cashing clad at the coinstar machines.

[JASONSPAZ1]

By no means do I consider myself a clad hunter. In saying that I do find allot and have it piling up in jars. Most of my clad is dirty and was wondering
if they will be accepted by the coin star machines.

Thanks in advance.
HH
Jason

 

[SpiritRelic]

They have to be smooth,not pitted or the machine will reject it anyway or it could stop the process.Dirty does not matter,just smooth.I use it all the time to turn dirty money into clean cash :-$

 

[khouse]

I tumble mine for just an hour, rinse and dry. Then off to my bank's coin machine. I don't even add anything but water to tumble. All you need to do is get the bulk of crap off of them. I don't even seperate the clad from the zinc or whatever. Of course I keep the Wheaties and Silver out of the tumbler.

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, try to clean them a little first, even just a soak in the sink with some dishsoap...I ran 17 bucks through the coinstar yesterday..it kicked back some, one thing you don't want to do is jam it with a rotten or bent coin...then the attendant has to come over...I also noticed they upped the charge to 10.9cent..last year it was 9.9...and I wonder if it was because of me running nearly 800 bucks of dirty coins through it last year! Theres a funny youtube video where a guy takes some dirty coins over to a park where the vending machines are and puts them in...instead of selecting a product, he hits the change button, and new coins come spilling out!
Mud

 

[Larry (IL)]

To each their own but I just don't understand why anyone would want to give away 10% of their finds year after year to a machine......... Even a cheap, but good, $40 harbor freight tumbler will clean your coins up great for circulation or for the bank. I have cleaned over $10,000 in the last 10 years Nancy and I have been hunting together and I have no idea how much clad I found in my first 20 years, I didn't keep records then. This is a batch that was just black before tumbling in water and a handful of sand per batch. It seems like there was $87 in this "money laundering" which is a little more than what you gave to Coinstar last year Mud. Is a tumbler sounding better and better to you?

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[PennyEarned]

As everyone says clean or tumble to get them smooth. The ones I get rejected are the ones that are pitted or nicked around the edges. As far as fees the credit union I belong to doesn't charge a fee for members.

 

[leroy1937]

I agree with Larry
If you give away money why go out

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I don't intend to be a clad hunter but it seems that the vast majority of what I find is clad. I tumble the clad to clean it before taking it to my credit union. They do not charge members for counting their coins.

A couple of years ago in August I lost one of my hearing aids. Had been to visit a friend and on the way home the battery in the hearing aid died. I put the aid in my pocket and later that evening I could not find it. Retraced my steps and looked everywhere. No luck. In early Nov I went to my Credit Union to cash in a couple of hundred dollars of coins that I just throw in a canvas bank bag when I come in of an evening.

Poured some coins in the counter and notices a foreign object in the coins. Yep it was my hearing aid. Apparently I had just pulled my change out of my pocket as usual and put in the bag. Hearing aid went in also. I had procrastinated for three months about getting a new hearing aid. Sure glad that I procrastinated.

 

[Mike Hillis]

The only bad thing about putting dirty money in the Coinstar machines is that you get it back in your change at some later date. Then when you try to spend it you get the fisheye from the clerk. I think about that everytime I get dirty money in my change. I know it came from a detectorist and they didn't care how they put it back into circulation. If they didn't care about that, what else did they not care about.

I dunno. I just like to put it back in circulation clean, or at least reasonably clean.

HH
Mike

 

[Larry (IL)]

I just like to put it back in circulation clean, or at least reasonably clean.

HH
Mike

I agree Mike, our hobby has enough black eyes already, the least we can do is clean up the dirty money before putting it back into circulation.

 

[Elton]

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