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<p>[QUOTE="JDL, post: 3096833, member: 93654"]I never worked for Subway but, when I was in college back in the '60s, one of the many part-time jobs I had was working for a guy that had a route of gumball, candy, etc machines scattered throughout Cleveland, Ohio. My job, once a week, was to go to each location, refill the machines, and empty the coins. We didn't count the coins - we weighed them, and gave the store owner his share. The BEST part of this story is that my boss would let me take the coins home and go through them ... mostly pennies, nickles and dimes ... and repay him for the ones I kept. It was a goldmine of old coins and tokens! I theorized that a lot of the coins in those machines were "borrowed" from a kid's dad or brother's coin collection. Indian Head cents, buffalo nickles, and mercury dimes by the hundreds made for a great collection --- until someone burglarized my house and took them all! Cest la vie!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JDL, post: 3096833, member: 93654"]I never worked for Subway but, when I was in college back in the '60s, one of the many part-time jobs I had was working for a guy that had a route of gumball, candy, etc machines scattered throughout Cleveland, Ohio. My job, once a week, was to go to each location, refill the machines, and empty the coins. We didn't count the coins - we weighed them, and gave the store owner his share. The BEST part of this story is that my boss would let me take the coins home and go through them ... mostly pennies, nickles and dimes ... and repay him for the ones I kept. It was a goldmine of old coins and tokens! I theorized that a lot of the coins in those machines were "borrowed" from a kid's dad or brother's coin collection. Indian Head cents, buffalo nickles, and mercury dimes by the hundreds made for a great collection --- until someone burglarized my house and took them all! Cest la vie!!![/QUOTE]
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