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United States
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I am sitting at work, drop a dime under the divider of my cubicle, I get on my hands and knees, and grab it, but see another coin under the wall. Pull the other out, 1901 Indian Head penny. With the amount of cubes in this building, what are the odds that it winds up near a coin collectors cube? |
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 United States
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My father and I used to do remodeling and on one of the jobs we found about 6 or 7 Mexican coins mostly 20 centavos under a toilet. Someone used them to level it out.Also found a narcotics anonymous medal in the back of an old TV. John1  |
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United States
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A friend was remodeling a Victorian age house, upon tearing out a wall he found a $5 gold piece on a ledge.
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United States
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Cool stories.
My friend had me come over to look at a bucket of old coins he found. It was in the garage of his house he just bought, under old paint cans. After scrubbing off some spilt paint we found over $30 face value of 90% silver coins, mostly from the early 1900s and late 1800s.
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United States
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When I was a little kid, I found a LMC stuck to the side of a telephone/power pole. The coin had a small section cut and bent over to create a small spike. The spike was pushed into the pole. I pulled it out and took it home. I believe this was around 1972. I still have the penny but it is in a box at work. I can try and get pictures later. |
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Australia
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When I was about 6 years old I found an Australia Six Pence buried in the dirt on my school grounds.
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United States
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"My father and I used to do remodeling and on one of the jobs we found about 6 or 7 Mexican" (take it from there  ) Sorry, had to laugh. I did find a coin once though but if I tell you where i'd have to kill ya. |
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United States
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Here are the pictures of my 'pole penny.' The LMC is dated 1969. I probably found it somewhere around 1969-1971. I always wondered if a lineman did it. I can't believe I saved this coin. I simulated the penny stuck into a telephone pole by pushing it into a wooden ladder.    Look. I'm NOT WEARING GLOVES TO HANDLE THIS RARE COIN  .   |
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United States
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While I was living in Hawai'i about 5 years ago, I found a random 1919-S Wheat penny in a parking lot( and it doesn't have a single scratch on it!) |
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United States
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jlgaudlitz95,
You reminded me of the time back in 1990, I went to a gun show at the Chamberlain Hotel in Hampton, Virginia. When I got out of the truck in the parking lot, I looked down and noticed a nickel. I picked it up and it was a Buffalo. I don't remember the date but it looked OK. I was guessing it was dropped by a dealer.
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United States
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I was doing trail work for the ATC in Vermont, walking the boundary markers not the trail itself, and found eight 1965 quarters stacked on a rock back in 1995. Looked for sure they had been there 30 years!
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United States
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Similar past thread for your reading pleasure... Strangest place you found awesome coin?Answer I gave before... Not really that strange, but I pulled a 1985 Jamaica 50 cent piece (km65) from inside a tape deck when I was doing car stereo repair during the 1990's. Unfortunately, this foreign object (see what I did there?) was the least of the tape deck's problems. |
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Canada
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@mds308:
I have a vision of a lawnmower clipping your penny and sending it flying into the pole.
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Canada
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When I was in first grade, probably aged seven I thought I saw the edge of a quarter sticking out of the snow on the playground so I dug it out. Turns out it was a 1964 50 cent piece, being a little kid I hadn't the slightest clue as to what it was but I thought it was awesome. I've still got it with my other 50 cent pieces.
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I have a vision of a lawnmower clipping your penny and sending it flying into the pole. Jerry_B, I never thought about that. What are the odds? But it could happen. I don't know what it is about Buffalo nickels but I can tell you about two more. Back in the late 1960's I was walking with my grandmother and she found a Buffalo nickel stuck to a piece of overturned sod. The coin was sitting on the root section. Around 1970 I was watching my next door neighbor put a plant in one of the flowerbeds attached to his house. As he was mixing the dirt I noticed a coin. It was a 1920 Buffalo nickel. I asked him if I could keep it and he said "you found it." It looked horrible but I'll never forget how excited I was over that nickel. |
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Posted 11/23/2012 6:20 pm
