Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:06 pm

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

Postby Recyclersteve » Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:19 pm

Wife found $3 ($1 bills) while out walking.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby TitusFable » Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:36 pm

Side walks, professional cleaning/removal, near landline telephones, swimming spots (both in and near the water,) abandoned buildings, hiking
People leave stuff everywhere!
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:58 pm

penny in a driveway
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Recyclersteve » Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:28 am

I imagine that vacuum cleaner bags, if strained, might contain some coins.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:46 pm

dime in the parking lot
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Thu Dec 27, 2018 11:33 am

I bought a new dryer, and cleaned up the old one that came with my house so I can sell it locally.

Inside was $3.01 in change! Surprising, considering how cheap the previous owners were.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Dec 29, 2018 9:29 am

nickel at the coin machine yesterday, the rim was so worn /beaten up from being stuck in some machine.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Wed Jan 23, 2019 8:58 pm

In my own burn barrel. Must have been
Motherinlaw that burned up 6 nickels
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:06 pm

Two quarters and a penny in the grocery store parking lot.

It's a good thing people are still using cash. Enjoy the finds while you can!
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:38 am

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

Postby everything » Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:41 pm

I found a CU penny at the carwash last week right below where we put our money into the place where we put our money in. I expect once the snow melts away I'll be finding more as I go out walking parking lots and looking where big snow melts happened.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby TXSTARFIRE » Wed Mar 06, 2019 3:39 pm

Dime in the Wal Mart parking lot. It was in a puddle.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:26 pm

Dime at cafe due monde new Orleans, saw a penny that I could not get to in the bourbon st.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:19 am

City recycle bin, bad person put a plastic bag in. So I opened it, out popped a penny.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby Dr. Cadmium » Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:22 pm

Penny in the change drawer of the self checkout kiosk at the grocery store. I tend to find a lot of dropped and left behind coupons at these stations, too.

Canadian quarter from the Coinstar machine.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:56 pm

Parking lot nickel yesterday, dime today
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:09 pm

A .25 in our lot. Dime in the waTer dispser.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby CopperSilverGold » Sat Apr 06, 2019 4:25 pm

Penny today in the parking lot of the storage place where I rent a unit. A couple of weeks ago I found $0.32 in mixed change.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby cwgii » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:08 pm

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

Postby silverflake » Sun Apr 21, 2019 4:46 pm

Our dryer died. So, bought the new one but dragged the new one out to scrap. Took the back off and tipped it to get it up the stairs. Money was falling out like it was a one armed bandit! Cha ching cha ching! Once I had pulled it all apart, $3.07! Woo hoo! retirement here I come.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby mtalbot_ca » Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:20 pm

silverflake wrote:Cha ching cha ching! Once I had pulled it all apart, $3.07! Woo hoo! retirement here I come.


LOL...that is a lot of coins !

How old was the dryer?
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby silverflake » Tue Apr 23, 2019 5:57 pm

The dryer was 20 years old. Twelve of the cents were copper but nothing else of note.
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby knibloe » Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:06 pm

The snow has melted and in some of the bigger parking lots there are spots covered with dirt and debris where they had pushed up the snow. Does anyone ever look in these areas?
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Re: Where Have You Found Coins/Currency?

Postby hirbonzig » Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:55 am

knibloe wrote:The snow has melted and in some of the bigger parking lots there are spots covered with dirt and debris where they had pushed up the snow. Does anyone ever look in these areas?


Each spring I find a few coins in the parking lot corners where the snow was piled. A few years ago I found a torn $5 in a melting snow pile.
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