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]

Nice haul, Silver_Fox !!

~Silverthorn

 

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[Cerulean]

from the magnet yesterday:

Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM)
Canada, 5 cents (1977, 2002-P, 2006-RCM, 2007-RCM)
Canada, 10 cents (1977, 1986, 4x 2007-RCM)
Canada, 25 cents (2005-P)
Brazil, 5 centavos (2002)
Mexico, 2 pesos (1994)
Spain, 1 euro cent (2005)
Spain, 5 euro cents (1999)
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CAN$1.06 + EUR 0.06 + MXN$2.00 + BRL 0.05 = 1.39

 

[Silver_Fox]

Went by to check the Green Machine on the way to an in store dump bank. I saw a girl kept pulling a coin out of the return and put it back in. It kept spitting it back out. I went over and could see it was a silver quarter. I gave her a 50 cent piece for it. 50 cents for a 1964 quarter. Not a bad trade.

 

[Immy]

My best Coinstar score to date today!! A gal was dumping in a full tub of coins the size of a red vines licorice container. I did my bit of shopping and checked it out afterwards. Jackpot!

- one wheatie (1945-S)
- 36 pennies
- 6 nickels
- one Merc, also a 1945-S (my first Coinstar silver)
- 16 dimes
- 4 quarters
- 2 Canadian pennies (2006, 2007 RCM)
- 1 Canadian dime (1995)
- 2 Germany 5 euro cents (2002-F, 2002-G)

That's $3.37 face value, not counting the silver content or foreigns. Great score!

 

[dmc161]

I think I posted this a while back but not sure but I found $14.71 sitting in a Coinstar tray one day as I was leaving the grocery store. I literally had to reach in 3-4 times grabbing a handful of coins each time and tossing them quickly into my purse. The machine is up front close to the customer service desk (where you turn in the coinstar tickets for redemption) and being the semi good samaritan that I am , did glance over there to see if maybe whoever had left all that change might still be up there redeeming their ticket so I could let them know they left quite a chunk of change behind but there wasn't even a clerk up there. Finders keepers. Nothing of great worth but it sure was exciting.

 

[silverthorn]

I went through $100 worth of half dollars. Not one silver, not even one 40% !! Skunked! I will try again this week.

~Silverthorn

 

[markmopar]

I was dumping the second of two skunk boxes of halfs and swept the magnet for a $2 Canadian coin and 2 steel pennies(for a total of five this year).

 

[Cerulean]

From the magnet (and the reject tray):

United States, 1 cent (1941, 1995, 1996, 2006, 2007)
Canada, 5 cents (1979)
Canada, 10 cents (1992)
Canada, 25 cents (1968 nickel, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1986, 1987)
Canada, 1 dollar (1992)
Cayman Islands, 25 cents (1996)
Ethiopia, 50 santim (1996)
France, 1 euro cent (1999)
Germany, 2 euro cents (2002-G)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1986, 2003)
Great Britain, 2 pence (1996)
Italy, 1 euro cent (2005)
3x Italy, 2 euro cents (2002)
South Korea, 100 won (2007)
5x Thailand, 1 baht (1988-2005)
Thailand, 1 baht (1996)
Thailand, 2 baht, World Health Org. commemorative (1990)
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USD$0.05 + CAN$2.90 + KYD$0.25 + 0.50 ETB + 0.10 EUR + 0.04 GBP + 100 KRW + 8 THB = USD$3.78

 

[markmopar]

today I got a 1922 Italian 1 Lira coin

 

[Cerulean]

from the magnet:

Canada, 5 cents (1980)
Cayman Islands, 10 cents (1999)
France, 2 francs (1993)
India, 1 rupee (2002)

 

[thurmownator]

While dropping off some rejects, found a couple of (common) Ikes in the inside reject bucket, when they had to change out the bags.

 

[Silver_Fox]

2 penny's on the green machine.

 

[Silver_Fox]

Green machine today, one 1942 d wheat penny

 

[Silver_Fox]

Pulled out of the trash bin in the coin machine today.

 

[silverthorn]

Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!

 

[Silver_Fox]

Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!

PM me your address and I will trade it back to you for a 40.......LOL

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Under machine finds.
2 quarters
1 dime
1 penny

An extra penny was added to my dump, and when I cashed out, the teller handed me a 1939 wheat.

 

[thurmownator]

While dropping off some rejects, found a couple of (common) Ikes in the inside reject bucket, when they had to change out the bags.

Picked up four more (common) Ikes today, while dropping off some rejects, in the inside reject bucket, when they had to change out the bags.

 

[silverthorn]

Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!

PM me your address and I will trade it back to you for a 40.......LOL

I LOST that shirt years ago on a very rough night !!

 

[Silver_Fox]

Heeey !!! Mah shirt button !!!

PM me your address and I will trade it back to you for a 40.......LOL

I LOST that shirt years ago on a very rough night !!

Been there, done that.