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Pillar of the Community
United States
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...or go through people's cushions on their couch. It's a bit akward if you get caught.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Change in your car... I've found a Wheat penny once that I some how missed when I got change back... Also, one time I got a SBA dollar instead of a quarter. Awesome finds 0xDA71D  |
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Canada
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I've had some success with flea markets and garage sales.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
Break into collectors houses. Or become a fence for stolen collections.
....Or I guess you can pay for them retail but it's so less exciting.
Getting coins for legally cheap or free means you roll hunt, metal detect, inherit, or swindle old widows and kids.
On a serious note I found some flea market sellers that constantly sell coins for far cheaper than retail. Mostly seen the opposite though
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12/14/2014 6:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I agree, you have to know your stuff to avoid the overpriced and over valued.
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Very cold morning, barefoot, this is when you often find the coin you didnt want because you step on it like a sheet of ice when you are just trying to go to the bathroom. Work in second hand store. My mothers bought pocketbook at one she was working at, for $1. When she took it home she was checking the pockets to see what all she could put in it and found a Peace dollar in a flip in one of the deeper pockets it had. No telling what people donate to thrift stores and forget to check. |
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United States
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Antique malls or banks if you can befriend a teller (or if your best friend marries a teller...at least until she finished college and quits her job at the bank to take a marketing position with a major movie theater corporation, leaving me high and dry without a bank insider. So inconsiderate).
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New Zealand
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Old sofas at second-hand stores.....
Old handbags (purses) at second-hand stores (although sometimes these have already been checked by staff....but there are often hidden zips and folds that get missed)
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
526 Posts |
If you are looking for modern coins
People often put the wrong coins in parking meters and it rejects into the ticket hopper. I've found quite a number just when parking - they seem to congregate in the corners.......so if you make it your hobby you could get quite a few.
Supermarket self service zones. The coin and note despatch are often in weird places and I've even found a $10 note left behind in one of those (in Australia). Coins are often forgotten.
If you have a metal detector check the very soft sand at the top of the beach just after the crowd has gone for the day.....lots of coins roll out of pockets. Easy pickings. You may even find gold.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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vintage junk cars in junk yard in the seats under the mats
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Go around asking everyone you know if they have an old jar, can, box of coins laying around at home. Ask neighbors, friends, relatives. Ask everyone if they know anyone that works in a laundromat or place that has coin operated machines.
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United Kingdom
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You can also trade coins which is how I obtain all the new US circulation coin releases.
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Australia
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Swap coins with other numismatists, like kena above.
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