This online piece adds detail to the printed article 'Coining it in' which appears in Issue 352, p.3.
Below we quote the Coinstar kiosk guidance, unedited and in full.
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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:
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, erasers, feathers, finger nails, flash drives, foam objects, foreign coins, fossils, French fries, fruit snacks, glitter, gold fish [sic], grass, guitar picks, gum, gum wrappers, gummy worms/bears, hair clips, hay, jar lids, jewelry [sic], 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 clears, 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.
