COINSTAR JACKPOT

[DANGLANGLEY]

I went to the bank to put about $30 worth of dimes in the coinstar machine. I dumped the dimes in the tray and pushed the start button. I heard a coin fall into the reject tray and it sounded like it hit another coin. I bent down and saw it was full of coins. I looked around to see if anyone might have just walked away but I was the only customer in the bank. I started scooping them out and putting them in the top and when it finished I had $10.85 extra. I just don't understand how someone would/could walk away like that and leave that much money behind. Does anyone have a clue how that could happen? I did notice that when it was finished counting my change and it was printing out my receipt it started making another noise inside it and then 4 nickels fell into the reject tray. One was a Canadian and the other three were a little bent.

DANGLANGLEY

 

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[jgas]

Strange......But your lucky day. Time to go out and by some local kids some gum

 

[Jack(IN)]

Not the first time I've heard of that. I bought 125 silver roosies that an older gentleman found in a coinstar machine. He couldn't believe it and knew I collected silver.

 

[Bobbie]

Are you sure you weren't playing a slot machine..

 

[Old Dog]

Good for you Buddy,

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Thom

 

[jraven]

Old person probably left em in there.

 

[revdrlon]

i went to the coinstar machine once and the reject tray was full of wheats.

 

[Old Dog]

Sounds like your Karma just ran over someone's dogma.

LOL
Thom

 

[kindafoundabuckle]

I found a 20 dollar bill in a ATM machine last year right in the tray....

KFB

 

[JP]

Yesterday at the supermarket I saw a Coinstar machine. I decided to walk by and see if there was anything, everybody seems to write how they find things in the reject tray. It's true, people do leave coins there. I found a Canadian dime, some kind of Euro coin, and some other foreign coins and game tokens. FREE MONEY

I also looked down in the spot where trash falls down. There was a gold chain in there that was not possible to get out. The owner of that machine must be happy with all the extra goodies....

 

[izzitcat]

Coinstars are gold mines! Every time I go in Kroger I embarrass my wife by taking a look. The other day after a mding outing I stcopped by Kroger to get some milk and walked by the coinstar and ON TOP was a clad quarter a messed up penny and unbelievably a 1941 perfect merc dime! Can't find'm mding cause' they're laying around Kroger. I find a lot of wheats this way!

Roothawg

 

[bergie]

Hey, dude, congrats. A couple of years ago I went to the Coinstar and found a merc dime in the coin return!

 

[ClonedSIM]

Yesterday at the supermarket I saw a Coinstar machine. I decided to walk by and see if there was anything, everybody seems to write how they find things in the reject tray. It's true, people do leave coins there. I found a Canadian dime, some kind of Euro coin, and some other foreign coins and game tokens. FREE MONEY

I also looked down in the spot where trash falls down. There was a gold chain in there that was not possible to get out. The owner of that machine must be happy with all the extra goodies....

Keep a pencil and a pack of gum in your car in case this happens again. The Coinstar machines where I live have pretty good-sized holes in their dump trays, large enough for everything except dimes to fall through, and I've snagged a couple of nice finds with a bit of gum stuck onto a pencil.

 

[relichunters]

I thought those machines took all coins, I didn't know it was capable of rejecting them. Awesome find!

 

[Mr_Mojo_Risin]

I have more than thrice scored moula in the "reject tray" of the Coinstar machine at a local grocery store. One day I got nearly $6 in quarters, dimes etc.
Other times a couple dimes or whatever here and there. The coolest thing was a Euro. one of the store managers yelled "Umm, Sir.." Told them I have been there 20 mins and no one went up to the machine. Finders keepers. Or so the story goes. It's just like finding $ in a change return.

 

[DCMatt]

I thought those machines took all coins, I didn't know it was capable of rejecting them. Awesome find!

I think the Coinstar machines "check" coins by testing conductivity. Similar to the notch discrimination on many MDs. The old silver coins must be outside the range and therefore get rejected. My buddy has found a merc and and a silver quarter in the tray on separate occasions.

I'm sure someone here will correct me if I'm wrong...

The bottom line is... ALWAYS check the reject tray when you see a Coinstar machine!

DCMatt

 

[Nana40]

So you go into the bank with $30 and come out with $40?! 8) Sounds like a great day to me!

Way to go, Dangit!

Nana

 

[Cr4zyH0rs3]

I always thought when you walk into a Bank, the coin counter was behind the Tellers desk, I know when I go to the Bank thats where I see.
CoinStar is at Super Markets not Banks.

 

[clump63]

I always check when walking by. It pays off 5 outta 10 times.

 

[Chico Rico]

To date the local coinstars have provided me with:

13 silver Rosie DImes

1 1954 washington quarter

Several Wheats

One Indian Head penny 188?

About 5 euros

and a small canidian fortune

Occasionally an oldtimer will come in with a pile of silver and can not understand why the machine will not accept them. Depending on who's working a nice young feller or two will be more than happy to give cash for the coins since the dang fangled machine won't take 'em.

I'm convience that I gonna find a gold coin in that return tray one say. I just know it.


chico