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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I am exited! Hello!!! I just went into a gass station to use the restroom (I am on a trip) and when I left I noticed a vending machine with a silver certificate on it. When I looked closer I realized that it dispensed RARE COINS. For only $0.75 a pop, too! I had $1.50 in quarters with me, but the darn machine ate half of that. So, I walked away with a 1943 D steel cent. awesome!  |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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I'd be giving that machine all my spare change all day long  Can't understand you were satisfied with just one (and accepted defeat over the machine for 75 cents) Also, I'm wondering about the probability of getting any Barber or other silver coins from that one. Seems slim. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
509 Posts |
That's a sweet machine! Too bad they didn't have a change machine next to it... CRH quarters and buy coins all in one spot
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4932 Posts |
Are you out on the west coast or something? Strange how it'd be giving away 1943 S cents.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5828 Posts |
East coast. I was wondering why they put S too  it was at a gas station in Indiana. And I would've stayed there longer, but I was being pressured to leave! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
711 Posts |
I'd love to have one or better build my own someday.
Sure I'd have to stuff it with my own coins and then if anyone else played I'd probably lose out as I'd stuff it pretty good.
Still though it would be neat to pop 75 cents in after dinner and grab a coin, even if it is just one of yours.
It would force you to look at the coins that come out and maybe appreciate some more so than otherwise.
It would be neat to then photograph every coin then once you pop it open.
It would be great to open the machine up after a few months and then take your stash of quarters and turn them into fresh coins for the machine.
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Valued Member
United States
59 Posts |
wOw, MAN. I have never seen one of those, and I have traveled by road quite a bit, including a year or so in Indiana, and never saw one of those before!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5828 Posts |
I'm tempted to drive out of my way on the way back just to get more coins LOL. I really need to make a bunch of theses machines when I'm older, just because they are cool  |
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Valued Member
United States
113 Posts |
Gas station in Indiana? May I ask where?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7390 Posts |
Go back with a couple of rolls child
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Pillar of the Community
1153 Posts |
I live in Indiana and never seen anything like this
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Valued Member
United States
75 Posts |
wow that's awesome!
I saw something like this a few years back, only it was a 'coins from around the world' variety
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5828 Posts |
I wish I could go back but my mom says we can't  Oh well. The location is just off of I-80 in (or near?)Valparaiso In. on W 1050 N |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I saw something similiar at a coin shop in California in the 1980's, but never seen anything like it at a gas station. Their's was set up to take a single quarter and and it usually dispensed a capsule with an Indian cent, V or Buffalo nickel. When I was a little kid back in the 1950's in Texas, there was a small package of salted peanuts sold in mom and pop stores for a nickel. (I believe they were called ""Believe It or Not" peanuts and it was a small cylindrical shaped cardboard container). Inside some packages were coins that were wrapped in wax paper. Sometimes I got a nickel, but one time I got a Mercury dime. They advertised that you had a chance to get a quarter but I never saw, or got, one of those. You could also open the package before you paid for it. We would open the package, dump the peanuts in a RC or Pepsi Cola and look for THAT quarter. That was one thing that got me interested in coin collecting. The coin vending machine is a pretty good money maker I would imagine. Might even get a few new collectors in the fold. |
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7390 Posts |
 ... Look close, this machine gives out 1908 Wheat Cents!  |
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Posted 07/20/2015 5:19 pm
