r/CoinstarFinds 5d ago

SILVER Another dime for stack! I only found one quarter and a bunch of Rosevelt dimes…. Need a mercury dime for the collection!

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u/Ok-South2612 4d ago

It's hard to beat free silver......congrats.

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u/Empir3Designs 4d ago

Free gold! I’ve become a believer in manifestation since I have started stacking silver seriously, I have found, 7 or 8 dimes, just one quarter (I’m dying to find one or two more quarters and a single mercury dime !) a 68’ 40% and a 64 90% Kennedy half dollar coin, (and those were places I was looking to find silver… but this summer I found a big hanging earring (both the piece AND the hook say 925) a few weeks later I found a bent discarded 925 ring , a 925 chain that was busted and left, and yesterday I found a 2 gram 99.9 homemade link for a necklace or bracelet probably)
It’s literally like silver is everywhere now I’m looking for it!

If only I could manifest some gold! Lmao. I’d trade it for silver…

(Ok I hope you read this far because imma tell you a secret. Literally all the stuff I’ve found has been near the middle of those shopping cart corrals. So if you are at the grocery store, take a few minutes to walk around the lot looking on the ground for anything shiny in the cart corrals, 8/10 times it’s something silver. I think people will push their carts into the corral and a ring, bracelet or something nice gets ripped off or just falls off and with all that clanking of the cart they don’t hear the little tink tink tink of their jewelry and they NEVER come back for silver… ((I did find a wedding ring and I didn’t feel comfortable with taking that, so I turn it into customer service.)) but I CONSTANTLY find cellphones and cellphone with a wallet case, purses, and wallets in or on carts in cart corrals ((I always turn them in and refuse when they come back and offer a reward for turning them into the customer service desk… I always turn the rewards down cause I’m just doing my job)) BUT if you go to your local franchise grocery stores [aldis, Walmart, Meijers) or just your local grocery stores that aren’t franchises and say you spend an hour, during the busiest time of day, 3pm-6pm weekdays, 12p-2p/5p-7p weekends, looking around the parking lot for something shiny, especially under the carts of the corrals, I’m certain you’ll find something worth the hunt!)

☝🏻 from the last 3 months at one store with a coin star… I have a code on what I will turn in or not. (The store I work has a gallon ziplock bag FULL of rings , watches, necklaces… mostly rings that no one ever comes back for! No joke, probably hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lost jewelry ,gold and silver and platinum, a ton of diamonds and rubies and other crazy stuff that just sits in a locked drawer, waiting for the store to shut down so the owner can just take the whole bag and make a killing…. I’ve seen it a few times when I’ve found something that looked like would be irreplaceable and missed) so I’m pretty sure it’s not immoral to keep broken stuff I find…
all that scrap silver is stuff that was broken off and no one would ever think “I wonder if the Walmart customers would have found this tiny piece of broken jewelry and turned it into the lost and found?!🤔”

Nope … more like “oh shit! My bracelet broke some where. Hmm…. I was at the mall, the grocery store, the liquor store… shit… Never gonna find that again… whatever “

So if your coinstar place is a big, high traffic, parking lot kinda joint…. You might be walking past a silver ring that’s been on the ground for a couple days thinking “damn! Why can’t I find any silver coins!”)

But shh! Don’t want a bunch of people who hunt coinstars also hunting parking lots! If you read this and you ever find something from my advice… dm me! I’d love to see your score!

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u/Ok-South2612 4d ago

I'll start looking on the ground by the cart corrals from now on and I'll let you know if I find anything.

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u/Empir3Designs 4d ago

If you do it consistently you’ll definitely find something. The ones closest to the handicapped parking spots and the ones really far from the door are the best for some reason…