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i didn't get my dollar last night, either, but I did pick a pair of quarters from an ice machine coin return: Very nice!  |
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tonight I picked a well-scattered $1.45, all coins, including eighty cents from a water machine coin return:  the first $1+ night of the month.  Edited by MrPink2018
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tonight I picked a well-scattered $1.45, all coins, including eighty cents from a water machine coin return: Fantastic! |
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Nice haul, MrPink! It surprises me that people don't check the coin return after buying their ice.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Excellent gathering of coins MrPink!
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It surprises me that people don't check the coin return after buying their ice. i'd wondered about that on and off for years. one day someone clued me in. I was talking about it with an acquaintance a year or two ago. apparently, with ice & water machines, which I've rarely used, there's a bit of a delay when the machine is to give the buyer change. if you use an ice machine and you use a $5 bill to pay for a bag of ice that costs $2.50, you naturally expect $2.50 in change. the change doesn't always dispense immediately. you have to just stand there and wait. a lot of people will only wait a few seconds and when the change doesn't dispense quickly, those people will walk away with their ice. it's ice... it starts melting soon. no one wants to stand there waiting for change while the ice is already beginning to melt. so after the person walks away, the machine dispenses the change. so if anyone wants their change, they have to simply just wait for it. a lot of people don't do that. i put that theory to the test. I bought a bag of ice one night at one of the ice machines that I check nightly. I used paper dollars instead of coins; coins are my usual method for vending machines when I used to use them. I got my ice and indeed I had to stand there and wait what seemed like a bit longer than usual. I'm sure there are those who simply don't care about getting change, but impatient people bail out too soon. Edited by MrPink2018
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i put that theory to the test. Thank you for clearing up that mystery, MrPink! Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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it has been a while since we last saw the dancing banana here:   that fiver was in the drive-up lane (of a popular fast food & beverage chain) way back by the menu board, nowhere close to the drive-up window. first fiver of the year. that's as good as two weeks of pickin. a little while later, I discovered this:  see all those coins? all zincolns, twenty-five of them. of course, every one of them had been driven over. trashed, all of them, but they all went into a tube regardless. and then I picked a dime from somewhere else. so, three stops for $5.35. I have 2 full tubes of zincolns, i'll roll those up and add them to the bank bag. i was previously working on cycle 21. I recently swapped-out nine 1g bars of Au from the bag of street-acquired treasure for two coins from my collection:     my 2016-W 1/10oz winged liberty gold commemorative and one of my 2008-W/Rev. '07 burnished ASEs went into the bag of street-acquired treasure. those are two coins that I do not want to sell. this move allowed me to sell the nine bars, but still retain the overall value of the bag. the cost of the nine bars is nearly exactly what the cost of those two coins were when I bought them. that worked out nicely. so, gone are cycles 10, 11 and 15, and partly gone are cycles 9 & 13. those two coins became cycle 21. I am now working on cycle 22, which just bumped up to $63. $81 to go to achieve $5K. Edited by MrPink2018
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Fantastic finds!! nice to see that Fiver there waiting for you!
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i was shocked, I nearly sailed right past it. odd place for it so far away from the window... that place closes at 7pm, so it had been lying there for about 5-6 hours, and no one else ventured through there?... good for me. I find cash so infrequently these days that I sometimes wonder if i'll see it when I happen upon it. a find like that puts away any doubts I might have about my eyes' ability to see cash on the ground. joy.
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and, oddly enough, regarding those zincolns... I rode thru that plaza twice... the first time I rode through I came from a different direction and was closer to the parking spaces. I didn't see any of them on my first pass. I practically rolled right through them. later I saw them- on my second pass- but I was on the sidewalk and passing by from a different direction, and they were easy to see. they were all gleaming. different direction, change of perspective. why someone chucked a bunch of zincolns is anyone's guess. good for me.
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