O/S WOMBLING, Road Coinage, Skips, Roadside 'finds' etc

jennypennysaver

@Bridlington1 crikey you are a magnet for all this coinage!

@NBLondon I've been told by the wife of a postman that posties (obviously I suppose as they cover a lot of miles!) find a lot of money on their rounds - the new plastic bank notes blow under hedges and get stuck. Rich pickings! 🤑

Bridlington1

NBLondon said:

I want to know where you're cycling...

I once picked up a random pile of change from the steps outside the back door of a supermarket - my theory is that a worker had been sitting there on a break and lost the change from their pocket.

A mate of mine says that he often found fivers outside his workplace where people have been dropped off by taxi and presumably dropped one when paying the cabbie.

Anyway, as many of us have found, paying by plastic means far less cash about to be wombled.  However, the Coinstar has started to pick up for me this spring - 11c US and 12c Euro this week.

I'm cycling in Yorkshire. I cycle to work anyway but when the weather improves I tend to get out and about more, plus I usually book the bulk of my annual leave in the summer months so have more time to get out on my bike at this time of the year anyway.

jennypennysaver said:

Bridlington1 crikey you are a magnet for all this coinage!

I always have been quite good at finding money. I seem to have more luck when cycling when I do when walking though. I mostly find coins but do get the occasional note. 

jennypennysaver said:

NBLondon I've been told by the wife of a postman that posties (obviously I suppose as they cover a lot of miles!) find a lot of money on their rounds - the new plastic bank notes blow under hedges and get stuck. Rich pickings! 🤑

I used to find quite a bit when I did paper rounds, there were a couple of occasions I can recall when I found more money whilst doing the round than I got paid for doing the round. I've also got three decorative 10ps, a Victorian sixpence and a Scottish fiver among others that I've found on paper rounds.

Katiehound

I thought I'd found a 'silver' coin the other day (I wish!) Turned out to be scuffed circular battery so it went in Aldi's battery box. I haven't found real coins for quite a while...... Notes??? what are they?

General_Grant

Went litter picking for a couple of hours yesterday and was rewarded with a 1p coin.

(If only all the bottle tops had been coins too.)

NBLondon

€0.02 this weekend.  Oddly, it was a Slovenian 2c coin, first one I've seen.  French, German and Spanish are most common finds then Dutch, Belgian and Italian.