WSJ: The Thrill of Collecting Abandoned Coins

Aotearoa

Just the front page teaser:

Manifest_Destiny

Chicago Sacagawea?

Fraz

I find some in the mall.

Fraz

@Manifest_Destiny said:
Chicago Sacagawea?

Barberian

@Fraz said:

@Manifest_Destiny said:
Chicago Sacagawea?

The skyline shows Manhattan, New York City.

Jacques_Loungecoque

@Fraz said:
I find some in the mall.

My Dad used to manage a mall and they’d clean the fountain every six months or so. Guess who got the coins? It became an almost untenable chore after a while though,
as every grocery store, bank, and drug store within bike riding range came to know my face as the green rolled coins kid.

johnny9434

@Fraz said:
I find some in the mall.

Not us 😳

Namvet69

What's a mall? 🙃

CRHer700

@Jacques_Loungecoque said:

@Fraz said:
I find some in the mall.

My Dad used to manage a mall and they’d clean the fountain every six months or so. Guess who got the coins? It became an almost untenable chore after a while though,
as every grocery store, bank, and drug store within bike riding range came to know my face as the green rolled coins kid.

Man, I envy you. Last month I found over $7 on the ground, in the coinstar, and in rolls where people jammed too many coins in. I have always wished to be able to get the coins out of those fountains.

Barberian

@CRHer700 said:

@Jacques_Loungecoque said:

@Fraz said:
I find some in the mall.

My Dad used to manage a mall and they’d clean the fountain every six months or so. Guess who got the coins? It became an almost untenable chore after a while though,
as every grocery store, bank, and drug store within bike riding range came to know my face as the green rolled coins kid.

Man, I envy you. Last month I found over $7 on the ground, in the coinstar, and in rolls where people jammed too many coins in. I have always wished to be able to get the coins out of those fountains.

Silver coins in fountains would torment me in the '70s. So near yet so far away.

JimTyler

I’ll pick up if heads up, unless it’s a quarter, in my pocket either way

TwoSides2aCoin

WSJ is to thrill what parking lot finds are to numismatistics. Twisted.