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I bent over 4 times to pick up coins off the ground today..38¢. Do you bend over for 1¢? OLD THREAD!

GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 16, 2020 2:22PM in U.S. Coin Forum
I have no shame....do you???
One quarter, one dime, one cent, and two cents......38¢
The way I see it, that's our hobby laying there on the ground or floor.
How can a numismatist/coin collector resist?
I must admit, I've never found a wheat cent or a silver coin on a bendover experience! :#
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  • coinman23885coinman23885 Posts: 1,126
    I must admit that the title line is one of the strangest that I've ever read. With regards to the question, I will bend down to pick up change. You never know what could be laying on the ground.
  • agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭
    Depends who's behind me.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I always pick up change I see on the ground or the floor.... Cheers, RickO
  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    Uh..shame? I just have the extra money in my pocket - I left anything else. Really, lets see. Last time I did not bend over to see "what it was" someone else wound up with a bunch of gold jewelry. Before that I found some cash. Before that it was a diamond ring. Shame? Uh-uh. Foolish maybe to pass something up IMHO.

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Browns almost bent you over a fifth time. image
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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,705 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The Browns almost bent you over a fifth time. image >>



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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My kids & I save & pick up all the change we find... We've been at it for a little over 3 years now.
    To date we've accumulated almost $50 bucks...

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  • taxbuster1040taxbuster1040 Posts: 349 ✭✭✭
    I do and i taught my kids when they were little, when we went to Shop Rite, that there were always coins that had dropped down on the floor under the registers and that there were a few coins there. Great way to teach how to save!
  • LmmanLmman Posts: 156 ✭✭
    Yes I pick up change when i see it. Some of my co-workers think its pretty funny and will occassionally toss change on the ground for me to go find.
    Donavan
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I throw change on the ground to watch others bend over......
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • thatboyaintrightthatboyaintright Posts: 408
    When I bent over to pick up a penny, my wife said "why are you doing that ?"

    I told her that penny represents a years interest on a dollar in a standard bank account.

    Now every once in a while she'll say... " I found 50 years in your jeans when doing the laundry"

    I'm not sure how I should take that image
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  • GBurger717GBurger717 Posts: 575
    I will bend over for 1cent no shame in it... a pennie saved is a pennie earned
  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

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  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    I'll usually squat ...
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • 53BKid53BKid Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭
    Full knee bend for me.
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  • PinkFloydPinkFloyd Posts: 1,762 ✭
    Yup, never know what you might be missing. Haven't found a 1909-S VDB yet.
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  • NewEnglandNotesNewEnglandNotes Posts: 290 ✭✭✭
    I still remember the agony years ago in my early twenties when at a bar I spotted a quarter........in the urinal. I had a few drinks in me, but not enough to pocket the quarter, though it pained me to leave it there.

    After that night, I never played a game of quarters unless I supplied it, from an unc roll. My friends found it strange until I shared the story.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I pick up even 1 kopiok coins on the ground, even though there are like 8:1 cent. Money is money, even in small amounts. It is not waste of time to pick up money ever.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • JupitarCoinsJupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭
    As the guy on storage wars says yuuuuuup!!
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  • JupitarCoinsJupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭


    << <i>I will bend over for 1cent no shame in it... a pennie saved is a pennie earned >>



    Ahh okay Ben Franklin.
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  • commacomma Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭
    I was in times square yesterday...bent over 3 times. Once for a silver dime, once for a silver ring, once for a wheatie image
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    I always pick up any change I see, no shame at all. image
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  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    Always, unless really filthy.
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    If no one's looking, sure. I've picked up a couple of Wheat cents before, but never any silver.
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,475 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like making chesty women run in crosswalks.........does that count? image

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  • littlebearlittlebear Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭✭
    Always................I love free money, no matter how little.


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  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I always pick up coins I see on the ground. As a kid, I found my first Indian Head cent (an 1898) that way over 50 years ago.

    Jim
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  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭
    Even if I don't have a belt on and show my 'plumber's crack', or 'pencil holder', or whatever else 'it's' called.....I'll stoop over to pick it up. As my buddy says, 'I'm one cent closer to my first million'. Mine goes into a jug for vacation or purchase a new coin for myself. ...never touch it till it's ready to be spent on one or the other, nothing else. I have noticed I'm not doing it as much lately...perhaps there are more 'plumbers' now, what with the economy. I've also noticed the 'Take a penny, Leave a penny' trays are either empty, or gone altogether.
    I'll come up with something.
  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭
    Always. Even for a penny.
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  • atarianatarian Posts: 3,116 ✭


    << <i>Depends who's behind me. >>



    where do you find your change ???? :/

    I always bend down for coinage
    my father however leaves pennies for kids to find and pick up
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  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    With a quick tug at the rear belt line i'll be bending over image
  • richbeatrichbeat Posts: 2,288 ✭
    I do. My best find was a twenty dollar bill. There was no way of knowing who dropped it, so I kept it. When I go to the local Valero, there's almost always a cent or two in the parking spaces. image
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Must be the holiday shoppers.
    I picked up a quarter in front of a market, a dime inside and on the way home stopped for gas and found a cent. I was shocked that the cent was a 57-D wheat. image

    LOL.... so I got 36 cents Wooo Hoooo!
    Ed
  • drei3reedrei3ree Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭✭
    Yep, no shame here!image
  • CCC2010CCC2010 Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    My wife usually does the bending... image
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  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The Browns almost bent you over a fifth time. image >>



    Not nearly as much as your guys got bent over last Monday...
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  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure, It all adds up.

    Kinda makes me wonder how much I`ve added up over the years image
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Browns almost bent you over a fifth time.

    trust me, he was never in danger.
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    I will do it and the kids do it too....free money and it adds up.
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Only if it's slabbed.
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,392 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Depends who's behind me. >>



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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,023 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I will pick up any of those rode kill coins or bills for that matter. Several years ago I cashed in my "road kill" and bought 3 of the gold eagle commems along with several of the silver dollar eagle commems.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i agree that is a strange title but yes i do pick up change on the groung. it all adds up in the long run
  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    I pick up all the money that I see in the street.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,669 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I pick up all the money that I see in the street. >>



    So do I. Makes no sense to pass up free money.

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  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I pick up all the money that I see in the street. >>



    So do I. Makes no sense to pass up free money. >>



    Me too. And you never know what you'll get. I keep hoping for any 2009 denomination. Can't even get them in change. image
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  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    I've been picking up change since I was a kid. 2 years ago I started putting "found money" in a jar for my granddaughter. I walk a lot in warm weather and find the most money doing that. I counted it about 6 months ago and there was right at $40 in the jar. I'm guessing I've put $5 or $6 more in since. Mostly from picking up change. About 7 months ago I found a $20 bill while walking. A nice addition.

    Dan
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    one time I found $10,000 lying on the floor,,,,,I did bend over for that and put it in my pocket.....image
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Found a brown coin while hiking in Sabino Canyon near my house this weekend. It turn out it was a quarter. It was a Wisconsin state quarter, but alas, no extra leaf. If would have been the worst known example if it had been one.
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,211 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anyone ever started a type set from found money?
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