Cool find, even though it's damaged Maybe the guy/gal thought they had fooled the bank while throwing in their "junk" Ignorance... Q
Actually, I didn’t even have my detector with me that day. I eyeballed it in a dirt road next to a colonial churchyard, where it had been washed out by erosion. (Drat, yet another dead-picture post I have to fix. *grumble*) Somebody found a Roman antoninianus in a CoinStar machine?!? Wow, that is indeed epic! I came into the end of this thread since I was tagged. Gotta go check out the original post now!
My wife has done it. When we first got married she would go around tidying up, not knowing I leave such stuff laying around. Anything round and coinlike she tossed in the change jar. I had to go through the jar coin by coin. She had junk silver, pandas, all sorts of ancients, (one was a Hadrian Pharos lower grade drachm), etc. I am guessing similar here. Someone's wife, girlfriend, or mom just tidied up. I seriously doubt it was true circulation.
I am not kidding, I literally found this "lump" in the trash next to the coin machine at my credit union can along with a small pile of other foreign coins a bit more than a year ago: It is an early Roman era coin from Carmo in what is now Spain, was minted ca. 200 BC. After I found it it took a couple of days to identify it - mainly the legend on the reverse and the sheaf of wheat.
Very nice find, over the last year of so I have noticed several users posting roman coins that have been found in coin star machines. I assume a grandchild or someone gets into a collection and just tosses the stuff in. Sad for them but great for you!