Well, I found 17 cents this morning...
OldMaster
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I know, 17 cents is usually nothing to get excited about except that 16 of them were steel cents! No kidding!
First I see one coin, stooped down because I recognized the wheat design and lo and behold, it's a steelie! Walked another ten feet and there's another one, and then another about twenty feet further up the walk. By the time I reached the corner a half block away, I had 13 steelies and a '64-D. Their dullish gray color blended in extremely well to the brick, so I retraced my steps and found three more.
Anyway, any theories out there? Who did this and why? And when? These coins couldn't have been there very long because this sidewalk is directly in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an area where literally thousands of people walk every day. I had just finished my morning run around 6:30 a.m. and was walking home, something I do 4-5 times a week. No one was around except for a few vendors who were busy setting up their stands.
Yes, this is my first post, and I have been waiting to post something that I thought would be of general interest to everyone. I'm pretty much a casual collector, but have enjoyed reading a lot of posts since joining last December. Great site and I have learned much in a short time.
So... "Hi, everyone!"
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probably someone put them as part of a promotion, an installation, or a joke
Way cool.
A bunch of wheat pennies laying on the sidewalk is strange. Maybe some kid found his fathers coin collection.
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Had a kid raid a piggy bank for $1.00 worth of gas. 100 wheats and 20 or so steelies. I guess someone raided dads stash, took all the silver and tossed the copper. You were the lucky recip. Nice find and welcome.
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A hole in someone's pocket
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Somebody's Coinstar rejects that he then just threw away?
That’s an awesome find! Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum!!
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That is odd. Welcome.
Serendipity smiled on you today. Now brighten some other persons day all day long. Other than the folks you made smile here on the forum.
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@OldMaster .... Welcome aboard...and that is certainly a unique find.... and a great first post. Cheers, RickO
Nice find.
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However they got there it’s a great find.
Way to go
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Cool and welcome.
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Yes, that sure is weird.
Maybe that wheat cent dealer that lives around the corner from the museum, got a little inebriated and stumbled home with a leaking steel cent bag last night.......
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Of course, after an experience like this, I just had to go back, right? This morning I checked the walk south of the Met, an area I swear I had looked before and found eleven more steel cents, making 26 total. Someone in the hobby had to have dropped these intentionally, don't you think? Perhaps as a means of promoting the hobby?
Whatever the reason, I sure am having fun!
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Welcome! ...and what an awesome first post! FWIW... I wonder if some older numismatist isn't fueling the next generation of collectors. I did something similar at Halloween with IHC's and candy.
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One year I did a similar hand out with little bags of assorted foreign coins. Purchased by the pound, random un-searched, from a bulk dealer.
If anyone wants a fun couple of hours get a couple pounds of this material and start the hunt. Back then there was still a lot of silver in those bags.
What? And none of them were glued to the concrete?
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Hey @OldMaster
That is strange but fortunate.
I had a similar experience 4 years ago.
I was walking across a gravel parking lot in Ballard and came across first one then about a dozen silver roosies.
I felt like I won a jackpot!
So, my theory; a bag in a bag and the outer one gets wet and coins fall through.
Just typing this I'm reminded of a Darkside post of mine and a similar scenario where coins in a bag were lost almost 700 years ago.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1001246/edward-i-longshanks-hammered-coinage-two-examples#latest
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