Coinstar Plunder Log #3 for January 2019

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The Pirate Poetry once again...

T’was the last Saturday of the month of Januarly
as best as I can remember hence rarely,
when I spy with me unpatched eye,
another Coinstar score in the store that I frequent quite fairly .

Me thinks the Store staff are catching on to me as the findings have plunged off the chart of pickings on the month of January but I do have some results.
So to compensate for the Store’s intervention I started checking the nearby Pepsi machine outside and also the Light Rail Transit Station Compass machines along the way from the store. It was deemed necessary to adapt to new circumstances here. It is surprising what some landlubbers leave behind when they are in a haste.

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With the Coinstar machine more frequently patrolled by the Store Staff and got totally skunked on the foreign coin department but decent result for the nearby Compass Train fare machines located just under a block away.

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With hardly any foot traffic around these machines at 2330 hrs in the evening I have the chance to check the Output trays. With passengers rushing to catch an inbound train there are quite the bit of change left behind in these machines. So Lo and Behold, my January 2019 results!
With single zone cash fares at $2.95 ....Nickels are the most frequent find.

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2003 – 2019 Elizabeth 4th portrait Nickel plated Steel KM# 491, Schön# 519a

2018 Mintage not yet published
2017 20,000,000 mintage of this Living Traditions Commemorative – Beaver Nickel and that’s quite low and lightly circulated so this could be a Keeper!

2011 230,328,000 mintage

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1999 – 2003 Elizabeth 3rd Portrait Nickel plated Steel KM# 182b, Schön# 164a
1993 Beaver Nickel 86,877,000 mintage

1982 – 1989 - Elizabeth II 2nd portrait; cupronickel KM# 60.2a, Schön# 60a
1982 Beaver Nickel 105,539,898 mintage

1965 - 1981- Elizabeth II 2nd portrait Copper Nickel KM# 60, Schön# 60
1979 186,295,825 mintage
I tend to keep the Nickels from 1981 and earlier as their commodity value is above face value at the time of this article $0.05757 USD. Data From Coinflation.com

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2008 Bluenose Dime 467,000,000 Mintage Nickel plated Steel KM# 492, Schön# 520
2016 Bluenose Dime 220,000,000 Mintage Nickel plated Steel KM# 492, Schön# 520
2016 Caribou Quarter 106,880,000 Mintage Nickel plated Steel KM# 493, Schön# 521

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1 Dollar – Elizabeth II 4th portrait
2018 Loon Dollar Not yet Published Brass plated Steel KM# 1255, Schön# 944
2013 Loon Dollar 120,330,000 Mintage Brass plated Steel KM# 1255, Schön# 944

2 Dollars – Elizabeth II 4th portrait
2016 Polar Bear 20,669,000 Mintage Bi-Metallic Brass plated Aluminium-bronze center in Nickel plated Steel ring KM# 1257, Schön# 945

Summary:
Total Plunder from the Coinstar, Pepsi and 3 Compass Fare Machines for Jan 2019
15 coins $4.90 In CAD Currency or $3.73 USD
0 coins Foreign Currency
2 Keepers; 1979 5 Cents for Commodity value and 2017 Living Traditions Beaver low Mintage.

The remainder goes into the Buy Bullion Kitty fund.

1, My own photos/pictures W Wiki CommonsR Clip art vectors from 123RF C. Free clipart from Openclipart

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Arrrrh! so me Question to me Readers once again….

Do you have a CoinStar Machine in ye neighborhood?

Then tell me what ye can find!

PS. I'm not done with checkin the CoinStars yet! I'll have me day of glory yet!

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“Et lux in tenebris to serve laboro, sum sicarius” “I work in the shadows to serve the Light, I am an Assassin”