Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:07 pm

penny in a dumpster. just on top ofthe outside. a bag.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:19 pm

penny in a box of empty beer bottles
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:53 pm

wow a month without finding anything..

quarter in our dirt parking lot today
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:53 pm

quarter in a beer box
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:11 pm

parking lot penny
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Bigjohn » Fri Feb 09, 2018 2:03 pm

Quarter on a hiking trail
Open a coinbase account and both of us will get $10
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:02 pm

dumpster penny
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby AGgressive Metal » Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:10 pm

cwgii wrote:dumpster penny


cwgii is braver than most of us, even with this being a penny forum
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel
For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
-Aesop's Fables, Caxton edition 1484

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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Recyclersteve » Tue Feb 13, 2018 1:31 am

+1
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:26 pm

WELL FOLKS, the reason i find coins in dumpsters is , i recycle all day every day.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby everything » Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:54 pm

I found a slug that I thought was a nickel lying on the ground at the scrapyard yesterday.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:36 am

a parking lot penny that was so corroded as to be a non coin

a dime next to a dumpeter

2 pennies parkiong lot
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Thu Apr 05, 2018 10:26 pm

Dime in a dryer I scrapped.

2 pennies in a parking lot.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Apr 07, 2018 4:39 pm

just got a nickel while recovering cans from our flower shop dumpster
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:41 am

a parking lot nickel... only reason i caught it was the roundness. driven iover lots.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Apr 14, 2018 10:17 am

PARKING lot penny
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby hobo finds » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:04 pm

1 cent in a 3 gallon bucket of screws, bolts and nails
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:27 pm

.25 in our flower shop dumpster
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby silverflake » Mon May 28, 2018 6:59 am

A bright shiny 1996 quarter as i was walking back to my truck after picking up pizza last night. In the rain and odd lighting of late afternoon it looked like it was glowing against the pavement.

Stacking one found quarter at a time.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Contradiction » Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:38 pm

I found a dime under a vending machine at work today. So far no coworkers have caught me looking under there. Well, I haven't caught anyone else either.

I need to expand my thinking. So many good examples of finding money.

If I find some gold do I have to give it to the police because it's expensive?
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Recyclersteve » Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:55 pm

It depends on the circumstances. A company called Odyssey Marine Exploration found a sunken ship that had LOTS of gold on it. They ended up going to court and lost to the Spanish government.

I found a $100 bill once (in 2006). To the best of my knowledge nobody came forward to claim it.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:46 pm

penny behind a dumpster
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Contradiction » Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:04 pm

Five dollar bill in the donation plate as it passed by me.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Thogey » Sun Jun 17, 2018 6:12 pm

Contradiction wrote:Five dollar bill in the donation plate as it passed by me.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Contradiction » Fri Jun 22, 2018 8:58 pm

5 cent Euro from Espana in the trash can next to the coin counter at my bank. I don't need to wash my hands after digging around in the trash can because I always wear gloves and sunglasses and a ski mask when I walk in the bank.
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