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The rainy month April saw only a meager result yielding only two coins from three Coinstar Machines and as in the sign on this machine emphasizes the word BEYOND my hunt for coins have indeed taken me to a different approach and that is check other machine type more often.
The CoinStar Results
1.1989 D Jefferson Five Cents Reverse Monticello 5 g Copper nickel KM# 192, KM# A192, Schön# 196 Mintage of 570,842,474. I really like to hang on to US coinage for a few reasons;
A.First reason is the Canadian Chartered Banks make a huge amount of profit from their Canadian Customers by exchanging at par, therefore deliberatly shortchanging us, and repatrites them back to the US by the truck load. My long time pet coin project is denying them even little profit puts a smile on my face.
Second reason is that I or a friend may use them going south over the border. But that hasn’t happened even before 9-11.
And now my third reason, @pocketechange ‘s theory whether it happens on July 4th or what ever the date, It COULD pay to have this base covered. I can’t find no equivalent legislation in Canada yet to execute a similar option. As if the Canadian government can’t get any dumber than it is already. I’ve actually saved up almost ten pounds of US Clad coins over the years.
Continuing...
1980 One CentMaple Leaf Reverse 2.8 g Copper with 1.75% tin KM# 127, Schön# 58a Mintage of 912,052,318 With the copper worth $0.016 USD it’s a keeper for the commodity value. Note; Canada stopped the production of pennies in 2012, then it became demonetized on Feb 4 2013.
1.Now into the results from the Compass Fare Machines!
2018 x 3 5 cents Beaver Mintage figures are Not yet published as of the time this article.
2017 5 Cents Living Traditions Commemorative – low 20,000,000 mintage similar to the one found in January 2018 a keeper.
2016 x 13 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 140,952,000.
1.2015 x 2 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 87,360,000.
2014 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 66,364,000.
2012 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 230,328,000.
2011 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 230,328,000.
2009 x2 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 266,448,000.
2008 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 278,530,000
1.2007 L x 2 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 221,472,000.
2006 P 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 94,226,000. The 2006 L for the RCM Logo variety has a mintage of 45,082,000.
2005 P 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 89,664,000.
2004 P x2 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 132,097,000.
2003 P 5 cents Beaver Reverse Nickle plated steel, Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, KM# 491, Schön# 519a, Mintage of 61,392,180.
1988 5 cents Beaver Reverse Copper Nickle, Elizabeth II 2th Portrait, KM#60.2a, Schön# 60a
1.2018 25 Cents Caribou Reverse Nickel Plated Steel Elizabeth II 4th Portrait KM# 493, Schön# 521 Mintage not yet published.
2011 L 25 Cents Caribou Reverse Nickel Plated Steel Elizabeth II 4th Portrait KM# 493, Schön# 521Mintage of 187,520,000.
1977 25 Cents Caribou Reverse Nickel Elizabeth II 2th Portrait KM# 62b, Schön# 62b.1, Schön# 62b.2 Mintage of 99,634,555.
R.Summary:
Total Plunder from the Coinstar and the nearby 3 Compass Fare Machines for April 2019
38 coins $2.46 In CAD Currency or $1.79 USD
0 Pendant/jewelry
1 coins Foreign Currency
0 Silver Arrgh! NO Silver again!
3 Keepers;
1980 1 Cent for commodity value
1989 D Jefferson Nickel for the reasons I’ve mentioned above.
2017 Nickel for low mintage
The remainder of $ 2.35, goes into my ‘Go Fund my Pirate Ship’ Project (An upcoming blog feature).
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R.So do yea ‘ave a Coinstar Machine near ye? Tell me wha’ Yea plundered from it or any other Change generatin’ vendin’ machine. Any Silver?.
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Wonderful finds, free money!!!! You are always ever so lucky, sis @kerislravenhill!!!
And if God wills it, please be a St Gaudin's Double Eagle be in the Reject tray this Saturday morning!
Divine Intervention, not necessarily luck.
I wish you the same!!! WOW, they say that if you can imagine it, it can happen!
Nice finds! I've only found one silver quarter in a coinstar ever.
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I get reports of other Stackers finding Silver coins in a CoinStar machine. I find foreign coins, junk and perfectly legal coins in the reject tray but haven't found SILVER yet.
And Congrats, new official member of the #Steemsilvergold community!
Thank you for the nomination!
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You're welcome, and you found your way to #Steemsilvegold Discord too I see.
I did! :) @naltedtirt got me started and @dfinney clued me into the #steemsilvergold. Hope I see you there.
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how do I become a member?
I can nominate you to the #steemsilvergold membership. I would need a second member to endorse you and then a Moderator of the Community gets to make the final decision of your membership.
Keep posting coins. Mods will expect you to have a 'Track record ' of coin related blogs, videos, or dairy here or anywhere else on the net before they give you that Stamp of approval. Meanwhile I will wait for the next Nomination Post. I had the advantage of a few friends here before me as well as a YouTube Channel as proof of a Content creator and Silver bug.
ok thanks for the info. yeah been a silver/gold bug since the mid 70's and a pretty large collection spanning those 40+ years. other than one theft back in the 90's I never lost a single coin
just a noobie to steem guess I should dig up some of my buried treasure and show off a few :)
yes... I have buried treasure. left a treasure map for the kids in safe keeping till after im dead lol
My Father did a Physical Silver play just before the Hunts came on the scene and made a few thousand bucks back just before the 80's and what was left is a Vintage 5 oz Johnson Mathey bar he kept as a souvenir. He had a coin collection that I inherited from him too. I only got the 'Bug' about 5 years ago.
Free money is free money. Good job Kerris.
The Total cash is $15.91 CAD since I started in November 2018.
Almost 3/4 oz of Silver or the Toilet Lid and seat in my ship's lavatory.
Cool, fund a pirate ship. Upvoted to help make that dream come true
My Life's dream, my own ship! Watched a documentary on the HMS Victory and it described the huge resources and skills that went into build this huge 100 gun legendary Ship-of-the-line.
Very nice scores from the Coinstar. I would do the same thing but only leave the house to go to work. I'll have remind the wife to check them for me.
She may just score a St. Gaudens for you. (Only in our dreams).
No clue what kind of machine that is, a coinstar machine. A pirate ship I do know. 2 cents added.
An automatic Coin sorting machine that you can dump a pile of coins into and then issue a receipt to use at the store cashier minus a percentage for the service. Any coin not conforming to local currency settings are dumped into a Reject tray. Some customers don't check the Reject tray and some perfectly good legal coins accidentally get rejected and according to some Stackers I know have found silver coins in the tray. This Reject tray is located in the front of the machine about knee height.
Got it. Thx.
You can buy BITcoin on the Coinstar Machines at my Safeway Grocery Stores.....
https://www.coinstar.com/bitcoin
I heard of that and recall reading someone s article. One of my machines was 'Out of Order' so I was hoping it was gonna get a Bitcoin terminal but thst wasn't the case. It was actually Out of Order. 😪
A penny saved is a penny earned! 😎👍👍
An after Tax dollar saved is an after tax dollar earned! (Benjamin Franklin rolling in his grave)
A dollar found in a Coinstar, Hell, think I will report that on my T1?
My favorite pirate!
There'd be always a place fer yea on me ship, matey. And I may even install a Coinstar machine.
What kinds of US coins are you looking to collect? I am in the US and don't mind sending you a box full of change. At one point my daughter and I collected copper pennies from the bank and sold on eBay at a meager profit.
Nothing really special, I just like finding foreign Non-Canadian coins though a low mintage, error, rarity would certainly the gravy on top. I have almost ten pounds of US clad coins where most are pennies plus some constitutional coinage in my stack having just completed mt first tube of US Silver dimes,
@pocketechange gave me another reason to hold on to US coins. That is to cover a potential hole in my original Stacking plan.
I'm glad to see you're covering your Bases...
I do believe Canada made a Big Mistake, getting rid of their One Cent Coins... If Canada's Monetary System remains the same, it will take 20 Canadian Nickels to obtain One U.S. Cent, after the Reset...
May 16, 2019... #ssg-membership
Most Canadian politicians are so wrapped up in their own interest and personality politics that they don't have enough wit to sandwich between two nickels.
And it doesn't cost me anything more than what I already have.
Having a small portfolio of Cryptos is another facet that needed to be covered and I did it without spending a cent. So the idea is to have plenty of options.
I’m glad I was able to give you one more option...
that's awesome! I live in a smaller city in northern BC ,so we are deprived of these machines, on top of many, many other things. its like we're 15 years behind the times up here. still waiting to see the first coin machine, crypto ATM or coinstar but I think ill be waiting for ever.
The Coinstars have been pretty clean so I've been getting only a coin or two all month. The Compass fare machines operated by the Transit is becoming a bit of a boon (mostly nickels) and I do check the Pop machines by pressing the coin refund and scoring $4 in May.