Happy President's Day -- Found 12 Cents

Today I rode my bike to the post office and library even though they were closed. I dropped a letter in the outside mail box then returned some books to the library. On the way I rode my bike through nearly every parking lot I came to and I found some coins:

• a penny in a restaurant drive through
• 2 pennies in another restaurant drive through
• a nickel in yet another drive through
• a penny in the Target parking lot
• a penny at a gas station near a pay phone
• a penny somewhere (can't remember where!)
• a penny in my parking lot when I got home

Not bad finding 12 coins with two president's images (Lincoln on the pennies and Jefferson on the nickel). Happy President's day!

I posed my found money next to a stuffed lion my friend mailed to me. Cute!

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  7 pennies, 1 nickel
Year:  pennies:  1982, 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2014; nickel:  1998
U.S. Mint:  mostly D, one with no mint mark
Condition:  tarnished, shiny
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $11.26

Happy President's Day and I Found 8 Pennies!

I know for those of you who go somewhere to work, today is probably a day off. Hope you're enjoying it! Today is just like any other day to me since I work from home. The main difference is that the library and post office are closed, but I'll live. I hope everyone is having a good day off work!

Around 11:30 today, I took a walk, nothing exciting, just around the neighborhood. I found 8 pennies! One was a Canadian penny, but they're all good enough for my found money jar!

 
This Found Money FACTS:
Denomination:  8 pennies (7 U.S., 1 Canadian)
Year:  1964, 1974, 1989, 2005, 2005, ?, ?, 1979
U.S. Mint:  none, D, D, D, D, ?, ?, none
Condition:   Mostly tarnished, and two unreadable
Total found money to date for 2012:  $1.41

Happy Presidents' Day or is it Presidents Day or President's Day?

Whatever it is (I think it's Presidents' Day), hope you have a happy one. My day is going great because I found a DIME! President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's face is on the dime. I was actually hoping to find a penny or even better, a fiver, since Lincoln is my favorite, but this dime works just fine.

I was out riding my bike (it's GORGEOUS out today in Phoenix, in the 70s, a little breezy to cool ya off), and since there is no school today, I was riding through school parking lots looking for money figuring where there are cars (usually), there will be money (maybe). Yep! I found this dime at 28th and Osborne, Larry C. Kennedy School. I think it's a middle school. Not sure.

Even though there is no school today, it doesn't mean we can't learn a little something. Here's some dime facts from The Coin Alley:

Face on the coin:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Words on the front:  "Liberty" along the rim, and the motto "In God We Trust."  The date with a corresponding mint mark above the date. 
Design and words on the back:  A flaming torch and two different branches of leaves:  olive leaves to the left and oak leaves to the right. "United States of America" above the torch, "One Dime" below the torch, and the motto "E Pluribus Unum" in the background. 
Design first introduced in 1946, still in use today.

This Found Money FACTS:
Denomination: 1 dime
Year:  2005
U.S. Mint:  Denver
Condition:  Sparkles like a diamond in a goat's butt
How many coins/bills found to date:  13
How much found money to date:  $.31