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Nothing too odd but I thought I would share a couple of occasions when coins have randomly appeared.
About 10 years ago I went to Japan with my husband. We were waiting in the departures of Heathrow when I left him sitting with our bags while I went to the toilet.
When I got back my husband told me that while I was gone a man came over briefly and sat next to him. When he got up he left a centime coin behind him. This was a few years after the Euro and the centime had very little value before that, let alone after. Yes it's not unusual for a small coin to drop out of a man's pocket but this was about 5 years after France changed to the Euro.
Almost exactly the same thing happened when going on holiday a couple of years ago. However I don't recall the coin, but I do remember it being something unusual.
These incidents were brought to mind a couple of days ago when I found another out of place coin.
I live in a very typical 1940s semi detached. It has an arched storm porch with a step. About a week ago I opened my front door to go out to go to work when I noticed a very shiny coin on the doorstep. It was a 5p coin, but not an ordinary one. It was a Falkland Islands 5p. I'm used to seeing channel Island and Gibraltar coins in my change but I've never seen a Falkland Islands one.
No one had, to my knowledge, come to my door since I had come home the night before. The coin couldn't have rolled there as the step is far too high.
I have kept the coin, and I do have the centime somewhere, but we have moved house since then.
About 10 years ago I went to Japan with my husband. We were waiting in the departures of Heathrow when I left him sitting with our bags while I went to the toilet.
When I got back my husband told me that while I was gone a man came over briefly and sat next to him. When he got up he left a centime coin behind him. This was a few years after the Euro and the centime had very little value before that, let alone after. Yes it's not unusual for a small coin to drop out of a man's pocket but this was about 5 years after France changed to the Euro.
Almost exactly the same thing happened when going on holiday a couple of years ago. However I don't recall the coin, but I do remember it being something unusual.
These incidents were brought to mind a couple of days ago when I found another out of place coin.
I live in a very typical 1940s semi detached. It has an arched storm porch with a step. About a week ago I opened my front door to go out to go to work when I noticed a very shiny coin on the doorstep. It was a 5p coin, but not an ordinary one. It was a Falkland Islands 5p. I'm used to seeing channel Island and Gibraltar coins in my change but I've never seen a Falkland Islands one.
No one had, to my knowledge, come to my door since I had come home the night before. The coin couldn't have rolled there as the step is far too high.
I have kept the coin, and I do have the centime somewhere, but we have moved house since then.