Post Your Stories & Pix Of Found Money

Another little 5p on the sidewalk - this one was dated 1990!

here's a pic of that taiwan coin I found at a laundromat parking lot, I typically find non-US coins at laundry parking lots




and here's a dollar I found outside a gas station last night, near the gas pumps.. I pedaled past it twice & didn't see it, but saw it on my third pass




(...it never fails, every time I find paper currency I always think of that scene in the coen bros movie 'o brother, where art thou' where all those characters are in a car speeding away from having robbed a bank and one guy says to that gangster- as cash is flying around in the back seat & out the window- "friend, some of your folding-money's come unstuck..." LOL)

Looking good!

Fun finds!

It "surprises" me to see how much money people throw away. Another $1.16 to the pile. In 2 days I found $1.81 walking the dog. going the same path I always go, so the money wasn't there yesterday. Last month I deposited $17 in found money.

@ petef6365-

nice pick! well done!

@hf & everyone else-

I'm glad now that I'm not the only one seeing this. LOL... I could bore you all to death with pix of coins I snap when I think to, it's usually a shot of gleaming disks on dark pavement, I don't take pix of everything, just some, here's the last one I snapped, a few nights ago:






quarter, nickel, three zincolns, in the parking lot of a cheeseburger joint on the blvd that I was pedaling thru, I occasionally find coin there so I know to be lookin there when I roll in, and there it was again, someone might've just chucked their cheeseburger change as they were fishin their car keys out of their pocket as they're gettin ready to leave.. I'm just guessing, I have no idea why ppl throw it down.. ...but fine by me, if that's what they wanna do, great, i'll continue scooping it up, i'll certainly not ask questions or judge, far be it..

yes, same places.. to illustrate:

two days/nights ago I went to get a coffee, was about 9/9:30pm, as I was walking to the convenience store from where I locked my bike I walked past two air-vac machines, and I always have a look at them as I walk by, I semi-frequently find change there, and I noted several/numerous pennies scattered on the pavement in front of the machine, which I came back to once I bought my coffee.. I picked all the coins off the pavement, and after being right there a few minutes I noticed more coins scattered in the stones around the air-vac, so I set about pickin thru the stones, didn't realize I was going to find so many coins or I would've snapped a pic first:






found a lot on the first pick, found a little more after more pickin, plus a unicorn head.. in all I found 60 pennies & 5 dimes, just at the air-vac, then I went out on my nightly cat-feedin route and found more




by the end of the night I had amassed $2.72

next night (last night) I was pedalin around a gas station near McD:




see the pavement where the glare of the lights is reflected? zooming in on that:



see all the coins? many, kind of drowned-out by the glare, but they're there:



i picked 31 pennies in that spot, one was a 1941 wheatie with severe road rash on the reverse (not pictured cos that is depressing)... what's interesting about this is on august 22 I picked a dollar from the very same spot. I posted it here, several posts back:



see the guard rail/post? same spot, same gas pump in the 31 pennies pic above.

later, I was rolling into a shopping center plaza and rolled right up to this:





joy, another stray dollar!



so, last night's haul was $2.80.. found $5+ over two nights, which is totally groovy... I sold the convenience store ten rolls of cents & one roll of dimes
last night, which they were glad to see, they'd been out of cents for days.. I gather it up out of their parking lots & sell it back to them.. knuckleheads toss their change & the process repeats, what a weird loop to get caught in.. lol...

Excellent!

I wonder if someone dumped all their change looking for quarters to use in the vacuum.