Is this coin machine find really GOLD?!

[Gare]

Thank you Sandog

 

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[Sandog]

Keep us posted when it comes back from grading. Finding any coin that can grade and make it into an NCG slab is a pretty amazing feat!

Got it back from NGC! Sent it in through West Bay Traders. Great folks to deal with, and only cost me $65. It actually came back 2 weeks earlier than projected. I'm only slightly disappointed that it did not rate a bit higher, but what the heck, I got it for nothing. Probably going to try to sell through an auction house locally, hoping to snag a collector who really needs to fill in a blank in their collection.

 

[Coinstar magnet]

Where’d you find it?

That was going to be my question!

 

[BigWaveDave]

I failed to mention this before, and it’s just for future reference…
If say you find (another) gold coin in the reject tray, do all that you can to sweet talk the store manager into opening up the Coinstar , so you can check the “dirt cup”… there is an internal reject tray that only the Coinstar tech and store managers have access to. I used to be friends with a couple Publix mgrs down in FL, and they would open it up for me after I would score a silver. I’ve gotten a Peace Dollar, and tons more Ike’s, Halves, etc… that get kicked inside the machine. It’s a tough ask to get them to help you out, but it costs nothing to ask.
Good luck…. Oh, and here is a pic of my friend in action.

 

[Sandog]

That was going to be my question!

 

[Sandog]

That was going to be my question!

A coin conversation machine, the location of which shall remain undisclosed.

 

[Sandog]

I failed to mention this before, and it’s just for future reference…
If say you find (another) gold coin in the reject tray, do all that you can to sweet talk the store manager into opening up the Coinstar , so you can check the “dirt cup”… there is an internal reject tray that only the Coinstar tech and store managers have access to. I used to be friends with a couple Publix mgrs down in FL, and they would open it up for me after I would score a silver. I’ve gotten a Peace Dollar, and tons more Ike’s, Halves, etc… that get kicked inside the machine. It’s a tough ask to get them to help you out, but it costs nothing to ask.
Good luck…. Oh, and here is a pic of my friend in action.
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Spent a very informative half hour conversing with the CoinStar repair man at a Walmart that I check regularly, and in was in fact reinstalling what he called the dirt tray and explaining to the mgr that their machine became inoperable because they had not returned that tray properly in it's tracks. During the conversation he informed me that the collected coins could weigh as much as 600 lbs.

 

[Coinstar magnet]

A coin conversation machine, the location of which shall remain undisclosed.

I think it was somewhere in Florida...a coin machine similar to a coinstar...like finding a needle in a haystack....there may be more future finds!

 

[Sandog]

It has previously been productive.

 

[Coinstar magnet]

Spent a very informative half hour conversing with the CoinStar repair man at a Walmart that I check regularly, and in was in fact reinstalling what he called the dirt tray and explaining to the mgr that their machine became inoperable because they had not returned that tray properly in it's tracks. During the conversation he informed me that the collected coins could weigh as much as 600 lbs.

I'm constantly learning more and more regarding the coinstar machines... fascinating!

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’ll make you an offer for it. PM sent.