NYC - Early morning FOG finds - Totals

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There are days I find nothing and there are days like today.. All FOG's this morning

 

I've been shopping at Menards for years, sometimes making three trips there in one day if I have a project that requires unexpected supplies. In all these years I had found only two cents. Here's my take the other day.

Steve

 

I've never found any coins at the Menards I shop at in Rhinelander. Considering how much I shop there you'd think I'd at least find a penny or two.

 

When my son was a toddler, he was always finding money...I soon realized the reasons why #1 He was short. #2 we always told him to watch where he was going( watch his step).

So I decided to follow my own advice and the following week I found a $20 bill! Nowadays, I find an occasional coin on the ground and after checking coinstar machines in my area with no luck, I was at a busier location in Honolulu, and I got my first coinstar find! Added up to .65 but I was excited! The gas station I go to has a “donation acrylic container” for donations for various clubs. The manager wouldn’t let me buy a few rolls of pennies as everytime I go there my eyes immediately focus on the container that slowly fills with mostly all pennies with a few bills and other coins.

So I made “friends” with cashiers at various locations nearby, like a cookie store, and I offer to double the amount in their tip jar if they give it to me. It’s always a few bucks...and I like going through this, as the tips are counted daily so I know I’ll have enough to make good on my offer...the kids are happy with a couple easy bucks added...and I like to see what I got!

 

Wow!

 

Happy Days!

 

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Well, let me tell you about my FOF coins. For many years I used to teach in a local, fairly affluent, suburban high school. One of the duties teachers had at the school was monitoring certain activities, like hall duty, study halls, in school suspension, etc. One duty was cafeteria duty. Most teachers hated that duty but I liked it for several reasons, one of which was because it was remunerative.

One of the fastest thing I learned about this school was that kids would not pick up coins dropped onto the cafeteria floor. Not only did they never pick up pennies, they would not pick up nickels or dimes and about half the time they would leave quarters where they fell. I operated on the same principle in the school cafeteria I used at home with the family dog, who knew that if any food hit the floor it was his. Those coins lying on the floor where mine. I usually waited until about five minutes before the lunch period ended to make my rounds. On any given day I would pick up at least fifty cents, sometimes seventy-five cents and on good days a buck or more. Some of the teachers I had cafeteria duty with thought I was nuts for doing this and one day in the faculty room brought up my bizarre behavior, much to the amusement of my colleagues.

After the chuckling and clucking died down I asked him if he would pick up $50 off the floor. He said he probably would. I then asked him to do some math for everyone's edification. Let's say it was an average school day, fifty or sixty cents. That would be about three dollars a week times 42 teaching weeks. Hmm. Do the math and in any given year I would acquire well over a hundred dollars in my FOF, found on the floor, stipend. I actually did not keep the money for myself but as student council advisor I used that extra cash at the end of the year which paid for a lot of pizza and soda at the student council end of school picnic.

I don't think the math, home ec., or business ed. departments taught this sort of thing in their classes to their students, but they should have as it would have made a lot of cents.

 

Excellent story! Thanks for sharing!

 

Yeah, I just don't get it. The lack of finds at Menards is WAY out of proportion to the number of times I have been there, and there is always huge traffic in and out. I wonder if the young folks who they hire to retrieve the carts find the money before I do. Just out of curiosity, I'm going to ask them the next time I go there.

Steve

 

Today's finds.. 1945 Wheat in the middle.
All on the corner of 27th street and 5th avenue!

 

Keep going on 27th Street and go eat some of the amazing Cuban (or Chinese, whichever you prefer) at La Caridad. Interesting history the owners have. Nice finds by the way

Edit: whoops, 78th and Broadway. In my defense, it was ~13 years ago.

 

It's been a while since my last post..
This morning's find -

 

The dark one on the left looks like a valuable error coin. I'm waiting for you to start a new thread with better pictures.

 

I will only do that if there is something worthwhile. Believe me when I say that I check the coins for errors and varieties. I usually don't find anything.

 

You could sell them on the dark web and see how many show up as valuable mint errors. What I see in your findings is popcorn and a coke at the Saturday movies. What a shame. Keep posting, I enjoy it.

 

FOG coins must be quite common in NYC - not so much in this small town:

 

This was found on the ground outside a diner. No date or mm until I pickled the nickel.

FOG - 1915 D Buffalo Nickel

 

While I was walking around town, I saw this item laying on the street next to the sidewalk which looked like a "gold penny".

It turned out to be a Scientology Patron pin.


Scientology Patron pin
Gold plated, 19 mm