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Valued Member
Canada
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So anyone have a story of finding a coin that was a keeper in the most unusual place. For me A 1968 canadian nickel found in the seat bracket of a 68 camaro that I'mrebuilding with my uncle. A 1946 Wheat penny found under my moms dresser a last week, wonder how long that has been there? Edited by xd99xd
04/15/2015 02:35 am
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 United States
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Under a toilet,yes you read it right. My father and I was replacing a toilet and someone used a handful of Mexican coins as shimes. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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I once found a LWC lodged between some bookshelves. Obviously mine, but I have no idea how it got there. |
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798 Posts |
I might come back if a better one comes to my memories but mine would be: Me and my friend were walking and saw an old recliner chair sitting in front of someone's house and it had been thrown away and of coarse the garbage truck wouldn't take it so me and my friend took it up to a field and smashed it and as we smashed it some coins fell out including a 1943 Wheat cent and a 1967 penny. |
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Russian Federation
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I haven't had that much weird experiences, so my own top place is just "on a random couch near someone's office". It's really not as much the place that was weird as the coin itself - a Sacagawea dollar (note that this was back in the mid-2000s, and in one of the less mass-transit-accessible areas of Moscow City). Edited by january1may
04/15/2015 09:44 am
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United States
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Inside a car stereo when I worked in repairs. Not unusual, since kids do silly things with coins and tape decks, but this was a 1986 Jamaica Fifty Cents (KM65). A nice find for the dark side collection.
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United States
8137 Posts |
One time I found a Buffalo nickel in my couch. It must have fell between the cushions. |
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United States
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Was it one of yours from your collection?
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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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United States
4085 Posts |
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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New Member
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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United States
1653 Posts |
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
72 Posts |
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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United States
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Just glad it was found by someone who would appreciate it.  |
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