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Pillar of the Community
United States
2600 Posts |
This year both my wife and I gathered every coin (or bill) we could find and saved them. The collection period is from April 1 to March 31. We really hit it hard, checked coin stars, parked in the back of McDonalds so as to walk by the drive up window and generally scavenged as much as possible. The results are as follows: Total amount found- $77.10 $14.06 in cents - 3.07 copper / 5 Wheats, oldest 1919 / incl. 4 Canadian $27.40 in dimes - Nothing old / includes 2 Canadian $5.10 in nickels - 1954 oldest / 1 Canadian $18.50 in Qtrs - Nothing old / 1 Canadian Bills: $1 bill - 2 $10.00 bill - 1 Not included above but found: - 2 game tokens - 1 plastic Lincoln Cent- 1 1976-D Lincoln counter stamped on the obverse. Above Liberty is the Liberty Bell and over the date is an outline of the contiguous United States with USA inside the outline. Why people throw away money is beyond me. All of this came from just watching the ground as we moved through our day. No extra effort. I will never understand. Oh, yea, this goes to buy a new coin. Works for me.  Jim  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1179 Posts |
Thats awesome Jim! Figures to be about $0.21 a day :) Not bad.
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Valued Member
United States
90 Posts |
Haha, COOL! The fact that you did this is great, but the follow up and analysis is the best part. GOod stuff. Inspiring, really. I'm gonna do this! Record and report my findings in a given time period, I mean. I already pick up anything I even THINK looks like it could be worth anything or at the very least interesting. Only fools throw money away like that. And boy, there sure are a lot of first class fools out there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1424 Posts |
I pick up coins all the time, especially pennies. I just never thought to keep track!
Sounds like you did pretty well, please let us know what coin you decide to buy with your found money.
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Valued Member
United States
138 Posts |
I pick up coins from the ground as well, but no way have I found that much. Bummer for me. Guess I need to look harder. Question? How did you go about finding change at the McDonald's drive through? I would guess that is where you found most of this?
Thanks
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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
I may find a penny or two a day, but to find (on average) 21 cents a day is awesome!
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Valued Member
United States
342 Posts |
I pick up about a buck a week average. Back when I was young married and poor this was my Christmas money.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
527 Posts |
If you really want to see what people drop, buy a mteal detector. I bought one about 3 weeks ago. Since then I have found over $35.00 in coins. I go searching for about 30 min on my lunch break, and then about an hour after work. It pays for the gas for my work commute, but I just do it for the exercise. I can't walk five feet through a park without finding a coin.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2600 Posts |
Actually, any drive thru will work. I park and walk in. By parking in the back, I get exercise and I can walk by the drive-up window. The best coins are always under the window proper, but even out in the drive next to the lane holds coins. My best pickup was at a burger King, $1.17. we also had two hits on Coin Stars where we got over $2.00.
Jim
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Valued Member
United States
178 Posts |
I found a 1955 jefferson today on the ground outside at work, at first I walk by then when I walked over it again I picked it up and checked the date. 1955!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
749 Posts |
Find a penny..pick it up..then all day..you'll have good luck  |
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Valued Member
United States
178 Posts |
once I figure out how to take a decent picture of a coin ill post it up, its one of the nicest looking coins ive seen in circulation.
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Moderator
 United States
6563 Posts |
I also pick up about a buck a week....or more. There is always so much change that gets dropped at my store and everyone hates cents in their change so they throw it around. Kinda odd.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What a haul Jim! Here's my biggest find story: Walking to class when I was in college. Cut through a back building parking lot and what do I see? Looks like an odd piece of paper. I pick it up and it's a 20 Deutch mark bill. Walk a few more feet and spot a couple more...like another 20 and a 10 mark. I stop and scan the lot...OMG...they were EVERYWHERE! I ran around frantically picking them up until the area was clear. I ended up with a nice stack!  I looked around for a possible owner, but there was absolutely NOBODY in sight and I even walked around a few minutes hoping to see somebody looking for their lost money, I would have gladly returned it to them. Finders keepers I guess! I don't recall how many there were, but I went straight to a bank just a few blocks away and they exchanged them for $165 US. How the heck could somebody have let that much cash just blow into the wind? |
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Valued Member
United States
178 Posts |
and how did that much german money end up in a parking lot at a college campus? lol
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Valued Member
United States
263 Posts |
I pick up some money during the course of a year. It probably wouldn't total $5.00 in a year. I wonder what I am doing wrong?
afernbaugh
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Posted 04/01/2008 8:20 pm
