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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[Cerulean]

In the reject tray of my dump bank's coin sorter, a 1998 UK five pence.

 

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[Cerulean]

Found while dumping, mostly in the reject tray:

Canada, 5 cents (2002-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1975)
Canada, 25 cents (2006-RCM)
France, 1/2 franc (1986)
Ghana, 10 cedis (1991)
Great Britain, 2 pence (2002)
Great Britain, 1 pound (1983)
Jamaica, 25 cents (1996)
Netherlands, 10 cents (1970, 1978)
Romania, 5 bani (2007)
Tanzania, 50 senti (1989)
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CAD 0.40 + GHS 0.10 + GBP 1.02 + JMD 0.25 + RON 0.05 + TZS 0.50 = USD $1.917

There was also a handful of American change, too, but there wasn't anything of interest, so I ran it right through the counting machine.

 

[Cerulean]

Found on the magnet at my dump bank:

Canada, 10 cents (1987)
Canada, 25 cents (1979, 2007-RCM)
Canada, 2 dollars (2006-RCM)
Malaysia, 1 sen (1988)

 

[scavenger]

no coin star stories here (yet) but when I was about 5 years old (about 13 years ago) My folks took me to the library, I was always checking return trays on payphones and the like, well there was a big copy machine up on the second floor and I sit there and watched this guy stick a $5 bill into the copy machine, he ran off about 20 copies of his paper and left (copies were 5 or 10 cents each) I crept over there and jammed on the button next to the coin return and the dead silence of the library errupted into the jingling of change pouring out of the return like niagra falls, about 20 heads turned my way but I was too busy stuffing my pockets with my free change to care, I grinned from ear to ear the rest of the night. Funny how you rember little things like that isnt it?

 

[ivan salis]

bet he thought it was a $1 instead iof a $5 --20 copies at .05 each = $1 --- nice $4 score for being alert.

 

[~Audiz~]

Coinstar tray findings...

Today I went to the supermarket, at the entrance is a coinstar machine. Everytime I checked there was nothing, today I decided to check it figuring there'd be nothing. But yes there was 2 coins. After I got home I checked what they were. I got 2 Roosevelt silver dimes a 1946 and a 1964 D, these are my first silver found in a machine.
~Audiz~

 

[lucky6]

Why do I feel like a thief in the night when picking up change that someone has left behind or overlooked? Found $1 in dimes the other day. Can't retire yet! Still, its nice to know we live in a country so rich, people still overlook money.

 

[markmopar]

recent finds include a sterling silver ring and a 3 month chip from AA.

 

[maine_Jim]

Got to add parking meter to the list. I was trying to load the meter the other day with a few Canadian dimes, which they always take here, and it didn't do anything. I gave it a little shake...and out pops a quarter, then another, then another. Ended up with $1.35 when I was through. The meter still refused money. I chanced it and didn't get a ticket .

Maine_Jim

 

[Silver Stripe]

I got a '64 Rosie out of the reject try on Wednesday. HH Mark

 

[Cerulean]

While dumping cents, as usual:

Canada, 10 cents (1990)
Canada, 25 cents (1988, 1999 May)
Ecuador, 5 centavos (2000)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1993 x2, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006)
Great Britain, 2 pence (1994 x2, 1996, 1997)
Netherlands, 25 cents (1974)
Sierra Leone, 50 leones (1996 x4)
Sierra Leone, 100 leones (1996 x3)
Switzerland, 1/2 franc (1995)

 

[Cerulean]

In the CoinStar reject tray, a 1998 UK penny.

 

[Codes]

Went to the grocery store and while I was checking out I saw a lady leave the Coinstar machine without checking the reject tray. I felt kinda bad but she walked out of the store. Her loss is my gain.

1 Dime
6 Nickels
4 Pennies

Nothing special but I got 44 cents free!

-Codes

 

[hellsbells]

i found a '57 slq at a coinstar today very nice!!!

 

[Cerulean]

Found on the magnet while dumping:

Canada, 5 cents (1974)
Bolivia, 50 centavos (1991)
Bolivia, 1 boliviano (2004)
Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
Germany, 1 pfennig (1989-J)
Spain, 1 eurocent (2004)
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CAD 0.05 + BOB 1.50 + ECU 0.10 + EUR 0.01 = USD $0.371

 

[Cerulean]

Underneath a coin sorter, a 2000 UK 5 pence.

 

[mistergee]

rejects at the penny arcade
1-1977 british new penny
1-clad dime

 

[Beans]

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.

I am the same way. If it is heads up I give to who ever I am with so they can share in the good luck. Tails I leave it, some time there will be a couple of pennies on the ground at the local conv store parking lot, only pick up the lucky ones.

 

[mistergee]

i too used to leave the tails down pennies alone(superstitious) but my wife used to say they were pennies from heaven(someone who passed)...and would pick them up heads or tails so now i pick them up and my luck hasn't changed one bit(fingers croosed)

 

[treasurefiend]

This is my very first machine finds ever!!!

13 memorial pennies
1954d silver dime
1996 $5 Mexican coin
1994 Chucky Cheese token