Free Silver Coins!

Have you ever been so enveloped in something that you cannot stop thinking about it? Have you ever been so obsessed with something that your day to day activities revolve around it and you may even start to dream about it? I’m not going to lie, there have been days where everything I did revolved around Numismatics and that night I even dreamed about money. Let me share my dream with you.


Although the details of my dream are a bit fuzzy, I can definitively state that I was in a fast food restaurant somewhere near my home. As I was walking to a table with my food, I came across a wad of cash lying on the floor. Not knowing what to do in this kind of situation, I contemplated picking it up. Since no one was around, I slowly picked up the money and put it in my pocket. Mind you, this was a DREAM, not real life. If this kind of thing ever does happen when I am in a conscience state, I would surely try to return it to its rightful owner. So anyway, getting back to my dream. After sitting down with my food and my new wad of money, lying right next to me was a stack of PCGS slabs and underneath the slabbed coins lay a handful of bills in currency sleeves. As I was beginning to get acquainted with all of my new treasures I unfortunately woke up, leaving my dream world and all of that free money behind.

We would all love to live in a world where money can simply be found lying on the ground, free for the taking but unfortunately that world does not exist, unless you know where to look. As mentioned in our previous “Roll Searching Wednesday” posts, searching through rolls of coins can prove to yield rare and valuable coins, but I would like to enlighten you with another, little known source of valuable coins. Have you ever walked through your local supermarket and came across one of those big green “boxes” standing up against the wall? If you haven’t, let me take this opportunity to enlighten you. This big green “box” is called a Coin Star machine, and it allows customers to bring in all of their spare change and deposit it in the machine in return for cold hard cash. Coin Star machines are quite convenient and they are used frequently. Now here is where your chance to find free money lies. Although Coin Star machines do a good job of sorting the coins, they do not accept silver coins, and when a silver coin goes through the sorter, it is rejected. If the person who put the coins in does not check the rejection slot, the silver coins will just sit there and become free for the taking.

Next time you go shopping and you see one of those big green “boxes” out of the corner of your eye, take a stroll by it. Who knows, you may be rewarded with a few free silver coins!