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]

Today at the CoinMaster:

14 American cents, a 1979 Canadian cent, a 1982 British penny, and a 1965 Dutch cent.

 

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[markmopar]

1943 Australian penny today.

 

[$ilver$urfer]

I usually always find some beat up cladtastic coins, Canadians and tokens in the reject tray but today was special - I found a 1940 merc sitting in the dump tray of the Coinstar machine...unbelievably happy with this find!!!

HH,

$ilver$urfer

 

[festiva_ford]

I usually always find some beat up cladtastic coins, Canadians and tokens in the reject tray but today was special - I found a 1940 merc sitting in the dump tray of the Coinstar machine...unbelievably happy with this find!!!

HH,

$ilver$urfer

Great find!!! I love the mercs!

 

[iceman0xh]

Yesturday I got a burned 68 half, a 46 dime, a 56D quarter and a Rhode Island proof quarter.....good day

 

[Silverhawk]

I went to the local supermarket and walked by the coinstar. There was a nice and shiny 1964 rosie! I was super excited to find some silver, as I have only found 4 40% out of the last 3-4 boxes these past two weeks.

 

[festiva_ford]

Yesturday I got a burned 68 half, a 46 dime, a 56D quarter and a Rhode Island proof quarter.....good day

All rare finds! great job

 

[festiva_ford]

Stoped by a coin counting machine at my local grocery store and found a variety of coins. On top I found 2 Philipino 1 piso coins (one a steel 2004 and the other a 2002), and a Mexican 2004 2 pesos coin. I was about to walk away, then I saw a couple more under the machine, so I thought "what the heck, I don't mind getting my hands a little dirty" that got me a 1997 10 cent Hong Kong coin, a 2009 10 sentimo Philipino coin, a put put golf token(not picture due to losing it in my car), and a zincoln lincoln.

 

[cuttybce]

Coinstars are like silver slot machines - so far this year I have found 15 silver Roosevelts and 1 silver Washington.

Today I found a 1974 Vatican City 50 lire coin. First time I've ever seen one of those.

HH,
cuttybce

 

[thurmownator]

We all know the assorted "stuff" we find in the coin counter reject tray. Some of us even have access to the reject bucket on the inside of the machine; and that is where I tend to find the strangest items.

Today, while they're changing the bags at one of my regular banks (and I'm allowed to check and empty out the inside reject bucket) I not only find a couple of non-keeper Ikes, but I also retrieve an intact full roll of nickels. How a roll of nickels went through the machine I'll never know, but there it was. No keepers in the roll, but it's still found money. 8)

 

[Cerulean]

Thursday: On the floor in front of the CoinStar machine at my local supermarket, I found a 2007 5 eurocent from Italy.

Saturday: In the reject tray of the coins only lane of the toll booth on I-267, I found a handful of nickels, dimes, and quarters, including a 1962 dime!

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Haven't found anything significant except a 1964 quarter a few years back in the reject slot of a vending machine. In the coin counter reject slot, I found 2 british large pennies (one from 1913 and the other from 1966), a bermuda and barbados 10c coins and a 1 EURO coin (NOT eurocent)... Pretty cool coin. Also plenty of corroded pennies sliced in half and what not

 

[Cerulean]

From the coin sorting robot at my dump bank, I found a 2002 Austrian 1 eurocent and a fragment of a Washington quarter.

 

[ivan salis]

just 1 lil ole coin in the coinstar reject slot -- but it was a 1964 D dime - 90% silver --$2.96 at current silver value

 

[FreedomUIC]

I found a 1968 penny underneath the Coinstar at Kroger's last night. Wahooooo!!! The rarest penny of them all! hahaha.

I have ton's of them. How can they be rare?

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

imma start posting my machine finds...i love this thread, and its not been very popular as of late.
todays finds:
under machine:
1 US quarter
1 US copper cent
reject tray:
1 "Cinemark" game token

 

[iceman0xh]

A lil update on my recent finds, I work at a super market so I get to check the machine often plus we put our change for the store through the machine and clean it if needed. Recently while cleaning it I found a common date Morgan silver dollar, today we did our change and I got 2 silver dimes, a silver quarter, and a 1917 type 1 standing liberty quarter . I then decided to clean it before I took my days off and for another silver dime in the dirt tray.

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

todays finds from my banks counter...

Reject Tray Finds:

1 x 2006 RCM Canadian Quarter
1 x 1984 Costa Rica "2 Colones"

Inside Machine (Teller cleaned off the counting wheel, and gave it all to me ):

1 x 2004 Australian "2 Dollar" coin
1 x Heart shaped ring (Not PM, just a kids ring)
1 x Complete, and surprisingly NOT mutilated folded up $5$ bill!!! instant profit of $5$!!! yeah!

keep it up and hh!

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

todays machine finds (found very few coins, but they were spread out in MANY different places! ):

under/around my banks coin counter:
1 x clad US dime (1999-D)
1 x zincoln (2000-D)

on top bank coin counter:
1 x zincoln (2006-D)

in trash can next to bank coin counter:
1 x zincoln (2000-D)

off magnet in bank coin counter:
1 x 1991 "1 TAMBALA" coin

in perforated tray on "CoinStar" brand coin counter at walmart:
1 x clad US dime (1966~)

keep it up and hh!

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

todays finds from bank coin counter:

Under Machine:

1 x clad US quarter

Trash Bin Next to Machine:

1 x 2000 "5 CTOTNHKN" gold COLORED coin

Off of Counting Wheel:

1 x gold COLORED airplane pin
1 x small "925" sterling earring

Internal Reject Tray:

1 x "Grandma I Love You!" token
1 x 1996 British "One Penny"
3 x loose zincolns
1 x pair of zincolns stuck together
2 x pairs of clad dime and zinc cent stuck together

keep it up and hh! [R.I.P. Rich Hartford]