Is that money I hear rattling around?

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Picked up a gumball machine one of the big ones with neon and a super bounce ball machine not working. I offered $50 on the gumball and was disappointed to learn the neon doesn't work however was happy with the $110.78 in change that was still in it. Plus the kids are happy with all the gumballs. I ask if the ball vendor is for sale guy says its broke and I can have it free, if I want the balls in it $20. It had $17 in it and just needed a gear to get it working again.
 
Ahh, change, the arcade collectors impending rebate :D

The most I found was $2.25 inside my Centipede.....
 
Finding coins and tokens is one of the little things I look forward to when cracking open a game. Yesterday I was stoked to find two new tokens I didn't have for my collection in the bottom of a Centipede.

It's also fun to check the dates on quarters and try to estimate how long the game has been off route if there's enough of a sample size.
 
Very nice, so technically you got paid to pick up that machine! Sadly the most I have ever gotten in a single machine was 2 quarters and 2 tokens in my Frogger.
 
$187.50 in a Tetris machine last year. Wont ever come close again...
 
Found $22.75 in an old asteroids game way, way, way back when the game was selling for $50!
 
I've only got 2 cabs, one had $2 in quarters in the bottom of the cab, the other only had 1 quarter (which was mine)...I was trying to test it to see if it the joysticks, etc worked, and dropped a quarter in, but part of the coin mech was missing, so it dropped in the cab and I forgot about it until I bought it a few weeks later ;)
 
I bought a working Die Hard for $150 over the weekend (broken now of course) that they didnt have the key to the front. I got it open and found $17. Not alot of money, but the most I ever got before that was like a dollar so I was happy
 
I always cringe when opening a cab for the first time - my brain imagines all the horrors that could be. Although all I've ever found are a few quarters, trash, and keys.... keys... but not to the game itself, to something else,... or maybe to another game. I've often wondered if somewhere at some time an attendant kid on his last day of work, all pissed off, decided to go around the arcade just randomly and lock *other* game's keys in the coin boxes or back doors. Then, 200 games later he's left with one lone key, he hands it to the op, "Here ya go. I f'n quit. Have fun." :eek::D
 
Three tokens is probably the most I ever found with the exception of when I found a whole pack of Tapper coasters in my Tapper. I haven't decided what to do with them yet.
 
Picked up a gumball machine one of the big ones with neon and a super bounce ball machine not working. I offered $50 on the gumball and was disappointed to learn the neon doesn't work however was happy with the $110.78 in change that was still in it. Plus the kids are happy with all the gumballs. I ask if the ball vendor is for sale guy says its broke and I can have it free, if I want the balls in it $20. It had $17 in it and just needed a gear to get it working again.

Congrats on cashing in! Best I've ever done was about $2-$3 in my Tron along with a 1983 Chuck E. Cheese token...
 
I dream of finding a full coin bucket in a game. I've had money in every game I've bought - from a quarter to about $5. The Pirates of the Caribbean I just picked up broke my streak though. But hey, it had a brand new set of sling plastics inside. I'll take that over $2 in change any day!
 
I bought a crane machine for $100 a few weeks ago with no keys. I popped the locks to find $590 in quarters still in the coin box. :D:D:D
 
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