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)
----------------------------
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]

Green machine, 2 cents woo hoo.

 

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[Cerulean]

from the magnet:

Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM x2)
Canada, 5 cents (2001-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1986, 1988, 2000)
Canada, 25 cents (1968 nickel, 1969, 1974, 1989, 2006-P)
Canada, 1 dollar (1994 war memorial)
Austria, 5 eurocents (2005)
Italy, 1 eurocent (2002)

 

[TooManyHobbies]

56D wheat, kinda banged up and one ugly, POS zinc penny.

 

[ivan salis]

1992 rat token -- (chucky e cheese)

 

[markmopar]

A bunch of foreign coin- Canadian, Kenyan, Euro, and a few others
A Sears 100th anniversary token
Yet another steel penny

all off the magnet

 

[taterchips]

Green Machine--15 zincs and a dime...

 

[goldencoin]

A bunch of foreign coin- Canadian, Kenyan, Euro, and a few others
A Sears 100th anniversary token
Yet another steel penny

all off the magnet

fyi, the sears token is coated in copper from the statue of liberty

HH
-GC

 

[ivan salis]

sweet metal from lady liberty --how neat is that? way cool.

 

[markmopar]

A bunch of foreign coin- Canadian, Kenyan, Euro, and a few others
A Sears 100th anniversary token
Yet another steel penny

all off the magnet

fyi, the sears token is coated in copper from the statue of liberty

HH
-GC

supercool! thanks for the info.

 

[supergenius]

Put $1 in the coke machine at work the other day. Got my $.80 diet coke and 2 dimes change. One was a '59!

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Two foreign coins:

1982 2P eire ( Ireland)
2 New Pence (UK)

 

[olepossum]

i was on ebay today there is a guy called estates-by-wieght he is selling bags of pennies that are unsearched and beefed up with special 25c georges seated 10c merc rosie ikes seateds that are silver 5c 1c that are s svdb wheats indians steel and some have silver certificates some bags range from 29.00 to 65.00 plus 10.00 shipping and handling you can buy one or more bags and only pay shipping on one bag i am gonna try one bag and see what i get cant beat 30.00 if you can make a 100.00+ all you can do is go look at it he says he is one of the top reputable hoard and stash buyers in the country.

 

[Silver_Fox]

estates-by-wieght

No seller by that name on Ebay. Please cut and paste it here or better yet post an item #.
Thanks, S_F

 

[silverthorn]

Try inserting the word "weight" in place of "wieght."

The seller is offering an alleged but very good deal! I am very interested in learning how you make out with the transaction.

~Silverthorn (rides again... )

 

[BBcardsRI]

Nabbed a nice little stash today while getting hand rolls at the supermarket bank branch:

8 state quarters
1 nickel
2 pennies

for a total of $2.07 legal tender

as well as a 5 Euro piece.

~Dave

 

[Silver_Fox]

Try inserting the word "weight" in place of "wieght."

The seller is offering an alleged but very good deal! I am very interested in learning how you make out with the transaction.

~Silverthorn (rides again... )

It is estates-by-weight. Interesting but a classic type Ebay offer. You might find a ....blah..blah..blah...

 

[ivan salis]

the key word is MIGHT --- as in a 1000 lb bag of money flying in a plane MIGHT somehow fall from the plane and land at your feet --- MIGHT rates right up there with Could happen * and MAYBE --- AND OF COURSE you have 0% recource against said seller --since he did not say you will find ----- he said you might find (which also means you might not find) ie no promises ---- but go get $30 worth of pennies at a bank and look thru them --you MIGHT FIND indain head cents and wheat cents --and steel cents --cost a mere 1 cent replacement cost per find -- no finds rerol and mark the rolls cash em back in cost $0 -- you can do nickles -- dimes --quarters ect its called Coin Roll Hunting --or CRH for short.

 

[Bjorn_MD]

Found next to machine.

8- 5cent Euro
8- 2cent Euro
7- 1Penny UK
4- 5Pence UK
1- 10Pfennig
1- $5 Jamaica
1- 50cent Mexico
1- $1 Mexico
1- 1Piso Phillipines
3- 10Cent Barbados
1- 5cent Barbados
1- 25cent Barbados

 

[underc]

I find coins all of the time in these machines. Since we are keeping track, I will start keeping track and reporting. I am confused about this "magnet" thing. Is there a magnet readily accessable on Coinstar machines or is it inside?
And... how do you get a look in the reject bucket on the inside?

Thanks in advance

 

[Silver_Fox]

1958 Dime

Good luck at the Green Machine. 58 cents. One of the dimes was a 1958 silver. Woo Hoo.