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See A Penny, Pick It Up (Superstition / Luck Related To Money Found)

Swifty said:
new fivers look cool but they're springy as f**k
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I have heard several shop assistants moan about the difficulty of handling these new notes in quantity. I had seen them one at a time until the weekend when I got three together. Did no one test them? :eek:
 
JamesWhitehead said:
I have heard several shop assistants moan about the difficulty of handling these new notes in quantity. I had seen them one at a time until the weekend when I got three together. Did no one test them? :eek:
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I'll volunteer for that job. I'll need a large supply and access to a range of retail outlets - cake shops, pubs, that funny shop near Chester station with the gimp mask in the window...
 
escargot1 said:
I'll volunteer for that job. I'll need a large supply and access to a range of retail outlets - cake shops, pubs, that funny shop near Chester station with the gimp mask in the window...
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I like the see through bit on them :) .. the notes, not the gimp masks ..

.. does anyone else remember when 20p coins were radical ? .. I've never liked £1 coins though, back when I could have a note and pretend I was rich instead ..

"Wow, the new £1 coin is gold in colour, we must all be doing alright then !!"
 
I had a windfall in Ho Chi Minh City the other day: on the new pedestrianised bit in the town centre I picked up 1000 dong!

1000 of anything sounds like a lot, but it wouldn't buy much from that specialist shop near Chester station - it's worth about 3.5p.
 
Swifty said:
.. does anyone else remember when 20p coins were radical ? .. I've never liked £1 coins though
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I certainly recall 20p coins being quite the novelty for a few weeks in 1982. Does anyone else remember that the earliest batch turned brown in what seemed like no time at all?
 
Krepostnoi said:
I had a windfall in Ho Chi Minh City the other day: on the new pedestrianised bit in the town centre I picked up 1000 dong!
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Picked up the odd dong myself over the years.
 
From the 2011 hardback edition of Ripleys Believe It or Not book:

'Inspired by the realisation that people don't bother to pick up small currency 10 won coins on the streets of Korea, Jin-Jeong-Gun decided to collect as many coins as possible and turn them into a giant mosaic of the Korean national flag. Over a period of 14 years he collected 110,000 coins and then spent 4 months arranging them into a flag measuring 20 x 13ft (6 x 4m). Jin had previously made a pagoda from 2,000 discarded 10 won coins.'

See a penny, pick it up and then one day you can make a huge flag for some reason ..

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how much is the face value? an interesting contribution to the what is art worth debate :)
 
Swifty said:
I found a grubby £1 coin this morning outside our shop .. then I found my glasses and then I found out the tax office had screwed up and I don't owe them £237.89 .. they've apologised ! .. all this before midday.
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Do the Lotto!
 
Mr. Hammers once found $20 out on the street, as well as a $2 scratch-off ticket someone threw away by mistake. Usually we just find pennies or the occasional quarter. My favorite thing is finding money in an old coat or bag you forgot about.
We were talking about theft by finding laws and here in the US no one cares unless its quite a bit of money like over a thousand dollars. But mostly its an honor-system thing like the man who found 10 grand in his cab and worked to find the owner.
 
I always pick up coppers when I see them. On my altar I have this little devotional figurine of Santa Muerte and whenever I find a 5p piece in the street I bring it back and put it next to her like a sort of offering, I don't know why but I only ever do this with 5p coins.
 
Two 5p coins this morning :) and someone's touch screen phone :( but they're not answering their home line. I'll have to switch it off later when I take my grandad nap but I've made a handwritten note of the home number if the phone goes flat.

edit: She's picked her phone up, turns out I know her which doesn't surprise me because everyone knows everyone around here.
 
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Swifty said:
Two 5p coins this morning :) and someone's touch screen phone :( but they're not answering their home line. I'll have to switch it off later when I take my grandad nap but I've made a handwritten note of the home number if the phone goes flat.

edit: She's picked her phone up, turns out I know her which doesn't surprise me because everyone knows everyone around here.
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I found a phone once. I was going out to the shops and I thought I could hear a phone ringing but I couldn't place where it was coming from.
I came back from the shops and heard it again, so I looked about and there it was on the pavement, a Nokia right outside my door. I called the first number in the contacts list, Bazza or Gazza or maybe Twazza*.

- Ohh, what the fuck do YOU want?
- Oh, sorry, you see I've just found this phone on the floor and I wondered if you knew who it belonged to.
- (pause) Oh, aye it's mine like, where are ya? I'll come and get it.

Well it clearly wasn't your phone, so I hung up. I thought I might fare better by calling "Mam".

- What NOW?
- Oh, sorry, you see I've just found this phone on the floor and I wondered if you knew who it belonged to.
- Eh? Oh, what's he done now? Are you the police? I haven't seen him for months.

* I've just remembered that the first name, alphabetically in the contact list was AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH.
 
davidplankton said:
I found a phone once. I was going out to the shops and I thought I could hear a phone ringing but I couldn't place where it was coming from.
I came back from the shops and heard it again, so I looked about and there it was on the pavement, a Nokia right outside my door. I called the first number in the contacts list, Bazza or Gazza or maybe Twazza*.

- Ohh, what the fuck do YOU want?
- Oh, sorry, you see I've just found this phone on the floor and I wondered if you knew who it belonged to.
- (pause) Oh, aye it's mine like, where are ya? I'll come and get it.

Well it clearly wasn't your phone, so I hung up. I thought I might fare better by calling "Mam".

- What NOW?
- Oh, sorry, you see I've just found this phone on the floor and I wondered if you knew who it belonged to.
- Eh? Oh, what's he done now? Are you the police? I haven't seen him for months.

* I've just remembered that the first name, alphabetically in the contact list was AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH.
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I think you may have found Richard Head's phone.
 
rynner2 said:
Of course, £10 was worth about £100 back then...! :p
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Yup, it's inflation innit. When I was a child I heard of the Ten Bob Note Test for diagnosing 'flu. These days it's a tenner!
 
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