The importance of checking the reject slot. Just my two cents...
JBK
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Just my two cent piece, that is. 
This came from the same bank that produced a holed three cent silver several months back. The manager saves up all the rejects from their coin machine and gives them to me when I stop in.
Yesterday's loot consisted of the usual assortment of leftover vacation coins, including some high value coins like British pounds and Canadian 1 and 2 dollar coins. There were also three silver Canadian dimes.
A friend had picked up the envelope of coins from the bank and she did an initial search and missed this one, but I spotted it immediately when i poked through the mix of shrapnel:
It is an 1864 (appears to be the more common large motto variety) in heavily circulated but otherwise undamaged condition.
Now I am just waiting for some vintage gold to show up. 
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Very cool!
That's crazy...
I picked up five euros in coins several years ago by doing this. Took them to Slovakia and spent them.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
I wonder if CoinStar machines take three cent nickels as dimes? One of the stories as to why the government withdrew the three cent nickels is that pay phones took them as dimes and the early phone companies complained. Supposedly one of them even demanded that the Treasury Dept. pay the phone company ten cents for every one of them that had fooled their machines! The demand was not honored.
Nice coin... I have one (maybe two) of those that I have had since childhood (no, not a birth year coin
)... I have not heard of one being found in a coinstar or other such venue. Surprised that a bank would get one.... Cheers, RickO
Ten years ago, the Argentine Peso coin (I think it was worth 30 cents at the time) seemed to be the exact same size and weight as the one Euro coin (with at least 4 times as much). I was curious as to whether the Peso coin would work in EU countries where you inserted coins into machines to pay for things (like metro passes). I never had the chance to find out.
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"Sou Mangueira......."
The Thai 10 baht coin was very close to the 2 euro coin, also. They worked in simple/unsophisticated vending machines, but not advanced ones.
The Thai 5 Baht coin is the same width as a quarter, similar composition but slightly thicker. That said, I have used one in a grocery store cart slot to get a grocery cart.
Before the Euro coins came out, and before the Chicago Transit Authority switched to fare pass cards, German one pfennig coins worked in the subway turnstiles. I was working at Harlan Berk's downtown, and we used to have one or two people per month come in and try to buy a quantity of them to use in the subway.
Of course they would lie like hell making up excuses as to what they wanted them for. One time a guy said over the phone that he wanted them for his kid to give out at the German language class his kid was taking. I said come on in, I can take care of you.
He came in and I handed him 100 TWO pfennig coins, which are of course larger, and said "That will be one dollar!" He hemmed and hawed and finally said that he really wanted one pfennig pieces. I replied brightly (and loudly) "OH, WE DON'T SELL THOSE! CROOKS USE THEM IN THE SUBWAY!" He left, pfenniglessly!
Are you talking about the reject tray inside the machine? There is all kinds of stuff that ends up there that never makes it out.
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Not sure where the bank manager pulls them from. Coukd be the external reject tray or somewhere inside the machine, or a combination of the two. I know some of the larger coins I get from here had been wedged in the spinner as they are scraped up.
I got a Canadian nickel today !!!
Where do you have to pay to get a grocery cart? That doesn't seem right. I have never seen that before.
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Aldi's and maybe other stores use this method to avoid paying labor costs to round up the carts.
No cart boy, no labor cost.
Where do you live? I have lived in southern California, Hawai'i Hawaii, Albuquerque New Mexico, Rochester New York, Gallatin Tennessee, and Northern Alabama and I have never seen this at Aldi or any other store. Do you live in a major city? Publix actually uses the opposite approach in Alabam and have hired a larger team to give a grocery loading service that doubles as cart return.
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Aldis also has the paid cart thing to prevent carts running into cars because people are less likely to leave it out because they get their quarter back when they put it back and if they do leave it out other will put it back for the quarter.
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I just came home from the local Aldi's yesterday in Hammond, Indiana. (one of three in our city).
I guarantee you they have pay-per-carts. I used one.
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Interesting. Aldis have a terrible selection of items. They have the unwanted left overs from places like big lots. Big lots have the unwanted leftovers from others store, so I'm not sure what that makes Aldis, but I was absolutely horrified when I went into the Aldis in Penfield, New York and the Aldis in Athens, Alabama. I will never step foot in Aldis again. I feel sorry for the people who have to shop there.
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In Europe Aldi is a normal supermarket. Are you saying the ones here sell closeouts?
The pay for the cart is more accurately described as "deposit for a cart" - you get the quarter back when you return the cart to the cart stall. I've lived in E. Europe, it is actually fairly common to have coin operated carts. It is much better than going into your typical American grocery store parking lot and finding carts in parking spots etc because people are too lazy to put them in the cart stall.
Please check your coin carefully JBK, it just might be an 1864 DDO-001 which carries a nice premium
If you park in an Aldis parking lot you don't have to worry about dodging shopping carts or dings from them unlike Walmart. Guess people can walk a little for a quarter. Can't recall the name of the Tom Hanks movie where he returns airport carts to get money to eat with
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Thx for the heads up. I'll have to check it out.
The only place here I've seen that deposit-cart system is at Joanne's fabric here in Westbury, NY. Dont worry I drag the wife to Lowes from time to time.
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