Fun Finds at the CoinStar! Any Silver? Let's see...

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For those unfamiliar with Coinstar, it's a machine often found in US grocery stores, where people can dump their loose coins and the machine will count them and redeem them for cash. The difficulty is that it charges a 12% (!!!) fee to convert it to bills, but zero fees for a gift card! This was perfect when they had AMAZON gift cards as an option, almost as good as cash, but sadly the Amazon gift card option has been eliminated, so I have to choose a different gift card.

Our family collects change throughout the months and once our box is full, we cash them in and donate it to charity... well, what we do is use the coinstar and exchange it for a gift card (to avoid the fee) then we "buy" the gift card by donating online to charity.

We also round UP to be generous and also to hold on to any treasures we happen to come across.

The coinstar is picky! For some reason, it didn't want to cash in a bunch of interesting coins! Some were in my collection, some must have been from someone's else collection.

But they're all interesting!

I found this tiny coin that looked copper like a penny, but SMALLER than a penny. I looked more closely and discovered that it's a 2002 EURO-CENT.

Also found a Canadian quarter from 1968. I tested and it's the Nickel version, so no silver. Still, Nickel may skyrocket in demand/value. Wouldn't that be crazy?

Along with four really corroded US pennies, there were also two dimes. Why did the Coinstar reject the dimes? Because they're SILVER!

A 1954 and a 1957 dime to add to the silver stack! What a surprise! These little unassuming coins are the most valuable finds, worth several dollars each.

So reaching into the coin dispenser and finding these treasures is a great treat. Not entitled (or even deserving) of any of these, but very GRATEFUL!!!

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Excellent score on the two silver dimes!🤗
Luckily, our savings loan has a coin counter for members that is free….
We have Coinstar machines up here that will let you buy crypto but their fees are outrageous!🙄

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I considered crypto, but yes the fees are outrageous. My bank will also take them, but not very happily. !BBH

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Banks can be funny about taking coins Lol
I once bought a full box of Kennedy, half dollars looking for silver. After I finished searching, I tried to return the box to the bank. They refused the coins!😳

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I've only managed to score ONE silver Canada 1967 Mackerel 10 cents and it was the 80% silver version than the 50% version. I haven't found any more since but I got a few fistfuls of foreign coinage for my troubles.
Congrats on the Dimes @gratefuleveryday
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So reaching into the coin dispenser and finding these treasures is a great treat.

Did you get those free of cost?

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These are coins that were rejected by the coinstar machine. Sometimes it drops rejected coins when new coins are put in. !BBH

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Nice finds, my friend. I used to find older silver coins all the time, but I haven't seen any pop up in years. I've got to keep my eye out! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I always check the coinstar dispenser, never know what might be there. !BBH

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An incredible collection of coins, each one with a very good value, a great job to find and collect the coins.

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This is cool.
Congratulations to you.
We don't make use of coins here and don't have ways to redeem them.

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I wonder what percentage of your coins you keep as collection and, what percentage you convert to gift cards (or cash). 😏 !INDEED !LOLZ

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I always check my change, anything interesting gets pulled the rest is cashed in. !BBH

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