A Unique Way I Get Nickels.

I did something similar as a child...

My dad would buy postal stamps at the post office machine . It was about a 15 minute drive into town.

So He would walk across the street to winndixie and shop . I'd stay at the post office and put a nickle in the machine and hit the return buttom and a new nickle would shoot out. Id check the date and do it over and over for 30 minutes or longer.
I prob have 75 pre 1959 nickles as a result that I collected from age 8-10 during my coin phase before I started video games

If have a chance also and its late at night look under the convayer machines in stores for change that falls when people pull stuff out their pockets to pay for things...
When I was in my teens at the end of the night while sweeping a kashnkarry store id usually get abuck in change from unr them each night..

Another way is wishing wells... The Wal-mart by me had a fountian by the drive out. One night some friends and I hoped in swim trunks walked around in the water with brooms and swept all the change into a quarter Then piled it into a bucket.. The total loot ws around 30$ bucks.....

Also, I've learned to do this method ONLY with candy machines and not the soda ones. The reason why is because soda machines have this little hole on the left of the in the change return slot for some reason. Depending on how the coin is dispensed, it bounces and lands over that hole which makes it irretrievable. I've lost 6 nickels this way.

Also, I try to get clean looking nickels this way and I try to exchange the more recent nickels for some older ones. I sometimes take any nickel from the 1980's regardless of date. I don't like any nickels 1990-present unless they look to be AU or VG. I take any nickels from the 1970's. Those are still very common dates and aren't really worth more than 5 cents, but I don't get as many of them in circulation as I used to. And also all the nickels I get from the 1960's are that dreaded 1964 date. I'm getting sick of those things.

I tried it here at work with our soda machine and it didn't give me two nickels but it exchange my dime with a 2009 D.

I think I might try that and see if I can annoy my wife? ;)

I think it is time for me to visit the vending machine at work

Never counted but my Pepsi machine holds about a roll and a half of nickels,and all the change slots are the same height.

When I did this with nickels last week, I managed to get a 1981 Canadian nickel. I'll take 99.9% nickel over 75% copper/25% nickel anyday.

And just yesterday, I got a 1947, 1954 and a 2009P nickel doing this. That's my 3rd 2009P (I don't have any 2009D's yet).

Not reading this whole post, but I think you'll find that you're not alone.