Found Money Alert! $2.56 Plus a Canadian Penny and a Car Wash Token

So, I have several stacks of coins on my desk and thought it was time to post about what I've found.

Since I last posted here, I've found a whopping $2.56 plus a Canadian penny and a car wash token. Yay! Isn't that a fancy car wash token with the brass center and silver outside? It's probably not brass and it's certainly not silver but it's pretty!

I found the car wash token in a coin machine change tray (where all the rejects go to live). It was there all by itself so I brought it home with me. What I can never understand is why people leave change (actual coins!) in those change trays but some of this money came from such places. Hmmm.

I found a 1941 nickel. I just checked Amazon and woo hoo. Check out how much they're selling one for. 

I just love finding the older coins. I need to sort through my stash and separate out the older ones to see if they're worth anything.

I also found money in all the usual places:  parking lots, floors of stores, drive through lanes, newspaper and water vending machines, and on and on. 

One day I was walking along in a parking lot and I kicked something. I heard it make a tinkling sound. I looked down and it was a penny! I can't believe I missed it but then found it because I kicked it. Go figure!

Have you found any money lately? If so, where did you find it? Anywhere fun or interesting or unusual? Do tell!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  36 pennies, 5 nickels, 7 dimes, 5 quarters, a Canadian penny, and a car wash token

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $32.47

Found 21 Cents Today and One Penny Is Curled

This morning I went to the post office and the dollar store. While walking to the post office I found 5 pennies and one of them is curled. See it? So weird. 

This deformed penny and another one were in the street so I guess they were getting a beating out there in the traffic or maybe someone took a pair of pliers to that one.

Later I found a dime in a parking lot then a penny in another parking lot. Later in the day I found the nickel in some rocks at a grocery store parking lot.

One of the other pennies is a wheat penny from 1941! Yay! I love to find older coins.
Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  6 pennies, 1 nickel, 1 dime
Year:  pennies:  1941, 1972, 1985 200?, 2000, 2003; nickel:  2005; dime:  1989
U.S. Mint:  mostly all D, one P, some with no mint mark
Condition:  tarnished, shiny, dinged up
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $10.86