Machine Finds Thread (add your own!)

[Cerulean]

This thread is for coins you find in, on, under, or around coin handling machines such as CoinStar, Coinmaster, auto-sorting machines in banks, payphones, and vending machines. Please add your story!)

At the supermarket again. Habitually stopped by the Coinstar machine, and stooped to pick up a dime on the floor. That's when I noticed that the reject tray was full of dimes. Visions of silver dimes filled my head! I looked around to see if someone had just walked away from the machine, but there was no sign that anyone had been using it in the last few minutes, so I scooped away.

Well, no silver, just:
20 dimes (1970-2002)
4 nickels (1984-1996)
1 Canadian dime (1982)
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US$2.20 + CAN$0.10

The first Canadian non-penny I've seen in the wild in years. Meh, $2.20 for free... I can't complain. I hope no one else is complaining that their dimes disappeared.

EDIT: As your responses so quickly pointed out, that "10" should have been a "20". I blame the error on that bugged Canuck dime planting subliminal messages in my head.

 

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[Cerulean]

In the bottom of the pencil cup of the Lotto kiosk next to the CoinStar:

Canada, 1 cent (1969)
Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM)

 

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[ivan salis]

add another couple stuck together zincs to the total

 

[Darth Walker]

No luck so far for me at the rejected trays of the coin star machines but I will keep trying.

Your posts are very encouraging.

DW

 

[ivan salis]

check out my "the CLAW strikes " post in todays finds *--today I got --- a matched set of TMA 925 silver post type earring with diamond chips or cz stones (they were complete) with their backings still attached (it was the backings that were marked TMA 925 -- Plus a gold post type ball earring with a stainless post -- I'm unsure if the ball is real or just gold plated--- heres the trick I used to get em-- reach thru the holes in the coin dump tray with a "mechanic's lost nut grabber" --- its a spring loaded tool with a claw on the end for fetching dropped nuts from tight places -- great for nabbing those earrings

 

[enamel7]

found a 2004 and two 1985 Canadian quarters on the magnet at the bank today.

 

[ivan salis]

the claw strikes again -- 22 long rifle bullet (unfired - intact) and found a cent stilll in the dump tray. -- not much but it all adds up overtime

 

[markmopar]

3/4" ball bearing off the magnet

 

[Cerulean]

I found these from a handful of rolls from my usual bank:
1952-D cent
1957 cent
1957-D nickel
1958-D nickel
1935-D dime (my first merc!)

While cashing in rejects at my dump bank, I found these:
1948 nickel
1999 France 5 eurocents
1988 Great Britain 1 penny
1989 Singapore 10 cents

 

[ivan salis]

the " claw " ( a car mechanic's spring loaded nut pick up tool ) got me --- a rather smallish 1993 ---10 ore norway coin (the last year it was made) from the "junk catcher" tray under the holed coin dump tray at the local winn dixie coin star --- its fun "fishing" thru the holes for silver , gold and stone earrings and such --this coin was hard to get since the coin was about the same size as the holes in the dump tray --

 

[Cerulean]

On the magnet, while dumping:

2003-P Canada cent (crowned)
2007-RCM Canada cent
2000 Finland 5 eurocents (first Finnish euro coin)

 

[coinmojo]

A 1945p war nickle and around $2.50 in canadian coins @ a coinstar machine in the Grocery store.. Whoo hooo

Mojo

 

[Cerulean]

On the magnet reject tray, while dumping halves:

Brazil, 5 centavos (1994)
France, 20 eurocents (1999)
Netherlands, 20 eurocents (2003)

 

[Immy]

My first Coinstar finds in weeks:

1 quarter
1 dime
3 pennies
1 Canadian dime (1987)
1 Canadian quarter (1980)

Plus some frustration. There was a quarter and two pennies visibly and impossibly stuck behind the plexiglass below the reject slot.

 

[Cerulean]

More half dumping, and more magnet finds:

Canada, 25 cents (1978, 2000 pride)
Canada, 1 dollar (1990)
Canada, 2 dollars (1996)
Cayman Islands, 1 cent (1996)
Cayman Islands, 5 cents (1996)
Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1990)
Guyana, 5 dollars (2002)
Peru, 10 centimos (1993)

...and $0.22 in American change.

 

[FingerGrime]

I found all these coins in the reject tray: 1979 Canadian quarter,1981 Canadian quarter, 1986 Canadian quarter,two 1965 Canadian nickels,1996 ten pence coin, 2003 Canadian cent, 3 chewed up American pennies and a Virginia Marine Science Museum elongated/squished penny.

There was someone in front of me in line at the coin counter. After that guy left to cash his receipt, I approached the machine, and a 2005 25 cent Bahamas coin popped out in the reject slot. I have found Bahamas cents before, but never a quarter.

 

[Cerulean]

In the sorting machine's reject tray, while dumping halves:

2 dimes (1967, 1987)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1990)
South Africa, 1 rand (1999)

 

[garbageman]

Yesterday I found my first silver coin in a coinstar reject bin, a 1946-D dime. I looked in and only saw a penny but when I went to grab it out I felt the dime which was standing on edge against the front lip. Hopefully it's the first of many more to come. -HH-Garbageman

 

[FingerGrime]

canadians:
1999 and 2007 pennies
1979 and 2006 nickels
1982 and 1995 dimes
two 2985 quarters

other:
a game token
2001 British penny
1996 British two pence
1997 British twenty pence
1999 two euro coin from spain
2001 10 euro cent coin from ireland

10 seniti coin from Tonga (a place I hadn't even heard of- its in the south pacific)

 

[markmopar]

got a '48 Roosevelt dime from the reject tray today!

 

[ivan salis]

snagged up a nickle left on the dump screen in the corner its all money bit by bit it all adds up over time -- get a buck buy a "free" lotto ticket --maybe get big bucks .