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I hear people talking about "secret" reject spots. Do you know which machines have them and where they are? Thanks.  |
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Valued Member
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Most coin counting machines have a reject slot were the coins they spit back out land. A lot of these machines have the trays near the back or on the side.
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Pillar of the Community
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Oh, so it is a reject slot that is not really seen! Thanks.
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I hear people talking about "secret" reject spots. Do you know which machines have them and where they are? The secret reject slot that I know of is on the Talaris Quickchange machines. The standard reject slot is on the bottom left of the front where dirty coins, corroded coins, silver, and some debris comes out of. Inside of the front door that swings open when the machine jams is a tub or the secret reject slot. It is below the normal reject slot routing. In it you find keys, Ikes, earings, dollar bills, and anything else that got dumped into the machine that isn't the correct size and weight of current US coins.  |
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I don't know how this happened, but when I used to check the coinstar on a daily basis at my local supermarket in 2013 and before, I would find all sorts of coins daily under the machine. I considered that my secret reject slot, haha.
Unfortunately, the store has been since torn down, and unfortunately the coinstar has been relocated to their new store which is x5 bigger (like a costco, literally. went from your avg supermarket to a costco sized building) across the street, and now the coinstar is in the front of the building, where everyone walks past it, therefore, it's often checked.
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That is how the machines are near me, right up front. I also know I am not the only one who checks them. I have been paying and noticed people slowing down, checking the slot, and moving on. At last I know I am not the only weirdo in the store.  |
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Jbuck, you and I feel the same way about this :)
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Valued Member
United States
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Some TD bank penny has the secret slot inside the slot. You have to reach in and check the tube. Some machines the angle of the tube is not high enough to fully let the coins slide out into the actual slot.
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Pillar of the Community
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Many of the machines near me have an external slot for rejects, some or all for all I know have an internal junk bin Have seen a Peace dollar in one of those and told the teller she needed to keep that one |
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Pillar of the Community
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Any chance these machines will do great damage to a coin?  Say an IKE coin? Are they that powerful? If so, what would the IKE look like?  |
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I wonder if a large dollar will fit. I will not be testing that myself, so you are on your own.  |
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jbuck Quote:
I wonder if a large dollar will fit.
I will not be testing that myself, so you are on your own Forgive the hands in the second pic. First time I posted it (a year ago), I got my tongue lashes, by 2-3 CCF gentlemen. Had to post this shot, because I do not even know if I still have it. My question is can a coin counter do this to a currency? Does anyone have any thoughts on how this type of destruction happens? If some kind of machines are doing harm to cent, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, (all) dollars, should that be looked in to? What about TOLL BOOTH collectors. This sort of harm to my MIGHTY IKEs is enough to go over the edge.    |
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I remember when you posted that before. I am surprised we have still not determined (or least formed a working theory) what caused it, |
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Pillar of the Community
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jbuck I saved this small tid-bit from that time. Quote:
SsuperDdave
I don't know what it is, but by definition the coin pictured here isn't a "railroad rim." It's a physical impossibility for the uncontained part of the planchet to achieve a diameter smaller than the reeded part.
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I'm not ready to dismiss the Ike you posted out-of-hand; all the vectors I can think of capable of causing what it looks like seem that they'd cause obvious collateral damage elsewhere on the coin. I did find one IKE that had similar damage, but also had (maybe) 30-40 light and heavy DINGs to the REEDS. But the coin was BU proof like, otherwise. I was not there when this all happened, but it looked like a shattered collar to me. I can't understand a proof like coin with many reed damages and this other sort of damage thrown in too. I personal hope we can point the finger at coin counters, toll booths or some thing |
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If I were to guess, it was encased in some sort of bezel or holder. I could be way off though.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'd think someone hammered it on the edge to make it fit into a bezel intended for a slightly smaller coin (such as a 5 Francs).
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