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If there were a way to pick up all the loose pennies in the streets....

I wonder how much it would add up to ? I have too much time on my hands today !

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  • CoinspongeCoinsponge Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭
    I would say $10, 569.44 +/- $10,000. Of course there would be the expense of gum and dirt removal fees to consider. Oh, I also forgot the chiropractor fees also.
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  • Snowman24Snowman24 Posts: 468 ✭✭✭
    well - why are you on here !!! - get started !!

    let us know what you rake in later tonight
  • I found a dime on the sidewalk yesterday. When I got home and took my keys out of my pocket, the dime fell out onto the ground. I briefly considered leaving it there for someone else to find. Perhaps that's how I ended up with it in the first place, someone leaving it for me to find.

    In the end, greed won out.
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    i pick up every coin i see on the ground and throw it into my
    change basket.

    i cannot help but think of uncle scrooge everytime i do it.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Uncle Scrooge? I think not! Your a coin collector and every coin you come across is a potential rarity just waiting to be found!

    Personally, I think of myself as a coin "geek" when I do it but I'd never call you that! image
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Metal detectorists think about that kind of thing pretty often. But if you don't metal detect, you probably can't grasp the number of coins that are in the ground. There must be tens of billions in this country alone. Maybe hundreds of billions.

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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139
    I have never found a penny in the street. They haven't been used much since colonial times.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I always pick of coins I see on the ground. Perhaps (as suggested) being a metal detectorist has something to do with it... but I never pass one up. Cheers, RickO
  • I found 2 cents today





    Herb
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  • this is what I found in 2005................I haen't counted what I found in 2006, may do that this weekend.


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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have never found a penny in the street. They haven't been used much since colonial times. >>





    i get it..........image
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  • << <i>this is what I found in 2005................I haen't counted what I found in 2006, may do that this weekend.

    Herb >>



    Last year I found a $20 bill on the ground. image

    It was raining pretty intensly at the time and I was picking up some Japanese food to go... as I was walking from the parking lot to the restaurant, I noticed a folded up bill in like a 1" puddle of water... I thought it was just $1 (still worthy of taking 5 seconds to pick up) until I actually picked it up and saw it was a $20! There was no one else even remotely nearby, so I figured it probably just fell out of someone's pocket as they were pulling out their car keys (it was neatly folded over twice)...
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>this is what I found in 2005................I haen't counted what I found in 2006, may do that this weekend. Herb >>

    Last year I found a $20 bill on the ground. image It was raining pretty intensly at the time and I was picking up some Japanese food to go... as I was walking from the parking lot to the restaurant, I noticed a folded up bill in like a 1" puddle of water... I thought it was just $1 (still worthy of taking 5 seconds to pick up) until I actually picked it up and saw it was a $20! There was no one else even remotely nearby, so I figured it probably just fell out of someone's pocket as they were pulling out their car keys (it was neatly folded over twice)... >>



    Dude, you can send that back to me. I lost a 20 that way.

    And I ain't gonna spend $30 for shipping and insurance image
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I find money all the time on our Main Street where I work......snagged a $20 tumbling down the street at 6 am the other day, and find small change every day........
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  • << <i>Metal detectorists think about that kind of thing pretty often. But if you don't metal detect, you probably can't grasp the number of coins that are in the ground. There must be tens of billions in this country alone. Maybe hundreds of billions. >>



    I remember hearing some statistic that stated that like, one oout of every 5 coins gets lost in the ground.
  • At the Denver and Milwaukee ANA shows, there was a clever exhibit entitled, "The Streets are Paved with Gold." For a year, the exhibitor's family picked up all of the change they found on the street, and then bought a gold coin with the proceeds.

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