Replacing Coins In Fountains

NathanASE, no worries. I respect your opinion but disagree with it. The reason why I don't believe it is considered stealing is because the charity only wants the coins as there profit for the charity, to them it doesn't matter which year the coin is it just matters that the denomination of that coin either stays the same or goes up. It would be considered stealing if I was just walking away with them but am not. How I know they didn't put it in on purpose is because the coins I find seem a lot like the ones we find when roll hunting which brings me to say that there are old coins in circulation and sometimes they end up in a fountain. If somebody put the gold $5 coin into a fountain it wouldn't really matter because its gold, then the charity just needs to notice that its worth more than $5 and there good to go.. no water damage. but if I saw any silver coin or any copper coin in a fountain and it was worth hundreds perhaps thousands of dollars I would take it out in a heart beat then I'mstanding there with a really really valuable coin and I have no idea if it was put in the fountain as an athousand dollar donation or a donation of its face value 10 or 25 cents. I would like to say that me walking away with that coin is what they get for putting it in a fountain I mean a coin worth athousand dollars of numismatic value does NOT belong in a fountain, I am not taking it because I'ma thief I'mjust taking it because I'man avid coin collector who likes to save coins. So most likely that athousand dollard dime or quarter would be put in a normal coin roll and took in to the bank and lost forever, they would see only the size of it and say okay this is a quarter it belongs in the quarter roll and That.... That is why you are a way more smarter of a person to take a coin like that in to the charity and give it to them in person and Tell them about how its worth more than its face value. Would you be okay if I took an 1804 dollar and made a wish on it and then tossed it in an incinerator, its like that with fountains in Canada because of the alloy recovery program. when I look into a fountain and see pennies and pure nickel nickels in it those coins arnt ever going to be seen again and I'mokay with that as long as there not old or valuable. I just wish that someone other than my friends or family could understand why it is harmless.

Please tell me you would never do anything so careless. You can never assume they will know what they have beyond face value!

While this is better, it is just you being lazy.

Let me be clear...

If you want to donate the actual value of a coin to a charity, then sell the coin and give them the actual value in cash money. Charities have enough to do, having them sell your coin is one more thing they should not have to do.

You should see some of the ones we have had to remove.

The most I can say is that they devolved into the type of conversation we cannot allow here.

I don't know if its the area I live in but roll hunting just cant be done around here anymore, not only that but where else can I look through pennies in a country like Canada?. Canadian fountains have pennies in them and I like looking through them in the fountains making sure none of them that are old or valuable end up going to a place where I cant get them from, the bank. Same with all other denominations.

That's what iv been trying to tell some CCF members and also the security guys who have long sense banned me but I keep going back because I'ma coin rebel.

Why can't you roll search? Seriously, dredging public fountains is sad. I agree with Bertensgrad, it makes you look homeless. The embarrassment I'd feel if people saw me digging around in a fountain wouldn't be worth a wheatie every now and again but I guess people measure dignity differently. Coin rebel........heheheh