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I've had a coin machine in a local store for 6 months now, the only thing of any interest I've found until today were a couple of war nickels.
Today I was going trough the coins and found a 1936 buffalo nickel. Then I found a Mexican 1912 10 centavos coins, it's the size of a dime and it is silver too.
To top it all, I found 3 silver quarters, the first ones I've ever found in the wild. There were a bunch of quarters from the sixties and seventies, I guess I got a really old piggy bank.

Hope next week is even better.

What kind of coin machine do you have, and where did you get it?

Thanks

Do tell us more.

It is a ScanCoin 820, similar to the Coinstar. I got it used, hoping to find many old coins. So far it hasn't happened.

not bad!

Do you charge a fee like coinstar does?

highroller4321 wrote:Do you charge a fee like coinstar does?

Yes, currently 6.9%, trying to get the word around and attract more customers.

That is pretty cool. I assume you have to do any maintenance on it yourself if it breaks down?

Is the machine in a good part of town, or lower part? That makes a big difference. Druggies tend to dump valuable coins

Pennysaved wrote:That is pretty cool. I assume you have to do any maintenance on it yourself if it breaks down?

It is a fairly newer production and so far I only had to clear a printer jam. If it breaks I'll try to fix it, a tech visit will be pretty expensive.
So far I haven't seen a big increase in the volume, at this rate it will take almost two years to pay it off.
Unless grandma dumps grandpa's collection in .