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Baystars2025 Mar 17, 2026 +113

Good to know that I can ride the bus in Leeds with any old scraps of metal

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PhilpotBlevins Mar 17, 2026 +21

At least 75 years ago you could.

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crazyfoxdemon Mar 17, 2026 +4

Machines can't tell the difference between a quarter and a 100 won coin.

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psycospaz Mar 17, 2026 +12

Most coin operated machines only care about diameter, or at least the old ones used to. When I was a kid, I used to go with my dad to home depot and grab all those round metal punchouts from some electrical box I could get while he was shopping. Because the candy machines at the grocery store took them.

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Raiziell Mar 20, 2026 +2

We were poor af as kids, and my dad would bring home slugs from the machines at his work for the same thing.

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bedrooms-ds Mar 17, 2026 +6

Reminds me when scammers inserted 500 SK won coins in vending machines in Japan to get 500 yen ones out. The government had to update the coin.

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The_quest_for_wisdom Mar 18, 2026 +3

Not quite the same thing, but a Walmart near me was trying to help roll out the Sacagawea dollar coin back in the early 2000's, so they were handing them out when they made change. Except that the employees didn't realize or didn't care that they were worth a dollar, so they were using them in the change like they were quarters.

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bedrooms-ds Mar 17, 2026 +1

For this to work, you'd better be drunk because the driver is drunk.

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WhodyBootyWhat Mar 18, 2026 +1

Need to get a sheet metal hole punch.

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buppiejc Mar 17, 2026 +26

Im calling it. Vampire.

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bedrooms-ds Mar 17, 2026 +31

When you keep your lucky coin in your purse and accidentally pay with it.

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4tunabrix Mar 17, 2026 +22

I dropped a Roman coin I keep in my wallet at the pub once. Never seen again. I always wonder what the person that found it must’ve thought.

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d1rTb1ke Mar 17, 2026 +7

back in the 80s my grandad gave me a coin made from apollo mission scrap metal. a few months after i found another one in the dirt in our neighborhood. such a strange coin-cidence, eh?

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TrueFakeFacts Mar 17, 2026 +8

Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter. Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it? Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.

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Oubilettor Mar 18, 2026 +2

He won everything with that lucky coin

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ToastAndASideOfToast Mar 17, 2026 +18

How long had they been waiting for the bus?

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Warcraft_Fan Mar 17, 2026 +5

I guess he started waiting to spread the word that Jesus just rose from the grave.

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Kurtotall Mar 17, 2026 +4

Time traveler detected.

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0x14f Mar 17, 2026 +1

From the past or from the future ?

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where-sea-meets-sky Mar 17, 2026 +4

reminds me when i worked retail n some lady broke the self checkout machine by trying to insert a silver dollar

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insanekid66 Mar 18, 2026 +1

Being a stupid American, I don't know the coin denominations in England, but don't you at least look at your change first? I understand throwing pennies on the sidewalk or something, cause who uses those? But a 2000 year old hammered coin?! That'd stick out more than a Spanish real.

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Warcraft_Fan Mar 18, 2026 +3

Some of the coin machines aren't smart, all they do is check the size and thickness. If it fits, it works. You could use a 2,000 year old coin that may be worth millions, or you could use pop out discs from metal junction boxes that you find at construction sites.

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insanekid66 Mar 19, 2026 +2

I understand the downsides to a coin machine, I'm talking about the person that inserted the coin. I can't understand how they didn't notice the difference between their other coins.

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bedrooms-ds Mar 21, 2026 +1

Oh, if you own coins from different places, you'll make this mistake eventually.

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CitrusFresh Mar 20, 2026 +1

Yeah, but it wasn’t that old in 1950.

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Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency

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