Machine Finds Thread (add your own!)

[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!)]

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.

haha, not bad. Cant beat a 100% profit.

I have to say, your talley is quite intimidating.

     hey! gimme my dimes back!  ....just kidding.

How much are dimes worth where you are? Because here they are 10 cents.... Looks like you found $1.20 plus the Canadian dime.

How much are dimes worth where you are? Because here they are 10 cents.... Looks like you found $1.20 plus the Canadian dime.

I noticed the same thing.  Must be the lightheadedness that often accompanies upward surges in the price of silver.

 

How much are dimes worth where you are? Because here they are 10 cents.... Looks like you found $1.20 plus the Canadian dime.

I noticed the same thing.  Must be the lightheadedness that often accompanies upward surges in the price of silver.

 

Haha, could be. My guess is that they meant to type 20 dimes instead of 10.

[1935]

Another productive day at the CoinStar mine...

6 pennies (1935, 1982, 1987, 1989, 2004, 2005)
1 nickel (2006)
3 dimes (1989, 1996, 2005)
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$0.41

whats the deal with these coinstart machines?  where do you find them and where are the reject trays?  and why would people leave them there!? 

Around here they're in just about every super market.  The reject tray is obvious; a big gaping cavity on the front.  Why do people leave stuff there.  Well who knows.  Lazy, didn't hear them drop, didn't care, forgot.  If i'm at the store and see someone using the machines, I'll lurk until they finish and leave then I'll check.  If they have a kid with them forget it.  Their head is right at the rejects and they see them drop.  Will scoop them out every time.

Little kids check the reject tray all the time. If their mom is in line, a lot of time they bee line for the coinstar to check the tray. Ive seen it happen many times. The best Ive found is a mercury dime. Yet, I lost it when I moved. Oh well, maybe itll show up.

From the CoinMaster reject tray...

1 Canadian penny (1977)

whats the deal with these coinstart machines?  where do you find them and where are the reject trays?  and why would people leave them there!? 

When I lived in Florida they were always at the Kash and Karry stores, and there was always stuff in the reject trays. This was long before I joined here, and I wish I would have kept track of all of my finds from them. I did find a sweet Mercury dime in one just before we moved. I was in one of those stores about 2-3 times per week, which was in a distressed area and the machine would get used quite a bit.
I worked in the apartment bizness, and we would find a lot of change in the apartments when people would skip out in a hurry. We'd save it up, and once every week or two I'd go dump it and it would pay to buy lunch for my staff. We had an influx of Kuwaiti's in the 90's, and for some reason they didn't like change at all, they considered it trash. In one apartment alone, I picked up about $140.00 in change, not including pennies. Back then, silver was not going for squat, I wish I would have saved all the silver jewelry I picked up and pawned for next to nothing. 

I LOVE these CoinStar stories!  I regularly check the reject trays myself.  So far, nothing super cool to report, but free money is free money!

Moderators: how about a forum for CoinStar or simply "found on the ground", or what I like to call..."ground-score"!

sc

Today's reject tray treasure trove:

6 pennies (1965-2000)
1 nickel (1971)
3 dimes (1976-2005)
1 half dollar (1974)
1 Australian 5 cent (1981)
1 NAMCO arcade token
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US$0.91 + AU$0.05

It's been a quiet few months, but I finally got another payoff:

5 pennies (1973, 1984, 1994, 1999, 2002)
2 nickels (1994, 2004 peace medal)
2 dimes (1996, 1999)
1 quarter (1995-D)
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$0.60

I found a 1968 penny underneath the Coinstar at Kroger's last night. Wahooooo!!! The rarest penny of them all! hahaha.

Is this thread only for Coinstar finds?  If so, I have no stories.  But if you all will indulge me a story about a coin return on a pay phone, well then I have a story to tell. 

Once upon a time, when I was a starving teller for a local bank, I went to use a pay phone so I could call a rival bank and inquire about a job opening.  So I go to the pay phone and scrounge around in my purse for a dime (this was a looooonnnnnggggg time ago, when a local call was just a dime).  After making my call and learning that the pay was lower at the rival bank than at my current place of employment, I opened the booth door (phone booths had doors in those days) and turned to walk back to work because my lunch break was about over.  As I turned away, something or someone told me to check the coin return (something I used to always do as a young girl).  Maybe it was a childhood habit that caused me to check the tray, or maybe it was my guardian angel, or greed -- but I did and was rewarded.  There, much to my pleasant surprise, was an entire coin return tray filled with coins.  I can only guess that somebody attempted to make a long distance call, got no response on the other end, and left before hearing the sweet jingle of coins dropping into the tray.  His/her loss was my gain.  If memory serves, I got over $2.00 that day from the coin return.  In those days, 2 dollars would buy a couple gallons of gas. 

Here's my machine-related thread from last week:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,94869.0.html

I check the CoinStar machines at the grocery stores I shop at...Found a few bucks so far and 1 silver Roosie dime....

Payphone stories are welcome too!  It certainly was memorable, wasn't it?

Here's some more threads of mine in which a robot gave me money:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,94879.0.html
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,64879.0.html

Neat story, TreasureTales.

Thank you fiatboy and Cerulean for making me feel welcome here.  Alas, if stories were silver dimes, I'd be a very rich old woman.  But since they are not, I must content myself with telling tales to those who will listen.   

Found more beneath the machine than in it today. Got a clad dime and a Taiwan 1 yuan 1981.

Probably should have posted this, from yesterday, in the machine find thread................

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,96077.0.html

Congrats thurmo, that's a nice haul of free coins.  So what are those 40%ers worth these days?  Anybody know? 

So what are those 40%ers worth these days?  Anybody know?

The 40% halves (1965 to 1970) can be sold for between $1.60 and $1.90 (ideal), depending on who's buying.

I always check coin returns.I was at my dump bank putting halves into the machine,I checked the return and i got 13 steel pennies!!!1943 I was shocked and my overall best was at the coin machine in another dump bank and I got 4 silver quarters 2 64 63 and a 99 some one broke up a set may be.

So what are those 40%ers worth these days?  Anybody know?

The 40% halves (1965 to 1970) can be sold for between $1.60 and $1.90 (ideal), depending on who's buying.

Gee, that sounds pretty good.  Thanks for the info. 

I always check coin returns.I was at my dump bank putting halves into the machine,I checked the return and i got 13 steel pennies!!!1943 I was shocked and my overall best was at the coin machine in another dump bank and I got 4 silver quarters 2 64 63 and a 99 some one broke up a set may be.

That's great!!  These are all great stories.  More, please. 

More magnet finds:

United States, 1 cent (1943-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1968, 1988)
Canada, 25 cents (1975, 2003-P)
France, 1/2 franc (1974)
Germany, 5 pfennig (1973)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1996)
Jamaica, 25 cents (1996)

(That '68 dime is nickel, not silver.)  These go along well with my roll finds of the day: 1953-P cent, 1957-P cent, 1948-P nickel, 1969-D half

A good day.  All the day's finds are pictured...

What has frustrated me is that I have used Coinstar before and I could see a gold necklace clasp under the perforated metal tray that you lift up, but I couldn't get it.  Another time I saw a small silver ear ring in the same spot. 

Ok, this was the first time i tried looking in the reject tray and i got, 3 dimes,5 pennies,1 nickel,1 50 something from belguim,and to top it off some SILVER!!!!! A 1952 silver canadian quarter WOOHOO first time i checked the rejects.

Ok, this was the first time i tried looking in the reject tray and i got, 3 dimes,5 pennies,1 nickel,1 50 something from belguim,and to top it off some SILVER!!!!! A 1952 silver canadian quarter WOOHOO first time i checked the rejects.

But probably not the last time you'll check it, huh alkoz? Congrats on the goodies and the silver!

I found a weird token today. It has a star and a horseshoe on one side and "Control Token/CTX-303/No Cash Value" on the other.

Today's coins from the magnet.
2002 Mexican 10 Centavos
1993 Canadian quarter.
2 Canadian dimes- 2003P,1981
2003P penny.

Happy Hunting!

Another one from the same magnet as the last one... a Kenya 1 Schilling, 1998.

9 coins in coin return, star of the show, 1943 S War Penny w/pic

While they were changing bags at the bank coin machine, a coin fell out of the slide for the rejects at my feet. The teller looked in and said, there are a bunch stuck in there. She said I could have them. As I sorted, I found a 1943 s war penny. Woo Hoo. That is one I will never find MDing because I discriminate out steel. The rest were various foreign coins and one clad Rosie.

I like the seahorse on that foreign coin, AW.

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Underneath the CoinStar yesterday... a nickel and an Ultrazone token.

In the CoinStar reject tray:

Bermuda, 10 cents (1988)

Bermuda coins are some of my favorites, and Ultrazone is hilarious. 
Nice finds!

I went to my dump bank today and when I turned the coin counter on there was something rolling around in there and before I could add a handfull of halves went plunk into the reject tray.  1942S wheatie.  When I opened that account the lady was showing me around the machine and I dumped a coffee can full of pennies and nickels- she dipped into the reject and pulls out some coin and tosses it in and I noticed a dime- well it wound up in the reject again  and she said older coins seem to get rejected.  As was that silver dime haha.
HH all,  Mark

   Found 7 clad dimes, a clad nickel, a clad quarter, a 56 D wheat, and a 1959 silver dime!

           -CC

I ran $160 through a coin machine today. It kept kicking out a Canada 25 cent piece. I kept throwing it in. When I was done, I left it in the reject tray. I don't want it, it might make someone happy.

The supermarket employee who opened up the Coinstar machine let me keep the coins stuck to the magnet.  It never hurts to ask politely.

1x Canada, 5 cents (2003P)
1x Canada, 10 cents (1995)
1x Belgium, 1 euro cent (2001)
1x Belgium, 2 euro cents (2004)
1x Belgium, 2 euro cents (2006)
1x Belgium, 5 euro cents (1999)
1x Eritrea, 5 cents (1997)
4x Eritrea, 10 cents (1997)
1x Eritrea, 25 cents (1997)
2x Eritrea, 50 cents (1997)
2x Germany, 1 euro cent (2002)
2x Germany, 1 euro cent (2004)
2x Germany, 2 euro cents (2002)
2x Germany, 5 euro cents (2002)
1x Germany, 5 euro cents (2004)
1x Netherlands, 1 euro cent (2001)
1x Netherlands, 5 euro cents (1999)
1x Portugal, 5 euro cents (2002)
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CAN$0.15 + 0.43 Euros + 1.70 Eritrean nakfa

I found 2 clad quarters on the floor next to the machine.
Both coins were tails up so I picked them up and left
them on the machine. If I see a coin on the ground heads up,
it means good luck and you can take it. If its tails then it
means bad luck if you take it.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,100452.0.html

Two more on the coin counter magnet:

Bolivia, 50 centavos (1991)
Ireland, 2 euro cents (2002)

 

Playing the vending machine slots yielded 2 old nickels, a 1948-P and a 1949-P (which filled a folder hole).  Also got a crazy-shiny 1965, as well.  Maybe it's a Special Mint Set escapee.

[1920, 1940-S, 1941]

Someone left a handful of change in the CoinMaster reject tray:

17 pennies (1920, 1940-S, 1941, 1970-2007)
8 nickels (1990-2006)
2 dimes (1960-D, 1964)
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$0.77

2 silver dimes and 3 wheats... fine by me!

Snagged from the magnet:

Canada, 10 cents (2002-P)
France, 1 eurocent (2005)

Another batch of magnet finds (plus one in the reject tray):

Bolivia, 10 centavos (1997)
Germany, 1 euro cent (2002-J)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1989)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1995)
Great Britain, 1 penny (2007)
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approx. USD$0.088

i can remember a car wash token, canadians, 2 silver dimes, and $2 in coins covered with some sticky grease. Don't you just hate it when you see a guy just about to leave and then the little reminder comes up and he takes all the coins (some that you can see are foreign and halfs and stuff) and shoves if in his pocket and runs off. Or when they keep putting the coins in without looking until the machine takes them (oh how is wish i could clean out those machines)

HH
-GC

I agree that the return machines are a decent source. Especially since I am there anyway. A number of times I have found a couple bucks in the return. A few times been allowed to keep whats in the silver tray from the inside. This included the Sacagawea coin some pesos and a few extra coins. Some of my better finds have been a steel penny. It was not in the return but stuck between the side and the roof of the machine. I found $8 in quarters one time in the return slot including one silver. I found a mercury dime one time just sitting on the machine next to the tray.  I have found cups and bags of money that I guess the machine would not take, usually a few dollars. I have gotten some wheaties and foreign coins out of the garbage can next to the machine. Probally my best finds were from people returning coins in front of me. They had a big pile of coins on the coffie table next to the machine, the machine would not take them. Some were pretty old. I told them to take them to the coin shop. I even offered them $5 for them. They said NO. I could have them for FREE. I said ok. There were a number of foriegn coins from the mid 19th century. I cannot remember if I had gotten any silver. The one interesting coin was a 1869 2 cent US. It was in poor shape. Still a good find. The whole lot of coins were probably not worth more than $5, but I still think  it was a good find.

i actually have a really good coin machine story.  i was in the process of moving and decided to cash in my change (my bank has a coin counter).  i didnt check the reject tray first so half way through i pulled a handfull out of the tray and dumped it in the pile. as i was pushing it through the machine i noticed a bucnh of wheat pennies and a silver quarter.   at first i was nervous thinking some of my collection ended up in my junk change.  only after i took the finds home and checked my coin folders did i realize they were not from my collection but that someone left them in the tray.  oldest wheat was 1910.  that was a wonderful day.  i think it was 6 wheat pennies in total.

More finds from My Favorite Magnet:

Canada, 5 cents (2001-P)
Canada, 25 cents (1976)
Germany, 5 pfennig (1978-J)
Great Britain, 1 pence (2000)
Ireland, 1 euro cent (2002)
-----------------------------------
USD$0.342

Underneath my bank's coin counter, I recently found a 1946 Canadian penny (a King), three lincoln memorial cents, and a AU 1947 nickel. Not much, but free money is free money.

Nothing significant, but when dumping halves today; found a 2002 Cayman Island quarter in the reject bucket............plus a US dime and cent.

[1966 Netherlands 1 cent]

Dropped off $20 in pennies at Nevada State Bank and found a 1966 Netherlands 1 cent in the reject slot.

Few weeks ago... 2 Dollar Loonie, Canadian Dime. The other day, a Rosie.... Like mentioned above... free money is free money

I found a 1943 silver nickel sitting in the Coinstar machine's dump tray. Who'd a thought?

While dumping some halves at one of my usual banks today, the coin machine bag filled (the entire bag was my rejects).  While changing the bag out, they let me check the reject bucket  inside the machine.  Today was a very strange find; an entire roll of pennies...in its wrapper.   Not sure how someone would dump that in, not notice it and it would fit and get kicked into the reject bucket; but it appeared to have.

The bank lets me keep whatever I find in there, as I do dump out any trash that's in there  , so I picked up a quick fifty cents, and although none were wheats; eight were pre-'83.

The manager also had an '02 German 2 euro coin she was saving for me.

Nice begets nice.

I found two 1943 steel wheats while dumping reject halves in the coin counter at my bank last Friday.....

Today's Coinstar find was a 1997 Mexico 50 centavos. It was sitting on a empty clear plastic baggie on the machine. Thenk-you-veddy-much!

From the magnet:

Belgium, 2 euro cents (2000)
Belgium, 5 euro cents (1999)
Belgium, 5 euro cents (2004)
Brazil, 5 centavos (1997)
Canada, 5 cents (1971)
Canada, 25 cents (1978)
Czech Republic, 1 koruna (2002)
Czech Republic, 2 korun (2004)
France, 2 euro cents (1999)
France, 2 euro cents (2000)
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0.16 euros + C$0.30 + 0.05 reales + 3 koruny = USD$0.739

I Found 23 cents on Thursday in a CoinStar Machine.

Last week I found a penny.

Nothing special about any of them, but hey, 24 cents is 24 cents!

Picked up a 1992 UK penny from the reject slot in a bank's coin counting machine over the weekend.

[1 Trinidad & Tobago 1cent (2005)]

From the CoinStar reject tray:

11 pennies (1960-2002)
2 nickels (1976-2004)
3 dimes (1998-2007)
1 Metro bus token (1982)
1 Trinidad & Tobago 1cent (2005)
-----------------------------------------
$0.51

Today I found a 1992 10 Pence English coin and a 1969 1/2 Franc French coin in the reject tray.

Well, things are a bit different here, as there are no change counting machines, but I did find 400yen in a vending machine.  These machines are EVERYWHERE.  Seriously, about 4 or 5 to a block.  I check em when I am near em. 

400yen(4x100yen)=3.60 or so US

They don't use bills smaller than 1000yen here, so the machines all take em, give back change.

vegasmtl

While dumping some halves over lunch, picked an '81 Canadian quarter and '79 Canadian dime out of the reject tray.

And with the current exchange rate (read weak US dollar) it's worth even more than $0.35.

Yesterday I stopped in at a convenience store on my way to work (as I do 5 times a week). One of the pennies in my change looked a bit old.

It was.

1956-D

Tonight when I get home I am going to examine it closely for double die mintmark error.

From the sorter magnet:

Canada, 10 cents (1999, 2004-P, 2007-RCM)
Canada, 1 dollar (1988)
France, 1 franc (1960)
Mexico, 10 centavos (1995)
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USD $1.532

Relatedly, I found another 1972-P Eisenhower dollar from a Chevy Chase Bank teller.

When dumping some coin today, and it filled so they had to change bags  , I asked (like I usually do) if I could check the reject bucket on the inside of the machine.  They said yes (like they usually do) and in there was a rolled up US one dollar bill.

Yeah, free money.  You gotta like like it.   

I was dumping about $80 in nickels and pennies today at the bank and found a Canadian penny (2006 RCM) that didn't slide into the counter opening. Then I found out why - the metal that makes up the opening appears to be magnetic and the penny stuck to it real hard. Never noticed that before... 

While dumping some halves today I picked up a 1999 Canadian dime and a 1979 1 cent from Republic of Trinidad & Tobago from the coin return.   

1954 silver dime spotted on the floor underneath

HH
-GC

Sounds like a repeat of yesterday's post to this thread, but when dumping rejects today, it filled and they had to change the bags. While they were changing them, I found (another) one dollar bill inside the machine.........and a US dime and US ('44p) cent in the reject bucket.

Too weird.

From the magnet:

Brazil, 5 centavos (2005)
Brazil, 25 centavos (2000, 2002)
Canada, 5 cents (1972)
Canada, 25 cents (1977, 1982, 2003-P)
Germany, 5 euro cents (2005-G)
Spain, 1 euro cent (1999)
and one mangled rusty 1 euro cent of indeterminable nation or year
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0.55 BRL + 0.80 CAD + 0.07 EUR = USD $1.208

I went to the grocery store to get a few rolls of dimes and found a ten dollar bill. Does that count?

LOL
Cat

From Nevada State Bank's coin counter reject slot today -

Canada 5¢ - 2002-P
Canada 25¢ - 2002-P
China - 10 yuan - 1987
Germany - 1 mark - 1964-D

...and one zinc US penny

My usual Coinstar has produced zilch for several weeks now so it was great finding this little cache.

.....and in the reject tray of the coin counter, I pulled out a '76 Canadian quarter (that I didn't have yet )

Wheatie, 1964 Rosie, two quarters stuck together, and a penny.

jackpot --11 coins -- canadian 3 cents --2 nickles - 2 dimes -- 2 quarters    a 1943 steel cent * yah!! and a large french coin type medal -- its about the size of a silver dollar but made of brass or bronze -- it was made by the french mint --translated on one side it says -- national collection -- offical medal and shows the "mint" building -- of the flip side it says "mont saint michel" -- its a set put out honoring famous french historic land marks and sites --- it was made in 2005,--  I found a similar one on euro e bay asking price was 5 euros (7.50 us )--and 3.50 ( 5.25 us) euro for  shipping--- so 8.50 euros at about 1.50  us per euro --- $12.75 if I was to buy it  -- not bad for free.

While dumping rejects (and picking up new boxes) at one bank, their reject bucket (on the inside) yielded a 76d Ike, three US dimes, three US cents and a twenty peso Mexican coin ('80).

While helping the guy change the bags out (they had to use smaller bags, for the regular size had run out) I cherry picked a '44 US cent ........and a '57d US quarter  !   (need to see if I'm still missing that one or not)


Next, a second bank, after buying my boxes of halves, asked for any foreign coin.   The teller gives me eight Canadian quarters ('74, '76, '80, '84, 86x2 (I didn't have an '86 yet), '93, '03),  a Canadian Nickel ('68), Canadian dime ('00) and a five colone coin from Costa Rica ('89).

Nice begets nice.

Saw what looked like an arcade token on the floor next to my usual Coinstar but it turned out to be a Korea 10 won (1992).

A relative bonanza today!  Not only was the magnet covered with coins, there were four in the reject tray, too!

United States, 25 cents (1994)
Canada, 5 cents (1980)
Canada, 25 cents (1974)
Bolivia, 20 centavos (1991)
Chile, 1 peso (1997)
Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
Ecuador, 25 centavos (2000)
Germany, 2 pfennig (1969-F)
Germany, 1 euro (2002-J)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1999)
Italy, 2 eurocents (2002)
Mexico, 1 peso (1993)
Peru, 20 centimos (2001)
Spain, 1 eurocent (too mangled to date)
one plastic cent of play money
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USD0.25 + CAN0.297 + EUR1.03 + BOB0.20 + CLP1.00 + ECU0.35 + DEM0.02 + GBP0.05 + MXN1.00 + PEN0.20 = $2.692 USD

first coins from Ecuador, Italy, and Peru

I've picked up a few bucks in Coinstar rejects in the last month, including one steel penny and one Spanish 2 cent Euro.

Found a quarter-sized restroom token underneath the front of my usual Coinstar today. It reads "Nik-O-Lok RESTROOM TOKEN - Indianapolis, Indiana" on the front and "Help keep our restrooms clean" on the back.

If anyone's going to the Indy 500 in May, LMK and I'll send it your way. LOL

this is quit pathetic honestly your probably the guy that goes to every payphone and checks the return or stops at the laudry mat on the way home and looks under every washing machine for some lint and a quarter youd have better luck walking thru the drivethru at mcdonalds and picking up change at the window opps i shouldnt have told you that now im gonna see you there

this is quit pathetic

At least I'm not marking my return rolls "1964-1969"

Another boon today, this time from the magnet of my supermarket's CoinStar.  It pays to ask politely. 

2x Brazil, 5 centavos (2004)
3x Brazil, 10 centavos (1994, 1997, 2004)
1x Ecuador, 5 centavos (2000)
1x Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
1x Great Britain, 1 penny (2000)
1x Ireland, 5 eurocents (2005)
2x Italy, 1 eurocent (2002, 2004)
4x Italy, 5 eurocents (2002, 2003)
1x Jamaica, 1 dollar (2005)
1x Mexico, 2 pesos (2006)
1x Chucky Cheese, token (2006)
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USD0.15 + BRL0.40 + GBR0.01 + EUR0.27 + JMD1.00 + MXN2.00 = USD $0.891

  Interesting topic.
 
 First time responder longtime coinroll hunter, since 2006. When I dump my halves at the coin counter at TCF in Michigan I always check the return tray as well as the floor and the trash can next to the machine. I am happy to report that I have collected over $100 in Canadian coins since 2006, as they reject them here in Michigan as well as all forigen coins and it appears silver dimes and wheaties as well since i've snagged a couple of those as well. I recently found a 1935 canadian nickle in the return tray and just last week got got a handfull of coins mostly Canadian but it was around $5 total. I check the trash because most people just toss the Canadian coins and tokens out. I have also found lots of game tokens batting cage tokens and even a old Ceasers palace token.
   I call this passive income LOL.
   I might add. That I'm not so shure I get 100% of my money back at these machines. When returning $500 SKUNK boxes back it sometimes comes up short. as much as 6 to 8 dollars making that skunk box that much worse. Soooo you win some you lose some.
   mojo

from the coin counter magnet:

Argentina, 10 centavos (2007)
Bolivia, 20 centavos (1991)
France, 1/2 franc (1995)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1994)
Italy, 2 eurocents (2002)
Italy, 5 eurocents (2002)
Spain, 2 eurocents (2001)
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ARS 0.10 + BOB 0.20 + FRF 0.50 + GBP 0.01 + EUR 0.09 = USD $0.462

I found these coins and a 14KT ring inside the coin machine in the trash bin a few months back.

I got two silver dime('63 and '64) from the reject bin of a coin machine today.

returned some halves last year and the teller hands me a diamond earring and says this must be yours,trying to keep my eyes in there sockets i'm camly replied yeah thats my wives(never checked if it was real or not)wisk it was that 14k ring tho.congrats awhislter

returned some halves last year and the teller hands me a diamond earring and says this must be yours,trying to keep my eyes in there sockets i'm camly replied yeah thats my wives(never checked if it was real or not)wisk it was that 14k ring tho.congrats awhislter

Just for the record, I called the bank (it's my regular CU) and let them know I found it. That's the last I heard about it.

I got an Aruba " florin" coin today and a off center struck clad dime.

[2005 Danish 1 krone]

Yesterday there was a 2005 Danish 1 krone just laying on the CoinStar's ledge, right out in the open.  Guess somebody else didn't know what to do with it.  I sure did!

I found the pile of coins last week in a coinstar coin return and the silver ring in the reject bin in a coin machine saturday.

more magnet swag:

Canada, 10 cents (1995)
Canada, 25 cents (1979, 2007-RCM)
Netherlands, 1 guilder (1971)

I went to my CU today to dump some halves.  I placed my halves in the coin tray and pressed the "start" button.  The machine was making a weird sound, so i immediately stopped it.  I looked down into the opening to see what was making the noise.  I saw a roll of cents sticking up in the chute.  I reached into the chute risking finger loss to see what I could find.  Two full paper rolls of cents and a roll of dimes! (one of the rolls had a 1944 & 1946-d wheat in it)  There were also two Canadian quarters and three Canadian dimes on the magnet.   A small bonus for the skunky halves I was dumping.

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