Old Silver Coins And Vending Machines

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Villa Rose Valued Member United States 68 Posts	Posted 11/03/2014 3:10 pm Once upon a time, I was down at the post office checking my mail box. A little girl was trying to buy stamps from a vending machine, putting coins in one by one. It soon became apparent that she was having trouble. One of the coins kept getting rejected. She retrieved it and put it through the machine several times -- same result. The vending machine refused to accept it. Finally, she asked me "Do you have a quarter? The machine won't take this one." She handed me the coin. I immediately saw that it was a pre-1964 quarter. I gave her old quarter back to her and told her to hang on to it. "It's got silver in it," I told her. Then I gave her a shiny new one. The machine took it. Good deed done, I trudged off into the snow with my mail. Report this Post to the Staff

bpoc1 Rest in Peace United States 4078 Posts	Posted 11/03/2014 4:37 pm Villa Rose, nice deed. Report this Post to the Staff
SHAFTA9a Bedrock of the Community Canada 10743 Posts	Posted 11/03/2014 5:11 pm Nice gesture Villa Rose.. Hope she keeps it! Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 188213 Posts	Posted 11/03/2014 6:23 pm Excellent! Maybe she will become a collector, maybe she will not. However, not helping her would have almost guaranteed the latter. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
magpie Valued Member New Zealand 72 Posts	Posted 11/03/2014 6:54 pm interesting that the machine rejected it. We have over here a $2 coin made in 1997 from a different mint, its getting harder to find because it slightly different in size from the rest, vending machines rejected that one too and now its a collectable, I wish I had saved more of them when they came out as I haven't seen them for a long time now Report this Post to the Staff
SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 11/03/2014 7:18 pm Quote: interesting that the machine rejected it. Vending machines have electrical circuitry to scan the rough composition of what's being put in - silver doesn't match the clad "return" so it gets rejected. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 11/04/2014 12:40 pm The silver coins are also too heavy to be "real" as far as the machine is concerned. Report this Post to the Staff
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