The Lowest Coin You Will Pick Up

I think this is the wrong group to ask if they would pick up a penny :-) I know I would.....most I ever found was $50....I looked around to see if there was anyone around missing the money.....no one around so it was mine. I would have gave it back if I saw someone looking for it.

I once found $5 in "silver" colored coins sitting on top of the coinstar machine in Walmart while I was on vacation in Holly Springs MS.

I left the cents for the next guy

It looked like the person dumping used a Planters peanut jar to store their change in without first dumping out the peanut dust as all of the coins were covered in it. I guess that is what jammed the machine.

A store in Arundel Maine had one of these. Fell for it when I was a little kid. Twice.

I'd have to agree with that sentiment. I hardly ever see money on the ground here in Australia.


I'd have to agree with that sentiment too.

As for me personally, in the extremely rare event of my spotting money on the ground, I'd pick it up, even a 5 cent coin (which has been our smallest denomination coin since 1991). But apparently, I've always been prepared to stoop low for even a little bit of cash.

I haven't been to America since 1983, when I was a child. We spent Christmas in Seattle. I recall, as we were walking into the hotel on Christmas Eve, noticing pieces of torn-up dollar bills on the sidewalk outside, so after the family checked into the room, I went back downstairs and outside to go and pick them up. I figured if there were enough pieces of a dollar note still sitting there, I'd find myself a free dollar (which was quite a bit of money to a kid in 1983).

You can read the story, of how my search for shreds of money saw a crisp new 1983 $5 bill added to my collection, in this old thread.

I picked up a Sacagawea dollar off a couch once (never figured out how the heck it got there, considering this happened in Moscow). It's now in my father's "collection" (specifically the weird part he calls the dollar set[1]).
I also picked up a Transnistrian 25 kopek coin once, off the ground right outside my school. I was young then (I suspect around 12 years old), so I read the legend, noticed the word "Moldavia", and mentally catalogued it as "Moldavian 25 kopek" (not aware that this isn't actually possible); only figured out that it was from the unrecognized country of Transnistria when I rediscovered it in my collection around 2008. No idea where it is now, unfortunately (as in which album or bag; it's still in my collection, theoretically, but stuff in my collection - or at my home in general - has a habit of getting lost very easily).


[1] Sacagawea dollar, SBA dollar, Canadian loonie, Mexican peso, and a few other random world coins denominated $1 (IIRC one of them from Namibia). I tried to give him my Eisenhower dollar, I don't think he wanted it. No idea what the heck this all means, but I suppose it's no worse than my idea of collecting as many types as possible of Russian 1 kopek (I've lost count of how many of these I have... probably between 25 and 30, but I'm not sure what counts as a "type" anymore; by now, I think I'm not missing anything worth under $50 from the copper series, but the silvers are much more complicated).

If it's a coin, I'll pick it up. Especially if it's in front of one of the several convenience stores I've spent my counterstamped coins at, just to see if it's one of mine.

Also.....I found a hundred dollar bill in the parking lot of such a store years ago.

ive picked up nickels on the sidewalk that have been there for I dont know how long and it turn out on the reverse it had 5 fs