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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[silverthorn]

I was dumping several one-gallon milk jugs into a Coin Star when I heard a clunk from the reject chute. I was a live bullet from my .38 Special that got mixed in with the change! Yikes!

 

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[Tabfry]

I always walk by the Coinstar machine and glance in the reject tray. The store that I frequent has it's Coinstar next to the scratch ticket vending machine. Nothing in the tray, but on the floor in front of the scratch ticket machine I noticed something folded up. Without missing a step I scoop it up and continue to walk on. Outside I unfolded a $20. See, scratch tickets are lucky even if you don't play!

 

[Cerulean]

Next to the CoinStar machine today... one 1997 ten pence from Great Britain.

 

[coinmojo]

Coinstar yesterday

Mojo

 

[cyberdan]

Has any one ever had a store employee question you on why you are taking something out of the machine and walking out of the store?

Just paranoid I guess. My local coinstar had 7 tokens and a dogtag in the brochure holder last week. It took me 3 tries to get everything out. Those tokens make a lot of noise clinking on the plastic brochure holder which is just slightly smaller than my hand. So it is a tight fit.

 

[CladMaster]

Was dumping halves today at my credit union. I reached into the reject bin and pulled out a steel penny and a earring or lapel pin? It's stamped 10k. HH!

 

[ivan salis]

humm --seen a diamond stud earring and a silver post type and a live 22 bullet --in the catch pan below the dump tray-- time for a long pair of tweezers or a long 90 degree bent needle nose plier --to clean it out with --after I offer to "remove" the live bullet from the tray -- I bet the manager will have no problem letting me do it

 

[silverthorn]

Was dumping halves today at my credit union. I reached into the reject bin and pulled out a steel penny and a earring or lapel pin? It's stamped 10k. HH!

Nice find! 10K Gold!!

 

[CZ7922]

I've been checking Coinstar machines for the past 3 yrs. and have found probably 15 silver Rosie's, one silver quarter, quite a few wheaties, foreign coins, and of course clad.

A few of you have mentioned finding coins on the magnet of some machines. I was unaware the machines had a magnet to catch rejects. Is the magnet accessible without the machine being opened?

Thanks!

 

[Cerulean]

The "magnet" that I check is not for CoinStar, but in the coin sorting machine at my dump bank's lobby.

From said magnet, on April 26th:

Canada, 10 cents (1998)
France, 2 eurocents (2004)
France, 5 eurocents (1999)
Mexico, 1 peso (2007)
Mexico, 5 pesos (2002)
Spain, 2 eurocents (2001)

 

[ivan salis]

arghh coinstar was empty but the copy machine next to it had a nickle and a pennie in its reject / change slot

 

[Silver_Fox]

I found a dime walking out of the casino today. That was after dropping a c-note. Dang Indians can eat steak tonight...again

 

[markmopar]

I wiped the magnet of the coin machines i used today. i got 2.61 Canadian, a neat religious token and three 1943 steel pennies. and a couple computer CMOS batteries, a hairpin, a washer...

 

[thurmownator]

...........from the (inside) reject bucket (yeah,they let me check it while they're changing out the bags) of the coin counter of one of my regular banks......

....a '79 Canadian dollar coin

 

[ivan salis]

well 5 crummy zinc cents and a abused looking dime --hey .15 cents toward a free lotto ticket --

 

[silverthorn]

Anybody hunting Canadian coins?

 

[washingtonian]

I tried a coinstar reject slot for the first time yesterday and found a 2007 D penny

 

[Silver_Fox]

2 dimes, 2 pennies on the floor of the casino in Elko, NV.

 

[Silver_Fox]

1 - 1960 penny in the Coinstar.
HH, S_F

 

[Silver_Fox]

I went to dump some halves and heard some coins in the machine when I started it. I pulled all these out except the war penny. A teller gave it to me. She found it in a penny roll. 3 of the coins are 1 British pound. 3 British pounds equals $5.87. One of the coins is a 1931 and magnetic. Not a bad score.