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I found a 2007 nickel in front of the machine where people buy TTC tokens. Someone must have dropped their change. Nobody bothered to pick it up, so I did.
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Found my first road coin for ages today - a 2008 new design (shield reverse) 2p. It obviously hadn't been lying there very long and still had quite a bit of mint lustre, not bad for a six-year-old coin.
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I love how American pennies look like ancients after they've been lying outside all winter.

1982 copper on the left, zinc on the right.



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I found this 1990 5p in the middle of the road today:

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I've never had much luck with road coins, but 5 or 6 years ago a relative found an American cent in the road. But the interesting thing is the date- 1944. What are the odds?
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Found in circulation !
As noted, I think this coin has lived life in the fast lane for a while...LOL
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Found in the street less than 100 yards from my house - this is the worst bronze-clad steel 2p I've ever seen...
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... and no prize for guessing which way up this 2004 penny was lying when I found it!
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I found a small hoard!

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I was walking home in the dark and saw a coin catching the glare from a street light - it was a 2010 2p. When I bent down to pick it up, I saw a 5p, then two 20p's... Eventually I found 9 coins totalling 73p including the worst 2015 20p I've seen! I wonder how many people must have just walked past them?
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Bumping this thread!

I was out for a walk this evening and found a 2010 2p and a 2003 1p - separately but along the same section of road!

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Picked up another 2p yesterday - a bronze one, dated 1989:

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I was crossing the Mall in London yesterday - the street that runs from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace - and I found this unfortunate 1984 20p. Perhaps it was run over by a limousine carrying the very lady portrayed on the obverse?

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