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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[Money Grabber]

Found a 1964 dime today in the reject tray!!!
Talked to the guy who services the machine today and he told me the company has collected 1.1 BILLON dollars in change this year so far.

 

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[AGCoinHunter]

Found a Indian 1 rupee, a 2 cent euro, and a cut up 1977 penny today while I was dumping clad. Two were in the reject slot, one was on the floor.

 

[Fredness]

No date Buffalo in my change from the soda machine today.

 

[Immy]

Coins everywhere around the green machine today.

- 2 zincolns in the reject slot

- 1 dime near the edge of the basket that someone missed

- 1 Canadian loonie dollar (2006 RCM) on the ledge

- 1 heavily corroded dime on the floor (196?) that weighs 1.6 grams. It has a silver ring to it but that might be from the loss of metal. No visible mintmark on the back.

 

[Immy]

The casino where I work installed a Coinstar a few months ago but I've yet to find anything...until today.

The reject slot held a nice steel penny bonanza (nine P-mint, two S) plus a 1928 wheatie and a 1971 British new penny.

 

[joad]

Turned on dump machine and hear the jingle of a large dollar. Turned to be an Ike. Also, a 64 rosie left behind in the reject tray.

 

[Cerulean]

THe CoinMaster machine in the Safeway near my house has been Out of Order for most of the last few years. I still compulsively check it from time to time, since I once found silver dimes in its reject tray. It's finally working again, and I've already found two silver dimes (1952, 1964-D).

 

[ES66]

I don't know if this works on all vending machines, but on the one we have here at work, you can put change in the machine, then hit the coin return and the machine gives you change back, but it's not the same change you put in the machine. Sometimes I'll cycle quarters, dimes or nickels through the machine, looking for something old. I did find a 1958 dime and a bunch of nickels from the 1950s.

 

[Rich Hartford]

Got a 67 & a 68 Kennedy Monday at a bank coin counter.

HH
Rich

 

[Iseeksilver]

Had a profitable 2 days, 2 silver dimes from the coinstar and a 1.50 in clad from the coin machine at the bank while dumping
$ 100.00 in halfes.

 

[Immy]

Saw a guy dumping a large container of coins into the green machine today. Did some shopping and checked out the reject slot afterwards...nada. But he left a nice big Hungarian 50 forint (1995) on the ledge.

 

[Cerulean]

On Saturday, at my dump bank's sorting machine:

Cameroon, 100 francs (1971)
France, 20 centimes (1986)
Ireland, 1 eurocent (2005)

On Monday, at my supermarket's CoinMaster:

9 cents (1964-D, 1969, 1973, 1986, 1990, 1994x2, 1998, 2002-D)
1 nickel (2001)
1 dime (1977)

 

[quiksilver]

TD is the major coin machine in my area that takes halves .I go in and try to see if the "white"chute is blocked or not .If it isnt i usually dump in 99.50 in halves mixed with pennies and or dimes.The majority of TDs fill at $100.For some reason the machines often are empty of halves when i dump.If i can see the "white" chute i noticed it often has rejects sitting there without falling so i scoop them out. If the chute is blocked i puposely fill it [with extra halves in my pockets] to get the blocked rejects.

 

[Cerulean]

The reject tray of the CoinMaster machine at my local supermarket was full of pennies! 36 of 'em, including a 1950-D wheat.

 

[cuttybce]

My best ever was a 1921-D Morgan in the garbage next to my bank's coin counter. I doubt that I will EVER top that.

 

[tank014]

I just found a 1918 penny sitting on top of a coinstar machine.
HH,
Frank

 

[gold eye]

At the store i work at the managers give me all the rejected coins from the coin machine for me and my son we get a ziplock bag a week it just amaze me how many coins we get some are silver us coins all the managers look out for any old coins for us and old bills it is like a big hunt for all of us . Happy hunting RON

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

hey guys, just thinking if u only check the reject tray, cuz ive probably found more money on the silver dumping tray thingy part on top...look carefully cuz coins really blend in with the steel top.
i dont know if this is really a big deal, and dont know if it counts seeing as it was on the ground, not next to a coin machine, but here is my story:
i was walking, looked down saw 2 pennies & decided to waste my time & pick 'em up...i looked at them & one was a blank planchet! ive searched thousands of $ in coins never found one until i picked up those 2 pennies on the ground!

 

[iceman0xh]

I work at a grocery store so I scope out the coinstar alot....so far I have about $3 face in silver (mostly dimes) with the best being a 1941 merc, and also 3 steel wheats. Have alot of foriegn currency and some tokens too...

Not sure if my best is considered a coin machine find but it was brought to my attention because of it. $23 face or something close bought by the store because the people complained that the coinstar wasnt taking it. I bought all the silver which included a roll of unc 1964 halfs, 3 morgans (1 cc), a couple peace, some bens and some walkers.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

Found 4 Canadian quarters (oldest 1969), a wheatie (41) and three chewed up zinclons.