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Has anyone here had any luck finding silver with quarter machines? I'm talking about the type found in movie theaters and video arcades that take $1 and $5 bills and convert them into quarters.

I've been putting a bill into the one at my local theater every time I see a film. So far no luck.

The last walk in Movie We went to was Grumpy Old Men so no.
I don't think they had a Change machine on the wall back then.
what do You need a Quarter for

As a test, I've put hundreds of bucks through a change machine at a local car wash $10 at a time over a period of some months; nada. Of course your local mileage may vary significantly, as I've found that there are some parts of the country with more circulating silver than here, which has been picked pretty clean by large-scale CRHing. In 4 years I've found a total of 3 silver dimes and a silver quarter in my change.

Most of those quarters are just receyled from being spent into the video arcades. Generally speaking a video arcade will not accept a silver quarter. There is a chance but the likely hood is very very small.

Can't think of too many things that only cost a quarter... I tried the car wash idea and no luck there.

I have never found silver from change machines (from car washes, casinos, or arcades).

My dad got a pair of SLQs from a car wash though two years ago, so it's certainly possible.

I got one back in the car wash

I have vending machines and laundry at my motel that bring in about 300 a month. I will usually get 2 or 3 a year. 1964 is usually the dates.

In 1991 when my wife and I got married we lived in a tiny apartment (the place was so small, even the mice had hunchbacks....buddum bum) and on friday nights we went to the laundromat to do our laundry. We got $10 in quarters every week and in the year that we did that, I found one...ONE 1964 quarter. And guess what? I still have it.

Stack and hold, brothers.

Never once but I think of all those quarters I used in the eighties at the arcade

Oh well, I knew the odds were terrible but it's good to know that it does happen very rarely. I'll keep searching.

misteroman wrote:I have vending machines and laundry at my motel that bring in about 300 a month. I will usually get 2 or 3 a year. 1964 is usually the dates.

$300 in quarters or 300 count? I'm assuming the former.