Title: Coin Box
Post by: Kevin C on December 28, 2006, 09:53:07 am
Hello
I was wondering if anyone has found anything of value in a coin box or a machine when they purchased it. I know we all have bought machines that arrived locked with no key. So we drill them open hoping to find the mother load of old coins.
The reason I am asking is that today I am getting a Glasco 55 that has the coin mechanism on the side but no key. Maybe its full of old coins!
I have found a few dollars in change & old bottle caps.
Lets hear about hidden treasure.
Kevin
I was wondering if anyone has found anything of value in a coin box or a machine when they purchased it. I know we all have bought machines that arrived locked with no key. So we drill them open hoping to find the mother load of old coins.
The reason I am asking is that today I am getting a Glasco 55 that has the coin mechanism on the side but no key. Maybe its full of old coins!
I have found a few dollars in change & old bottle caps.
Lets hear about hidden treasure.
Kevin
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on December 28, 2006, 11:51:50 am
I found two Mercury Dimes in my Cav 27, but just newer coins in everything else. My Cav33 had about $4 in change in it.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: Jim on December 28, 2006, 12:23:15 pm
Years ago...
I was restoring a V-83 and found just over $2.00 in mercury dimes and afew regular dimes to boot!
Machines like the 83 are prone to finding coins like this due to the design of the coin path. In this case, lost dimes remain inside the cabinet door; whereas many other style coin doors, the coins just fall and lay on the bottom of the coin door where they can be easily picked up and counted...
I was restoring a V-83 and found just over $2.00 in mercury dimes and afew regular dimes to boot!
Machines like the 83 are prone to finding coins like this due to the design of the coin path. In this case, lost dimes remain inside the cabinet door; whereas many other style coin doors, the coins just fall and lay on the bottom of the coin door where they can be easily picked up and counted...
Title: Coin Box
Post by: MoonDawg on December 28, 2006, 12:25:13 pm
Bought a Cavalier 64 for $20.00 once.
It too had about $40.00 in quarters.
It too had about $40.00 in quarters.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: sodaworks on December 29, 2006, 01:35:40 pm
I have found a few bucks in mercury dimes as well.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: davethebirdman on December 29, 2006, 01:46:51 pm
Excuse my ignorance but what is a Mercury Dime??
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on December 29, 2006, 01:51:42 pm
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Excuse my ignorance but what is a Mercury Dime??
It has a thermometer built into it, which displays the temp of the vending machine!
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on December 29, 2006, 01:54:06 pm
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It has a thermometer built into it, which displays the temp of the vending machine!
Just kidding!
It is a US dime coin that was discontinued in 1944 (I think?) and replaced by the current Roosevelt dime.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: johnieG on December 29, 2006, 02:19:32 pm
(davethebirdman @ Dec. 29 2006,1:46)
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Excuse my ignorance but what is a Mercury Dime??
Its a U.S 10-cent coin from the 30's & 40's , 90%coin silver, one of the more attractive coins that were minted, it depicted "Meurcy" the messenger of the gods with a winged cap, he was also named "Hermes" by the Greeks, in english you call him a Harold, ( my fathers proper name was "Hermes" , by his German Mother, but in WWII he changed it to "Harold" ) it was replaced by the current "Rosevelt" (FDR) dime in the 50's I think. here's a picture
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on December 29, 2006, 02:52:00 pm
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...it was replaced by the current "Rosevelt" (FDR) dime in the 50's I think...
Thanks for the picture JohnnieG and the extra info.
I am 99.9% sure that the Roosevelt dime was first minted in 1945, right after WWII ended.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: davethebirdman on December 29, 2006, 02:56:20 pm
A dime with a built in themometer would have been very handy
Thanks for the info.
Dave
Thanks for the info.
Dave
Title: Coin Box
Post by: aspbear1 on December 29, 2006, 03:12:27 pm
Same here a few mercury dimes. I did buy some on candy machines and they had more in quarters in them than I paid for the machines plus they had the keys with them....
Title: Coin Box
Post by: Marvin on December 29, 2006, 03:31:44 pm
I picked up a machine yesterday and when I pulled the coin box out there were 2 quarters in it. Both new 1996 and a 1995.
The machine had the key with it. I don't understand why the guy I got it from did not at least check it out. Anyway I just feel like I got a .50 cent rebate on my purchase.
Marvin
The machine had the key with it. I don't understand why the guy I got it from did not at least check it out. Anyway I just feel like I got a .50 cent rebate on my purchase.
Marvin
Title: Coin Box
Post by: dr galaga on December 29, 2006, 03:36:27 pm
Pulled out my handy-dandy Numismatic Check List (35 cents from 1978 
)
Mercury dime was last produced in 1945, with the Roosevelt dime starting in 1946.
)Mercury dime was last produced in 1945, with the Roosevelt dime starting in 1946.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on December 29, 2006, 03:57:16 pm
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Mercury dime was last produced in 1945, with the Roosevelt dime starting in 1946.
Thanks Brent!
.1% margin for error.
My book is packed away at the moment, but I was close.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: dr galaga on December 29, 2006, 05:48:35 pm
(collecture @ Dec. 29 2006,3:57)
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.1% margin for error.
Okay, we'll let it slide this time!
Even though my grandapa used to tell me that close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and thermonuclear war!
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on December 29, 2006, 06:03:22 pm
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...close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and thermonuclear war!
I have always heard that also, but it was horseshoes, hand grenades and atomic bombs. [same thing]
Title: Coin Box
Post by: Ridewithme38 on December 29, 2006, 06:05:40 pm
Of the few of you that make money of the vending business...how many of you actually look at the coins instead of imediatly depsiting them in the bank??
I'm gone through pocket change a few times and found some really valuable coins...
(My biggest hobby is collecting vintage silver coins)
I'm gone through pocket change a few times and found some really valuable coins...
(My biggest hobby is collecting vintage silver coins)
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on December 29, 2006, 06:50:58 pm
I did that years ago when I managed a retail store. Doing the books at night and counting the cashier trays, I'd keep an eye out for them.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: Kevin C on December 29, 2006, 09:33:50 pm
Hey
My wife decided to collect the state quarters when they first came out to include both the P & D mints. So her interest lasted about 3 or 4 months.
Now that I have a coke machine at the office I check the quarters every week. It has helped finding the Denver mint coins.
I average about $65 a week from my coke machine & my lance candy machine.
Kevin
My wife decided to collect the state quarters when they first came out to include both the P & D mints. So her interest lasted about 3 or 4 months.
Now that I have a coke machine at the office I check the quarters every week. It has helped finding the Denver mint coins.
I average about $65 a week from my coke machine & my lance candy machine.
Kevin
Title: Coin Box
Post by: dr galaga on December 29, 2006, 10:58:05 pm
I think the only coins that I have found in a soda machine were in the Cavalier that I bought this past spring. It's amazing what you find when you remove the cooling unit! I have also found some current coins in some video games and gumball machines that I have bought.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: Eric on December 30, 2006, 12:28:21 am
I had a couple Mecury dimes in a 7up embossed square top and a
1954 Nickel in a 39 but my best find was a newer Cornelius slider.
I went to the recycle center to dump off our plastic and news papers
and I saw one of these newer (70s 80s) can sliders, with the wood
siding went to look it over and there were several quarters in it.. when
I sat it up right you could hear more so I loaded it up took it home...
drilled the lock out. It had $23 dollars in quarters and a $1 bill in the coin
cup... Guess the lodge or where ever it came from didn't think to empty it
before they hauled it off!
1954 Nickel in a 39 but my best find was a newer Cornelius slider.
I went to the recycle center to dump off our plastic and news papers
and I saw one of these newer (70s 80s) can sliders, with the wood
siding went to look it over and there were several quarters in it.. when
I sat it up right you could hear more so I loaded it up took it home...
drilled the lock out. It had $23 dollars in quarters and a $1 bill in the coin
cup... Guess the lodge or where ever it came from didn't think to empty it
before they hauled it off!
Title: Coin Box
Post by: TomFromJersey on January 04, 2007, 08:14:21 pm
Last year I purchased 2 square top U-Select it venders from a Gentleman in CT. on E-Bay. I purchased them knowing that I could take both machines and make one good one out of them. I believe I paid $80 for them.
When we got them home and I started cleaning them out and taking them apart I wound up with 2 Buffalo nickels, a few of the 50's era semi-silver nickels, over 20 Mercury Dimes, and around 70 or so early Roosevelt dimes. Well over 100 coins total.
My 10 year old step-daughter had a great time digging them out of the machines with me.
When we got them home and I started cleaning them out and taking them apart I wound up with 2 Buffalo nickels, a few of the 50's era semi-silver nickels, over 20 Mercury Dimes, and around 70 or so early Roosevelt dimes. Well over 100 coins total.
My 10 year old step-daughter had a great time digging them out of the machines with me.
Title: Coin Box
Post by: collecture on January 04, 2007, 10:13:52 pm
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I wound up with 2 Buffalo nickels, a few of the 50's era semi-silver nickels, over 20 Mercury Dimes, and around 70 or so early Roosevelt dimes. Well over 100 coins total.
Cool Tom,
Depending on the condition and mint of the coins, the seller may have actually paid you to take the machines off his hands. LOL