180 Coins in the Reject Tray

[SusanMN]

Note on typo in heading - coin count was about 360 coins, not 180. Stopped by the grocery store this afternoon to pick up a few things, and as always made a stop at the coin counting machine to check out the reject tray. This machine has a little door on the reject tray so you have to stick your finger inside and feel around amidst the bits of crud for the occasional leftover coin. I have found a few silver coins in the past, so I always check. So today I reach in and I feel coins and more coins. It is, in fact totally loaded with coins. I peeked inside the bank to make sure there wasn't a customer seeing assistance with the machine, but not a customer inside. So I grabbed a handful, then another before realizing I needed something to carry them in.

I quickly grabbed a bag from the checkout line and started unloading the machine. Ended up with $22.80 in coins consisting of about $12 in quarters, $5 or so in dimes, $3 in nickels and a little over $2 in pennies, including a 1941 wheatie.

Hard to think of why so much was left behind - machine malfunction or maybe someone did a huge coin dump, or didn't understand they were to check for rejects. Anyway, amazing find. Only thing better would have been if the coins were silver.

 

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[kyleeskastles]

hmm did not know this, cool tip. this is those coinstar machines you see in the store?

 

[SusanMN]

hmm did not know this, cool tip. this is those coinstar machines you see in the store?

This wasnt a coinstar, it was a different brand coin counting machine.
Coinstar machines have an open reject tray so you can easily see if it has anything in it.

 

[Jarl]

Ahh, sweet rejection haul.

 

[mariposagold]

Jackpot.

HH
MariposaGold

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Were they grungy or dug coins? I was thinking about bringing some of my dug coins to Coinstar, but I'm not sure if they would be accepted.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Wow! All that and no digging!
That makes you queen of coin star! Awesome!
I got to start checking those machines more often!

 

[SusanMN]

Were they grungy or dug coins? I was thinking about bringing some of my dug coins to Coinstar, but I'm not sure if they would be accepted.

No, they were normal circulated coins in decent shape. The machine shouldn't have rejected them, but apparently did.

 

[jewelerguy]

score!

 

[Tank69]

Hey Tim run your dug coins threw a tumbler of sand an somer water , it'll clean em up good enough that coin star will take em ......just make sure to do pennies an silver in seprate loads ..... thats what I do with all my dirty clad .

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Tank69, great idea! I was just going to cash in my nickels, dimes and quarters. Most of my pennies are crusty and really grungy, so I wasn't going to try and cash them in right now.

 

[doninbrewster]

In the last month I got 2 silver Roosevelt dimes, a Canadian quarter and a 10 cent piece, I think was from the Netherlands. Silver coins get rejected by the coinstar machines.

 

[treblehunter]

Susan, I would love to see the store surveillance tape of you raiding that machine, it probably would be interesting, lol haaaaaaaaaaaaa ?
Nice find, air conditioned hunt too, sweet!