NYC - Early morning FOG finds - Totals

They just feel like Cents are worthless so they just dump them there for someone like me to find them.

 

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That is strange to purposely throw money away. My wife works for USPS and one of her customers gave her $12 in presidential dollars thinking they were quarters to pay for a delivery. He told her that he received them from a parking meter as change from a $5 bill and he wasn't aware of the dollar coins and apparently the city isn't either. I can't even imagine how much money the city has lost due to the ignorance of the coins and how the parking meter cannot distinguish between the two and the fact that they accept bills and return change. The customer inserted $5 and received $12 in change? He also said that he has quite a few old morgan silver dollars that he's had for many many years and wants me to look at them as soon as he gets back from Arizona in the spring (he's in his 80's) and I'm absolutely thrilled to help him out and I hope he has something great that I can share with CT members! I can't do FOG due to recent health issues and I am very excited about this opportunity to help someone who does not know what they may have and the possible value. He is a kind person and I won't attempt to cheat him on any of his coins, he gave my wife the 12 presidential dollars as a gift for watching his mail while he is away. I hope this is relevant to your post.

 

Years ago, while stopping to pay the toll at a bridge at the self service basket I look over to grab a receipt, and looked at the reject bin.
My wife was telling me to hurry up, for the guy behind us.
I said just wait and a minute later passed her two hands full of dimes & quarters.
As I remember over $5 worth.

 

In 1956 I was 13. The Saturday movie cost 13 cents and for 10 cents you could get popcorn and a drink. 25 cents would get almost 4 hours of entertainment. Newsreels, Color Cartoons, an installment of a Science Fiction, Western, Mystery and a story more for girls. These were serials that continued from week to week similar to modern soap operas. Ever hear the Statler Brothers "...Saturday morning serials, parts 1 through 99..." We could park our bikes out in front of the theater. Leave them all morning and nobody would touch them. Earlier, during the Korean War, we would get military newsreels showing the war.

We never walked past any FOG.

 

I was born in 1956 and I have many memories of my younger years including the cost of some things you mentioned. Good luck with your FOG!

 

I the early seventies I would go to the cafeteria at the ski resort in the early mornings and look for FOG finds before ski lessons. Even over all the noise we could hear a silver quarter drop! 25 cents would buy you a huge steamed butter-horn roll and a carton of milk! I haven’t had the opportunity to think about that for a long while, sure do miss those butter-horns. But I’d like to see all that change I found on the cafeteria floor about now more. I collected Lincoln cents only back then as well as now and always took them home to fill my albums. I’m sure there would be some interesting numismatic finds in the other coins I found on the floor. When I got older girls took over the coin searches but I still always looked down on that floor. Good memories.

Reed.

 

Unreal!! Love it!

 

Found this coin this morning getting my breakfast.
Probably my last FOG for 2019
Have a Happy New Year eveyone!

 

How the dickens does a Swiss coin end up on the street in New York??

 

Most likely tourists. They give their change to the homeless and they go and throw them into the street. Talk about circulation!

 

I started this thread almost 1 year ago.
This is my first FOG report for 2020!

A few Cents and a gold pendant.
Funny.. I find myself already searching for the year 2020 minted cents. Soon

 

These are not FOGs but FIMs
Found in Meters!

Every once in a while I hit the jackpot on the block where I work..
$1.75

 

I used to do that at the phone banks @ the United Nations bldg....a long, long time ago.

 

My latest FOG was 45 cents right at the convenience store counter. It was below the Millennial to pick it up. Paid for half of my refill.

 

The only FOG finds up here in the north woods are passed out drunks and empty bottles.

 

Your very interesting.

 

I've seen them do it in the Houston area. If you can't make a down payment on a BMW with it, it ain't worth keeping.

 

I just did it again!
Yesterday $1.75 and today $2.00!

Yeeha! Same Meter!

 

Thats a good day setter first thing in the morn.

 

Today..
2 FIM and 6 FOG finds

I haven't acquired a 2020 Cent yet!