Machine Finds Thread (add your own!)

From the magnet:

United States, 1 cent (1943, too rusted to determine mintmark, if any)
Canada, 1 cent (2003-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1983, 1984, 1985, 1999 x2, 2002-P)
Canada, 25 cents (1989, 1994 x2, 1999 August, 2006-P, 2008 freestyle skiing)
Belgium, 2 eurocents (2000)
Brazil, 25 centavos (1994, 2003)
Germany, 1 pfennig (1950-F, 1950-G, 1985-F)
Great Britain, 1 penny (2007)
Mexico, 2 pesos (2001)
Mexico, 5 pesos (2003)
1 metal slug
1 safety pin
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USD 0.01 + CAD 2.01 + EUR 0.02 + BRL 0.50 + GBP 0.01 + MXN 7.00 = USD$2.92

From the magnet and reject tray:

Bolivia, 5 centavos (1987)
Bolivia, 20 centavos (1987, 1991, 1995)
Bolivia, 50 centavos (2006)
Bolivia, 1 boliviano (2008 x3)
Bolivia, 5 bolivianos (2004)
Italy, 5 eurocents (2007)
Mexico, 1 peso (1998)
Chucky Cheese, 1 token (2001)
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BOB 9.15 + EUR 0.05 + MXN 1.00 = USD $1.47

Unrelatedly, as I was helping my friend remodel his house, I found a 1991 Canadian cent behind a baseboard as it was ripped out.

Coinstar machine find. The lady coin is a France 1 Franc.

Trash bin inside of the coin machine. Does anyone know where the Chumash Casino is?

www.chumashcasino.com/

Santa Ynez, Southern California

www.chumashcasino.com/

Santa Ynez, Southern California

Thanks Mark. I guess if I am ever near there I have a dollar to play.

Reject bucket of the coin counter; from dropping off today's rejects gave up :

• Four pre-'82 Lincolns
  A UK five pence ('91)
  A common Ike ('71D)
  and a Commemorative NRA Medallion (Model 1903 Springfield)

One sold on e-bay for $12.  Nice pick up I guess

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commemorative-NRA-Medallion-Model-1903-Springfield_W0QQitemZ230286870662QQihZ013QQcategoryZ7309QQcmdZViewItem

Some foreign and a slug sitting on the coin machine.

Reject bucket of the coin counter; from dropping off today's rejects gave up :

• Four pre-'82 Lincolns
  A UK five pence ('91)
  A common Ike ('71D)
  and a Commemorative NRA Medallion (Model 1903 Springfield)

One sold on e-bay for $12.  Nice pick up I guess

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commemorative-NRA-Medallion-Model-1903-Springfield_W0QQitemZ230286870662QQihZ013QQcategoryZ7309QQcmdZViewItem

Nice Commm Thurm

over 5 bucks Canadian and two steel pennies off the magnet today.

[2005 Trinidad & Tobago cent]

Here's a CoinStar tactic I've taken to doing.

When you step up to the machine, most of us just check the reject tray and keep walking.  But lately, I've been running the machine.  You don't need to put any of your own money into it.  Simply press the green button, follow the on-screen prompts, and see what happens.  Odds are there will be some loose change in the sorting drum still kicking around from the machine's last user.  Any residual coins in the machine that finish processing through will be credited to you.  Even with the 9% fee, it's still free money.

I've done this a few times, and already racked up over $4.50 in "winnings".  Plus I get to keep whatever falls into the reject tray.  Last time it gave me some beat-up dimes and a 2005 Trinidad & Tobago cent.

Reject tray score from the Coinstar. 43 coins for $2.31. One of them was a 1962 silver quarter.

[1988 UK penny]

In the reject fray of my dump bank's coin sorter, a 1988 UK penny and a 2001 Chucky Cheese token.

Found a lone arcade token in my local green machine's reject tray. I won't reject it!

does this count? 

a couple of weeks ago i went to one of my dump banks to cash in some junkiron dimes.  didn't even think to check the reject tray (which i usually do before i start dumping).  after a few minutes of dumping i reached down to check the reject tray and found a couple of dimes in there.  i scooped them out and tossed them onto the coin counter tray and almost tipped it to slide them in when i spied a merc sitting right on top.  hmmmm...wait a minute.  did i overlook that in my search or did someone else leave that in there? 

needless to say i scooped it out of the coin counter and quickly pocketed it.  and i'm telling myself that somebody else left in the machine!  LMAO!!!

found an eagle token and a 1962 quarter today

Hi Everyone,  I'm new, but have been reading the wonderful posts before signing up. Today after work I stopped in one of the stores that has a Coin-star machine, this is the 3rd time I checked one of the machines.  Last week I found a Canadian penny, is also one I needed to fill a hole in the album  . And today I find 3 clad dimes in the reject slot, a 1986-D, 1998-P and a 2008-P.  Not bad for a beginner. 

I used "the claw" (a spring loaded nut pick up tool ) to reach down thru the holes in the money chute to the junk pan below -- and extracted a nice gold ball post earring for my efforts 

I found a 14k gold ring in the penny arcade coin machine last week. the machine was making noise after my coins were done and the teller opened it up and I saw a ring jammed in there. He took it out and handed it to me.

Checked the coinstar reject bin at the grocery store this week and found a handful.

1 Euro (Netherlands)
3 Canadian Quarters
2 Canadian Dimes
1 1955 Canadian Dime (1st silver from coinstar)
6 Zincolns
1 New Hampshire Highway token
1 Rhode Island token
1 Jefferson nickel
2 Roosevelt dimes
And finally the best - an old squirting nickel. Didn't know what to make of it till I posted it to an error forum and sure enough the thing shoots water a few feet!

Had a good laugh at that. Thought I had a genuine double planchet for a minute there!

Maine_Jim

[1998 UK five pence]

In the reject tray of my dump bank's coin sorter, a 1998 UK five pence.

Found while dumping, mostly in the reject tray:

Canada, 5 cents (2002-P)
Canada, 10 cents (1975)
Canada, 25 cents (2006-RCM)
France, 1/2 franc (1986)
Ghana, 10 cedis (1991)
Great Britain, 2 pence (2002)
Great Britain, 1 pound (1983)
Jamaica, 25 cents (1996)
Netherlands, 10 cents (1970, 1978)
Romania, 5 bani (2007)
Tanzania, 50 senti (1989)
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CAD 0.40 + GHS 0.10 + GBP 1.02 + JMD 0.25 + RON 0.05 + TZS 0.50 = USD $1.917

There was also a handful of American change, too, but there wasn't anything of interest, so I ran it right through the counting machine.

Found on the magnet at my dump bank:

Canada, 10 cents (1987)
Canada, 25 cents (1979, 2007-RCM)
Canada, 2 dollars (2006-RCM)
Malaysia, 1 sen (1988)

no coin star stories here (yet) but when I was about 5 years old (about 13 years ago) My folks took me to the library, I was always checking return trays on payphones and the like, well there was a big copy machine up on the second floor and I sit there and watched this guy stick a $5 bill into the copy machine, he ran off about 20 copies of his paper and left (copies were 5 or 10 cents each) I crept over there and jammed on the button next to the coin return and the dead silence of the library errupted into the jingling of change pouring out of the return like niagra falls, about 20 heads turned my way but I was too busy stuffing my pockets with my free change to care, I grinned from ear to ear the rest of the night. Funny how you rember little things like that isnt it?

bet he thought it was a $1 instead iof a $5 --20 copies at .05 each = $1 --- nice $4 score for being alert.

Today I went to the supermarket, at the entrance is a coinstar machine.  Everytime I checked there was nothing, today I decided to check it figuring there'd be nothing.  But yes there was 2 coins.  After I got home I checked what they were.  I got 2 Roosevelt silver dimes a 1946 and a 1964 D, these are my first silver found in a machine. 
~Audiz~

Why do I feel like a thief in the night when picking up change that someone has left behind or overlooked? Found $1 in dimes the other day. Can't retire yet! Still, its nice to know we live in a country so rich, people still overlook money.

recent finds include a sterling silver ring and a 3 month chip from AA.

Got to add parking meter to the list. I was trying to load the meter the other day with a few Canadian dimes, which they always take here, and it didn't do anything. I gave it a little shake...and out pops a quarter, then another, then another. Ended up with $1.35 when I was through. The meter still refused money. I chanced it and didn't get a ticket .

Maine_Jim

I got a '64 Rosie out of the reject try on Wednesday.  HH  Mark

While dumping cents, as usual:

Canada, 10 cents (1990)
Canada, 25 cents (1988, 1999 May)
Ecuador, 5 centavos (2000)
Great Britain, 1 penny (1993 x2, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006)
Great Britain, 2 pence (1994 x2, 1996, 1997)
Netherlands, 25 cents (1974)
Sierra Leone, 50 leones (1996 x4)
Sierra Leone, 100 leones (1996 x3)
Switzerland, 1/2 franc (1995)

[1998 UK penny]

In the CoinStar reject tray, a 1998 UK penny.

Went to the grocery store and while I was checking out I saw a lady leave the Coinstar machine without checking the reject tray. I felt kinda bad but she walked out of the store. Her loss is my gain.

1 Dime
6 Nickels
4 Pennies

Nothing special but I got 44 cents free!

-Codes

i found a '57 slq at a coinstar today  :thumbsup:very nice!!!:thumbsup:

Found on the magnet while dumping:

Canada, 5 cents (1974)
Bolivia, 50 centavos (1991)
Bolivia, 1 boliviano (2004)
Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
Germany, 1 pfennig (1989-J)
Spain, 1 eurocent (2004)
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CAD 0.05 + BOB 1.50 + ECU 0.10 + EUR 0.01 = USD $0.371

[2000 UK 5 pence]

Underneath a coin sorter, a 2000 UK 5 pence.

rejects at the penny arcade
1-1977 british new penny
1-clad dime

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.

I am the same way. If it is heads up I give to who ever I am with so they can share in the good luck.  Tails I leave it, some time there will be a couple of pennies on the ground at the local conv store parking lot, only pick up the lucky ones.

i too used to leave the tails down pennies alone(superstitious)   but my wife used to say they were pennies from heaven(someone who passed)...and would pick them up heads or tails so now i pick them up and my luck hasn't changed one bit(fingers croosed)

[1954d silver dime]

This is my very first machine finds ever!!!

13 memorial pennies
1954d silver dime
1996 $5 Mexican coin
1994 Chucky Cheese token

[Canada, 1 cent (1969)Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM)]

In the bottom of the pencil cup of the Lotto kiosk next to the CoinStar:

Canada, 1 cent (1969)
Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM)

add another couple stuck together zincs to the total

No luck so far for me at the rejected trays of the coin star machines but I will keep trying.

Your posts are very encouraging.

DW

check out my "the CLAW strikes " post in todays finds *--today I got --- a matched set of TMA 925 silver post type earring with diamond chips or cz stones (they were complete) with their backings still attached (it was  the backings that were marked  TMA 925 -- Plus a gold post type ball earring with a stainless post -- I'm unsure if  the ball is real or just gold plated---  heres the trick I used to get em-- reach thru the holes in the coin dump tray with a "mechanic's lost nut grabber" --- its a spring loaded tool with a claw on the end for fetching dropped nuts from tight places -- great for nabbing those earrings 

found a 2004 and two 1985 Canadian quarters on the magnet at the bank today.

the claw strikes again -- 22 long rifle bullet (unfired - intact) and found a cent stilll in the dump tray. -- not much but it all adds up overtime

3/4" ball bearing off the magnet

[1948 nickel1999 France 5 eurocents1988 Great Britain 1 penny1989 Singapore 10 cents]

I found these from a handful of rolls from my usual bank:
1952-D cent
1957 cent
1957-D nickel
1958-D nickel
1935-D dime (my first merc!)

While cashing in rejects at my dump bank, I found these:
1948 nickel
1999 France 5 eurocents
1988 Great Britain 1 penny
1989 Singapore 10 cents

the " claw " ( a car mechanic's spring  loaded nut pick up tool ) got me --- a rather smallish 1993 ---10 ore norway coin (the last year it was made) from the "junk catcher" tray under the holed coin dump tray at the local winn dixie coin star  --- its fun "fishing" thru the holes for silver , gold and stone earrings and such --this coin was hard to get since the coin was about the same size as the holes in the dump tray --

On the magnet, while dumping:

2003-P Canada cent (crowned)
2007-RCM Canada cent
2000 Finland 5 eurocents (first Finnish euro coin)

    A 1945p war nickle and around $2.50 in canadian coins @ a coinstar machine in the Grocery store.. Whoo hooo

  Mojo

On the magnet reject tray, while dumping halves:

Brazil, 5 centavos (1994)
France, 20 eurocents (1999)
Netherlands, 20 eurocents (2003)

My first Coinstar finds in weeks:

1 quarter
1 dime
3 pennies
1 Canadian dime (1987)
1 Canadian quarter (1980)

Plus some frustration. There was a quarter and two pennies visibly and impossibly stuck behind the plexiglass below the reject slot.

More half dumping, and more magnet finds:

Canada, 25 cents (1978, 2000 pride)
Canada, 1 dollar (1990)
Canada, 2 dollars (1996)
Cayman Islands, 1 cent (1996)
Cayman Islands, 5 cents (1996)
Ecuador, 10 centavos (2000)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1990)
Guyana, 5 dollars (2002)
Peru, 10 centimos (1993)

...and $0.22 in American change.

I found all these coins in the reject tray: 1979 Canadian quarter,1981 Canadian quarter, 1986 Canadian quarter,two 1965 Canadian nickels,1996 ten pence coin, 2003 Canadian cent, 3 chewed up American pennies and a Virginia Marine Science Museum elongated/squished penny.

There was someone in front of me in line at the coin counter. After that guy left to cash his receipt, I approached the machine, and a 2005 25 cent Bahamas coin popped out in the reject slot. I have found Bahamas cents before, but never a quarter.

In the sorting machine's reject tray, while dumping halves:

2 dimes (1967, 1987)
Great Britain, 5 pence (1990)
South Africa, 1 rand (1999)

Look my man,the coinstars around where I live have a metal screen so you can't take anything out. If I see a silver quarter or dime in the reject,but I can't get it out should I go to the front and tell them I put coins in but it rejected them?Please respond asap. - coincrazed 

Yesterday I found my first silver coin in a coinstar reject bin, a 1946-D dime. I looked in and only saw a penny but when I went to grab it out I felt the dime which was standing on edge against the front lip. Hopefully it's the first of many more to come. -HH-Garbageman

canadians:
1999 and 2007 pennies
1979 and 2006 nickels
1982 and 1995 dimes
two 2985 quarters

other:
a game token
2001 British penny
1996 British two pence
1997 British twenty pence
1999 two euro coin from spain
2001 10 euro cent coin from  ireland

10 seniti coin from Tonga (a place I hadn't even heard of- its in the south pacific)

got a '48 Roosevelt dime from the reject tray today!

snagged up a nickle left on the dump screen in the corner  its all money bit by bit it all adds up over time -- get a buck buy a "free" lotto ticket --maybe get big bucks .

Got 20 1943 steel cents from the dump bank's magnet...all in REALLY nice shape, too. Somebody must have dumped a collection.

score indeed!!!

Magnet and reject tray finds, while dumping halves:

Canada, 1 cent (2007-RCM, 2008-RCM)
Canada, 10 cents (2002-P)
Canada, 25 cents (1974, 1977 x2, 1981, 1994, 2005-P, 2007-RCM)
Brazil, 10 centavos (2007)
Turkey, 50 bin lira (1999)

How do you check the magnet? Does that have to be done by an employee or is it accessible?

On most machines the magnet is located at the chute you are dumping the coins into. Just feel inside around the sides before you start the machine.
HH
Gilbert

A Silver Dime 195X. I do not remember the exact date but   I did not know anything about coins back then and I spend it at face value.

DW

Leaving the grocery store I saw a woman emptying a bunch of coins into the green machine, so I put my stuff in the car to buy some time, then came back. It paid off. She was done and walked away leaving:

1 zincoln

Jamaica, 1 dollar, 2005 (the smallest dollar coin I've ever seen, it's the size of a US cent)

1 slot token (never seen this type, one more for the collection!)

We have a Coinstar machine in the store where I work at I find all kinds of odd coins in the little tray at the bottom(the reject tray).I often fine old US coin from the 1900's-1940's that don't actually still look a real coin,also lots of mexican coins and coins from Europe and yes I do keep'em.

Snagged 2 more pennies (Zincolns) from the CoinStar today.

-Codes

checked a green machine last night...no luck

Oh well thats just my first try...now how to not draw attention to myself when I do it.

magnet finds while dumping rejects:

Canada, 10 cents (1975, 2008-RCM)
Canada, 25 cents (1974, 1979, 1988)
Belgium, 2 eurocents (2004)
Czech Republic, 2 korun (2004)
France, 2 eurocents (1999 x2)
France, 5 eurocents (2001, 2002, 2003)
Germany, 5 eurocents (2002-G)
Ghana, 50 pesewas (2007)
Ireland, 5 eurocents (2002)
Spain, 5 eurocents (1999)

How do the workers know when to change the bag in the machines?

dime and a zinc cent just sitting there on the dump tray --easy money

Tonight while checking out at the grocery store I noticed that they moved the green machine on the left side of the exit.  It used to be at a corner that you have to walk up to it. It would look funny without a bag of coins.  So I told myself that I'd better take a peek when I was walking out.  I always hope to find a steel cent because I never be able find one from the box.  When I got there I did notice a coin in the reject tray.  I picked it up and look at it briefly. My heart almost skipped a beat.  It is a seated dime! This one has enough details that it goes into my US type album.





I definitely will check the tray every time when I buy grocery from now on.

good grief !!! what a find -- all silver "rejects" in those machines

I saw a double handful of coins in the machine! Totaled $7.15, 1950 Wheaty, and $0.60 Canadian

HH
-GC

Found a "homeless stash" today. My usual quick look at the green machine looked uneventful, just a couple of abandoned bags on the ledge. I moved them and found a pile of badly corroded zincolns beneath. I quickly gathered them up.

Looking thru them yielded some interesting finds:

107 ugly, gray zincolns that will probably end up in the garbage. Some weighed as little as 1.3 grams, almost half what they should. One actually broke in half!

1 copper cent (1971), the oldest but he held up just fine.

Canada 1¢ - 2007 RCM (x3), 2008 RCM and one dateless

Canada 5¢ - 2008 RCM

Great Britain, one penny, 1984

Philippines, 1 piso, 2003

Thailand, 25 satang, 2008

A couple years ago, I saw the coin reject bin FULL of coins. Most of them were forign, but I think some were US. Also, once I found 3 silver Roosies (2) 1962, (1) 1964.

Some foreign coins, euros, canadian and mexican.  us error penny and a steel penny.  quite a few wheaties..

motherlode !!!

5.00 in canadain quarters
3.30 in canadain dimes -- one 50% 1968 silver
.45 in canadian nickles including a 1922 and a 1941 one
8 canadian pennies

total -- $8.83 can

4 --1943 steel /zinc war cent (us)
a st christopher medal --sterling
a 925 marked earring with crystal stone inset

a batch of other foreign coins

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

 

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.

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).

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.

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

HH
Rich

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.

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.

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)

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.