The found coin thread.

When you find money like that, you ask if someone lost any money and they can tell you how much and what denomination(s) they lost. Keeping $20 without making an attempt to find the rightful owner is dishonest.

 

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I am sure Detecto has learned that lesson since being a young lad in the classroom.

 

Speaking of which, I found a closed Mississippi riverboat token in some Mexican coins that someone found packed away. I know one thing people do is casual count, just glancing at the cards to see what is being played. Do they kick them out?

 

If you do not move your money with the count, then you are fine. However, to gain an advantage, not only do you need to keep an accurate count, but you also need to move your money (i.e. 1-5 unit bet spread). For example, you bet $5 each hand, then the cards get hot, you then move your money to the count by betting $10, $15, and so on depending on how favorable the count is. If it is really hot for the player, then you would bet a minimum of $25, or 5X your base bet. When the cards go cold, you would drop back down to $5 per hand and wait until the cards go player favorable again.

 

My first find was with a metal detector at an old one room school house that had been torn down. I found a 1937 buffalo nickel that looked brand new and 2 indian head pennies. They weren't worth much but that sparked my life-long interest in coin collecting.

 

Well of course you have to move your money when there are a lot of 10s in the deck. Sounds like people getting a very slight advantage casinos will have an issue with so why bother gamble at all. They just want people to throw their money away to them. Anyhow I have to soak this riverboat token in acetone, it has green stuff on it. Looks like an interesting find but it has this green stuff stuck to it. Maybe PVC slime?

 

Thats not dishonest, if no one spoke about losing the money they must of not worried about the lost or where too careless and dropped it in the first place. Don't call people dishonest when you don't know the situation ether that's just rude. You also have to remember he said it was a classroom. A lot of kids are going to lie and say it was there's and some could get down right lucky and make up the amount they possibly lost and get it right. I believe he did the right thing in the situation.

 

Found a 1903 indian head cent in my school yard in the first grade (1999?). Wish I still had it, lost it somewhere over the years.

 

I have found several $20 bills lying on the ground in stores, parking lots etc. Never once did I have that moral dilemma about keeping it because there was nobody around. But a couple of years ago though I found about $4-5 or so in a wad of $1 bills lying on the ground and asked the 12 or 13 year old girls nearby in the store if they had lost them. The one girl grabbed the money and all she said was "oh" and turned around. Great. Turned out they were friends of my kids from their school. Nice to know they have rude friends.

 

I, too, have found countless banknotes on the ground. I have a spot not far from my place that I've found at least a dozen $20s and several $10s behind a community club.

I've also found $20s just laying on the floor at the checkout stands at Safeway.

In the same vein, I've found unopened liquor bottles, unopened packs of cigarettes and on occasion bags of groceries that were just left in parking lots. I'm guessing they got missed while loading the car.

 

I found a Silver Dollar in a storm drain once. Then I bought a candy bar with it and found a Golden ticket. Now I have a chocolate factory, I have no idea what to do with.

Honestly I metal detect and have found 1000's of coins.

 

How would someone speak about losing it without the finder asking if someone lost it?

It is dishonest. The money wasn't Tim's, it was someone's $20. He said he didn't want to ask if anyone lost $20 because he knew a bunch of people would say yes. He could have asked if anyone lost some money and let everyone in the room know they can claim it by stating the amount and denomination(s) the money he found was in, but he kept it to himself.

 

ff-topic:

 

One of the tiniest and lightest coins that I have is one that I found on the ground, in a furniture store. I was in the Netherlands, and saw that shiny little thing right next to the chair that I was trying out. Turned out to be a Neth. Antilles 1 cent piece, aluminum, diameter 14 mm, weight roughly three fourths of a gram http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/img1/hr/6-32.jpg (not my image). Don't really collect coins from there, but that one I kept.

Christian

 

Hes in a classroom full of kids.... of course everybody is going to lie and say they lost $20 bucks or $40 bucks or what ever until they get the amount right. Just wouldn't work he did the right thing and wasn't dishonest. Kids lie all the time so it wouldn't work what you where recommending.

Sorry for being off topic I am done now.

 

All great supplements to income.

 

Who says you can't find folding money with a metal detector? I found this cool folded 1925 Mercury dime with mine. Next to it is the smallest coin I ever found, a 1943 Netherlands 10 cent piece.

 

I found $113 in an eyeglass case outside a baseball card shop.

 

we has an old 4' high radio tube type when I was a kid, One day my dad had a guy come look at it and he took the back off looking to see if it had a blown tube and there was a Canadian large token or pennie from the 1850's we were told it was common that the makers did it I don't know about that?????

 

so long ggood buddy.
we will miss you.