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  Joined: Mon Jul 06 2009, 08:54AM Posts: 82 | Whats the weirdest place you ever got a coin from. I mean..I've mysteriously found a 1960 Belgium 1 Franc in a street gutter at night in a tough area of town in another part of the world..and I've retrived one or two out of drains..and I dug up a 1797 cartwheel penny in my own back garden..making gardening more interesting. Any stories of yours? Freedom lives in the barrel of a gun | ||
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   Joined: Sun Jul 01 2007, 10:10PM Posts: 344 | I've been waiting to reply to this for a while because I know I've gotten some non-US coins through various means but just can't think of any. I used to work at a hotel and we'd end up with foreign change in the cash drawer all the time. I worked at retail stores and it's nothing unusual for a canadian coin to end up in a U.S. cash register. However, at the hotel I'd find a penny from Malta or even Trinidad and Tobago once. Finding an old cartwheel penny while gardening sounds very exciting! I didn't even know what one was until you mentioned it. I had to Google it and I found this site: Cartwheel Penny | ||
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Joined: Sun Jul 01 2007, 10:10PM Posts: 344 | Ok I thought I remembered seeing that you had added a 1797 penny, just didn't realize they called them cartwheels. As big as that coin is I can see why. Now I want one  Cartwheel Penny 1797 | ||
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Joined: Mon Jul 06 2009, 08:54AM Posts: 82 | Heh, yes, cartwheel pennies are massive..I think the cartwheel twopence is slightly bigger. Yes, it was the worlds first steam stamped coin, shame the idea of having a true 1 penny of copper in your pocket never took off...too big and heavy, t only was mnted n 1797. The size and the fact it was the worlds first steam stamped coin makes it popular. Unfortunately, the picture posted is not of my find. Mine is too badly corroded. Stll, it isn't every day you dig up such a con the back gardern/yard. There was a lot of junk iron in there too..but only one penny! Freedom lives in the barrel of a gun | ||
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Joined: Sun Jul 01 2007, 10:10PM Posts: 344 | This is not really a weird place, but in the U.S. we have CoinStar machines. Certain supermarkets have them and probably other locations as well. Instead of taking the time to roll up your old change, you bring it to the machine and you can pour in all of your coins. It sorts them all by weight so you can mix denominations. When you are done, the machine gives you a total and you take that to customer service to receive dollar bills. Some machines are picky and reject certain coins as well as foreign coins. I've heard of people walking up to the reject return slot and walking away with handfuls of foreign coins because they were either forgotten or left behind by whoever put them in the machine. [ Edited Mon Mar 08 2010, 05:56PM ] | ||
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Joined: Mon Jul 06 2009, 08:54AM Posts: 82 | Well, that's an idea. We got them machines in Europe too. I've never used one before. I read it takes 8% or something..and I'm against that (no nothing to do with being in Scotland..), it's the principle..anyhoo, never thought to check them for foreign coins. The Pakistani grocery store palmed me off with a 'Jersey 50 pence' in January. Probably thought they'd put one over on me..but I was like 'Yipee!' [ Edited Tue Mar 09 2010, 11:17AM ] Freedom lives in the barrel of a gun | ||
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Joined: Sun Jul 01 2007, 10:10PM Posts: 344 | I think you might be right about the 8%. I've only used the machine once and that was a few years ago. We had a couple of gallons of coins and I think we converted around $40-50. 8% of $50 is $4, and usually I'd not want to just "give" that way...but it was definitely worth $4 to be able to drop them in a machine instead of making 100 rolls of 50 coins. I'm more lazy than I am thrifty. | ||
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  Joined: Sat Feb 20 2010, 01:12AM Posts: 44 | I worked at a retail store and within 4 months of looking through my drawer I manged to almost complete a set of Canadian Pennies and Wheat Pennies. I have found tons of pre 60's nickels, but my best odd find so far.... This is what got me collecting... I was at walmart one day and i was waiting in line and in the distance I saw a coin laying on the floor, several people walked over it and when I was done I went over to it and picked it up. It was a 1935 Buffalo Nickel In amazing condition. The next day I was in the same place and the guy ahead of me actually cut a buffalo nickel out of a flip and used it to pay with, I bought it from the cashier. Where I work now some people said they have had Morgan's and Walking Liberty's come through the register, hard times for Americans I guess. | ||
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Joined: Mon Jul 06 2009, 08:54AM Posts: 82 | Gosh, all I ever got in 20 months in USA was a 1943 steel penny. Wait, I got a two dollar bill too. Freedom lives in the barrel of a gun | ||
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Joined: Sat Feb 20 2010, 01:12AM Posts: 44 | you can get 2 dollar bills from the bank, you can buy stacks of them at face value, sometime you'll get lucky and get red serials or older good or uncirculated condition. Are there any American Coins you would like to have? I would be willing to trade some lol. | ||
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