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Have you ever found coins in your old machine?
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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!
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I was wondering where I left those coins.
I found two mercury dimes once in a Stoner.
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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.
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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.
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thats very coool
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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....
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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.
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I recovered over $10 in change from a 1958 Wurlitzer jukebox I recently got.
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Quote from: TomFromJersey 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
why is it I ONLY Get Mouse poop and sometimes the whole mouse...
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wow im jealous being I always get dead mice, any good years?
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