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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Today I went to a "heritage tree" as per our local program - big trees with a known history (planted by so-and-so in [long ago], etc.) get a plaque on them. I found two pennies and a dime, all from the last three years. I'd love to dig there, but I'd probably get arrested.
Also... could we move this to the Main Coin Forum? I just don't see it as an America-specific thread.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 This thread really isn't about modern coins. It's about finding coins. But anyway, it's all up to the mods. |
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 United States
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Also... could we move this to the Main Coin Forum? Done.  |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Yeah finding coins is pretty general so good topic move. I'm interested in all coin finds. Wow I haven't found a coin in a vending machine slot in eons. I always find them under or above them and get strange looks!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yesterday I found $5.25 in the reject bin of a TCF coin counter.
There was a good mix of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
I have found a few coins there before, but this was a great score! It took me 4 hand fulls to get all the coins out. Maybe I will buy some silver dimes with it.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Grubby penny spotted underneath vending machine. However, it was far back and I decided my dignity was worth more than 1 cent (it's worth about 17 at last count).
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I also have been lucky finding coins on top of the boxes at car washes.
My best coin find happened several years ago when I bought my first house. When I bought the home I was the second owner and I was told the house was originally built in 1948. Sometime in the 1980's I renovated the house and in the living room was a old gas fireplace that I was gonna take out. After removing the fireplace I found a 1948 Canadian 10 Cents in pristine original condition. Other than a lot of dust and a little toning it was it outstanding condition. Since it was 1948 and the house was built in 1948 I'm sure it must have fell back behind the fireplace either when the house was built or shortly after. Not only was it a great find, it is also a key date Canadian coin. Finding that coin somehow made the reno worth doing, with all the dust and dirt. haha
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Pillar of the Community
United States
950 Posts |
Wireman09..
Awesome!
I hide new pennies in the walls when I do modifications. I am in the process of replacing some cabinets and I am trying to get some 2013s to hide there. Maybe someone in the 40s did the same thing!
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Valued Member
United States
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Anybody that wouldn't pick up a penny, isn't worth a dime!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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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...
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Valued Member
United States
197 Posts |
I've been collecting 2009 Lincoln bicentennial cents from pocket change for more than a year, but for some reason I hadn't found a single Presidency one (the one with the unfinished Capitol building). Then, last week, I was riding the train to work and looked down at the floor and saw one lying next to my foot.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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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.
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Valued Member
United States
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Cool wade. Wish I had a job where I find a ton of coins. I find just a few cents to a quarter at my office job. My brother did the demolition drawings for yhe old yankee stadium and brought back pieces of the stadium. I bet there were coins too.
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New Member
United States
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I always find lots of change at the bases of parking meters and drive-up cashiering booths.
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Valued Member
United States
325 Posts |
Nice Wade! Cool what part of Iowa are you from? I'm moving to Ames in August :-) by Iowa State University where my wife is going for her phd.
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