What's The Weirdest Place You Randomly Found A Coin?

Well, I once dug up 20p gardening. Sent straight to circulation in the form of 20 1p sweets.

Not so long ago, I was in the vatican because I was visiting Rome to tour its museums, and our tour guide sat down our group of about 8 people to talk to us about the things we would see in the museum. We sat in a corner, away from the rest of the tourist rabble and when I sat down I felt something. I looked down and there were 2 Euros, sadly not Cita Del Vaticano issued, but still of value to me. Some would say its a gift of God, but I dont believe in him I'm afraid and I was there for the history.

I spent one towards a batch of Ice cream and brought the other one home with me and I'm hoping to acquire a 2x2 to put it in to keep it seperate. Interesting story, with the change from the ice cream, I bought a box of tic tacs. In the change from the tic tacs were some of the exceedingly strongly sought after Vatican 50 Eurocent coins. Kept those too!

Wow! Great stories. Not long after I started collecting while in Junior High. I found, if memory serves me, $100 centavos? I was at a family reunion and it was laying in the gravel road about 50 feet from their driveway.

Lol! I really don't know. That's been years ago and I no-longer have that coin. I just remember it was sort of thick, I think octagon shaped, and I thought I was rich.

It was in the 80's and dated 80's. Now we all have a timeline to know how old I am!

I find coins all the time metal detecting. I found a $50 mexican peso coin from 1982 last year in front of a preschool slide. This coin, of course, has no monetary value nowadays, but what makes it funny is that a month or so ago I saw one for sale on another forum and the guy selling it wasn't getting any bite so he finally said "What, no one wants a coin with boobs?" Until then I had no idea the coin I had found was somewhat erotic! lol

I found a wheatie on a box of candy in Walmart. Right in the checkout lane. Must have been when someone was opening their purse for the checkout. I always look around in the checkout. I was a cashier for a few months and now how often people spill coins everywhere!

I did actually participate in the "strangest place" thread... but this one is different. No, seriously.

It was several years ago; most likely in 2004, but could've been '03 or '05 - don't quite remember.
I was on one of my weekly visits to what used to be my sport-workout place (yes, I know, no sense in having a workout only once a week... whatever), but by that point was probably already mostly various psychological talking (not that it matters to this story).
Well, whatever. So I went along the corridor, and near the cabinet I was going to was a couch. And on that couch, I saw something strangely coin-looking but completely the wrong size (for a coin I would know anyway).
So I just had to check what the heck there was randomly on that couch... and it was a brown American dollar.

Now that I know the proper terms, I can fairly confidently say that it was a 2000 Sacagawea dollar (don't remember the mintmark - if any - unfortunately).
But at that moment, I was just a very surprised 12 (or so) year old boy who was sure that American dollars only came in banknote form (well the dollars anyway: I'm not sure if I knew that the smaller denominations were coins by then, but it's fairly likely that I indeed did) - and for that matter had no idea what the heck could make a coin turn so incredibly dark brown, and actually thought it was made that way (it was, of course, the tarnish Sacagaweas were such prone to).

...No, in case you're asking, I don't still have that dollar. It's currently in my father's set of various modern dollar coins, together with an SBA, a loonie and a Mexican peso. However, I'm not sure for how long would my father's interest in it continue, and if it stops he's fairly certain to give it back to me; and then I'll have it again and could properly post about it


Oh, and this post probably won't be complete without mentioning the close second.
One morning in the winter, probably around 2009-ish, I went on my way to the metro, and saw a bunch of coins scattered on the road. Oh, of course I saw that sort of thing very often, but these particular coins were demonetized Soviet pieces from the 1980s.
I immediately sat down and picked up about a dozen of them (it was a huge bunch). However, it being in the winter, the lower layers of the bunch were somewhat encased in ice, and the coins being technically on the roadway (though right next to the sidewalk), I didn't want to stay picking them up too long either for fear of being hit by a car. So I took that dozen or so and went along on my way.
When I returned back to that place in the evening, there were no coins around anymore; I don't know to this day what did ultimately happen to them, nor where did they come from in the first place.
Alas, neither do I know whether I kept the coins I did pick up (and if yes then where), as other than the circumstances of their acquirement they were actually fairly unmemorable. Sorry

Free silver, gotta love it!