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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[markmopar]

23 steel pennies today from the magnet.

 

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[coinmojo]

23 steel pennies today from the magnet.

Now thats nice.

Mojo

 

[Silver_Fox]

I went by the Green Machine like I always do at the market. I could see a lot of change in the return. It took me four scoops to get it all.
When I got home there was:
16 cents in pennies
$1 in nickles
$2.70 in dimes
$15.25 in quarters

Total: $18.95

The down side, no old coins.....LOL
I just wonder how long they had been sitting in there. You snooze you lose.

HH, S_F

 

[denverjoe04]

coin star always rejects silver...I find a silver dime in the reject slot at least once a week. One time I found 4 silver dimes..all '46 and one canada dime and one wheat penny....hapy dayz

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Went to make a dump today and had to wait for a woman to use the machine. She dumped a bag of coins and it sounded like her car keys went with it. Thumping and grinding. I hoped she hadn't broken this machine too. When she was done, she smiled and took her receipt to the teller. I turned the machine on but before dumping coins in, I checked the reject tray. $3.45. I assume some if not all of them belonged to the woman. I would have told her, but I figure if she don't know how to use the machine and collect the rejects, she should continue to use the machine.

 

[Silver_Fox]

I assume some if not all of them belonged to the woman. I would have told her, but I figure if she don't know how to use the machine and collect the rejects, she should continue to use the machine.

My feelings exactly.

 

[Silver_Fox]

A quarter and a penny in the green machine today. Then I went to the bank in side the same supermarket and got $21 loose in halves. $19 of it was 40%ers. I love that market.

 

[Silver_Fox]

67 cents at the coin machine today. Two of them were WHEATS. A 1942 and a 1919.

 

[Immy]

Among the abandoned wrappers and baggies on the Coinstar machine today were three dimes and two chewed up pennies. 32¢ profit baby!

 

[thurmownator]

Still finding (common) Ikes in the (inside) reject bucket of coin counting machines; while they're changing out the bags. Picked up three more already this week.

 

[Cerulean]

At the supermarket, there happened to be a pile of mixed coins sitting unhidden atop the CoinStar machine's ledge, and a small cloth bag on the floor nearby.

United States, 1 cent (1985, 1994)
United States, 10 cents (1969-D, 1973-D, 1995)
Canada, 1 cent (2004-P)
Canada, 10 cents (2004-P)
Canada, 25 cents (1977)
Bahrain, 50 fils (1965)
France, 1 eurocent (2001)
France, 2 eurocents (2000, 2004)
France, 5 eurocents (1999)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1979, 1981, 1987, 1999, 2002, 2003)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1990 x2, 1995)
Greece, 2 eurocents (2002)
Peru, 1 centimo (2007)
Peru, 10 centimos (2003)
Peru, 20 centimos (2007)
Peru, 50 centimos (2007)
Peru, 1 nuevo sol (2007)
Peru, 5 nuevo soles (1995)
Singapore, 1 cent (1992)
Spain, 1 eurocent (1999)
Spain, 2 eurocents (2000)
Switzerland, 10 rappen (1977)
Taiwan, 1 dollar (?)
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USD 0.32 + CAN 0.36 + BHD 0.005 + EUR 0.13 + GBP 0.21 + PEN 6.81 + SGD 0.01 + CHF 0.10 + TWD 1.00 = USD $3.859

The bag earned me a five cent discount at the a register, the store's usual bounty for reusing bags.

 

[GMan00001]

The other day I filled the coin bin of the self serve coin machine and asked to check the inside coin reject slot.

Ended up with the following:
3 US dimes
2 US pennies

16 Foreign:
France, 1 Euro Cent (2001, 2007),
Italy, 1 Euro Cent (2002),
Kazakhstan, 2 Tenge (2005),
Mexico, 1 Centavo (1964),
Netherlands, 1 Euro Cent (2001),
Singapore, 1 Cent (1995(2), 2000(2)),
South Africa, 1 Cent (1996 Zulu Legend),
Spain, 1 Euro Cent (1999, 2001, 2003),
Trinidad and Tobago, 10 Cents (2005),
Turkey, 5 Kurus (2006)

1 Duluth/Superior Transit Token

 

[Silver_Fox]

Green machine.
1 Canada 5 cent
1 Arabic writing coin the size of a nickel
1 quarter in parking lot at bank.

 

[BBcardsRI]

I found one canadian dime in the reject tray yesterday... but it was after I dumped like $150 in dimes in... so does that still count if I found my own coin? =)

~Dave

 

[silverthorn]

Green machine.
1 Canada 5 cent
1 Arabic writing coin the size of a nickel
1 quarter in parking lot at bank.

Your Turkish "nickel" may be worth around $30. Mine was, I got it in change over 40 years ago!

 

[Silver_Fox]

I found one canadian dime in the reject tray yesterday... but it was after I dumped like $150 in dimes in... so does that still count if I found my own coin? =)

~Dave

Nice try.....not...........LOL

 

[Cerulean]

In the reject tray:

Turkey, 50 bin lira (2003)

 

[Silver_Fox]

28 cents, reject tray in the green machine.

 

[Cerulean]

I found a 2002 UK 1 penny at my supermarket. It was all by itself on the floor about 15 feet from the CoinMaster machine.

 

[Silver_Fox]

I found a 2002 UK 1 penny at my supermarket. It was all by itself on the floor about 15 feet from the CoinMaster machine.

Sounds like next time the coins will be jumping in your pocket...LOL