Strangest Place You Found Awesome Coin?

When I was a kid we had an old house with a huge property behind us. After reading some comic books, we were convinced than an old Native American burial site was located on the property. Actually, it was a garbage dump from the house as in the old days they just dumped it in the woods. We dug, scared out of our minds as we "uncovered" strange rocks that outlined they burial site (they were just common boulders in the ground). We were sifting through the assorted buried metal cans and glass bottles. I found a coin. I went to my house and washed it off. it was a 1901 Indian cent. Not knowing much about coins at like age 8 or 9 I thought I found the rarest coin in the world, and further convinced us that "Indians" were in fact buried there.
Never did find any more of those buried Indians.

When I was about fifteen, my dad gave me and my two sisters each an envelopole. The way I remember the story was that a guy owed him a favor. Inside each were 10 Morgan's. He explained that one was rarer than the others. He had just randomly distributed them into envelopes with our names. Guess who had the luck that day? It was me.

But wait, the story gets better. I was talking to my mom about a month ago and I mentioned the coins that dad had given us. She told me that they were actually my grandmother 's coins from when she owned her restaurant. She would put away any dollar coins that came in. How cool is that? I love the idea that these were saved and passed on. I will pass them on to my son so he can pass them to his little one...but not yet!

Back when I was in my teens (10-15 years ago) I picked up a couple of rolls of half dollars. Every coin was at least a 40% silver. Went back to the bank and got more rolls, but no more luck. Still have the couple rolls of silver halves, they're worth a lot more now than when I found them.

I have actually found 2 Morgan $ at different times.

First time, I was a rookie Realtor that offered to clean out a house. In turn Imwas given everything left in the house. I got a holed Morgan, some cool coca cola memorabilia and a 1962 San Diego Chargers pennant.

Second time was in a house I bought 3 years ago at a foreclosure auction. I also found a really neat turquoise ring with a snake on the band.

Still have everything except the coke memorabilia.

Stopped at the recycle bins the other day to drop off a load of cardboard and such. When I opened the door to my truck I scanned the ground. Lo and behold, there lay a 1958 Wheat penny.

I work at a used car lot and trades come in with lots of change in the cupholders and ashtrays. In the last ten months I've accumulated nine clad bicentennial quarters. But the nice surprise was six or so weeks ago: mixed in with a handful of change was an old 14k religious medal. Brought it to my LCS and it's worth $89.90 melt! I never have that kind of luck and I didn't even know I had it until some time later when I was looking for old-date pennies in the mix. (P.S. the car came in from an out-of-state auction via another dealer; I didn't pocket it from someone I could locate.)

This was about 35 years ago. I was working in a Circle K. I broke open a roll of quarters to put in the cash drawer and they were all silver. Set them aside and opened another roll from the safe. Same thing. Dug out all the quarter rolls in the safe. Out of 10 rolls, 8 were all silver. Not to many got in the cash drawer that night. Wasn't a bad haul. $80.00 in silver.