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.

NBLondon

Today the Coinstar gave me a copper coin that had been through a washing machine or two and was completely unidentifiable.  But also a Dutch €1 coin to be added to the pile for the next time we go on holiday.

Bridlington1

NBLondon said:

Today the Coinstar gave me a copper coin that had been through a washing machine or two and was completely unidentifiable.  But also a Dutch €1 coin to be added to the pile for the next time we go on holiday.

With really battered coins I often end up mixing them in with a bag of that denomination of coins and depositing them in the bank that way, I once got rid of a 2p that had been run over by a train that way and a 20p that had somehow been cut along the middle. It's also a good way to get rid of coins from the crown dependencies (post office can be quite fussy about taking them in my experience but don't notice if they're in a bag).

SuzeQStan

This happened quite a few years ago but when driving, what I thought was a stone struck my car. 

when I got home a £1 coin (old style) had embedded itself in the bonnet. Levered it off and popped in change purse. Days later tried to use it toward taxi fare and it was counterfeit. 😾

ThriftyRose

I found a 2p yesterday 😜. I miss the old days (70s,80s) when our tip was unmanned with small skips that you could have a rummage in. 

Now you get shouted at if you do much as put a foot over a line 

t14cy_t

 i still find coins on my walkies with zeus. not as much as previous years as most people pay by card, but im up to £8.50 so far this year.