OH How I Love Cleaning The Coin Machine!

This reminds me of when I was going to college and working in a warehouse, about every week someone had so obsolete coin they would try to pawn off on the vending machines. It was nice because the younger kids would actually trade straight across Susan B's for a quarter because they thought they were foreign coins. About one every 7-10 days they come and clean the change out of the machines and now and then an older coin would some how pass through. I just really wish I was collcting at that time now that I think about it.

There are a lot of people who really think they are foreign coins and try to get anything for them. My wife was telling me about when she got her first job at a bank and a woman came in with a bunch of older dollars (peace, morgan...) and just wanted face value for them. She got to a point that she was yelling at the teller and kept demanding to trade them straight across. The teller gladly did so and within the next 15 minutes most of the employees hurry and traded for them.

ive pulled dozens of walkering liberty half dollars, a booker t washington commemrative half, an entire roll of proof halves, two statue of liberty half dollars (both p and d) ben Franklin halves, silver kennedys, silver dimes,wartime nickels, a few buffalos and silver quarters, several old german 1 pfennigs including one from 1898, over 60 steel pennies, a 1918 german 5 pfennig, a swedish 1 ore from 1891, a british penny from 1930, the size of a quarter. I've also traded for face value from other tellers for silver certificates, uncirculated $2 and $5 united states notes, two silver Eisenhower dollars, and a Peace dollar. Other tellers that I know have found Morgan dollars and but refused to trade them. The best find besides the large cent would be a 1999 broadstrike nickel the size of a quarter, ill post a pic tommorow under the error category. I actually was put on warning recently for looking through coins when my boss was saying I was supposed to be doing 'useful work' insted.