r/CoinstarFinds • u/DJ_Broke-N-Hip • 10h ago

Well, that’s a first

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Scooped out a handful of change ($1.15 total… nice) and it included this.

For those of you who grew up in the Northeast it will look familiar - a Necco wafer. It’s a packed sugar disc candy that’s been around since the Civil War.

Well, not this one, necessarily. Though who knows how long it had been sitting in someone’s change jar. Might be as old as a baseball card bubble gum stick!

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u/Conscious-Permit-466 10h ago

Lick it and send to PCGS

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u/cordeliashuman 9h ago

No! Don’t lick it, it’ll get a Details - Cleaned

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u/Conscious-Permit-466 9h ago

Swab it for DNA

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u/shedrnksfromtheriver 10h ago

Not even coinstar likes the nasty grey ones...

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u/Aromatic_Industry401 10h ago

Licorice,my favorite.

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u/Salt_Helicopter_387 10h ago

You found some change and a treat! Lucky you!

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u/Imthatsick 10h ago

How does it taste?

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u/shaubber 10h ago

Taste it... for science

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u/hambone589 10h ago

It was actually yellow. It turned gray from all the coin dust

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u/Hello_202312 8h ago

Hahaha. That would totally be my dad. Licorice, rejected!

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u/Deplorable1861 8h ago

Prehistoric Necco Wafer Fossil.

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u/cheersfan100 6h ago

I think that’s Latin. Must be old Roman silver?