Ever swipe a coin from a fountain....
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..or maybe see a coin you need and when no one is looking, replace it?
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I've never seen a coin I needed in a fountain but I haven't looked either.
Some are dripping with luster.
Ha, I can see @Watchbelieve with a microscope scanning for DDOs in 4' of water.
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My brothers and I would hit the bushes around a fountain in a mall when kids. They'd be good for 25 cents to a dollar. I've never taken a swim in one.
The homeless find a few coins in the fountains around the mall in DC. They do it at night. It is illegal.
I ask to swap change in the give or take. I haven't been refused yet nor have I stolen from one.
The coinstar rejects get scooped by me. Just checked one tonight and another 2 days ago -- both dry.
Not a fountain but a tip cup at Dunkin Donuts. It took a minute to translate through the language barrier, but I exchanged a quarter for a war nickel.
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I don't swim very well.
I never did that.... I do check the take a cent, leave a cent tray....any wheaties I take and replace with new cents... There was an old wishing well at a park here in town... have not been there in many years, may not even be there now. Cheers, RickO
Never did, but thought about it....
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Thought about it, but no, never did
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Guilty as charged. About 50 years ago at age 10, my brother and I were caught by a security guard picking up change in the wishing pond at Marineland in Florida. We didn't realize we were stealing, we thought we found treasure. Our pockets were so full we couldn't keep our pants up. After dumping our pockets back into the pond we were turned over to dad who showed no mercy. Since then I have been fascinated with coins and the only thing I wade for is golf balls.
Lord knows how much silver we gave up that day.
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Never gave one a thought, yet.
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My kid wandered off from his mom at a mall when he was five. The security guard found him wading in a fountain, picking up coins. My kid later explained that after he figured he was lost and on his own, he'd better get some money to support himself.
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There was a guy named "Fountain" who had a coin shop in Sacramento.
But I never swiped anything from him.
Done it once! Saw a 1943-S war nickel in the water (easy to see by the color and large S on the reverse), picked it up and replaced it with a quarter. That was back in the 90's.
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No, but if anyone did and found something cool, do you think you could get a fountain recovery mention with the grade ?
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Wonder what the legality actually is. If you find a coin on the floor of the mall it is fair game to pick it up. Get's tossed in the fountain and taking it is a crime.
Guess Coinstar finds straddle the middle. Technically it could be claimed that the reject change belongs to the store.
Belongs to coinstar
'eh? This absolutely makes no sense. If coinstar rejected the coins how could them claim to then own them?
The machine did
As we all know they are mostly good
Further penny Annie kept foreign coins. The bank said they kept them.
If any foreign make it through I'll guess coinstar keeps them, too.
That is why I am think the store maintains possession. Coinstar has rejected the coin yet it has not hit the floor which after a 37 second pause would place it in the public domain.
Was once in the Bahamas and saw US Currency in the wishing pools....more than one bill....some floating and some that sank to the bottom
Talked with my 8 year old and he convinced me not to attempt it
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I don't swim very well.
I was hiking in the Wicklow mountains of Ireland near a very old monastery and saw a shiny gold piece as the bottomof a pool off the river. I HAD to dive in and see, could it be gold? Nope 5 Euro cent and I was soaking wet but dry by the time I got to the bottom.
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In a round-about way. You see, one of my favorite restaurants has a fountain on the patio by the entrance. After the meal and before the coffee is served, I excuse myself. And, I suggest that the little hydrants would like to stretch their legs. Papa will gladly supervise. Then we retire to the "Wishing Well." In no time at all, several, if not all of the little hydrants, spot something sparkling in the water. That is when I gently lift and drop each and everyone into the "Treasure Water." So..... in a round-about way, Yes, I have swiped coins from a fountain. I love being PaPa. Oh God, do I love it.
Had to clean a fountain on a regular basis, but it was Federal donated money once in the fountain. Also the water was very corrosive, so the coins were not worth looking at.
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Can't say that I have.
I once saw a wheat cent in a fountain (reverse side up) when I was a teenager and it was all I could do not to reach in and grab it. I'm sure it was probably a 50's era cent, but I couldn't help but imagine the coin might be a 14-D or a 22 plain. That was 30+ years ago.
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This is a nice thread with some interesting responses. Head back to the PM forum where you are the expert and everyone else is a rube.
many gold soldo were thrown at me as I bathed in the natural hot springs of the late republic of Roma by the beautiful women of Matera. I would dive in my suit given at birth to retrieve the soldi.
The women were quite amused at this display of of of ........wait a minute! That was a dream I once had after watching the late movie Quo Vadis.
I guess I have to say No to this one.
I did once or twice when I was a kid. That's been 40+ years ago.
The biggest scores came from the neighborhood grocery store. Me and the buddies could slide under the conveyer belt and reach in the cabinet for a few nickels and dimes. Was even good for a quarter now and then!
I worked at six flags as a teenager at a Hot Dog Stand. Talk about cheap wages! As an incentive to keep people from quiting near the end of the season they gave a 20c per hour worked bonus if you stayed through labor day.This brought your pay up to minimum wage! It was an ongoing tradition or contest between the different food places to soap the fountains ,log jamboree, or anything in the park that had water on labor day! If you were caught you were fired and lost your bonus
So about the end of July the hoarding of soap would begin. We would go around stealing gallons of soap from other restaurants(as well as ordering a gallon or 2 each week more than we needed) and bury the soap behind our stand. I believe we dispensed around 20 gallons of soap around the park with the help of siblings of my co workers....yeap we got away with it and blew our competition away! There was a sizable fountain out in front of our stand. I bet we got 10 gallons of soap into it. There were wads of soap bubbles 2-3ft around wafting out of the fountain. The killer was when it finally filled up and started overflowing because we turned on the water and stopped up the drain!
And this was with security swarming around us like buzzards over a road kill!
What brought this to mind? While burying a gallon of soap I hit the jackpot! I believe I carried home somewhere between $30-$40 worth of change that I found while digging a hole! Come to find out later it was where the fountain in front of our stand drained. So guilty as charged here!
Always tossed a few on one and made a silly wish when i was young...never dipped my hands in that water though...just looked and never touched.
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Same here.
To take coins seems like the opposite of good luck
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Wouldn't even occur to me as a temptation. I think there is a song about three coins....
when I was at Disney once, somebody apparently had thrown a 1/10 th age into the fountain pit area on the expendition everst ride. I had to look at it a couple of times as I circled around the area that this fountain is in, and it sure was.
I don't think that I have ever plucked a coin form a fountain, but every one I see on the ground is fair game.
sounds like fun!
....and I'd do it again!
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