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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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...that the coin was INSIDE the asphalt?
Happened to me a couple of days ago, I was helping my mom carry stuff from the wet market back to our car and saw a Rp100 Karapan Sapi (was minted from 1991-1998, so you don't find these circulating anymore because that's how Indonesia money is: no production = no circulation) on the asphalt seam of the concrete road. I bent down to pick it up and found that it was inside the asphalt! Only the Karapan Sapi side was visible, the rest was not because it was inside the asphalt. When I looked again I realised it was in perfect alignment with the asphalt seam - it looks like it was done intentionally!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2368 Posts |
That is really weird. Never had that happen to me before...  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4911 Posts |
Probably was done initially when the road was being fixed and the coins were easy enough to find, nothing more than a teenagers prank I bet.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4212 Posts |
Coin stories from 'round the world. I like it! Thanks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2563 Posts |
I saw a youtube video of someone metal detecting, I think it was DrTones24K, and they found an Indian Head cent in the asphalt. |
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Valued Member
United States
258 Posts |
Wow that's weird but still pretty cool! It probably was intentional, but I can't say I've ever come across that!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
Maybe it just happened on a hot day?
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New Member
United States
34 Posts |
I'm not in the paving/concrete/asphalt business, but I've built two houses, and every time I've poured a driveway, wall, or sidewalk, I always insert a current date, new penny, obverse side up. Whether the date will be legible in 100 years, I don't know, but it always seemed like a cool way to date the project.
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Moderator
 United States
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I once worked at a go-cart track and as a joke we welded a nail to a quarter and nailed it into the asphalt just inside the gate we let people in at and we had fun laughing at anyone who tried to pick it up,I know shame on me but  John1  Edited by John1
07/12/2014 7:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
798 Posts |
I was at the Mexico/US boarder in Arizona and they had penny's in the ground in the shape of foot steps and my grandma asked the store owner why and he said it makes sense... Cents, they also had them in random areas and they were all worn down from people walking on them. The town was Nuevo Algodone`s.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
17964 Posts |
When Coventry Cathedral was rebuilt in 1962 (the old Cathedral was destroyed in World War II), The Royal Mint gave them some 1962 pennies which were inserted into the floor. They have been walked on and polished so much now that they are barely identifiable as coins! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've been tricked by the glued down coins before. As to ones in cement, well we poured a long slab at our San Diego Observatory site and placed coins of the current year of the pour into the wet cement, to show the date it was poured amongst the carved in names of all the club members who helped out that day. A nice looking "cornerstone" if you will.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1003 Posts |
I have been tricked by the glued coins and the coins stuck in the asphalt
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I once worked at a go-cart track and as a joke we welded a nail to a quarter and nailed it into the asphalt just inside the gate we let people in at and we had fun laughing at anyone who tried to pick it up,I know shame on me but When I worked at Sears back in the day a coworker super glued a quarter to the floor before the store opened down the main drag. We all had a good view and a good laugh until Security came out 3 hours later and finally peeled it up. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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A $5 banknote stuck under the tyre of a parked car is fun as well!
Well worth the odd youtube video!
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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I think it's likely to be a prank since the more identifiable side was facing upwards. The date is on the submerged side, so it's not a very good way to show what year they put the coin in. Would be a good way to date the road fixing if it was placed the other way up. As long as no one takes it, everyone knows these brass coins were mass exported to be melted and sold for scrap.
I wonder how people here would react from that. I'll try gluing a new, shiny coin on the floor when I get the chance!
I wonder if anyone tried picking up the pennies in Coventry Cathedral?
Haha, banknote under a car. I read a comic strip where a police was pushing a car to get a banknote from under the tyre, and he got scoldd by his supervisor, because it looks like he was trying to push the car into a no parking area so he could fine the car.
Edited by Altaira
07/13/2014 1:10 pm
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