Anyone ever accidentally put an ancient coin into a vending machine or an equivalent blunder?

The transition from “mental illness and hoarding” to “Y’all’s hobby” could use some smoothing and audience awareness. I say this as someone who lectured undergrads for the better part of a decade.

There’s no more irony to spending more money on a coin of originally lesser value than there is irony to spending a thousand dollars on a painting done with 30 dollars worth of paint on 20 dollars worth of canvas. Your observation doesn’t work.

But, to answer your buried question: no.

"Destroyed in a shredder." Not my coin:

https://cngcoins.com/Lot.aspx?LOT_ID=34342

Before (i think) https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=275893