Has anyone hid coins for people to find in the future?

clackamas

I just did this for the first time. We redid our bathroom after 35 years and put in a new vanity. Before I screwed it into the wall I took a roll of GEM BU Lincoln's, a Nice 2002-D Sac, a gem dime, FS nickel and a couple of BU state quarters, put them in a zip lock bag and taped them to the side of the vanity. I figure it will probably be in place for another 35 or so years and thought it would be cool for someone to find them at the later date. I know I would have be jazzed by such a find. Has any one else done this?

DanC

What a cool idea!

stman

And you said you live where?

I haven't done that but have put some names on a few coins to go to certain people.

stman

Placid

I have heard of people hiding coins in there houses and then people finding them long after they die.
Someone found a roll of $20 saints behind a baseboard during a remodel in florida.

jtryka

I remember I buried a babyfood jar full of wheaties, buffalo nickels and some other stuff under the flowerbed at the house we lived in then. Haven't been back there for close to 20 years when we moved out.

clackamas

>Someone found a roll of $20 saints behind a baseboard during a remodel in florida.
Now that would make my day! Can you imagine an original roll of high relief St's.?

I have no idea if they were HR or not I was just dreaming. Much like you do when you buy a powerball ticket.

toyonakataro

I did that when I was a kid.
I put some coins in a plastic case with a paper on whitch I wrote some messages to those who might discover it in future.
Dug a hole in my yard, buried it.


One month later, I dug the hole to buy some junk food with that money...

Placid

That's funny toyonakataro

jtryka

Were they HR Saints? Heck who cares? A roll of 28-Ps would probably have paid for the remodeling job!

Gemini

I had a metal index box full of early Lincolns that I hid away in the eaves of the attic and totally forgot about them. Then years later I rediscovered them. It was a pleasant surprise to find them. Old age has it's good moments sometimes.

LanLord

I always hope that the people that lived in the house I now live in would have done that. Great idea.

MosesBlack

In 1952 we built a house. While placing the concrete for the porch I left a jar under a brick. In the jar is a mint set of coins, a newspaper and a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card.

nwcs

Maybe you ought to dig that jar back up!

And those of you who have left coins behind purposely, do you leave a note telling them anything?

66Tbird

More times than I can remember, and not just coins either. I got the bug when I found a slip of paper in a book at the school library (1974-5). It was a map that led me to a fence post, like the tenth one down or something, and there I dug up a 1963 class ring from Maryvale High. It was gold of course and was a nice little piece of cash for me. Since then I have paid back the fun many times with smaller items, with and without maps. If I do a map I use an old book that has never been checked out. (Feel free to say out loud "John, your weird")

Coulport

No, but I hide coins from myself all the time.

coinfinder

I have often thought about it, but have never actually done it.

dakra

Back about 20 years ago, I placed a tin of all different types of coins (pennies, nickles, dimes) into a baggie, threw it in a tin and burried it in my parents back yard. about 1 foot from the garage towards the right side of the window. I don't think anyone will ever find it. When I was 18 (14 years ago) I think I went to look for it but the search came up empty. Not sure if the ground shifted.

When I was ripping out everything in my living room, I did find pennies from 1940-1950 placed behind the floor molding. I'm not sure if that was for "good luck" or to leave space for expansion of the wood.

As I'm doing a great deal of work on my house now... you have given me some good ideas :-)

-David

MacCoin

about 30 years ago I was working on a house and wrap all my oldest pocket change in waxpaper and hid it in the attic. they were only wheaties, merc and buff only cirulate pocket change. back than it was pretty common to have them in cirulation.

cacheman

I did it just this morning. I am having a new woodstove placed in my home and there is space between the pedestal and the pad upon which the stove will sit. I wrote a note welcoming whomever to a "blast from the past" and dated it. Along with the note I rolled up Kennedy halves from 1971-2000. Nothing special, but I would think it would be fun to discover. I actually told my wife that it would be nice if we were still around to dig these out when the stove eventually bites the dust.......time will tell.

littlewicher

Our house is new, so I think that would be cool to do.

newbiecollector

Great topic and great ideas. I would post a longer reply but I am dismantling my bathroom now. maybe the last owner left me a surprise!

jhar

Hey Crusty!! You're showing your age man!!!

cacheman

Newbie, he probably did but I bet it's not coins.....heh-heh

dorkkarl

i hide coins in unlikely places, like soda machines, slot machines, you get the picture. i figure they are almost certain to be found someday in the future.

K S