Another Way to Play
by George Edward Green III
Recently I posted an article about a literal ‘free lottery’; the ability to search rolls of coins for rare, easy to identify, silver coins worth much more than face value. In this article I noted that you can go to the bank and exchange dollars for rolls of coins, and for zero cost, search through them for valuable coins gthe bank probably doesn’t even care might be inside.
There’s a lot of different ways to accomplish the same thing with zero cost but here’s another; Vending machines. Next time you go to buy a Coke or Pepsi bring a few extra dollars; if you hit the return change button chances are you’ll get quarters. These machines aren’t setup to refund bills (and anyone who’s used one knows it’s a challenge enough to get on IN the machine!).
The advantage of this is the exposure to a wide variety of coin sources. At the bank you’re as likely to get a roll of coins a collector looked through as you are one with valuable silver coins. At a vending machine however even if your coin collecting competition has dropped coins he already knows are not very valuable, there is as much if not more of a chance that folks who wouldn’t know a valuable coin if you traded them a buck for a few were there too.
Just as in sales you want to be exposed to a variety of new customers from different groups to keep business booming if you’re looking for rare coins you want to get out and introduce yourself to as many new and unrelated sources as possible to maximize the size of your ‘market’. Grabbing a soda, and a few bucks worth of change from a vending machine is just one more way to go about this.
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