Hypothetical: You find a genuine 1943 copper Lincoln on the sidewalk...

Russ

...Should you:

A. Walk up to the nearest stranger, hand it to him and say, "Here, I think you dropped this."
B. Deliver it to the local police department with instructions to find the owner.
C. Run ads in the local paper's lost and found section.
D. Spend it at the grocery store as a random act of kindness.

or

E. Sell that sucker for big bucks and buy hookers and booze.

Russ, NCNE

DickyBetz

Duh! E.

66RB

was it heads up on the sidewalk?

Russ

<< <i>was it heads up on the sidewalk? >>



Yes. Besides being valuable, it's good luck.

Russ, NCNE

MrSpud

I'd get it authenticated and keep it in my long term collection. Show it off at my coin club and post pics here at CU and then put it in the bank vualt.

Russ

Sorry, Spud, but that's not one of the options.

Russ, NCNE

mcheath

i buy a pennys worth of hookers and drugs; if this case that could be alot of hookers (not fat ones) many hookers and drugs. are hookers considered a charity?


edited to add: oh you said booze, well i get carried away i think hookers and drugs and booze sounds fine to me.

arlea1957

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<< <i>was it heads up on the sidewalk? >>



Yes. Besides being valuable, it's good luck.

Russ, NCNE >>



If it is heads up your supposed to spit on it and throw it over your shoulder.. for the next guy.... or is that just a canadian tradition...

millennium

Uh........................





OF COURSE!

lsica

Why, did you drop one recently?

MORGANHUNTER2

you found my penny!

Can I have it back please.....

coinkat

Russ... are you becoming a Liberal?

Are you practicing random acts of kindness?

Because not all liberals practice random acts of kindness...

nor do all liberals support local newspapers that offer worthless classifieds...

Would there be enough to corner the market on certain Polish Vodka?

Answer the last question first...

silverpop

it authenticated, then sell the penny

But i wouldn't buy booze and women with the money

I do something better then that

I'd send the money to my wife's family to help them cover the medical cost of caring for my wife's neice and to pay for the kids schooling

Yes i know that isn't an option but it falls under an act of kindness

ttxp

I suppose after getting home and contemplating the entire issue, I would head back to that spot on the sidewalk and look around for that missing 1913 nickel.

rec78

F. Keep it and add it to my collection.

lasvegasteddy

uhhhh...i'd try and wake-up as i'd know in that dream i was dreaming and upon awaking i'd take a walk on a sidewalk lined street...;-)

rainbowroosie

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majorbigtime

<< <i>Duh! E. >>



Hey--that was gonna be my reply!

JRocco

I would walk up to the nearest stranger, tell them to call the local police department, ask the coppers to run an ad in the local paper that I just witnessed a random act of kindness at the grocery store, then......... E baby... E

roadrunner

Some version of "C." However be prepared to handle every crackpot story possible. Should this not be a "new" coin to the hobby and someone be able to distinctly ID the coin as their property or former property, best to get it back to the rightful owner. The odds of finding a wheat cent on the sidewalk is probably 100 or 1000 to 1. The odds of the 1943 copper...must be up in the tens of millions to 1. And a previously unknown piece on the sidewalk? Billions to 1?

roadrunner

MAD4MORGANS

E of course!!

However if it were a Kennedy half, I would give it to the first wore out crackhead hooker I could find.

----Edited to add

That's if she would even take it. Some wore out crackhead hookers still have a sense of "class".

Petarded

I'm all for booze and hookers too, as many seem to be....but would be soooo busy with them, I wouldnt be able to find the time to sell it...but, oh yeah, I couldnt afford them without selling it......OK, I will go in the original order.....

AlixTCat

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If it is heads up your supposed to spit on it and throw it over your shoulder.. for the next guy.... or is that just a canadian tradition...

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No, that's if it is TAILS up. Duh!

Jonathan

Gemineye

F.........Finders keepers...........

jabba

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

nankraut

Uh.......I gotta go with "E" Russ

MikeKing

none of the above

ledzep87

Uhhhh Bob.....I'll have to with E on this one!

Boom

None of the above. I'd run an ad in the local paper asking if anyone happened to drop or lose a valuable item in the vicinity and then have them prove ownership by not mentioning what it is I've found. The repondant would have them tell ME what it is they supposedly lost.

If after 10 days or so no one stepped forward positively stating that they were missing this very item I would then keep it, have it authenticated and graded and then do whatever I'd want to with it. I like option E except for the booze etc bit.

I don't drink and have no need for the rest of said option, hey ... but to each his own.

PerryHall

<< <i>none of the above >>



Get it slabbed. Keep it. Maybe trade it some day for a coin that I really want.

jonesy

E. of course!! I'd take Russ and MadMarty with me. Well if MadMarty's wife would let him go!!

Wolfy00002

To hell with hookers and booze!!!

I've already got the money to cover all the booze I need, I'd buy hookers and their sisters!!!

sinin1

reminds me of a story MrEureka told of a dealer pissing him off - then MrEureka spread an entire roll of 1943 copper plated cents on the local sidewalks


not sure what I would do