just curious of what you guys have encountered over the years.. if its not on the list drop it below! perhaps a picture if you actually had the time to do so!
YUCK, just grossed me out a little, haha sometimes i do it with latex gloves because i had a roll with greasy coins, might of came from a "wishing well" sometimes the european coins give you more for then what you really "lost" like i had a 2 euro in a roll of quarters before.. not that some one rolled it... the machine accept the foreign object as a coin.
Hmm, well this is kinda off-topic but I seem to have great luck in checking CoinStar Machines. I have found several foreign coins, as well as a 1943 D steel penny. Just check in the compartment where coins are returned that the machine does not read, and sometimes people will even put them on the top shelf because they don't want it.
Ok guys, keep it consistent with the rules. I changed the subject of the first choice. I removed posts. Next time will have sanctions. Warned.
nice next time ill stop by and check the bottom of the machine because people ALSO drop coins and don't bother picking it up "oh its just a coin oh well" yeah read my quote below...
However, I do sniff all of the paper money I come across- http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/cocaine.traces.money/
ever thought of unrolling a half dollar and cracks open with only two halves and packed with white sweets..... thats where i end my hobby.
By the way jackchota, what are those nickels displayed in your profile picture? It's hard to tell exactly, and I'm on a mobile. :/
Jak, your poll didn't allow for my example, so...................... The worst thing that I ever encountered was something I didn't get. Many years ago, I regularly searched $1,000 of half dollars every week. I was on good terms with, Laurie, the head cashier at my BoA branch. I had a standing order for the two boxes, and she even provided me with the coin wrappers so I could re-roll them. The order would be placed on Monday, and they would arrive after closing Wednesday afternoon for pick-up on Thursday morning. On a couple of occasions, I would order $1,000 in quarters in addition to the half dollars because it was easy to spot silver coins in the plastic shrink-wrap. Normally, I would be at the bank just before they opened at 9am, but on one particular Thursday, I didn't arrive until a few minutes after 9am because I was fooling around on the computer. Bear in mind that, while the boxes ordered by customers are reserved for them in the vault, the boxes are doled out to those customers on a first-come, first-served basis. After returning to the house with the four boxes of quarters and halves, I went to work ripping open the half dollar rolls to look for silver because they would take the longest time to search, and I usually return the boxes the same afternoon. The quarters took less than an hour since I didn't have to open the rolls to check them. When I returned to the bank about 2pm, Laurie said, "You'll never guess what happened!" She told me that the manager of a convenience store had come in just a couple of minutes before me for his order which included one $500 box of quarters, and he returned a couple of hours later asking if they had another box. Laurie said she expressed her disbelief that the store could have gone through that many quarters in such a short time. The manager said they hadn't, but when he opened the box, he discovered that they were ALL silver. At that time, the $500 box had a melt value of $4,500! So you see, if I hadn't been fooling around on the computer, I would have been the first customer at the bank. C'est la vie! Chris
holy smokes.... WOW. that hurts. a lot. teaser nickles haha i thought they were the "official"1971 no s from san lol foolish me i keep it there to remind my silliness
Here is one that gave me the chills when I pulled it out of a cent roll perhaps a couple of years ago: I really do not like nazi stuff, swastikas etc. It is the second 3rd Reich coin I have encountered in roll searching.
It's amazing what some people will use to complete a roll. I've even been told that someone found a button. I would guess that these are the same people who steal money from their little brother's piggy bank and crack open a soda in a convenience store just for a short swig. Chris
Because they were made during WWII, and they don't all suddenly vanish into thin air after a specific amount of time.
All coins from prior to 1948 were demonetized that year because of the end of the reichsmark and the introduction of the Deutschmark and Ostmark.
