More free silver at the dump!

db23 · May 19, 2011

Was dumping some halves on my way home from work and found 6 silver dimes in the reject tube on the coin machine. 5 Rosies and 1 Merc. Same TD that I got 2 from last week.

quiksilver · May 19, 2011

Sometimes i dump a few nickels n pennies at a bunch of TDs just to look for rejects

db23 · May 19, 2011

This one was in Westchester... Beat ya to it!

I'm been taking your advice and filling it up at least once just to see if there is anything in side. These dimes were in the tube, never even made it to the tray.

db23 · May 19, 2011

quiksilver said:
Sometimes i dump a few nickels n pennies at a bunch of TDs just to look for rejects

You mean to fill it up? How would dumping them help look for rejects if they don't have to open it to change the bag?

CHAINCHOMP · May 19, 2011

awesome find!!! congrats! keep it up and hh! [R.I.P. Rich Hartford]

Hortstu · May 19, 2011

I dump at TD banks and use the penny arcade too. I jammed the machine once. Or someone did before me but they blamed me. A paper clip got through or something. Anyway I saw the innards. It seems that they only sort by size. I don't know why silver would get rejected. I get lots of dimes in the chute but only because I'm dumping 1000$ at a time. Come to think of it they do reject some of the foreign stuff, but not all, that is the same size as a dime. I don't know how those machines work but I'm at a td machine a few times a week and never see silver. A teller told me the other day he watched a customer dump 100's of silver dollar halves in the machine. He knew the difference. He was disgusted. HE told the person but they dumped anyway. He can't buy them. At least that's what he told me.

bsktbllsam · May 20, 2011

db23 said:
This one was in Westchester... Beat ya to it!

I'm been taking your advice and filling it up at least once just to see if there is anything in side. These dimes were in the tube, never even made it to the tray.

ive found about 5-6 silver dimes from when i fill up the td bag. when they pull out that cart, the coins are just on the floor, like the fell out of the reject tray or something.

markmopar · May 23, 2011

Hortstu said:
Anyway I saw the innards. It seems that they only sort by size. I don't know why silver would get rejected.

They also sort by weight. Silver dimes and quarters are very consistent in weight. Halves are not, so the machines will accept silver halves but not the others.

Hortstu · May 24, 2011

markmopar said:
Hortstu said:

Anyway I saw the innards. It seems that they only sort by size. I don't know why silver would get rejected.

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They also sort by weight. Silver dimes and quarters are very consistent in weight. Halves are not, so the machines will accept silver halves but not the others.

Sorry not sure I got your point... There is a definite difference between 90% halves and clad halves. I can find them all by weighing the rolls. Not so with dimes.

markmopar · May 24, 2011

Yes, there is, but the machines aren't calibrated to discern the difference when it comes to halves, just quarters and dimes. A tech would have to have several of each type of coin(clad, 40% and 90%) to "teach" the machine the difference.

ScoobaSteve · May 24, 2011

Sweet find!

Return finds really make my day. I have my boys Ash(6) n Nate(4) check them. I have started them young.

db23 · May 29, 2011

Just scored 2 more silver quarters while dumping today. I'm finding more and more TD machines where the coins just never make it to the tray.

This makes 12 silver dimes and 4 silver quarters found in TD reject tubes/trays for the month of May.

BuffaloBoy · May 29, 2011

You got it good!!! I have only found 1 silver quarter in the reject bin at TD bank(1949-d), and I always check it before dumping, sometimes the occasional foreign coin is in there. But I know the machine takes silver half dollars, the tellers there let me pick through the half dollar bag if I see anything I want to swap(I always bring ~$20 in halves with me in case there is silver in the bag.... Only scored once, 13x 40% and a 1964 for $7.

Noahgman97 · May 31, 2011

That's a very nice find. Whenever I pass a Coinstar machine I always look for rejects just to see what I find. One time I found a 100 Yen coin (100 Yen equals $1.00 U.S.)

BuffaloBoy · May 31, 2011

Noahgman97 said:
That's a very nice find. Whenever I pass a Coinstar machine I always look for rejects just to see what I find. One time I found a 100 Yen coin (100 Yen equals $1.00 U.S.)

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=100&From=JPY&To=USD

...even more!!

www.xe.com is a great currency converter site, I use it whenever I am interested in seeing the current exchange for foreign currency... though some coins you may have are not used anymore, for example: a large thick brass-colored mexican coin which says $1000 on it(meaning 1000 pesos)... in 1988 when the coin was being used, it was not worth $86.41(current price for MXN1000), but may have been worth $1-2 but not used anymore. (I believe the form of currency mexico uses today is from 1994 and up($1MXN peso and up are bi-metallic coins),

Hope this helps!

HH
BuffaloBoy

BuffaloBoy · May 31, 2011

this is also a chart where you can see how the JPY(Japan Yen) is doing based off of a 1-year chart, very helpful because you can see the peaks and crashes of the denomination selected.

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=JPY&to=USD