxkatt said:
View attachment 474818For this whole year have found nothing in coinstar machines. I guess due to the coin shortage. Even found a store with 2 coinstar machines side by side. whoa, must have been a high volume of people cashing in coins. Still no coins in the return slots at that one this year. Good catch GKL!!!!!!

(not sure why image is on its side, was correct on my PC)

Sideways? Just have to hold your phone horizontally when taking the pic.

Leave-No-Coins-Behind · Nov 14, 2020

Congrats on hitting the Coinstar jackpot!

dirt dick · Nov 14, 2020

I think that as the Holiday season approaches, and gift buying gets going,
You start seeing and finding more coins in those machines.
So check them often,
I'll be like a "COIN-STAR VULTURE"
waiting on the end-cap isle looking around the corner,
for that guy to finish emptying his tupper-ware full of coins to walk away.
like those vultures do, along the highway swooping in for a bite of road kill...between the passing flow of traffic.
Get me some mmm easy coins, maybe a few silvers, or wheaties too !!

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