I found a $100 bill on the copy machine in a private foundation's library.
When I was about eight, I reached into Mrs. Pearlstone's hedges to pull out a ball that was errantly thrown to me and pulled out a five dollar bill. That was a big thrill for me.
I regularly find $20's that Mrs. RYK absentmindedly leaves in coat pockets, glove compartments, furniture drawers, etc.
I found a wallet with about 500 or 600 dollars in it at work one morning.
I returned it to the rightful owner, without removing any of the contents. The owner was very happy and incredibly amazed that someone would return a wallet with all the money in it without pinching any of it.
We turned into best of friends from that time on. He used to turn me on to all sorts of stuff from that day on. He'd buy me breakfast and have it waiting on my desk without even asking, give me dime bags of weed, give me VHS movies that he'd already watch etc.
The good old days. Turns out it was going to be his Christmas shopping day and he was going to buy his parents something cool and this would have been a major loss for him so he was way happy.
Not meaning to derail the thread............... I had a stress test last week, and it came out real good. Tell Dr Lynch thanks for the good job he did on the double bypass in 2003 on me when you see him, DrPete.
When I was 17 I lost my wallet in Port Authority bus station NYC, it had my ticket home a couple bucks and a circulated 1921 Peace dollar my grandfather gave me.
About 10 years ago I found coupon wallet in the parking lot at work. No form of identification. After 120 days it was not claimed so it was given to me. There were $100 in gift certificates to Barnes and Noble, $1000 in Albertson's (grocery store) certificates.
I once found a nip bottle that contained $60 dollars, three $20 bills when i was a kid, musta been belonged to a drunk. I also lost about $300 dollars in a wallet that I had placed on my t-tops of my 1982 corvette, unknowingly driving away with it on the roof and when I realized I had put it there I was about 1/2 mile down the road from my house. I pulled over and started to walk back towards home looking all the way,after about ten minutes a car pulled up with two guys in it and they asked if I had lost something,I said yes my wallet and then the guy threw the wallet to me and said he had just found it in the middle of the street, I asked where's the money but he said he found none.Oh well at least I got my license and credit cards back. To this day I have never carried a wallet.
I don't know what it is, maybee some magnetic earthly innner core force, but I seem to loose or misplace money when I'm in Atlantic City or Vegas. It's like magic, my bills seem to jump out of my pocket whenever I walk by a slot machine & disappear. Must be Alzheimers. Seriously .. the most I ever found was at the Showboat in Atlantic City...20 $100 bills on a money clip, on the floor in the mens room, next to the crapper that I was occupying. I turned the $ into casino security & got a comped steak dinner meal.
"Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
I found $20 as a kid in the doorway of a Las Vegas casino. I kept it. I found a wad of $20's in Safeway last year and turned my name and number in to lost and found--nobody claimed it, so I kept that, too. I found a brick of $10 bills ($1000 worth) as a kid, and I know it made its way back to the owner but I don't remember the details because I was too young. I found a wallet while working at my second job, filled with cash and credit cards--I located the owner and gave it back. Lots of times I've found change and bills--too many times to count. It's a thrill, even if it's only a buck.
I found a bank bag with $4300.00 cash and another $3400.00 in checks. It was from a high school boosters club. The treasurer had put on top of his truck and then drove off. It was laying in the middle of the street. I tracked him down and found out he was the assistiant fire cheif in that small town. Whe I returned it he didnt even count it until I insisted. He said if I was honest enough to return it then he was sure it was all there. I got a shoulder patch and a hat from the fire dept. as a reward.
I found a $20 bill once, but it looked like it fell out of someone's pocket and got chewed up with a lawnmower. i had to go to 4 different banks before they would exchange it, but they eventually did.
My grandfather bought a teapot once, and there was a sock full of money inside. I think he said there was about $600 inside. He got it from a garage sale, paid a quarter for it. Apparently the husband wanted to have the sale, and the wife has been stashing money in the teapot for savings. Needless to say, he took the teapot and the money back, and the couple was very grateful.
on christmas eve at a pool hall i found a $100. bill and turned it in to the manager. i remember thinking how honest i am right -then someone told me that someone had just found $20,000 in the k-mart restroom and turned it in leaving me to know that i guess i'm just not that honest as i would of kept the $20,000
everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see
I lost a wallet while going to court in Sacarmento years ago. Left it on top of my car as I left court for the trip back to the SF Bay Area. When I got back to my office a voice mail message on my office phone was left by the person who found the wallet. He Fed Exed the wallet to me that day and I received it the next. A very nice thing for the guy to do. I paid the Fed Ex costs and the guy declined a reward.
In law school in 1978-79 at the beginning of the school year I lost a $100.00 bill (big bucks at the time for a student). Could not find it and considered it gone for good. Later on towards the end of the school year, at a time when I needed funds, I found the $100.00 bill. It was in the trunk of my car, hidden under other stuff.
I also found a misplaced $50.00 bill in a coat pocket. Found money, since I never remember misplacing/losing $50.00.
Was at a Laker game in 1984 at the Forum watching "ShowTime" with Magic, Kareem, Worthy, et. al. Halftime came around and a large group of people left the arena for the mezzanine. Jam packed, shoulder to shoulder. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something fall to the floor. I stopped and reached down to pick it up. Other hands were reaching to do the same thing, but my hand was faster. A $20.00 bill. I took the cash in my hand, stood up and looked around to see who dropped the bill. The crowd had surged forward and no one stood out or said anything. I kept the $20.00.
My wife, kids and I were at SFO going on a trip. Went through security checkpoint and after going through same sat on a chair to put my tennis shoes back on. While doing so, my wallet fell out of my pocket [It had $1,800.00 cash, plus credit cards and license and travellers checks in it]. We had no clue and walked to the boarding gate. While at the boarding gate my kid wants something to eat. I say ok and reach for my wallet. It is not there and I panick. We all retrace out steps and I thought I will find the wallet, sans $1,800.00 in cash. I did find the wallet, laying on the floor under the chair I had sat on. Nothing had been taken from the wallet (to the relief of us all). Thank god my kid was hungry.
Also, many times over the years I have found $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills on the street, etc.
A funny story is from my days playing college basketball. A teammate of mine was a cheapskate and miser. Our home gym seated about 2,500 people. The bleachers were the retractable kind. When extended the bleachers were open underneath the seats and people could walk underneath them. After home games were over and before the janitors would retract the seats and sweep up the gym, my teammate would go under the bleacher seats slumming for loose change and bills that had been dropped by fans during the games. He always picked up pocket change and bills after the home games that would pay for munchies and beverages for him during post game trips to local watering holes.
One of my best finds was while in 10th grade. November, 1971. Finished up basketball practice and had called my mom to pick me up. Called from a pay phone in the school lobby just inside the front doors to the school. I hung up and the phone malfunctioned. The change return slot opened and nickels and dimes came flying out of the phone just like a stream of water out of a hose. Change bouncing and rolling around the front lobby like crazy. No one else around at all. Not even a janitor. After the "coin cascade" finally stopped, I scoped up all of the change on the floor and put it in my pockets. When I got home and counted the loot, I had between $10.00 and $15.00 in change.
A friend of the family bought a carpet bag at a flea market. When she got it home she found a five dollar gold piece inside. I have always wondered what type it was but this happened before I was born.
As crazy as this sounds, this is a true story. In 1980, while working, pumping gas before entering my freshman year in college, during the summer, on the 4th of July, I decided to clean my car out.....at 18, thats a monumental task, what with all the empty beer cans in it. Well, it was during the day, noonish, so noone was coming in but my buddies to shoot the shyte, have a few beers, the usual. Cleaned the entire car, I mean CLEAN, sparkling-wash, wax, chamois dry...the absolute cleanest that '67 Plymouth Valiant, with the puke dark green paint, ever was. I suddenly decide to clean the trunk, secure the spare, vacuum it and make THAT neat also. Under the mat in the trunk, I see a lump. Pull up the mat, and there is a silver bag. That bag was an honest to god treasure chest....7 womens gold rings-diamonds and rubies and emeralds, and not new...a savings account passbook, from a bank two towns away with over $14,000 in it, and $5,650 in cash! Normally, as many of you did, I would have turned it over to the owner, BUT this car was given to my dad for me...more or less a beater, but it really wasnt. A buddy of my dad owned a tow yard, and this car was towed in. Turns out, a mother and son (the son was 70 something, so the mom was up there) committed suicide in the car, by way of running a hose from the exhaust. The closest family member was in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and was contacted about the car after the suicide (to see if they wanted it, sign it away, whatever), but being that far away, for that car, well, the family just signed it over to the tow yard. I contacted the bank, and that pass book money went to the state, as no member claimed it in an alloted time frame (cant remember how long). The cash was deposited in a bank account, with full intent of handing that over, less interest earned, when the book and jewelry were claimed...none of it was ever claimed. I had a great year that year...was the richest freshman in school that year. The jewlery was pawned, as it wasnt in great shape, but that garnered a couple thousand more, so my total cash take was almost $9,500. There is still a picture of me that day floundering in that little trunk with all this cash around me-just like the movies, swimming in cash.....that was a great day! Too bad I havent had any more of them....
Oh, I did splurge and buy a 1977 Camaro for $3,500, which I totalled about 3 months later, and wound up driving the Valiant for another 4 years!!!
edited to add: There was nothing larger than a $20 bill, so you can imagine how thick and stuffed this bag was....there were notes EVERYWHERE! I get a chill every time I harken back to that day. I also wish I had that money NOW!!!
working the 3rd shift at wawas many years ago, I was sweeping the parking lot and I found 8 100 bills in a bank envelope. all were crisp and stamped "not now john". never did find him
I also worked 4am to noon at showcase cinemas when I was 16 cleaning the theatres, found countless cash and jewerly in there, but nothing more than 80 dollars on any one occassion
Found a 120.00 in my riding vest a couple weeks ago !
Have no idea how it got there ?
Few years back i was walking across the parking lot at a grocery store and i spy smoe cash on the ground so i scoop it up on the way by and get acosted by this gal on a cell phone,says "i was gonna pick that up " i says is it yours,she says no,i say tough.
Almost turn it in to a cashier,also has a couple weirdo concert tickets stapled to it.
I think ok,walk back out,the gal is still on the cell,i hand everything back to her and she says no,its a radio promotion for checking peoples morals !
On many occasions I've had people just give me cash while waiting for someone.. Guess I look fairly pitiful. I alway tell them I don't need it but thanks anyways. One lady gave me a 50 and after telling her I didn't need it she said 'I know, you need a tin cup' If it happenes near xmas I drop it in the kettle.
Lost,, well I was $&dashed for 450 by someone that turned out to be a murderer. Now that was a ride through karmaville.
Hi DR: I know this is supposed to be my find but I have to tell this story. At a carnival/reunion in S. IL, my mom & dad were walking in front of me and my grandma. Grandma was looking down and in the sawdust, saw something. She picked it up and it was a diamond ring! She said; "Eva, look at this". Mom took it, looked at her ring finger and almost fainted! It had just slipped off her finger a few seconds before grandma spotted it. Needless to say, she had it resized the next day.
It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
I found a $20 at the tennis court at the park (it was stuck in the net)
Found a wallet at the movies with 300 bucks in it, gave it to the manager and it was returned to the owner.
Found a scratch ticket in the trash.... unscratched $50! winner.
Found a scratch ticket on the ground blowing around with a tire track on it.... it was scratched, and it was a winner $400! and it hadnt been scanned. cha-ching $$$
also had the experience with the phone giving back more money than i put in, same thing with the stamp machine...it was like a slot machine lol.
I found $600 once in a wallet left at our neighborhood swimming pool -- turned it in of course (I was a First Class Scout!).
I've generally been lucky at spotting bills lying on the sidewalk - ones, fives, tens, even a few twenties over the years. Recently I found a fin in the trash at the local drug store -- I guess someone tossed in their change with their receipt. Another time there was a $5 floating down the street in the breeze -- I was on crutches but I still caught it! And a couple of years ago I found $40 in a laundromat washing machine -- no attendant, put up a sign with my phone number saying I'd found cash but no one even called.
One time several years ago there was a woman of quite obviously ill repute and quite obviously tweaked out of her gourd who dropped a wad of cash while stumbling out of a cab. I scooped it up and handed it to her -- she didn't even realize she had lost it or that someone had found it and given back to her. And I was in dire financial straits at the time too!
A friend of mine until recently lived on a block with lots of selling of just about everything going on. She'd often find money lying in the street -- one time she found a $50.
Me at the Springfield coin show: 60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
You guys are lucky. I have never found much at all and one of the lucky few to never have lost any money (other than at casinos). The biggest find was I went into a store to get change for a $20 and the guy said I needed to buy something, so I bought a pack of gum. I get home and lo and behold I had the change from the $20 and the original $20 I needed change for.
If I ever found a big amount I would hold onto it and decide for quite a while whether to keep it or not. If the roles were reversed, I would have been SOL anyway.
When I was about 16 or 17 I was taking a small tin box with $10.00 face in cents, all wrapped up by me in usual 50 cent rolls in paper tubes, on its way to the bank to get myself a $10 bill. I was riding my motorcycle and had the box strapped down on the luggage rack with bungee cords. While going through a quiet neighborhood I heard a strange sound behind me and saw my box had worked loose and hit the street spilling 1000 Lincolns all over the place. I spent about 20 minutes and recovered something like 938 of them despite searching carefully. Didn't loose much value, but I never transported that much change in that manner again. My current motorcycle has a zippable tank bag and this would not have happened.
The most I ever found was 35.00 in a parking lot at shopping center. It was about 2:00am in the morning, some freinds and I would get up and ride bikes over to the shopping center at night and look for lost money. We were about 14-15 yrs old. That night still stays with me as just about the time I found the cash, and yelled over to the other guys, a couple of men in a van starting chasing us down. We all took off in different directions and I ended up climbing up on top of the burger king resutrant roof to hide.
A freind of mine while we were playing under the house when we were about 6-7 found an old satchel bag with about 40,000 dollars in hundered dollar bills in it. Until we looked closer and found out that they all had the same serial number! Counterfiet bills
Coming from a small town there's never a lot of excitement so we'd make our own. My best friend and I went to our local variety store. We didn't have a mall yet and it was the best we could do.
I'll never forget the day, it was April 1, 1981 and we were sitting in "perverts row" (place where the old men would stare at the young gals walking by). We were doing what we called, "fishing for suckers". We'd take a wallet that we had attached some fishing line to, and put in a $1 bill. Slightly pulling the edge out so it was just visible. We wait for a lull in the traffic and toss it out.
It was hilarious to watch people's reaction when they spotted a wallet with money. Some would case the place and wait for the area to clear, then walk over and try a sneaky snatch and grab. As soon as they bent over we'd tug the line and the wallet would come flying back to us. Most would laugh, but you could always tell the guilty parties who you knew weren't going to give it up, they'd get angry and expletives would come flying out.
Prost!
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
Through out my life I have found some money from time to time. The most recent thus the one I remember the details of was about 4 years ago. I rented a car and the sun was out so I turned down the visor and 59 dollars fell on my lap. It was suprising to say the least.
Although not "cash" found, I once purchased a $50 bag of wheat cents at a coin show in Kansas City around 1979 or so. It was the first and only time I bought a table for a coin show and I was in my late teens, before starting college. The going rate was somewhere around $60-80 for the wheaties by my recollection. I planned to take them home and have fun going through them to see what I would find.
The bag was from a dealer I knew well and he mostly dealt dealt in higher-end coins, so I surmised he took them in trade, wanted to get rid of the quickly, and found a likely purchaser, me. When I had a lull in action at my table, my curiousity got the better of me so I decided to take a peak and see what dates I could find in the canvas bank bag. Not one wheat cent, but a nearly full bag of 90% circulated silver dimes. I chuckled and then proceeded to track down my dealer friend to ask him why the wheat cents didn't look right. He had inadvertently picked up the wrong bag when he brought them by. He found the correct bag, we swapped and all was well.
I was in West Palm Beach back around 1983 and I was banging some chick on the beach that I met at The Breakers....and my money clip with $1100 fell out of my pocket.
Hell...I coulda had 4 pro's at once for that much...
How's this for an on-the-money on-topic post? >>
If I had known the clip was yours i would have returned it but I did get the four pros and even had money left over for dinner
I once found a $50.00 bill all crumpled up on my front lawn immediately after the first Spring thaw. The bank wouldn't take it and I sent it to the Treasury Dept, who sent me a check.
Mike Hayes ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !
I have found a fair amount of cash in my life, nothing bigger than a $20 and never more than one bill at a time. But my wife had a good one.
She was with her mother in the little room at her bank where you can go through your safe deposit box in private. When they were done, and about to leave, my wife decides to look on the floor to make sure she didn't drop anything. On the floor she finds two very high quality emeralds, one about .75 carats and the other about 1.5 carats.
She gave her contact info to the bank manager, with instructions to call if anyone reported anything missing. Nobody ever did, so she's wearing them now.
I still fantasize about a box full of emeralds in that bank vault...
As far as losses go, I can't really remember any although I am sure I have. I once lost a ton in the stock market
I found $5 in one of those candy boxes beside the cash registers at the grociery store when I was about four or five. It was a fortune at the time. More receintly, I found a gold necklace in the parking lot. It had about $200 worth of gold in it.
Oh, get this. I was out in the pature one day walking to the fishing hole when I came across a bill fold laying on the ground. I picked it up and inside was $61 in cash along with some credit cards and a driver's licence. I looked, and it was my brother-in-law's. He'd lost it about two years prior to my finding it. The paper money was REALLY faded. I gave the billfold with the money back to my brother in law, and he claimed that there was a $161 dollars in it and wanted to know where his other hundred was.
I sat a no problem ANACS VF25 1877 indian cent on the top of my truck to open the door for my girlfriend. I then got in the truck and drove off. The cent was gone. I retraced the drive, but the coin was no where to be seen. At the time it was the most expencive coin I'd ever bought, about $500. That was the closest I ever came to totally giving up on coin collecting.
When I was much, much younger, I found a wallet containing $1200 in $100 bills in a womens restroom I was cleaning. I was working as a convenience store clerk at the time. My manager was not there, but I called him immediately. A few hours later an older woman came in and she was beside herself. She told me that she had lost $1200 and had no idea where she left it so she was retracing her steps. I pulled it out of the day safe and gave it to her. She tried to give me $100 for keeping it for her. She looked like that was probably all the money she had in the world and I had just been doing my job, so I refused. She had a dollar in her pocket and bought a scratch off ticket and gave it to me. I won $50! Honesty DOES pay off in strange ways.
Jonathan
I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
I was in West Palm Beach back around 1983 and I was banging some chick on the beach that I met at The Breakers....and my money clip with $1100 fell out of my pocket.
Hell...I coulda had 4 pro's at once for that much...
How's this for an on-the-money on-topic post? >>
If I had known the clip was yours i would have returned it but I did get the four pros and even had money left over for dinner >>
Two years ago I found $1,650.00 (all cash) in the parking lot of an Italian restaurant. I parked my truck, stepped out, and literally stepped right on it.
As it turned out, it was the daily receipts from a dentist office (it had a bank deposit slip attached to it).
I returned it to the dentist the next day. They were ecstatic! The receptionist gave me a big hug. They even offered to clean my teeth for free!
Dave
Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
The most I ever lost was $10, but that was in the early 1960's.
The most I ever found was also $10. I once found a five dollar bill in a puddle next to my car in the parking lot of the Hampton Inn near the LA airport.
A friend of mine lost an envelope containing $1500 while walking out of a bank. He believes the man walking behind him saw it drop and pocketed it. (Unfortunately, he didn't notice it was missing until he got home.)
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When I was about eight, I reached into Mrs. Pearlstone's hedges to pull out a ball that was errantly thrown to me and pulled out a five dollar bill. That was a big thrill for me.
I regularly find $20's that Mrs. RYK absentmindedly leaves in coat pockets, glove compartments, furniture drawers, etc.
I returned it to the rightful owner, without removing any of the contents. The owner was very happy and incredibly amazed that someone
would return a wallet with all the money in it without pinching any of it.
We turned into best of friends from that time on. He used to turn me on to all sorts of stuff from that day on. He'd buy me breakfast and
have it waiting on my desk without even asking, give me dime bags of weed, give me VHS movies that he'd already watch etc.
The good old days. Turns out it was going to be his Christmas shopping day and he was going to buy his parents something cool and this would have
been a major loss for him so he was way happy.
I had a stress test last week, and it came out real good.
Tell Dr Lynch thanks for the good job he did on the double bypass in 2003 on me when you see him, DrPete.
Ray
(In Montague)
About 10 years ago I found coupon wallet in the parking lot at work. No form of identification. After 120 days it was not claimed so it was given to me. There were $100 in gift certificates to Barnes and Noble, $1000 in Albertson's (grocery store) certificates.
I got a shoulder patch and a hat from the fire dept. as a reward.
My grandfather bought a teapot once, and there was a sock full of money inside. I think he said there was about $600 inside. He got it from a garage sale, paid a quarter for it. Apparently the husband wanted to have the sale, and the wife has been stashing money in the teapot for savings. Needless to say, he took the teapot and the money back, and the couple was very grateful.
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i remember thinking how honest i am right -then someone told me that someone had just found $20,000 in the k-mart restroom and turned it in leaving me to know that i guess i'm just not that honest as i would of kept the $20,000
I lost a wallet while going to court in Sacarmento years ago. Left it on top of my car as I left court for the trip back to the SF Bay Area. When I got back to my office a voice mail message on my office phone was left by the person who found the wallet. He Fed Exed the wallet to me that day and I received it the next. A very nice thing for the guy to do. I paid the Fed Ex costs and the guy declined a reward.
In law school in 1978-79 at the beginning of the school year I lost a $100.00 bill (big bucks at the time for a student). Could not find it and considered it gone for good. Later on towards the end of the school year, at a time when I needed funds, I found the $100.00 bill. It was in the trunk of my car, hidden under other stuff.
I also found a misplaced $50.00 bill in a coat pocket. Found money, since I never remember misplacing/losing $50.00.
Was at a Laker game in 1984 at the Forum watching "ShowTime" with Magic, Kareem, Worthy, et. al. Halftime came around and a large group of people left the arena for the mezzanine. Jam packed, shoulder to shoulder. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something fall to the floor. I stopped and reached down to pick it up. Other hands were reaching to do the same thing, but my hand was faster. A $20.00 bill. I took the cash in my hand, stood up and looked around to see who dropped the bill. The crowd had surged forward and no one stood out or said anything. I kept the $20.00.
My wife, kids and I were at SFO going on a trip. Went through security checkpoint and after going through same sat on a chair to put my tennis shoes back on. While doing so, my wallet fell out of my pocket [It had $1,800.00 cash, plus credit cards and license and travellers checks in it]. We had no clue and walked to the boarding gate. While at the boarding gate my kid wants something to eat. I say ok and reach for my wallet. It is not there and I panick. We all retrace out steps and I thought I will find the wallet, sans $1,800.00 in cash. I did find the wallet, laying on the floor under the chair I had sat on. Nothing had been taken from the wallet (to the relief of us all). Thank god my kid was hungry.
Also, many times over the years I have found $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills on the street, etc.
A funny story is from my days playing college basketball. A teammate of mine was a cheapskate and miser. Our home gym seated about 2,500 people. The bleachers were the retractable kind. When extended the bleachers were open underneath the seats and people could walk underneath them. After home games were over and before the janitors would retract the seats and sweep up the gym, my teammate would go under the bleacher seats slumming for loose change and bills that had been dropped by fans during the games. He always picked up pocket change and bills after the home games that would pay for munchies and beverages for him during post game trips to local watering holes.
One of my best finds was while in 10th grade. November, 1971. Finished up basketball practice and had called my mom to pick me up. Called from a pay phone in the school lobby just inside the front doors to the school. I hung up and the phone malfunctioned. The change return slot opened and nickels and dimes came flying out of the phone just like a stream of water out of a hose. Change bouncing and rolling around the front lobby like crazy. No one else around at all. Not even a janitor. After the "coin cascade" finally stopped, I scoped up all of the change on the floor and put it in my pockets. When I got home and counted the loot, I had between $10.00 and $15.00 in change.
Oh, I did splurge and buy a 1977 Camaro for $3,500, which I totalled about 3 months later, and wound up driving the Valiant for another 4 years!!!
edited to add: There was nothing larger than a $20 bill, so you can imagine how thick and stuffed this bag was....there were notes EVERYWHERE! I get a chill every time I harken back to that day. I also wish I had that money NOW!!!
It was just a bunch of random $20s floating in the water...Im sure there were more but I could only find 10.
We waited around for someone to come back looking for something but no one ever did.
We treated ourselves to a nice dinner.
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I also worked 4am to noon at showcase cinemas when I was 16 cleaning the theatres, found countless cash and jewerly in there, but nothing more than 80 dollars on any one occassion
Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
Have no idea how it got there ?
Few years back i was walking across the parking lot at a grocery store and i spy smoe cash on the ground so i scoop it up on the way by and get acosted by this gal on a cell phone,says "i was gonna pick that up " i says is it yours,she says no,i say tough.
Almost turn it in to a cashier,also has a couple weirdo concert tickets stapled to it.
I think ok,walk back out,the gal is still on the cell,i hand everything back to her and she says no,its a radio promotion for checking peoples morals !
Lost,, well
I found $12 in the middle of a street.
I found a ten spot in a melting snow drift that a snow plow had made.
I found a five spot in a shopping center parking lot.
I found a $20 bill outside the Flamingo in Las Vegas.
Thats all that I remember.
At a carnival/reunion in S. IL, my mom & dad were walking in front of me and my grandma.
Grandma was looking down and in the sawdust, saw something. She picked it up and it was a
diamond ring! She said; "Eva, look at this". Mom took it, looked at her ring finger and almost fainted!
It had just slipped off her finger a few seconds before grandma spotted it.
Needless to say, she had it resized the next day.
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
Found a wallet at the movies with 300 bucks in it, gave it to the manager and it was returned to the owner.
Found a scratch ticket in the trash.... unscratched $50! winner.
Found a scratch ticket on the ground blowing around with a tire track on it.... it was scratched, and it was a winner $400! and it hadnt been scanned. cha-ching $$$
also had the experience with the phone giving back more money than i put in, same thing with the stamp machine...it was like a slot machine lol.
I've generally been lucky at spotting bills lying on the sidewalk - ones, fives, tens, even a few twenties over the years. Recently I found a fin in the trash at the local drug store -- I guess someone tossed in their change with their receipt. Another time there was a $5 floating down the street in the breeze -- I was on crutches but I still caught it! And a couple of years ago I found $40 in a laundromat washing machine -- no attendant, put up a sign with my phone number saying I'd found cash but no one even called.
One time several years ago there was a woman of quite obviously ill repute and quite obviously tweaked out of her gourd who dropped a wad of cash while stumbling out of a cab. I scooped it up and handed it to her -- she didn't even realize she had lost it or that someone had found it and given back to her. And I was in dire financial straits at the time too!
A friend of mine until recently lived on a block with lots of selling of just about everything going on. She'd often find money lying in the street -- one time she found a $50.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
If I ever found a big amount I would hold onto it and decide for quite a while whether to keep it or not. If the roles were reversed, I would have been SOL anyway.
When I was about 16 or 17 I was taking a small tin box with $10.00 face in cents, all wrapped up by me in usual 50 cent rolls in paper tubes, on its way to the bank to get myself a $10 bill. I was riding my motorcycle and had the box strapped down on the luggage rack with bungee cords. While going through a quiet neighborhood I heard a strange sound behind me and saw my box had worked loose and hit the street spilling 1000 Lincolns all over the place. I spent about 20 minutes and recovered something like 938 of them despite searching carefully. Didn't loose much value, but I never transported that much change in that manner again. My current motorcycle has a zippable tank bag and this would not have happened.
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A freind of mine while we were playing under the house when we were about 6-7 found an old satchel bag with about 40,000 dollars in hundered dollar bills in it. Until we looked closer and found out that they all had the same serial number! Counterfiet bills
I'll never forget the day, it was April 1, 1981 and we were sitting in "perverts row" (place where the old men would stare at the young gals walking by). We were doing what we called, "fishing for suckers". We'd take a wallet that we had attached some fishing line to, and put in a $1 bill. Slightly pulling the edge out so it was just visible. We wait for a lull in the traffic and toss it out.
It was hilarious to watch people's reaction when they spotted a wallet with money. Some would case the place and wait for the area to clear, then walk over and try a sneaky snatch and grab. As soon as they bent over we'd tug the line and the wallet would come flying back to us. Most would laugh, but you could always tell the guilty parties who you knew weren't going to give it up, they'd get angry and expletives would come flying out.
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
The bag was from a dealer I knew well and he mostly dealt dealt in higher-end coins, so I surmised he took them in trade, wanted to get rid of the quickly, and found a likely purchaser, me. When I had a lull in action at my table, my curiousity got the better of me so I decided to take a peak and see what dates I could find in the canvas bank bag. Not one wheat cent, but a nearly full bag of 90% circulated silver dimes. I chuckled and then proceeded to track down my dealer friend to ask him why the wheat cents didn't look right. He had inadvertently picked up the wrong bag when he brought them by. He found the correct bag, we swapped and all was well.
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I was in West Palm Beach back around 1983 and I was banging some chick on the beach that I met at The Breakers....and my money clip with $1100 fell out of my pocket.
Hell...I coulda had 4 pro's at once for that much...
How's this for an on-the-money on-topic post?
If I had known the clip was yours i would have returned it
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Great stories.
I once found a $50.00 bill all crumpled up on my front lawn immediately after the first Spring thaw.
The bank wouldn't take it and I sent it to the Treasury Dept, who sent me a check.
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She was with her mother in the little room at her bank where you can go through your safe deposit box in private. When they were done, and about to leave, my wife decides to look on the floor to make sure she didn't drop anything. On the floor she finds two very high quality emeralds, one about .75 carats and the other about 1.5 carats.
She gave her contact info to the bank manager, with instructions to call if anyone reported anything missing. Nobody ever did, so she's wearing them now.
I still fantasize about a box full of emeralds in that bank vault...
As far as losses go, I can't really remember any although I am sure I have. I once lost a ton in the stock market
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$30 at last year's ANA Summer Seminar-saw something that looked like money during an MS Bike-a-thon day on the ground
And last month-$10 in a garbage can at a restaurant (Is the U.S. dollar really that worthless?)
That's all I can think of...
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<< <i>OK Peter, you asked....
I was in West Palm Beach back around 1983 and I was banging some chick on the beach that I met at The Breakers....and my money clip with $1100 fell out of my pocket.
Hell...I coulda had 4 pro's at once for that much...
How's this for an on-the-money on-topic post?
If I had known the clip was yours i would have returned it
Oh YEAH?? What did it look like?
I like that story!
As it turned out, it was the daily receipts from a dentist office (it had a bank deposit slip attached to it).
I returned it to the dentist the next day. They were ecstatic! The receptionist gave me a big hug. They even offered to clean my teeth for free!
Dave
The most I ever found was also $10. I once found a five dollar bill in a puddle next to my car in the parking lot of the Hampton Inn near the LA airport.
A friend of mine lost an envelope containing $1500 while walking out of a bank. He believes the man walking behind him saw it drop and pocketed it. (Unfortunately, he didn't notice it was missing until he got home.)