Road Money

The oddest thing I ever found was an elongnated cent of Scobby-Doo/Universal Studios. But I found it on the floor of a 24 Hour Laundry Mat.

Swamperbob, I say this in the nicest possible way...It's all right to be a nut. LOL. The coins I find along the paths I walk are usually "Road Kill". Coins with more scratch and dents than you'll fine in a car panel beaters shop. I usually put them in the pile to be taken to the bank.

I do collect evey foreign coin that I have ever received in change, put them in a 2x2, and add them to my collection. Although, Your Spanish Peseta would hold "Pride of Place" in my collection regardless of it's condition. LOL.

My odd finds in change would come from New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Singapore. I have found a USA quarter in a roll of $1 coins I received from the bank. (that was one expensing quarter).

toast - I agree that the coins from the road are ROAD KILL - I have gotten several that were completely ONE SIDED - the other side being completely scratched away. Some flip over so both sides are destroyed. But they do have character. Even the Peseta has deep gouges on one side while the other side is near MS.

Here in the US I typically find Canadian, Bermuda and Bahamas coins rather regularly. I once found a 1904 Panama 10 Centavo in a roll of quarters - but that was in 1963 when silver quarters were still circulating.

grouse12 - the largest bill I have ever found was a $20 US which I guess must be fairly close to your $50 NZ. When I got home I told my wife and it was gone in a heart beat. I did find 4- $20 bills folded together in a dumpster one time. But that was when I was working as a janitor - years and years ago. I have found a few other bills on my walks recently but my favorite is a bleached out $1 bill that is nearly totally white. It must have been in the ditch for a year or two before I found it. It had been run over by the roadside lawnmower and was cut in two but I found both pieces about 10 yards apart. I can't imagine how many people passed that spot before me but no one ever saw it.

longnine009 - I have only found one elongated penny in the four plus years I have been walking - a souvenier from the Statue of Liberty in New York. It was also scratched but not too badly.

Gary Burke - I have never ever passed up any coin on the street and I always used to spend them whenever possible. I did save really odd ones. I found a Half Dime dated 1854 on a dirt lot when I was about 10. I was kicking along in the dirt and out it popped. That was a real find back then. I also found a 1904 V nickel when I was about 12 - that one had only one side. It was half buried face down in a dirt pathway. The reverse was worn off and it looked like a slug, but I picked it up anyway and was surprised to find the obverse of an AG 5 cent piece with a clear date.

I never pass up a coin on the ground. However, I have never found anything of much interest, aside from some one's 10 yr. AA token that was about the size of a Kennedy half. It was in a church parking lot so I turned it in with the hopes that the individual came back for it.

I always pick up lost change. I usually don't find anything but about 2 months ago I found over $50 US in one month.

I keep every coin or bill I find on the ground. I spend them mostly or put them in my change to be deposited at the bank every year or so. I am always looking down, people might think I'm depressed but not, I am merely looking for coins. LOL.

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Originally posted by grouse12

Hi Swamperbob,i love the fact that you give the coins you find a little back ground history by putting the date and location of yuor find. My best find ever was a fifty dollar note but I had never thought of doing what you do!

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I agree the history is really cool , and what an interesting side hobby, as for grouse's comment If I find a fifty unless really old or unusual, it most definitely has a place *** paying Bills*** Lol