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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[Silver_Fox]

I ran $160 through a coin machine today. It kept kicking out a Canada 25 cent piece. I kept throwing it in. When I was done, I left it in the reject tray. I don't want it, it might make someone happy.

 

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[Cerulean]

The supermarket employee who opened up the Coinstar machine let me keep the coins stuck to the magnet. It never hurts to ask politely.

1x Canada, 5 cents (2003P)
1x Canada, 10 cents (1995)
1x Belgium, 1 euro cent (2001)
1x Belgium, 2 euro cents (2004)
1x Belgium, 2 euro cents (2006)
1x Belgium, 5 euro cents (1999)
1x Eritrea, 5 cents (1997)
4x Eritrea, 10 cents (1997)
1x Eritrea, 25 cents (1997)
2x Eritrea, 50 cents (1997)
2x Germany, 1 euro cent (2002)
2x Germany, 1 euro cent (2004)
2x Germany, 2 euro cents (2002)
2x Germany, 5 euro cents (2002)
1x Germany, 5 euro cents (2004)
1x Netherlands, 1 euro cent (2001)
1x Netherlands, 5 euro cents (1999)
1x Portugal, 5 euro cents (2002)
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CAN$0.15 + 0.43 Euros + 1.70 Eritrean nakfa

 

[kickstart]

I found 2 clad quarters on the floor next to the machine.
Both coins were tails up so I picked them up and left
them on the machine. If I see a coin on the ground heads up,
it means good luck and you can take it. If its tails then it
means bad luck if you take it.

 

[thurmownator]

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,100452.0.html

 

[Cerulean]

Two more on the coin counter magnet:

Bolivia, 50 centavos (1991)
Ireland, 2 euro cents (2002)

 

[Cerulean]

Playing the vending machine slots yielded 2 old nickels, a 1948-P and a 1949-P (which filled a folder hole). Also got a crazy-shiny 1965, as well. Maybe it's a Special Mint Set escapee.

 

[Cerulean]

Someone left a handful of change in the CoinMaster reject tray:

17 pennies (1920, 1940-S, 1941, 1970-2007)
8 nickels (1990-2006)
2 dimes (1960-D, 1964)
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$0.77

2 silver dimes and 3 wheats... fine by me!

 

[Cerulean]

Snagged from the magnet:

Canada, 10 cents (2002-P)
France, 1 eurocent (2005)

 

[Cerulean]

Another batch of magnet finds (plus one in the reject tray):

Bolivia, 10 centavos (1997)
Germany, 1 euro cent (2002-J)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1989)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1995)
Great Britain, 1 penny (2007)
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approx. USD$0.088

 

[goldencoin]

i can remember a car wash token, canadians, 2 silver dimes, and $2 in coins covered with some sticky grease. Don't you just hate it when you see a guy just about to leave and then the little reminder comes up and he takes all the coins (some that you can see are foreign and halfs and stuff) and shoves if in his pocket and runs off. Or when they keep putting the coins in without looking until the machine takes them (oh how is wish i could clean out those machines)

HH
-GC

 

[tw656]

I agree that the return machines are a decent source. Especially since I am there anyway. A number of times I have found a couple bucks in the return. A few times been allowed to keep whats in the silver tray from the inside. This included the Sacagawea coin some pesos and a few extra coins. Some of my better finds have been a steel penny. It was not in the return but stuck between the side and the roof of the machine. I found $8 in quarters one time in the return slot including one silver. I found a mercury dime one time just sitting on the machine next to the tray. I have found cups and bags of money that I guess the machine would not take, usually a few dollars. I have gotten some wheaties and foreign coins out of the garbage can next to the machine. Probally my best finds were from people returning coins in front of me. They had a big pile of coins on the coffie table next to the machine, the machine would not take them. Some were pretty old. I told them to take them to the coin shop. I even offered them $5 for them. They said NO. I could have them for FREE. I said ok. There were a number of foriegn coins from the mid 19th century. I cannot remember if I had gotten any silver. The one interesting coin was a 1869 2 cent US. It was in poor shape. Still a good find. The whole lot of coins were probably not worth more than $5, but I still think it was a good find.

 

[rydiggaahh]

i actually have a really good coin machine story. i was in the process of moving and decided to cash in my change (my bank has a coin counter). i didnt check the reject tray first so half way through i pulled a handfull out of the tray and dumped it in the pile. as i was pushing it through the machine i noticed a bucnh of wheat pennies and a silver quarter. at first i was nervous thinking some of my collection ended up in my junk change. only after i took the finds home and checked my coin folders did i realize they were not from my collection but that someone left them in the tray. oldest wheat was 1910. that was a wonderful day. i think it was 6 wheat pennies in total.

 

[Cerulean]

More finds from My Favorite Magnet:

Canada, 5 cents (2001-P)
Canada, 25 cents (1976)
Germany, 5 pfennig (1978-J)
Great Britain, 1 pence (2000)
Ireland, 1 euro cent (2002)
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USD$0.342

 

[fiatboy]

Underneath my bank's coin counter, I recently found a 1946 Canadian penny (a King), three lincoln memorial cents, and a AU 1947 nickel. Not much, but free money is free money.

 

[thurmownator]

Nothing significant, but when dumping halves today; found a 2002 Cayman Island quarter in the reject bucket............plus a US dime and cent.

 

[Immy]

Dropped off $20 in pennies at Nevada State Bank and found a 1966 Netherlands 1 cent in the reject slot.

 

[Tabfry]

Few weeks ago... 2 Dollar Loonie, Canadian Dime. The other day, a Rosie.... Like mentioned above... free money is free money

 

[fiatboy]

I found a 1943 silver nickel sitting in the Coinstar machine's dump tray. Who'd a thought?

 

[thurmownator]

While dumping some halves at one of my usual banks today, the coin machine bag filled (the entire bag was my rejects). While changing the bag out, they let me check the reject bucket inside the machine. Today was a very strange find; an entire roll of pennies...in its wrapper. Not sure how someone would dump that in, not notice it and it would fit and get kicked into the reject bucket; but it appeared to have.

The bank lets me keep whatever I find in there, as I do dump out any trash that's in there 8), so I picked up a quick fifty cents, and although none were wheats; eight were pre-'83.

The manager also had an '02 German 2 euro coin she was saving for me.

Nice begets nice.

 

[killerwine]

I found two 1943 steel wheats while dumping reject halves in the coin counter at my bank last Friday.....