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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[rickomatic]

Went in to Safeway for a quick snack and happened to walk past a MasterCoin machine on the way out. The reject tray was full! Holy cow, I'm new at this and this completely took me by surprise. I looked around then started scooping into my pocket. When I got out to the car I counted out $5.84, including one canadian dime, one 1P Irish, and 2 wheaties, a '44 & a '28.
I felt like a theif..........

 

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[ivan salis]

its free money --no thiefing to it * first come , first served -- now see the lovely jewelry (earrings mostly but a thin chain now and then) that fell thru into the dump bin area -- i get that too. -- plus i'm so bold i ask the store folks who have to clean the magnets that are inside the machine ( it helps to keep junk out of the machines coin sorting "guts" to "save" any foreign coins for me -- candain coins always stick being made of steel these days * and the coins are on "par" with us money --i save em up till i get say 50 bucks worth then mail them to a candain coin store --i go online and price silver us coins and then mail the candain coins up as "payment and return postage cost" so the coins only cost me "upbound" postage --which i pay for from scrap cans i turn in --so basically --free silver coins

theres the "hustlers" and the rest of the world .--- a thief is no good --but a hustler is differant

 

[Iheartmoney]

My best find ever was a 1964 Washington quarter which I found when I heard the sound of silver drop from the soda machine. I automatically offered to give the lady $1.00 for it although she insisted I would only have to give her $.25 (That's a fair deal. Lol.)

I also found a Mercury dime in the Coinstar machine once and 2 other silver dimes on two separate occasions

 

[Cerulean]

Hey look, there's $0.72 left on the CoinMaster. Nothing older than '72, though.

 

[Argentium]

I was at a credit union in a nearby town , about to dump some coin into a customer accessible
counter in the lobby . I looked down in the hopper prior to dumping , and saw a Morgan dollar
tails side up - staring at me - by far the best day I've had related to machine finds . Argentium.

 

[d2arcing]

I was at a credit union in a nearby town , about to dump some coin into a customer accessible
counter in the lobby . I looked down in the hopper prior to dumping , and saw a Morgan dollar
tails side up - staring at me - by far the best day I've had related to machine finds . Argentium.

lucky sob, I want a morgan badly but refuse to buy

only have found regular beat up cents. last time teller just emptied the bin in and got like 2 bucks. a nickel another time. and 42 cents another time. most part find nothing...

 

[Cerulean]

Found on TD's coinbot while dumping halves:

Bahamas, 25 cents (1979)
Bermuda, 10 cents (1996)
Canada, 10 cents (1974, 1984, 1990, 2001)
Canada, 25 cents (1993, 2006-P, 2007-RCM)
Finland, 10 pennia (1991)
France, 5 eurocents (1999)
Italy, 5 eurocents (2002)
Venezuela, 50 bolivares (2002)
two buttons
one CR-2016 3V watch battery

The last coin is really strange, possibly the only counterfeit coin I've ever found. It has the size and design of a 1982-D Washington quarter, with a smooth edge. The detail of the design is very low, and the letters are fatter than usual. It appears as if somebody plated a worm-out quarter in chrome. It's not marked as a copy, replica, or play money.

 

[Silverbull]

A 1962 silver canadian dime in the reject bin today plus a couple of pennies.

 

[quiksilver]

I find so many coins when i do my TD runs I couldnt keep track. Yesterday i went to 3 TD banks where i have access to the tube and got 4 silver dimes , 20-25 american currency [after reporting the bag was blocking the tray] various foreign and game tokens. All i was dumping was a small jar of nickels mixed with pennies. Was able to do the magnet sweep for a bunch of canadian also.

 

[Rich Hartford]

Been a while since I got any silver from the coin counter.
Today I found a sterling St.Christopher medal along with some Mexican pesos,French centimes,and Belgian francs.
HH
Rich

 

[chow]

Found a '68 Canadian Quarter in the counter yesterday, held on to it for a few minutes - wondering - "is this one of those 50% silver ones, or was that 1966, or 1967?" Since I didn't know for sure, I tossed it in to be re-counted and the machine took it.

Looked it up when I got back to a PC and found out it could have been either 50% silver or 99.9% nickel...so I don't know if I was 50% dumb or 50% smart....

1968–1999 5.05 g 23.88 mm 99.9% nickel
1968 5.05 g 23.88 mm 50% silver, 50% copper

WHEN IN DOUBT, KEEP IT OUT!!!

 

[Yinzi50]

Found a silver rosie a couple weeks ago and today found my first Iron Penny,43s. It's half rusty on the reverse.

 

[coinmojo]

Got 42 cents out of a coinstar at the grocery store today. A quarter a nickle a dime and two 2010 pennies. No silver.

Mojo

 

[Cerulean]

On the CoinMaster tonight, 39 US coins from 1967-2010 totaling $1.41. Most interesting amongst them is a corroded LP-3 cent.

 

[Rich Hartford]

Got two clad halves,a 1968 half, and an assortment of coins from France,Mexico,and the Dominican Republic.
I left the foreign coins at the coin counter.
HH
Rich

 

[Rich Hartford]

$1.20 in dimes and 2 Canadian pennies in a coin counter today.
HH
Rich

 

[Cerulean]

Down at the CoinStar...

Germany, 50 pfennig (1949-F)

 

[Cerulean]

Down at the CoinStar:

3 quarters, 3 dimes, 18 cents, one plastic play cent, and a 1972 Swiss half franc.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

Found about a 6 to 8 inch part of a gold necklace this weekend in the coin machine. Looks to be pretty good karat as it is nice and shiny. Hey any gold is good gold....

 

[markmopar]

Today on the magnet I got a 1960 Hong Kong dollar. That's a new one for me.