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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[Jack_MIghtyheart]

Got 20 1943 steel cents from the dump bank's magnet...all in REALLY nice shape, too. Somebody must have dumped a collection.

 

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[ivan salis]

score indeed!!!

 

[Cerulean]

Magnet and reject tray finds, while dumping halves:

Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM, 2008-RCM)
Canada, 10 cents (2002-P)
Canada, 25 cents (1974, 1977 x2, 1981, 1994, 2005-P, 2007-RCM)
Brazil, 10 centavos (2007)
Turkey, 50 bin lira (1999)

 

[Silversound]

How do you check the magnet? Does that have to be done by an employee or is it accessible?

 

[enamel7]

On most machines the magnet is located at the chute you are dumping the coins into. Just feel inside around the sides before you start the machine.
HH
Gilbert

 

[Darth Walker]

A Silver Dime 195X. I do not remember the exact date but I did not know anything about coins back then and I spend it at face value.

DW

 

[Immy]

Leaving the grocery store I saw a woman emptying a bunch of coins into the green machine, so I put my stuff in the car to buy some time, then came back. It paid off. She was done and walked away leaving:

1 zincoln

Jamaica, 1 dollar, 2005 (the smallest dollar coin I've ever seen, it's the size of a US cent)

1 slot token (never seen this type, one more for the collection!)

 

[Produce Guy]

We have a Coinstar machine in the store where I work at I find all kinds of odd coins in the little tray at the bottom(the reject tray).I often fine old US coin from the 1900's-1940's that don't actually still look a real coin,also lots of mexican coins and coins from Europe and yes I do keep'em.

 

[Codes]

Snagged 2 more pennies (Zincolns) from the CoinStar today.

-Codes

 

[dpitt8]

checked a green machine last night...no luck

Oh well thats just my first try...now how to not draw attention to myself when I do it.

 

[Cerulean]

magnet finds while dumping rejects:

Canada, 10 cents (1975, 2008-RCM)
Canada, 25 cents (1974, 1979, 1988)
Belgium, 2 eurocents (2004)
Czech Republic, 2 korun (2004)
France, 2 eurocents (1999 x2)
France, 5 eurocents (2001, 2002, 2003)
Germany, 5 eurocents (2002-G)
Ghana, 50 pesewas (2007)
Ireland, 5 eurocents (2002)
Spain, 5 eurocents (1999)

 

[dpitt8]

How do the workers know when to change the bag in the machines?

 

[ivan salis]

dime and a zinc cent just sitting there on the dump tray --easy money

 

[Yinzi50]

Tonight while checking out at the grocery store I noticed that they moved the green machine on the left side of the exit. It used to be at a corner that you have to walk up to it. It would look funny without a bag of coins. So I told myself that I'd better take a peek when I was walking out. I always hope to find a steel cent because I never be able find one from the box. When I got there I did notice a coin in the reject tray. I picked it up and look at it briefly. My heart almost skipped a beat. It is a seated dime! This one has enough details that it goes into my US type album.





I definitely will check the tray every time when I buy grocery from now on.

 

[ivan salis]

good grief !!! what a find -- all silver "rejects" in those machines

 

[goldencoin]

I saw a double handful of coins in the machine! Totaled $7.15, 1950 Wheaty, and $0.60 Canadian

HH
-GC

 

[Immy]

Found a "homeless stash" today. My usual quick look at the green machine looked uneventful, just a couple of abandoned bags on the ledge. I moved them and found a pile of badly corroded zincolns beneath. I quickly gathered them up.

Looking thru them yielded some interesting finds:

107 ugly, gray zincolns that will probably end up in the garbage. Some weighed as little as 1.3 grams, almost half what they should. One actually broke in half!

1 copper cent (1971), the oldest but he held up just fine.

Canada 1¢ - 2007 RCM (x3), 2008 RCM and one dateless

Canada 5¢ - 2008 RCM

Great Britain, one penny, 1984

Philippines, 1 piso, 2003

Thailand, 25 satang, 2008

 

[Coins4Cheese]

A couple years ago, I saw the coin reject bin FULL of coins. Most of them were forign, but I think some were US. Also, once I found 3 silver Roosies (2) 1962, (1) 1964.

 

[supn9]

Some foreign coins, euros, canadian and mexican. us error penny and a steel penny. quite a few wheaties..

 

[ivan salis]

motherlode !!!

5.00 in canadain quarters
3.30 in canadain dimes -- one 50% 1968 silver
.45 in canadian nickles including a 1922 and a 1941 one
8 canadian pennies

total -- $8.83 can

4 --1943 steel /zinc war cent (us)
a st christopher medal --sterling
a 925 marked earring with crystal stone inset

a batch of other foreign coins