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So where is the most unusual place you have found a collectible coin?

Or the most unusual place where you have heard others have found collectible coins?
This does not include buried treasure, shipwreck coins, etc. It includes more pedestrian locations.
I have found collectible coins (90% silver when I was a pup) in furniture and in the gaps between floors and baseboards at my parents home; lying on the floor at stores, lying on the ground in parking lots, etc.
I have heard of people finding collectible coins in and under the seats of old cars [cars dating from the mid 1960's on back], in old vending machines, in old slot machines, in old pay telephones. I have also thought that many collectible coins are just waiting to be found in old fountains and wishing wells.
How about you?
This does not include buried treasure, shipwreck coins, etc. It includes more pedestrian locations.
I have found collectible coins (90% silver when I was a pup) in furniture and in the gaps between floors and baseboards at my parents home; lying on the floor at stores, lying on the ground in parking lots, etc.
I have heard of people finding collectible coins in and under the seats of old cars [cars dating from the mid 1960's on back], in old vending machines, in old slot machines, in old pay telephones. I have also thought that many collectible coins are just waiting to be found in old fountains and wishing wells.
How about you?
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A work associate previously lived in a circa 1915 house in a city neighborhood. While doing laundry in the low ceiling basement one day, the movement of someone across the first floor above him caused a large cent to dislodge from one of the rafter beams, where it had been apparently placed as a shim a long time ago.
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<< <i>A former neighbor had once disassembled the tubular brass frame of a mission style bed, and he found a Indian Head Quarter Eagle in Mint State inside the headframe. >>
What was it doing in there?
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<< <i>A former neighbor had once disassembled the tubular brass frame of a mission style bed, and he found a Indian Head Quarter Eagle in Mint State inside the headframe. >>
What was it doing in there?
We looked for any flies that could have been on the wall when it was placed there, but had no luck at all.
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But the best I can relate was a 50's Danish dresser I got from a thrift store with a jammed shut drawer that had a bunch of wheaties, and some silver 20th century circ stuff buried in a little mess of personal junk.
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<< <i>A former neighbor had once disassembled the tubular brass frame of a mission style bed, and he found a Indian Head Quarter Eagle in Mint State inside the headframe. >>
What was it doing in there?
We looked for any flies that could have been on the wall when it was placed there, but had no luck at all.
Just thought perchance you had found one
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I'm waiting to see what Mad Marty says.........
I guess that might qualify as an unusual place to find a collectible coin. Then again, maybe not.
Perhaps we should take a vote.
P.S. I do not remember if Marty has found a collectible coin in or around "The Chicken".