Miskatonic University Press

Do not insert non-US foreign coins, damaged coins, bent coins, dirty coins, commemorative coins, tokens, Eisenhower silver dollars or 1943 US pennies

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Inserting anything but clean and undamaged coins into the Coinstar coin-counting machine is unacceptable and could impact functionality. Unacceptable items will not be counted and may not be returned. Unacceptable items include, but are not limited to:

Behind every item, a story.
Behind every item, a story.
  • 1943 US pennies,
  • acorns,
  • alcohol wipes,
  • animal crackers,
  • animal or human teeth,
  • bandages,
  • batteries,
  • beads,
  • bells,
  • belt clips,
  • bent coins,
  • bolts,
  • bottle caps,
  • broken glass,
  • bullets,
  • buttons,
  • candy,
  • candy wrappers,
  • cardboard,
  • cat litter,
  • chains,
  • clay,
  • commemorative coins,
  • confetti,
  • contact lenses,
  • cotton balls,
  • cotton swabs,
  • crayons,
  • cuff links,
  • damaged coins,
  • dirt,
  • dirty coins,
  • dog food,
  • drill bits,
  • ear plugs,
  • earthworms,
  • Eisenhower silver dollars,
  • erasers,
  • feathers,
  • finger nails,
  • flash drives,
  • foam objects,
  • foreign coins,
  • fossils,
  • French fries,
  • fruit snacks,
  • glitter,
  • gold fish,
  • grass,
  • guitar picks,
  • gum,
  • gum wrappers,
  • gummy worms/bears,
  • hair clips,
  • hay,
  • jar lids,
  • jewelry,
  • key chains,
  • keys,
  • lint,
  • marbles,
  • matches,
  • miniature dice,
  • mints,
  • mud,
  • nails,
  • name tags,
  • nuts/bolts,
  • paper clips,
  • pen caps,
  • pencils,
  • pills,
  • pine cone parts,
  • pins,
  • pipe cleaners,
  • Play-Doh,
  • playing cards,
  • POGs,
  • pop can tabs,
  • popsicle sticks,
  • quilt squares,
  • ribbons,
  • rocks,
  • rubber bands,
  • rubber lid seals,
  • sand,
  • screw driver bits,
  • screws,
  • SD cards,
  • seeds,
  • shells,
  • soap,
  • soda,
  • springs,
  • stickers,
  • tape,
  • tie tacks,
  • tire caps,
  • tissues,
  • tokens,
  • tooth picks,
  • tree bark,
  • twigs/sticks,
  • vegetables,
  • wall hooks,
  • washers,
  • watch bands,
  • wheat,
  • wires,
  • yarn.

In case you’re curious, Wikipedia explains about the steel 1943 US penny (“the only regular-issue United States coin that can be picked up with a magnet”) and the large Eisenhower dollar (“the new dollars failed to circulate to any degree, except in and around Nevada casinos, where they took the place of privately issued tokens”).

The obsession with “dirty money” warrants deeper analysis than I can supply.