OH How I Love Cleaning The Coin Machine!

That's amazing. You can actually brag about a large cent find in contemporary circulation!

I'm really curious on the "story" about the person who put them there !!......a stolen coin collection maybe.......it never ceases to amaze me how certain coins are found in certain places where they have NO business being found there!!
Sweeeeeet find !!

Since there was only one I would suspect someone thought they'ld pull a good one by placing what they thought was a fake coin in with a bunch of others.

I never saw the person who used the machine as I was working in the drive through for most of the day, but id tend to to think that it was proboly someone who had inherited some old jar of coins and just didnt bother to look through it or someone who thought that it was just some old foriegn coin. On occasion ill find alot of silver halves and eisenhowers in the machine , and once some woman tried to put a whole roll of barbers through the machine but they came out the reject slot, she had no idea what they were worth but when I asked her if I could have them she wised up and decided to keep them. I think many people are just clueless as to the value of what they actually have.

Hey, Conder...I'll pay ya double face for that stuff in the kitchen jug!

This reminds me of when I was going to college and working in a warehouse, about every week someone had so obsolete coin they would try to pawn off on the vending machines. It was nice because the younger kids would actually trade straight across Susan B's for a quarter because they thought they were foreign coins. About one every 7-10 days they come and clean the change out of the machines and now and then an older coin would some how pass through. I just really wish I was collcting at that time now that I think about it.

There are a lot of people who really think they are foreign coins and try to get anything for them. My wife was telling me about when she got her first job at a bank and a woman came in with a bunch of older dollars (peace, morgan...) and just wanted face value for them. She got to a point that she was yelling at the teller and kept demanding to trade them straight across. The teller gladly did so and within the next 15 minutes most of the employees hurry and traded for them.

ive pulled dozens of walkering liberty half dollars, a booker t washington commemrative half, an entire roll of proof halves, two statue of liberty half dollars (both p and d) ben Franklin halves, silver kennedys, silver dimes,wartime nickels, a few buffalos and silver quarters, several old german 1 pfennigs including one from 1898, over 60 steel pennies, a 1918 german 5 pfennig, a swedish 1 ore from 1891, a british penny from 1930, the size of a quarter. I've also traded for face value from other tellers for silver certificates, uncirculated $2 and $5 united states notes, two silver Eisenhower dollars, and a Peace dollar. Other tellers that I know have found Morgan dollars and but refused to trade them. The best find besides the large cent would be a 1999 broadstrike nickel the size of a quarter, ill post a pic tommorow under the error category. I actually was put on warning recently for looking through coins when my boss was saying I was supposed to be doing 'useful work' insted.