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Excellent harvest, MrPink!

Congratulations, MrPink2018!

after lengths of time go by and I don't find one in the place where I find them the most, I start getting paranoid, wondering if someone else has caught on. I don't think anyone has. I think it is still my little secret.

i had to be patient with tonight's hunt. I had ridden through most of the route, fed all the kitties, but only had about thirty-four cents in my pocket. I was about to call it a night and go home without finishing the route, but then I scored an unopened gallon jug of distilled water in the winn-dixie parking lot. someone left it in a shopping cart. that find changed my mind and I continued on with the end of the route (for now that jug will sit with the rest of my hurricane/emergency water).

good thing I changed my mind. I scored some coins as I was leaving that parking lot, which bumped the total up to sixty-eight cents, and then my next stop would be the gas station where my favorite ice machine is. it's coin return hadn't produced much in the past several months, but tonight it kicked out 8 quarters:



worthy of the dancing apple.

i picked up a little bit more along the way home for a total of $2.94 on the night; ooooo, how close I came to a $3 night...

edit, a little while later:

tonight's pickins makes two consecutive $2+ nights, and it's my third night this week & month of at least $2 found. I've picked about $12 over eight nights.

Excellent harvest, MrPink! Hopefully the streak will continue.

Good finds, MrPink2018!

This weekend my wife's sister was out walking and found some sort of container on the ground (I don't recall how she described it). Inside were the following:

(a) $1.78 in common U.S. coins.

(b) 7 coins from the Philippines.

(c) 1 coin each from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Japan & Korea. (The last 2 she identified with a phone app, which I'd never seen anyone do before.) All the foreign coins were modern (1980s or so) and common looking.

(d) Oddly, a broken piece of what looked like a cheap replica of a Morgan dollar.

(e) A much-circulated 1923-S Lincoln Cent.

She's not a coin collector so I don't know what she's going to do with the foreign coins, but she gave me the 1923-S penny. It now fills a slot in my rather sparse 1909-1940 Wheat penny album (in which none of the pennies were bought by me, and pretty much all are well-worn space fillers that serious collectors probably wouldn't look at). The 1923-S is now the lowest-mintage Wheat penny I have; the previous record holder was my 1932-D.