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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So I'm cleaning the coin machine at the end of the day, and I notice that theres something stuck in the reject shoot. Usually large tokens or mutilated halve dollars like to get stuck in the reject shoot, but amazingly out pops these two beauties.  Image:  largeo.jpg16.7 KB Image: larger.jpg10.62 KB Never in a million years would I expect to find this, I was hoping for a silver dollar or two to turn up by the end of the year but never did I ever think it would be possible for a 1842 large cent to pop up! And they say that large cents don't circulate anymore..... |
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Moderator
 United States
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wow!
what coin machine and where?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
790 Posts |
I'll admit that is really cool.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
Thats certainly not cool, no thats friggin awesome!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
Now I want a job working for Coinstar!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
very, very cool! Congrats!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
I guess they dont let you look through the bulk of the acculmulated change in the machine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3233 Posts |
That's amazing. You can actually brag about a large cent find in contemporary circulation!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2049 Posts |
I am jealous...maybe it's time for me to get a bank job!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
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 !!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
maybe its stolen, but probably by a young child stealing from an older sibling, parent, grandparent, ect.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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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.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3233 Posts |
This is almost definitely a situation where it was stolen and/or the person was clueless as to what they were doing. It would be pretty weird for someone to accidentally include that in with their pocket change.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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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. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I could see it happening. If I were to die right now my heirs dumped the various cans and jugs of coins I have sitting around someting very much like that could happen. I know for a fact that the jug in my kitchen has large cents, Two Cent Pieces, Half Dimes, V nickels, Indians, and some seated material init mixed in with a bunch of just regular pocket change. (There may be a Three Cent piece or two in there as wellalong wth some foreign coins.) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hey, Conder...I'll pay ya double face for that stuff in the kitchen jug!
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Posted 04/13/2008 6:30 pm
