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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Id say it isn't the done thing - stealing children's wishes! The coin I threw into a fountain or stream would hold the specific wish - swapping it out would negate the effects!
If I threw a 1909sVBD in you bet your behind id be getting a darn good wish - I would be mighty sore if someone broke my luck by retrieving it!
That being said - the only issues are social. Legally its like picking it off the street. Still, dont let kids see you do it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah, I've done it before, but it was the late 80's and I was a kid who didn't know that there might even be a problem with it.  |
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Valued Member
United States
449 Posts |
yeah I don't think this is very healthy behavior. some things are off limits....
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
598 Posts |
There's a mysterious individual that donates gold coins to a Christmas kettle; whatever the details... say you spied a Canadian 1914 $5 gold piece in a fountain; donated by some like minded individual...
You snag it and replace it with:
1) $5 in change
2) bullion value in change
3) numismatic value in change
4) or, none of the above. All seem wrong to me... it was a gift from someone to someone else. It is theft.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
3831 Posts |
Poor ethics in my humble opinion.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Valued Member
United States
326 Posts |
Security guard: I caught you pick pocketing. You: No, I was just going through the change in his pocket. Edited by Larryh86GT
03/22/2013 08:17 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
9404 Posts |
Build your own wishing well or fountain in your front yard and maybe the coins will come to you. Steve |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2543 Posts |
Bad Karma ........... sometimes you have to just walk away and not look back.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5208 Posts |
Watch the movie Goonies from the 1980's.
While not related to CRH, numismatics, or swapping coins from mall fountains there is a part near the end that is close.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5208 Posts |
Also on a side note there was an episode of COPS made in the last 2 years where they were in Las Vegas and they got a call of some dude stealing coins from the fountain outside of a casino.
They rolled up on him, his pants were wet from the knee down, and he gave them some sob story so they let him go with a warning if and he put the coins back.
20 minutes later they same squad gets a call and it is the same dude stealing coins again so they haul him in.
Even if you are replacing coins and you better have a really really good story and have some proof you are a collector like a pockett full of slabbed gold coins when the police that show to prove your point and up you have most likely paid the fountain back for whatever you took out of it.
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Pillar of the Community
798 Posts |
I saw both of those, the movie and the cops episode. Well I guess I wouldn't want to disrespect one eyed willie.  You have a good point though, I need proof. |
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Pillar of the Community
798 Posts |
Today I found a 1940 "S" U.S. nickel and a 1939 Canadian penny... also 1962 and 66 and 67 Canadian pennies and a foreign euro coin.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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By the way Normic, a popular superstition is that taking coins out of the water brings bad luck. I don't know if that applies to you but personally I won't risk it, since whenever I bring a bent penny (or sometimes, silver sixpence) around or pick up a penny from the ground, I have good luck. And on some occasions I do strike major luck, which has not happened when my lucky coins aren't around me.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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A few months back in Bulgaria, in a town near the Romanian border, I saw a fountain with a lot of shiny new Romanian coins.
I took a few examples of the lower denominations (the ones I didn't have yet), and replaced them with a bunch of Bulgarian coins that I was sure were worth more (never checked if that was the case admittedly).
That was in a relatively quiet part of a huge garden... I'm not sure if there was any security. Still I felt bad taking anything from that fountain anyway.
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