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The Coins the Machine Rejects Are the Ones Worth Keeping
Coin collecting in Canada has a secret hiding inside every Coinstar machine at every Walmart in the country. You dump your change in, the machine rejects certain coins because of their weight and calibration, and you pocket them as useless and walk away. Those rejected coins are old silver quarters and they're worth eight to ten dollars each. The machine knew. You didn't. And Michael Findlay, president of the Canadian Association of Numismatic Dealers, has been watching this happen for years.
The internet gave everyone access to coin pricing and a sense that they already know what things are…
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