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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[fiatboy]

Neat story, TreasureTales.

 

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[TreasureTales]

Thank you fiatboy and Cerulean for making me feel welcome here. Alas, if stories were silver dimes, I'd be a very rich old woman. But since they are not, I must content myself with telling tales to those who will listen.

 

[Immy]

Found more beneath the machine than in it today. Got a clad dime and a Taiwan 1 yuan 1981.

 

[thurmownator]

Probably should have posted this, from yesterday, in the machine find thread................

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,96077.0.html

 

[TreasureTales]

Congrats thurmo, that's a nice haul of free coins. So what are those 40%ers worth these days? Anybody know?

 

[fiatboy]

So what are those 40%ers worth these days? Anybody know?

The 40% halves (1965 to 1970) can be sold for between $1.60 and $1.90 (ideal), depending on who's buying.

 

[gtlfindings]

I always check coin returns.I was at my dump bank putting halves into the machine,I checked the return and i got 13 steel pennies!!!1943 I was shocked and my overall best was at the coin machine in another dump bank and I got 4 silver quarters 2 64 63 and a 99 some one broke up a set may be.

 

[TreasureTales]

So what are those 40%ers worth these days? Anybody know?

The 40% halves (1965 to 1970) can be sold for between $1.60 and $1.90 (ideal), depending on who's buying.

Gee, that sounds pretty good. Thanks for the info.

I always check coin returns.I was at my dump bank putting halves into the machine,I checked the return and i got 13 steel pennies!!!1943 I was shocked and my overall best was at the coin machine in another dump bank and I got 4 silver quarters 2 64 63 and a 99 some one broke up a set may be.

That's great!! These are all great stories. More, please.

 

[Cerulean]

More magnet finds:

United States, 1 cent (1943-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1968, 1988)
Canada, 25 cents (1975, 2003-P)
France, 1/2 franc (1974)
Germany, 5 pfennig (1973)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1996)
Jamaica, 25 cents (1996)

(That '68 dime is nickel, not silver.) These go along well with my roll finds of the day: 1953-P cent, 1957-P cent, 1948-P nickel, 1969-D half

A good day. All the day's finds are pictured...

 

[ringding]

What has frustrated me is that I have used Coinstar before and I could see a gold necklace clasp under the perforated metal tray that you lift up, but I couldn't get it. Another time I saw a small silver ear ring in the same spot.

 

[alkoz]

Ok, this was the first time i tried looking in the reject tray and i got, 3 dimes,5 pennies,1 nickel,1 50 something from belguim,and to top it off some SILVER!!!!! A 1952 silver canadian quarter WOOHOO first time i checked the rejects.

 

[Immy]

Ok, this was the first time i tried looking in the reject tray and i got, 3 dimes,5 pennies,1 nickel,1 50 something from belguim,and to top it off some SILVER!!!!! A 1952 silver canadian quarter WOOHOO first time i checked the rejects.

But probably not the last time you'll check it, huh alkoz? Congrats on the goodies and the silver!

I found a weird token today. It has a star and a horseshoe on one side and "Control Token/CTX-303/No Cash Value" on the other.

 

[enamel7]

Today's coins from the magnet.
2002 Mexican 10 Centavos
1993 Canadian quarter.
2 Canadian dimes- 2003P,1981
2003P penny.

Happy Hunting!

 

[Cerulean]

Another one from the same magnet as the last one... a Kenya 1 Schilling, 1998.

 

[Silver_Fox]

9 coins in coin return, star of the show, 1943 S War Penny w/pic

9 coins in coin return, star of the show, 1943 S War Penny w/pic

While they were changing bags at the bank coin machine, a coin fell out of the slide for the rejects at my feet. The teller looked in and said, there are a bunch stuck in there. She said I could have them. As I sorted, I found a 1943 s war penny. Woo Hoo. That is one I will never find MDing because I discriminate out steel. The rest were various foreign coins and one clad Rosie.

 

[Cerulean]

I like the seahorse on that foreign coin, AW.

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Underneath the CoinStar yesterday... a nickel and an Ultrazone token.

 

[Cerulean]

In the CoinStar reject tray:

Bermuda, 10 cents (1988)

 

[fiatboy]

Bermuda coins are some of my favorites, and Ultrazone is hilarious.
Nice finds!

 

[Silver Stripe]

I went to my dump bank today and when I turned the coin counter on there was something rolling around in there and before I could add a handfull of halves went plunk into the reject tray. 1942S wheatie. When I opened that account the lady was showing me around the machine and I dumped a coffee can full of pennies and nickels- she dipped into the reject and pulls out some coin and tosses it in and I noticed a dime- well it wound up in the reject again and she said older coins seem to get rejected. As was that silver dime haha.
HH all, Mark

 

[coolcash2004]

Found 7 clad dimes, a clad nickel, a clad quarter, a 56 D wheat, and a 1959 silver dime!

-CC