SMC Discussion Areas
May 17, 2024, 08:35:56 pm *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News:
 
   Home   Help Login Register  
Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Have you ever found coins in your old machine?  (Read 6030 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
vintage-air
10 Cent Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 247


Restoring America...1 machine at a time!


« on: February 27, 2011, 03:30:13 pm »

Guys, purchased an old vendo 56 last week and found 30 silver dimes stuck behind the coin bezel. 16 of them are Mercury dimes. Current melt value for silver is around $2.42 per dime. Multiply that by 30 at that's about $75 worth of coins. Check out the pictures below. I love finding surprises in these old machines!

Logged

RC-81
Pepsi -81
Coca Cola 81-D's
Vendo 39's
Vendo 44's
WD-12's
WH5-T
Westinghouse Junior
Victor 3 door cooler
Lots of picnic coolers... RC, Grapette, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Orange Crush
Larry
Grady
Soda Jerks
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 1979



« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2011, 04:13:26 pm »

I was wondering where I left those coins. biggrin

I found two mercury dimes once in a Stoner.
Logged

A lot of stuff.
loman4ec
Soda Jerks
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 4768



« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2011, 05:13:50 pm »

I found a bunch in a C51 when I was a kid and my Dad was building machines. Also in the condenser cover I found a 1960's "SuperBall" Since I was born in 1981 I thought it was really cool and played with it for years. I have never seen a bouncy ball that bounced like that one.
Logged
scalebowler
Soda Jerks
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 1254


« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2011, 05:26:34 pm »

I found a pull tab in my machine and some matchbooks that were from the gas station that my machine was origionally used. Those were pretty cool.
Logged
ciawarrior
10 Cent Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 150



« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2011, 05:34:01 pm »

thats very coool
Logged
RED SPARKS
10 Cent Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 126



« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2011, 05:04:36 pm »

A 1959 dime in my transitional 7up machine, and a couple white Coca-Cola caps with the cork still in them and a dead mouse in a C-51....
Logged

"Not everyone can be a hero, somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by"- Will Rogers

BOOMER SOONER!!!
TomFromJersey
Soda Jerks
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 648



« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2011, 08:54:51 pm »

I found about 80 silver dimes inside 2 square top u-select-it's a bought in CT several years ago. And a whole bunch of mouse poop.
   TFJ
Logged

Grapette Quickold Standard
AMI I200 AMI H200
Wurlitzer 61, 600, 700, 750, 800, 1080, 2100
Packard Musical Bar
Chicago Coin BandBox
15 remote speakers and counting
A bunch of Grapette stuff
Some really cool vending machines
flippa
25 Cent Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 261


« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2011, 12:22:30 pm »

I recovered over $10 in change from a 1958 Wurlitzer jukebox I recently got.
Logged
SIGNGUY
Soda Jerks
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 5442


Collector of Ol Smoothie Rootbeer


WWW
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2011, 03:00:59 pm »

I found about 80 silver dimes inside 2 square top u-select-it's a bought in CT several years ago. And a whole bunch of mouse poop.
   TFJ

why is it I ONLY Get Mouse poop and sometimes the whole mouse...  glare
Logged

Soda Machine Enthusiast since 1996!
Zach
25 Cent Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 362



« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2011, 07:56:34 pm »

wow im jealous being I always get dead mice, any good years?
Logged
Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.15 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!