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

SanctionII

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?

GoldenEyeNumismatics

On the floor of my high school library. Somebody had left a lonely cent on the ground. I picked it up... a nice AU 1972 DDO! This was several years ago.

RichieURich

From a copier machine at the University of Michigan in 1977 - - a circulated 1950-D nickel.

WoodenJefferson

I told the story years ago about finding a 1812 half dollar stuck into the rim of a shot glass, that was inside a tall farm house china cabinet.

coindeuce

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.

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.

stealer

<< <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?

lasvegasteddy

1972 i was 10 and walking home in st.louis when i found an 1895 nickel on the shoulder of the road

coindeuce

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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.

dogwood

As an antique furniture collector, and professional refinisher, I dream about the day I cut into an old sofa and find an MS 01-s Quarter.
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.

stealer

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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

harveypb

I found a silver quarter in the reject tray of a CoinStar machine at my local Winn Dixie.....

chipper10

I found 2 Liberty Nickels laying on top of the ground in a dirt parking lot while delivering newspapers when I was a kid 35 years ago after a very hard rain.

Coinosaurus

In _______'s [insert least favorite forum character here] collection, of course

AnkurJ

For sale in a vending machine.

lkeigwin

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

Someone post a picture of Ira's toilet seat!
Lance.

kiyote

Old farmhouses are FULL of loose pocket change from the year they were built on. I found a few wheat cents under the cellar stairs at the family farm in Ohio and haven't even begun looking around the place. (My 80 year old mother still lives there-- it would be in poor taste).

TwoSides2aCoin

The most unlikely place was in a "junk box", where many of us find what's collectible.

tightbudget

A 3CS lying by a coin counting machine

nwcoast

Back in the late 70's we were tearing out some carpet in an old victorian house and I found a pristine 1909 Lincoln cent under the carpet. It was just as bright and perfect as the day it was minted! Wasn't an S on it though. I gave it to a young guy I was working with as he was super excited about it... I wasn't collecting coins in that chapter of my life.

melvin289

<< <i>In _______'s [insert least favorite forum character here] collection, of course >>



Now why did you want to make me a part of this thread?

Ron

Barberian

I found an AU 1876-S dime in shallow water at the edge of a pond.

SaorAlba

My best kick up the ground and find a coin was back in ca. 1990 when I lived in California - on long drives coming back from down south I would usually stop at Mission San Jose and get a drink and walk around the mission. On this trip I was walking over by the church and spied what looked dark and peaking out from a dry clump of dirt. I sort of nudged it with my foot and it looked like a cent so I bent over and picked it up and cleaned off the dirt. Imagine my surprise to see that the coin had been there at least 50 years, a 1926-S cent that I still have. A nice semi-key date out of the dirt, literally.

ajaan

We bought our current house 4 years ago. In the basement was an old upright piano that was in sorry shape. We had the piano removed and while the guys were taking it out an 1892 nickel fell out.

USMarine6

About a month back my mother in law found a 1846 quarter in her mothers dresser along with two dollars fv of silver dimes

RollSearcher

Not so much an unusual place, but an unusual circumstance. About 10 years ago, my wife surprised me with a trip to Boston on my birthday. At one point in the day, we stopped at a convenience store for some sodas. In my change was an XF 1892 Indian Head cent. My first thought was that my wife had somehow planted it, but on top of not knowing anything about coins, there's just no way she could have planned it. It was just a cool birthday surprise.

Elcontador

El Rastro flea market in Madrid, in the summer of 1973. Got an Unc. 1920 P Cent.

erwindoc

Not metal detecting but found a well worn Liberty nickel after plowing up a field. Went back with the detector later and it must have fallen out of another farmers pocket years ago.

themaster

In the mid 60's my family was visiting relatives in Indianapolis. The grown ups were playing cards, so I went out in the backyard to play with their dog. I would throw Danny"s bone and he would retrieve it. I saw something shiny after picking up the bone, and was surprised to find that it was an unc. 1906 Indian Head Cent. My uncle had no idea how it got there. It was my first IHC. I was about 10 years old. I still have the coin. It is part of my complete set of IHC's.


Have a Great Day!
Louis

Weiss

Most of us probably keep our eyes on the ground more than the average non-collector. A few years back I was walking along the side of one of my properties, a big house from the teens. Lying in the dirt, face up like she'd been dropped yesterday, was a walking liberty half:

GBurger717

I own 2 coin press machines in Gettysburg PA. I get at least 1 silver quarter a month during tourist season

Meltdown

AUandAG has a great story about being a kid and crawling under the boardwalks in Virgina City and finding gold pieces...

I don't have any "found" stories yet, but every day I'm looking.

SUMORADA

I'm waiting to see what Mad Marty says.........

SanctionII

I seem to remember that Marty found a 1938 or 1939 proof set at a pawn shop that he bought for less than $200.00 (since the pawn shop owner did not realize the coins were proofs instead of circulation strikes).

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".