Machine Finds Thread (add your own!)

Cerulean

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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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jackpot --11 coins -- canadian 3 cents --2 nickles - 2 dimes -- 2 quarters a 1943 steel cent * yah!! and a large french coin type medal -- its about the size of a silver dollar but made of brass or bronze -- it was made by the french mint --translated on one side it says -- national collection -- offical medal and shows the "mint" building -- of the flip side it says "mont saint michel" -- its a set put out honoring famous french historic land marks and sites --- it was made in 2005,-- I found a similar one on euro e bay asking price was 5 euros (7.50 us )--and 3.50 ( 5.25 us) euro for shipping--- so 8.50 euros at about 1.50 us per euro --- $12.75 if I was to buy it -- not bad for free.
 

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While dumping rejects (and picking up new boxes) at one bank, their reject bucket (on the inside) yielded a 76d Ike, three US dimes, three US cents and a twenty peso Mexican coin ('80).

While helping the guy change the bags out (they had to use smaller bags, for the regular size had run out) I cherry picked a '44 US cent ........and a '57d US quarter ! (need to see if I'm still missing that one or not)


Next, a second bank, after buying my boxes of halves, asked for any foreign coin. The teller gives me eight Canadian quarters ('74, '76, '80, '84, 86x2 (I didn't have an '86 yet), '93, '03), a Canadian Nickel ('68), Canadian dime ('00) and a five colone coin from Costa Rica ('89).

Nice begets nice.
 

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Saw what looked like an arcade token on the floor next to my usual Coinstar but it turned out to be a Korea 10 won (1992).
 

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A relative bonanza today! Not only was the magnet covered with coins, there were four in the reject tray, too!

United States, 25 cents (1994)
Canada, 5 cents (1980)
Canada, 25 cents (1974)
Bolivia, 20 centavos (1991)
Chile, 1 peso (1997)
Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
Ecuador, 25 centavos (2000)
Germany, 2 pfennig (1969-F)
Germany, 1 euro (2002-J)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1999)
Italy, 2 eurocents (2002)
Mexico, 1 peso (1993)
Peru, 20 centimos (2001)
Spain, 1 eurocent (too mangled to date)
one plastic cent of play money
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USD0.25 + CAN0.297 + EUR1.03 + BOB0.20 + CLP1.00 + ECU0.35 + DEM0.02 + GBP0.05 + MXN1.00 + PEN0.20 = $2.692 USD

first coins from Ecuador, Italy, and Peru

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1960texan

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I've picked up a few bucks in Coinstar rejects in the last month, including one steel penny and one Spanish 2 cent Euro.
 

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Found a quarter-sized restroom token underneath the front of my usual Coinstar today. It reads "Nik-O-Lok RESTROOM TOKEN - Indianapolis, Indiana" on the front and "Help keep our restrooms clean" on the back.

If anyone's going to the Indy 500 in May, LMK and I'll send it your way. LOL
 

fatsmahoney

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this is quit pathetic honestly your probably the guy that goes to every payphone and checks the return or stops at the laudry mat on the way home and looks under every washing machine for some lint and a quarter youd have better luck walking thru the drivethru at mcdonalds and picking up change at the window opps i shouldnt have told you that now im gonna see you there
 

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Another boon today, this time from the magnet of my supermarket's CoinStar. It pays to ask politely. :)

2x Brazil, 5 centavos (2004)
3x Brazil, 10 centavos (1994, 1997, 2004)
1x Ecuador, 5 centavos (2000)
1x Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
1x Great Britain, 1 penny (2000)
1x Ireland, 5 eurocents (2005)
2x Italy, 1 eurocent (2002, 2004)
4x Italy, 5 eurocents (2002, 2003)
1x Jamaica, 1 dollar (2005)
1x Mexico, 2 pesos (2006)
1x Chucky Cheese, token (2006)
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USD0.15 + BRL0.40 + GBR0.01 + EUR0.27 + JMD1.00 + MXN2.00 = USD $0.891
 

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Interesting topic.

First time responder longtime coinroll hunter, since 2006. When I dump my halves at the coin counter at TCF in Michigan I always check the return tray as well as the floor and the trash can next to the machine. I am happy to report that I have collected over $100 in Canadian coins since 2006, as they reject them here in Michigan as well as all forigen coins and it appears silver dimes and wheaties as well since i've snagged a couple of those as well. I recently found a 1935 canadian nickle in the return tray and just last week got got a handfull of coins mostly Canadian but it was around $5 total. I check the trash because most people just toss the Canadian coins and tokens out. I have also found lots of game tokens batting cage tokens and even a old Ceasers palace token.
I call this passive income LOL.
I might add. That I'm not so shure I get 100% of my money back at these machines. When returning $500 SKUNK boxes back it sometimes comes up short. as much as 6 to 8 dollars making that skunk box that much worse. Soooo you win some you lose some.
mojo
 

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Cerulean

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from the coin counter magnet:

Argentina, 10 centavos (2007)
Bolivia, 20 centavos (1991)
France, 1/2 franc (1995)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1994)
Italy, 2 eurocents (2002)
Italy, 5 eurocents (2002)
Spain, 2 eurocents (2001)
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ARS 0.10 + BOB 0.20 + FRF 0.50 + GBP 0.01 + EUR 0.09 = USD $0.462
 

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I found these coins and a 14KT ring inside the coin machine in the trash bin a few months back.
 

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returned some halves last year and the teller hands me a diamond earring and says this must be yours,trying to keep my eyes in there sockets i'm camly replied yeah thats my wives(never checked if it was real or not)wisk it was that 14k ring tho.congrats awhislter
 

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bomber said:
returned some halves last year and the teller hands me a diamond earring and says this must be yours,trying to keep my eyes in there sockets i'm camly replied yeah thats my wives(never checked if it was real or not)wisk it was that 14k ring tho.congrats awhislter
Just for the record, I called the bank (it's my regular CU) and let them know I found it. That's the last I heard about it.
 

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Yesterday there was a 2005 Danish 1 krone just laying on the CoinStar's ledge, right out in the open. Guess somebody else didn't know what to do with it. I sure did!
 

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I found the pile of coins last week in a coinstar coin return and the silver ring in the reject bin in a coin machine saturday.
 

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more magnet swag:

Canada, 10 cents (1995)
Canada, 25 cents (1979, 2007-RCM)
Netherlands, 1 guilder (1971)
 

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I went to my CU today to dump some halves. I placed my halves in the coin tray and pressed the "start" button. The machine was making a weird sound, so i immediately stopped it. I looked down into the opening to see what was making the noise. I saw a roll of cents sticking up in the chute. I reached into the chute risking finger loss to see what I could find. Two full paper rolls of cents and a roll of dimes! (one of the rolls had a 1944 & 1946-d wheat in it) There were also two Canadian quarters and three Canadian dimes on the magnet. A small bonus for the skunky halves I was dumping.

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