Yesterday I cashed it all in.
PipestonePete
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The coin and currency that Mrs. PipestonPete and I find on our walks and anywhere else people tend to lose it. This is an accumulation of several years and the coffee mug that we toss the finds into was full to the brim. The total haul was $61.83 of which $19.83 was in change (332 coins).
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finding coins is common, I pick them up all the time, but the bills are a rarity, especially 2-$20's.
I always pick up free money. In the 2000s, I saved them in a jar for about 8 years and ended up with over $70 in coins when I cashed them in. I live in a different area now and find a lot less, so finds go right in the pocket.
BTW: @PipestonePete Since you sent these back into the wild, you're now the designated responder to all road rash questions
Look at all those "mint errors"!
I used to keep a jar of metal detector finds, never amount to much. I didnt/dont detect much.
Wait ... is that a doubled die?
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
Nice. Despite the bum hip and 2 herniated discs I still pick coins up if I see them.
Better in your pocket. 2 wks ago I found a 10.00 bill wrapped in a store receipt in the parking lot in a down pour.
Is that nickel attached to the paper that reads "TAKE"?
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I see lots of valuable die chip coins!
Great haul. Especially with all that paper!
free money is so plentiful, it almost takes root.
Really nice accumulation of finds....I always pick up coins - or bills - that I find...I have found two $20's over the years... a few fivers....no ten dollar bills....many singles. Of course, we are talking a LOT of years...
Cheers, RickO
I went to the car wash one day and someone left $18 in quarters stacked in groups of four on top of the coin box.
Yes, the nickel was taped to the square of paper and the word "TAKE" was written on the front. The back was pre-printed with some religious text.
That Dime on top of the pile, near the bottom right corner of the paper, silver?
Many "parking lot" coins I see! Lol
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We keep all our found money in a jar also. 5 or 6 years ago, we cashed in our free money and bought a cat from the humane society. $46 bucks or so if i remember correctly. When the kids were little, they would dive under the counter or lottery machines at the store without a care in the world about who was watching... they were real money makers back then. Now they're much to old and cool to carry on like that so I have to do it.
I found $1.06 in the coinstar machine last time I went.
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I never keep any change in my pocket. I's tossed in a jar and once every 2 years taken to Coinstar for an Amazon G.C. (No fee & 100% of the deposit)
That's one way to spread the message!
(not that I'm a subscriber)
Jesse C. Kraft, Ph.D.
Resolute Americana Curator of American Numismatics
American Numismatic Society
New York City
Member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), British Numismatic Society (BNS), New York Numismatic Club (NYNC), Early American Copper (EAC), the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4), U.S. Mexican Numismatic Association (USMNA), Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC), Token and Medal Society (TAMS), and life member of the Atlantic County Numismatic Society (ACNS).
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It pays to keep an open eye. Now the payoff
Decent finds!
One rainy night I was walking a short distance home and spotted a twenty dollar bill in the gutter and picked it up, wet, sand and all. Then another one appeared about 30 feet later. Well, in the course of another hundred feet I found 6 more twenties! When I got home, I placed them on the radiator and set my alarm for daylight. After spending some time in the same area the next morning, I found a dollar bill, lol! My thoughts were a loose wallet fell off a motorcycle and the rain water washed them to the side on the road. Don't think this will happen again!
Your attention grabbing thread title had me thinking you sold your whole collection.
Cool.
When we take our walks we always pick up any bottles/cans. They are worth 5 cents each in redemption. Same as finding loose change. When we get enough for a trip to the recycling center, off we go. Get a few dollars,clean the streets,help the environment,and get some exercise. Win,win, win.
Thank you for not posting these one at a time for evaluation.
That's a great story. Something similar happened to me as a kid.
I was walking along the main street through town (a small town, so no sidewalks), and I came across a 1 dollar bill. Then a short distance later I came across a 5 dollar bill. Then several more steps and I found a 10 dollar bill. Despite by best hopes, the finds ended there.
That almost qualifies as exonumia. No real value, but I would have been tempted to keep it. No one would blame you for spending it, though.
Well, almost no one.
Use to pick up bottles in the '60's along the side of the road. I think they were worth 2 or 3 cents each?
Congratulations!
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Nice!
My best find was around a $400 stack in a rubber band at the entrance to a mall. My wife found $300 in a bank envelope in a sears parking lot about a year later.
"Today the crumbs, tomorrow the
loaf. Perhaps someday the whole damn boulangerie." - fictional Jack Rackham
Wow, nice! The only places I've ever found a twenty was in my old golf bag or in my bicycle bag, but never in the wild.
I knew it would happen.
WOW! Now that is way cool.
How could someone forget something like that? Unless it was the person who collects them from the machine?
Pete
Sorry bout your luck. If you were a Billionaire you'd be in line to get a free couple Big Checks about now.
Sam is feeling so sorry about their loss, he's handing out the big checks.
Can't be getting those Big Boys too despondent. No telling what might happen .
Occasionally I've found large bills.
1) I was the last person out of the gym. Everything was closed. On the way to my car, I found what appeared to be a dollar bill. Cool, nice to find after a workout. I opened it up and it was a $100 bill!
2) Outside of a dive bar in Fairbanks, Alaska, I found 2 rolled up $20s. Guess some drunk dropped them on the ground the night before (alcoholism is a big problem over there).
3) Found a $20 warming down after a summer night run.
4) The weirdest find was a 10 real note (worth $4 US at the time) outside the gate of the Casa Alvorada (Presidential Palace), in Brasilia.