Ka-ching, ka-ching

Items Rejected by the Coinstar Machine in the Food Lion Grocery, Elkin, North Carolina, Sept. 23, 2004

Canadian "toonies" - 3
Canadian dollars - 5
Canadian quarters - 12
Canadian dimes - 4
Canadian nickels - 2
Canadian pennies - 3
UK pounds - 3
UK 50-pence coins - 4
UK 20-pence coins - 6
UK ten-pence coins - 4
UK five-pence coins - 6
UK two-pence coins - 7
UK pennies - 4
Guitar picks - 4
Keys to unknown locks - 5
Keys to an editor's house - 1
Aladdin's Castle arcade tokens - 1
Showbiz Pizza Palace arcade tokens - 2
South African 5-rand coins - 3
South African rands - 1
South African 50-cent coins - 2
South African dimes - 2
South African nickels - 5
Paperclips - 2
Plastic nudie coins with boobs on the "heads" side and asses on the "tails" side - 1
Mexican 10-peso coins - 1
Swiss 10-franc coins - 1
Swiss 5-franc coins - 1
Swiss 2-franc coins - 1
Swiss francs - 1
Swiss 1/2-franc coins - 2
French 2-franc coins - 1
French 20-centime coins - 1
French 10-centime coins - 1
Grommets - 1
Safety pins - 3
Two-Euro coins - 2
Euros - 3
Euro 50-cent coins - 5
Euro 20-cent coins - 4
Euro 10-cent coins - 5
Euro 5-cent coins - 3
Euro 2-cent coins - 4
Euro cents - 3
Metal slugs - 1
Mangled, unrecognizable, or sticky US pennies - 9
Antique "wheat" US pennies - 2
US pennies that look fine but were chucked out anyway - 4
Perfectly good US quarters - 1
Clean US dimes - 1
Brand-new, shiny US nickels - 2

Now if only we could afford to go somewhere and spend it!