I went to do laundry yesterday, and I was walking towards the change machine, I thought about how, after all the times I've used it, I've never found anything worthwhile come out of that machine (aside from clad quarters). Lo and behold, after giving the machine a $10 bill, out came my quarters, and with it a '43 S! Not too bad of a find, if I must say...
Congrats! I think about the same thing every time I use the bill changer at the car wash. Still, I've never received anything worthwhile.
Double Congrats on a 60+ year old quarter. Your guess is as good as mine as to where it came from. I hope it was in decent, collector, shape.
Haha, well, it's def. in collector shape. I'd say F or so, making it only worth around $10. I'll double check when I get home to make sure it's not a double-die, since I just read that there is a DD '43 S variety.
Man, if that coin is a DD you are going to feel overwhelmed. That would certainly be the circulation find of a lifetime.
Being a car wash owner, I can shed a little light on why you seldom (virtually never) get a silver quarter out of a car wash changer. Nearly all car wash coin acceptors are electronic and read the metal content of coins inserted. Most acceptors come from the factory ready to accept only one coin, quarters. Multi-coin acceptors usually come pre-programmed for quarters and dollar coins and have the ability to be programmed for one or more tokens. I use the multi-coin variety since I dispense dollar coins, quarters, and tokens at my washes. I just grabbed a silver quarter from my collection and programmed it into my acceptors as if it were a token valued at a quarter. I know of no other operators that program the silver quarter into their acceptors. I get one every now and then, but trust me it never makes it into the changer. Pat
That makes sense. I think a lot of vending-type machines and changers are programmed that way. I took a bunch of coins to a CoinStar machine not long ago and it kept rejecting one of the dimes. I took a closer look and it was a silver dime. Lucky for me, the machine wasn't programmed to take silver.
