My daughter and I search half dollar boxes together, and today she found something incredible, a two-headed coin! She was so excited that she insisted on making a video to show everyone. I trimmed it so her face isn’t visible, but you can definitely hear how proud she was. Thought this community would enjoy sharing the moment with us! 😊
Has anyone ever had a coin machine give them someone else’s rejects?
I stopped at my local credit union to cash in about $300 in dimes and nickels from a coin roll hunt. Before I started, I checked the reject tray like I always do, and it was empty.
As I was feeding my coins into the machine, it started kicking out coins that I never put in. Several pennies, quarters, and a few foreign coins. I know I didn’t accidentally mix them in because I was only depositing dimes and nickels.
My total ended up being about what I expected, so I’m wondering if these were rejects from the previous person that were stuck inside the machine and got pushed into the reject tray during my transaction. Has anyone else experienced this?
Hey fellow hunters, just wanted to share a brutal $25 lesson I learned today so none of you get burned by this exact scheme.
I picked up two boxes of half dollars ($1,000 total) from my regular pickup bank. Right away, I noticed the boxes didn’t look normal. Usually, my bank gives me the flat, single-layer boxes. These were the squarish boxes that hold 50 rolls total, arranged in two stacked layers of 25. The boxes were heavily taped up on the outside, which was my first warning sign.
Since I’ve never had an issue at this branch before, I took them home. When I opened them, I discovered a coordinated, intentional short-changing scam.
The thief used the two-layer box design to their advantage. The top layer of 25 rolls in both boxes was left completely full but obviously taped closed. However, for the bottom layer they methodically skimmed exactly one half dollar out of every single roll on the bottom layer of both boxes. I verified by weighing the rolls.
I went back and spoke to the branch, but because the boxes had left the building, they said there was nothing they could do. They told me I would have needed to verify the contents before walking out the door. I get it and I didn’t make a big deal about it. It’s not their fault, they just ordered the boxes.
Picture is what the one box looked like when I opened it. Going to look through the boxes and will report back if they left anything worthwhile.
Last couple boxes had nothing but this one made up for it!
Do these two coins look like no “FG”’s?
Also, finally got one of the new 2026’s
So today I picked up a box of nickels and a box of dimes. The dimes that are showing dates are all 2024-P and a nickels are all showing 2025-P.
So two questions:
1- All coins seem to have light circular marks, is that from a sorting machine?
2- What are the odds these boxes are entirely that same year?
Just finished my first ever nickel box hunt and I’m curious how this compares to what other CRHers typically see. Did I get lucky, or is this about average for nickels?
Finds:
2 war nickels
2 foreign coins
2x 2009 nickels
14 Buffalo nickels total, including a really nice 1913
2 dateless, 1919, 1920, a couple 1935s, 1936s, and 1937s.
Huge pile of 1964s (I know those are common, but are there any varieties/errors worth checking?)
Nice-looking 1960 and 1962
Really nice 1969-S
Several 1940s and 1950s in decent shape
Some 1994s that looked like they had a different tone/color than normal nickels — anything special about those?
No Wounded Buffaloes unfortunately
Honestly, I was shocked by the number of Buffalos in one box. Curious what more experienced nickel hunters think. Anything else I should keep my eye out for?