| Author |
 Replies: 14 / Views: 1,811 |
|
|
Valued Member
United States
424 Posts |
About a week ago I was on a date with my wife. We went to a favorite restaurant and after being seated I noticed a coin on the floor nearby (a quarter perhaps). I found myself being rather distracted by this coin, wondering what it was exactly, the date and mint mark. After my food arrived I forgot about this coin but now I'm wondering how many of my fellow CCF members would have picked up this coin, not for the monetary value but for the potential collector value (after all, this could have been a 1936 proof Washington quarter). Remember when considering wether or not you would have picked up this coin; this would have not been a simple stoop-and-scoop, but would have required you to have slid out of a booth seat and crossed through a somewhat busy dining room and retrieved it from under an empty chair. How many of you out there would have done it? Or Have you done something like this before? |
|
|
|
Rest in Peace
United States
7075 Posts |
Yes. And, yes.  If your wife would not have been too embarrassed you could have done it -- but you would have to replace it because whatever is on the floor goes into the tip jar or whatever. It's not hard to make the switch. By the way - I seriously doubt that there will ever be anything really valuable on the ground or floor anywhere. It's possible but highly unlikely. But I always feel the urge to check. |
|
Valued Member
 United States
424 Posts |
Really the only thing that kept me from picking that coin up was knowing that it did not belong to me.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
7390 Posts |
I'd do it if I wanted to. I'm not the embarrassed type. More of the overly confident type which naturally obliterates any feeling of embarrassment in almost any situation.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
The chance that such a coin would be numismatically interesting is very remote.
Pick it up and hand it to the person sitting nearest to it, assuming that she / he dropped it.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1602 Posts |
Yes and yes. It's the not knowing that would haunt me.
|
|
New Member
United States
39 Posts |
A nonchalant foot slide and then I would reach down and pick it up .
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
I'd use the force and not have to worry about any embarassment.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
In the past I would have picked up any coin laying around anywhere. However, after many operations, bending over for anything would really have to be worth a lot.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
The other week in the street I was walking hand in hand with a girl that I have been seeing for 6 months. As we crossed a busy road and stepped onto a very busy pavement (think that film scene where he says "I'm walking here!" in New York) I saw a pile of American coins sitting against a post which comes out of the ground.
It is unusual to see American coins on the floor in England, also considering several hundred people were walking past every minute amazing that nobody had picked it up. Had I been alone I would have, even though all the coins are likely common circulating coinage... instead I kept walking and wondered a little to myself about it, I think the mixture of the unlikely prospect of anything of interest added to if you are trying to make a good impression on a girl picking stuff up in the street isn't a good way to do it just had me walk on by.
|
|
Moderator
 United States
188770 Posts |
Yes. The wife would have been my accomplice.  |
|
Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
I would have bent over to tie my shoe right over top of it. (after untying my shoe at my table) I have the same problem walking into my local Kroger with the coinstar machine at the front door. I have to see if anything is in the reject tray. |
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
1747 Posts |
I guess I have it rather easy, growing up, I have always had eyes on me, so I learned at an early age either I don't care what people think about me, or I go my whole life worrying about it.
I just yesterday walked into one of my PU banks, and queued up, and what do you know, laying on the floor was a quarter, down I went, and into my pocket it was deposited.
|
|
Valued Member
United States
62 Posts |
haha one time at work I found this awesome, toned, Lincoln Penny on the floor...people probably thought I was pretty weird staring at this penny in amazement :D |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
964 Posts |
@TypeCoin, If I had the "Force" I wouldn't be picking up a stray Quarters!  Darth Morgan and I would be out flying around in the Millenium Falcon! and hanging out with Yoda. Hmmm, Stack Quarters of Silver I must! Hmm Hmm Yes...Obi-wan, pass the halves of silver you must! Obi-wan, "These are not the silver halves you are looking for" Yoda, "Cut that Jedi Mind trick non-sense out, You can't Mind Trick a Jedi" Edited by Mr Click
12/21/2015 12:14 pm
|
| |
Replies: 14 / Views: 1,811 |
|
Posted 12/19/2015 5:24 pm
