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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Is 'crazy' and 'obsessed' the same mental condition ? :smile:

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yesterday was 2 quarters a nickel and 2 pennies

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  • slenda
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    @1630Boston said:
    Is 'crazy' and 'obsessed' the same mental condition ? :smile:

    No

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 8, 2017 8:32PM
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    Slenda you are not the only one that digs coins out of the pavement. Chip and seal streets are bad for coins when it gets hot

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am in another dry spell.... nothing in parking lots, shopping aisles, coinstars or streets.... Dang people sure hold on to their coins around here..... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • bigzestee
    bigzestee Posts: 129 ✭✭✭
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    Got back from vacation and got a 1935 penny in gas station change.Then went to Walmart and checked the Coinstar reject coming in and found 18 cents.Checked again going out and got another 8 cents plus a 2016P uncirculated dime and a decent 1947 dime.

    BST references several

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A dime and a penny + 40 cans on this mornings walk.

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  • slenda
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    @ricko said:
    I am in another dry spell.... nothing in parking lots, shopping aisles, coinstars or streets.... Dang people sure hold on to their coins around here..... ;) Cheers, RickO

    Same here, Zero for the first time tonight, unless someone beat me to it. Found about 30¢ this afternoon at least.

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No coins on the walk this morning but did find 39 cans and 10 CD's in a holder. Taylor Swift kinda stuff so that will go in the garage sale. Later stopped by the park to do a little detecting. First thing I found was a dollar bill by wind blown trash. Then the mowed up $20. Looked and looked but couldn't find the rest while detecting. Finally put the detector away and walked all of the fence lines but no luck except for 4 baseballs

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Well, with the $20, since the SN is all there... I think the bank will exchange it... been a long time since I read about this, might have to send it to the Feds.... Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I thought it had to be 51% of the bill but I don't know for sure. Todays walk was 2 pennies and 53 cans. Stopped to get gas and found a dime. Stopped at McDonalds and found a quarter.

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It would make sense to have more than 50%, otherwise you could redeem two 49% bills and double your money. :smile:

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Found this from
    BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING
    U.S. Department of the Treasury

    https://moneyfactory.gov/services/currencyredemption.html

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • WhiteTornado
    WhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
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    Found a can of white spray paint along a street adjacent to mine. Must have fallen off a truck. PPC: no tools, though :smile:

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks for the info 1630Boston I may just have to mail this piece to them. It might be worth a stamp. 2 dimes, 2 pennies , 27 cans and a baseball for this morning. I reserve the right to find more later ;)

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    PPC... with your luck I am surprised it was not a Derek Jeter autographed baseball.... :D:D Cheers, RickO

  • slimies
    slimies Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    a wrench and some dimes. nothing fancy. it was quite wrenching xd

  • WhiteTornado
    WhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
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    Got a nice pile from a CoinStar, about two bucks in clad and a UK coin. No silver, though. I'm guessing the interior bin was full.

  • ricko
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    Wow....nice haul.... I have only found two cents in the local coinstar about a week ago.... check it each visit... Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My coin finds have slowed down a bit. Sunday morning walk through the HS parking lot yielded 1 penny and 4 tennis balls. This morning stopped by the bank before walking and found a quarter, 2 dimes and a nickel in the counting machine and then 63 cans on the walk.

    WhiteTornado - nice finds at the Coinstar B)

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That is a lot of cans PPC.... How long a walk was that?? In this area, not only are coin finds rare... but I also rarely see cans. Once in a while, such as after a holiday weekend, I will see one or two (late night celebrations) lying in the road. Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    RickO I found the 63 cans in an hour walk in town. (a lot of people around here are to lazy to recycle as well as to pick up loose change.) This morning I walked 4 miles along the shoulder of a highway and found 2 pennies and 22 cans.

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    PPC... that is surprising.... I could go out my front door now and walk the entire village... would likely take me two hours, and if I found two cans I would be surprised.... might find some cents though around the school... Cheers, RickO

  • WhiteTornado
    WhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
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    Found a quarter while out biking on Sunday morning. It was a little bit roughed up on one end, and it had a couple of bits of tar attached. I think that section of road was recently repaved.

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1 penny and 32 cans

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Three parking lots, four stores and one coinstar......Nothing.... :'( Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dime 5 pennies and 24 cans and a foot of copper tubing

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 1, 2017 6:03AM
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    Congratulations on the copper tubing... a unique find. I do not remember if I posted my dime and four cents find in the coinstar a day ago... See, PPC still beat me out... :D Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Cents count. Beat you by a penny.

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    PPC.... you have me beat by about 10,000 or more pennies..... No way can I compete with your finds... :) Cheers, RickO

  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 7, 2017 12:33PM
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    Well, I hope this works, found at the beach while detecting:

    nope, it doesn't work, how do you post from Photobucket?

    ah, got it.

    photo IMG_0992_zpsmvhrrtto.jpg

    Frank

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  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    same beach different day:

    photo IMG_0975_zpsmfsfdtpt.jpg

    That is 2 $20's.

    then, tossing out the trash I found in the garbage bag:

    photo IMG_0976_zpswr3wqbac.jpg

    Frank

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  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Parking lot:

    photo IMG_0997_zpsdts2moob.jpg

    Frank

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  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    While metal detecting, a different beach:

    photo IMG_0777_zps8krpurkn.jpg

    then:

    photo IMG_0776_zpstikwlvt8.jpg

    then:

    photo IMG_0992_zpsmvhrrtto.jpg

    Funny part of it was that the kids cleaning the trash from the beach had just walked by minutes before.

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Total parking lot finds for about 2+ months:

    25 quarters
    27 dimes
    17 nickels
    167 cents

    plus a couple of wheaties.

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Treashunt .... Holey Moley.... Those are fantastic bill finds....Hope you find many more....Cheers, RickO

  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks, @ricko

    I try, I try.

    :D

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 26, 2017 3:31AM
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    One of the guys that I know was out detecting and went over to a fence to,... well, relieve himself.

    He looked down and saw a $20, then another, then another, then some over the fence.

    In the end he had $200.

    Far better than I ever did

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Double wowzer..... That is amazing... some mini-drug dealer probably lost a grip on his wad..... Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Was that a late night party beach? Wonder what kind of jewelry might be under that sand

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yep.... That indicates potential for sure.... Cheers, RickO

  • pcgs69
    pcgs69 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
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    I can't remember the last time I found a paper bill on the ground. You guys make it look easy!

  • WhiteTornado
    WhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
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    Found a small bunch of South Korean 1 Won coins in a Coinstar recently. They were so light, about 6-7 coins felt about the same weight as 2 U.S. nickels.

  • ricko
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    Jackpot at the coinstar today..... $2.27....seven quarters (one Canadian) four dimes, one nickel. one Spanish pesta 1947, one 10 Euro cent piece... the rest cents.... in there was one 1943S steel penny, one 1918 wheatie and a 1937 wheatie.... Not bad... Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Worth the wait to find a Coinstar like that.

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ricko
    Seems probable that more than one person left coins there. :smile:
    Congrats, your dry streak seems to be over.

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yep... could be more than one..... so far, that is the most I have found in that machine (or any machine)...Last largest was (I think) $1.97...I would rather find an IHC or a silver dime though.... :) Cheers, RickO

  • WhiteTornado
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    @ricko , I'm with you. Anytime I have found free silver in the CoinStar it has brightened my outlook B)

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Little slow reporting here. Monday I did find a nickel at the has station a quarter at the car wash and another quarter in front of the concession stand. Cashed in 9 weeks of cans on Wednesday. 56 pounds and got $23.20 for them. Plus 10 pounds of lead wheel weights for another $3. All this from walking. I'll be trading this for silver when I make it to the coin shop. I guess you could say I had some good silver walks :wink:

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That is great PPC.... aluminum and lead converted to silver.... You are a master alchemist.... :D Cheers, RickO

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