Chipk
Elite Member
6 months ago I tried my hand at coin roll hunting half dollars. 2 boxes yielded 2 1964 Kennedy’s.
A month ago I posted about my second shot at it. 2 boxes produced 7 90% coins including a ‘53 Franklin and a ‘40, ‘42 and ‘46 Walkers. The ‘46 is in mint condition.
Then last week I again bought 2 boxes which yielded ZERO. NADA. ZIP.
HOWEVER the bank coin machine paid off and taught me a very valuable lesson.
I had 2 batches of coins to return today. I use VyStar for this purpose. I decided to return one batch to one branch and the rest at another.
When I went in the first there was a man already using their coin counter. He had $200 worth of half dollars. He was also coin roll hunting.
At the end he had 2 half dollars the machine did not credit to him and they spun for several minutes before sliding off. He went to report it and I started feeding mine into the machine.
Well the last 2 of MY half dollars also weren’t credited.
An employee opened up the machine and saw 2 halfdollars off to the side. He snatched them out of her hand and fled.
She tried to close the machine and I asked about mine. She said there weren’t anymore but I pointed out the inside catcher which was full of coins.
You see there is a reject feeder outside of the machine BUT there is also one INSIDE. Few people know about it but I do.
She acted like it was a surprise to see it and started to pull a few coins out but I insisted she dump ALL of them into my box which she meekly did.
Here’s what was in there. 66 pennies. 7 nickels, 20 dimes, 8 quarters, 7 half dollars and 4 foreign coins.
One foreign coin is a 1957 50 PTAS. According to Google it is a rare Spanish coin and on EBay they are offered for as much as $315!!!
Then I went to a second location and again a few of my coins did not register. Again they opened the machine and the inside box was also loaded. However this teller would not give me all of them as requested ( but threw a couple of quarters my way). BUT she did give me some foreign coins including 2 Irish 50 Euro cents, a Scottish 50 Euro cent, an English1 pound and 8 Euro coins I can’t identify.
The point is watch and listen if you are feeding coins into these machines. If you hear coins drop that don’t register, demand they open the machine up.
It’s YOUR money.
A month ago I posted about my second shot at it. 2 boxes produced 7 90% coins including a ‘53 Franklin and a ‘40, ‘42 and ‘46 Walkers. The ‘46 is in mint condition.
Then last week I again bought 2 boxes which yielded ZERO. NADA. ZIP.
HOWEVER the bank coin machine paid off and taught me a very valuable lesson.
I had 2 batches of coins to return today. I use VyStar for this purpose. I decided to return one batch to one branch and the rest at another.
When I went in the first there was a man already using their coin counter. He had $200 worth of half dollars. He was also coin roll hunting.
At the end he had 2 half dollars the machine did not credit to him and they spun for several minutes before sliding off. He went to report it and I started feeding mine into the machine.
Well the last 2 of MY half dollars also weren’t credited.
An employee opened up the machine and saw 2 halfdollars off to the side. He snatched them out of her hand and fled.
She tried to close the machine and I asked about mine. She said there weren’t anymore but I pointed out the inside catcher which was full of coins.
You see there is a reject feeder outside of the machine BUT there is also one INSIDE. Few people know about it but I do.
She acted like it was a surprise to see it and started to pull a few coins out but I insisted she dump ALL of them into my box which she meekly did.
Here’s what was in there. 66 pennies. 7 nickels, 20 dimes, 8 quarters, 7 half dollars and 4 foreign coins.
One foreign coin is a 1957 50 PTAS. According to Google it is a rare Spanish coin and on EBay they are offered for as much as $315!!!
Then I went to a second location and again a few of my coins did not register. Again they opened the machine and the inside box was also loaded. However this teller would not give me all of them as requested ( but threw a couple of quarters my way). BUT she did give me some foreign coins including 2 Irish 50 Euro cents, a Scottish 50 Euro cent, an English1 pound and 8 Euro coins I can’t identify.
The point is watch and listen if you are feeding coins into these machines. If you hear coins drop that don’t register, demand they open the machine up.
It’s YOUR money.
Congrats and thanks for the info !!!! 
