Places Where I've Found Coins

But I have long hair, so crawling under vending machines would make dust cling to it...

Anyway, today I noticed a nearby lab at my school had a penny bin for experiments. I started sifting through, making sure that nothing of value would be lost to science, and found a dime. That made the bin 9 cents ahead, so I felt justified in taking out up to 9 pennies to keep. I found a 1943, a 1951, and a 1957, which is always nice - and two wheats! One is a boring 1951-D, but the other was a 1939, old enough to put in my 1909-1940 Whitman album from the 60s: I won't get the matching 1941-Date folder because I'd have to draw in dozens of dates that are 30 years older than me, and that's a pain when I can just find a new folder with all the dates included...

i demolish buildings for a living, lots of misc modern foreign coins left laying around.

once in while (couple times a year) I'll find an old canadian or US hiding behind a mantle or behind some window/baseboard trim moulding (oldest to date a near mint 1888 penny).

the best for raw cash is when we tear apart a school. sometimes 50+ years of coins sliding between the seams of the lockers.

I always find lots of change at the bases of parking meters and drive-up cashiering booths.

Iowa City which has the University of Iowa

I really only collect bi-metallics and coins with printing in Cyrillic...two fairly niche areas.

Used to collect anything, but had to set some limits. Thankfully, there's still quite a bit out there for my two groups.

that's good Iowa. I like to collect ancient Romans. I resell most of my coins though and buy new coins.

-Around Wal-mart or grocery store checkout line.
-Parking lots
-Change cup from snacks and coffee "honor system" payment cup at work; searching these has rewarded me with several wheat pennies and 30's & 40's Jefferson nickels.
Not coin related but I once found a $20 bill at separate times at a Wal-mart and our local shopping mall at Christmas season, the most money I have ever found.