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This is kind of inspired by the thread "Post Your Stories and Pix of Found Money."
What is the strangest places you've ever found money, even if it's just a penny?
I'd like to see some other people's answers before I post mine.
(Of course, this topic can be moved if I've got it in the wrong place.)
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On the floor behind the teller line of a Western Alliance Bank that I was assisting in demolishing (didn't count it all up but under the mats and dropped junk I got over 5 dollars or so.)
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Once when metal detecting on farmland I got a positive signal as I waved the detector head over a cow pie. I braced myself, dug down, and unearthed an 1898 Victorian British penny. And, sorry, I didn't take any photos!
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11/11/2025 12:19 pm
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Years ago, there was a box of bagels in the break room at work. I picked one out and there was a penny stuck to it! As I recall, I then found a second one in the box.
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11/11/2025 08:27 am
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A '67 quarter stuck under the back seat of a '66 Mustang. Found in 1991.
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Some might say this is strange. I would say not strange, but expected... I worked at a car stereo business when I was in school. Sales, installs, repairs. I found plenty of coins stuck in tape decks and CD slots. Yes, it was finders keepers.  |
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I found a bunch of wadded up bills (maybe $40-50) on top of a bunch of broccoli at the supermarket once. Likely someone flipped it all out when pulling out their shopping list. It blended in really well, I first found a $5 then another bill then another bill, it was amazing, the vegetable display just kept giving.
That was definitely the strangest. My roommate found 2 $100 bills folded up together on the sidewalk last year while out on his daily walk. He wasn't sure they were real until I checked them out, totally legit.
Just last week I heard there was a huge amount of fake movie prop money tossed out of a moving car on a fairly major street near me, several blocks were covered with fake currency and it caused mayhem and near accidents for quite a while as police tried to clear it up.
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My wallet  |
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Great stories, westcoin.  Quote:My wallet  |
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When I was a kid at school in Exeter, my school class went on an outdoor walking day trip and on a forest path, just lying there, was a 1934 silver sixpence. I still have it, but I have no idea how it could have just been there: this was 1992 and the sixpence had been out of circulation for 20 years (it wasn't technically demonetised until 1980 but it had largely left circulation by 1973), while silver coins hadn't circulated in the UK since the 1940s...
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Well I did get kicked out of a "Gentleman's Club" - thought I saw a "Fancy Serial Number" bill ---------- |
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Three dollars in the pocket of a pair of hand-me-down pants. My older brother was not amused.
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When I was a kid at school in Exeter... just lying there, was a 1934 silver sixpence. I still have it... Fantastic! |
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Quote:Well I did get kicked out of a "Gentleman's Club" - thought I saw a "Fancy Serial Number" bill ---------- Fresh!   |
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Three dollars in the pocket of a pair of hand-me-down pants. My older brother was not amused.  |
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