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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinCorgi, post: 25284621, member: 88934&quot;]At the local grocery store I walked by the Coinstar machine and noticed that there were a few coins in the dump basket. So I scooped them up - 1 quarter, 1 nickel, 1 cent - all undamaged and modern. I&#039;m ahead 31 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is weird so I looked down in the reject/return slot. It was overflowing with coins. There were a couple of quarters just lying on the ground around the machine too! They all looked like normal coins, so I scooped up a handful and dropped then in my pocket and scooted out of the store - feeling somewhat guilty. I left behind at least a few more handfuls.</p><p><br /></p><p>So at home I went through the coins and had about $5 +/- in regular undamaged coins, including a couple of small dollars. So I&#039;m now ahead over $5.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure what happened. Did someone dump a bunch of coins in, and the machine malfunctioned and just spit them out? Wouldn&#039;t the dumper notice that the gift card/credit slip was for pennies on the dollar? How do you not hear the huge number of coins landing in the reject slot? Or did the machine just spew out coins for no reason?</p><p><br /></p><p>There were two coins that were non-US, the kind I expect to find in the reject bin...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A 1950 Hong Kong 10-cent and a 1951 French 10 Franc. I know nothing about these coins, so I&#039;ll read up on them later. The cent is for size reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1614544[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1614545[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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