
Last week, during a visit to the local grocery, I found these items in the reject slot at a coin machine, a gadget where you put coins and get a card credited to the amount. I sometimes find things that people abandon for various reasons - usually badly-corroded pennies, foreign coins, once some live .22LR rounds, and on another occasion a handful of "blank" .22s used in nailguns. This time I found
six pennies (two stuck together w/gum
another coin, a penny? so corroded that it looked like a Roman relic
a marble
a cube of some material, wood or plastic
a River Island coat button
and that anime pin - Hetalia apparently - that's a plate of spagetti anyhow
Not having a digicam at present, I placed these things on a scanner and covered them with what I thought was a blank sheet of paper, and it _was_ blank on one side, just not this side. I rescanned the image without the junk and will post it afterwards.
Corel PhotoPaint 8 tinkering
six pennies (two stuck together w/gum
another coin, a penny? so corroded that it looked like a Roman relic
a marble
a cube of some material, wood or plastic
a River Island coat button
and that anime pin - Hetalia apparently - that's a plate of spagetti anyhow
Not having a digicam at present, I placed these things on a scanner and covered them with what I thought was a blank sheet of paper, and it _was_ blank on one side, just not this side. I rescanned the image without the junk and will post it afterwards.
Corel PhotoPaint 8 tinkering
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I had roommates who loved Hetalia. I never got into it much myself, but what I saw was fun. ^_^
As for myself, I have a large bag of various coins I unjammed from machines when I worked at an arcade. One of these days, I should do a full inventory/investigation of it. Mostly tokens from different arcades, a lot of foreign currency, and one "Hall County Correctional Institute" vending machine token (the nearest Hall County that I could find was in Texas, and the arcade was in Florida).
As for myself, I have a large bag of various coins I unjammed from machines when I worked at an arcade. One of these days, I should do a full inventory/investigation of it. Mostly tokens from different arcades, a lot of foreign currency, and one "Hall County Correctional Institute" vending machine token (the nearest Hall County that I could find was in Texas, and the arcade was in Florida).
Back during the late 60s-early 70s my father had a family-run vending company, and over the years I accumulated a lot of essentially worthless coins, mainly Mexican centavos, that various persons tried to pass off as quarters. They always got stuck in the coin changer and we'd have to make a special trip to the location to unstick it, which was always annoying. I still have the things; at one point I got the idea of drilling holes in them to make a necklace, but I hadn't counted on how fast and hot they would get when being drilled - I only did one and that was enough. The coin machine at the grocery store here is better set up, it doesn't jam when something odd goes in.
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