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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sunbird, post: 8280358, member: 116324&quot;]Hi all – I <i>always</i> check the Coinstar machine when I go to the supermarket, since the cost/benefit function is similar to wearing seatbelts in having near zero cost. I scored this yesterday:</p><p>[GALLERY=media, 19227]NZ Dollar by Sunbird posted Mar 30, 2022 at 6:22 PM[/GALLERY]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a New Zealand dollar. I never saw one before, certainly don&#039;t have any. They still make them out of cupronickel, while they switched to nickel-plated steel for lower denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve gotten quite a stash from a single Coinstar machine at our primary supermarket over the last two years. Lots of foreign coins like Singapore and South Korea, silver US dimes, and unrecognizable coin-like objects. Also a <i>fake US dime</i>, which was weird. It looked so strange, too shiny, a bit thick. Why would anyone bother counterfeiting dimes? The US Secret Service and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) concluded that it wasn&#039;t worth adding security features to the one-dollar bill because no one bothered counterfeiting it, so that anyone would counterfeit dimes is surprising. Maybe it&#039;s a relativity/anchoring thing? If you&#039;re thinking about making banknotes, you think larger denominations of notes. If you&#039;re thinking about making coins, you&#039;re already thinking in terms of cents (in the US context, where dollar and half dollar coins are rarely used), so maybe dimes barely make the cut along with quarters. And maybe it&#039;s not the same people – banknote forgers and coin forgers are different domains, skills, equipment. Still... dimes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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