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Pillar of the Community
United States
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One time I found a Buffalo nickel in my couch. It must have fell between the cushions. |
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Was it one of yours from your collection?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When I was a kid I swallowed a penny by accident. Later I found it in....
Wait, that's probably not what you meant.
Never mind.
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04/15/2015 1:18 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I fished a 2009 Lincoln Birthplace (LP1) out of a fountain at Don Pablo's. This was in the early days of 2009. I had heard about low mintages and hoarding and so I seized what seemed like my opportunity. I did replace it with a quarter at least. Sounds silly now...although you don't see them much in change, they are available.
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United States
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I had on old chair thay used to below to my mother in law. Once it was completely wore out I wanted to get rid of it so I took it apart to get it in the dumpster and got a few silver coins. Common dimes and a quarter.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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My brother once bought an old Mini and found a small 'hoard' of pre-decimal coins in the windshield demister! I expect they were 'posted' into the slot by a bored child who was waiting in the car while his/her parents were shopping! I am pretty sure that at least one halfpenny and a halfcrown in my collection came from this 'hoard'!
I remember going to a cupboard at my high school to get a book or some stationery and noticing a coin lying on the bottom shelf - it was a 1901 Russian 3-kopecks. I've no idea how it got there but I quickly pocketed it and it is still in my collection today.
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04/15/2015 3:43 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I found a stack of a dozen or so 1965 quarters on a stump near the end of the 100 Mile wilderness in Maine. Sure looked like they had been there since '65.
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United States
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I found a silver dime laying in the middle of a trail in Glacier. I'm not sure if it had been there since '64 and had just come up from erosion or if someone had one there for some reason and lost it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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One of my strangest coin finding experiences was when I was a student in the late 1970s and I was doing a course at Lyon in France. Lyon is a large city built partly on a hill overlooking the River Rhone, and there is a long, steep flight of steps that leads from the lower town up to the Fourviere district on top of the hill. One day I was walking up these steps and found a coin. Not an unusual place for someone to lose a coin - except that it was an 1855 Napoleon III 5 centimes, which would have been out of circulation for over 50 years! It's still in my collection today. Maybe someone lost their pocket piece, or perhaps a coin collector had bought it from the coin shop in the Rue des Ramparts D'Ainay and accidentally dropped it...
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Just glad it was found by someone who would appreciate it.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Unfortunately I never really find coins just laying around waiting for me.
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Canada
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Well it wasn't a keeper but it was definitely an unusual place. Inside a car radiator, not stuck in the cooling fins but inside where you pour the anti-freeze. There were actually a few coins in it, all pretty beat up from the heat and banging around in there.
I worked in a radiator repair shop almost 30 years and was use to seeing odd things in rads like small sticks, wrenches, screwdrivers even found keys a few times but that was a one and only time for coins.
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New Member
United States
46 Posts |
I found a German coin once under the keys of an old piano.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
632 Posts |
I can't recall any stories about finding coins in weird places, but I do remember a time where I saw a dime on the floor at work once. When I went to pick it up I realized it was a pre-65 silver dime. I was stunned at the coincidence that somebody not only dropped the coin but it was silver as well.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Only thing that pops to mind is a Wheat cent I saw in the "need a penny" jar at a gas station. I think I traded a dime for it. |
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