Post Your Stories & Pix Of Found Money

@westcoin-

i do it often enough, I just don't talk about it a lot. helps in a jam. I feed upwards of a dozen homeless cats each night... three individual cats & one small group. if I'm short on cash I use the found money to assist, but I make sure I get it back.

Awesome results MrPink2018!

Nice job with the $20 bill (and especially the lucky fives), Mr. Pink! The Gatorade and gallon of water are nice finds too.

My total for September was $47.76; daily totals ranged from $4.36 on the 14th to zilch on the 2nd (the latter can be explained by being on vacation up north at the time). That's a healthy average of $1.59 per day, but I'm thinking October might score a little lower as academic demands get in the way of my change huntin' time.

Last week Tuesday, I found my first (and only) bills of the month: two $1s just sitting there atop a vending machine at the physics building. "Ooh what's that..." and it ended up being enough to bring my otherwise lackluster total for the day up to a healthy $2.85. But then later the same day, the zipper on my change purse broke, and since then I've been just using an ordinary plastic bag...

"Nice" find, hfjacinto...those pennies have seen some better days. I recently discovered that one building on campus has a credit union inside of it that has a change counter machine just like the one at my own bank, and I pulled four pennies from that reject tray one day this past week that looked equally nasty. I've been meaning to post some recent pics but I'm on campus right now and therefore can't transfer files between devices I don't have on hand at the moment.

rock on, DiscoLover82!

October has been off to a hot start (a pleasantly warm start in terms of the weather too: it's been in the 80s each of the past three days, unusual for October here in southern Wisconsin), with $2.36 on Sunday, $3.84 yesterday, and $2.39 today! Today had an interesting array of finds, including three tokens, an elongated zincoln, and my first ever street stimulus half dollar (all courtesy of Coinstar), and a Wheat cent (1958-D) on the floor of Walgreens.



And now, some miscellaneous pics from the last couple of weeks since my last image dump:

A respectable daily total of over $3 on 9/15, including plenty of nickels that had been toned an unattractive brown from having gotten wet:


Grubby pennies (all of them vintage zincolns) rejected by a bank coin counter on 9/20:



Are '09 dimes worth anything beyond face value in this condition? Looks to be at least AU to me, some (not a whole lot of) mint luster remaining as well.

'grab that cash with both hands and make a stash' -pf

last night I picked $3.23 in well-scattered change. it was the first $3+ night of just coins and the best night of just coins since june 13 ($3.08).

i found 9 quarters, 8 dimes, 18 cents... and no nickels.

of the nine quarters, only one had the old heraldic eagle reverse (1965) and one was a bicentennial..




the sudden surge in found quarters had me baffled. seemed like I was finding them everywhere. I picked three from a parking space at publix that nearly eluded me. I didn't see them on my first pass; my rear bike tire ran over one and I heard it. I know the sound of a coin under my bike tire. the sound it makes is unmistakeable. I ran over it, heard it and I circled back around to see them. I've ridden over enough coins over the years to know that sound. flattened bottle caps make a different sound, as do washers and everything else.

jolly good. that boosted my running total over $240.

and here's something I'm sure I have never in my life said before:

i can hardly wait until black friday!

this cycle will definitely end on black friday. six weeks & five days to go.





edit, 10pm: I found $9.54 last week, it was my best week since july 9-15 ($10.76)