Final Coin Tally

Here it is; the final coin tally. In the four months that I've been blogging about our coin finds, my wife and I have racked up a total of $49.80 in change found on the ground. Not bad for four months. I broke down what we found by denomination type. Here it is:

145 pennies
6 nickels
27 dimes
8 quarters
1 dollar
2 $20 bills
+ $ 2.35 in unspecified coins

Wow! A $20 Bill Found Again

Here's a big post with lots of dates. Once again my wife amazingly found a $20 bill. It's pretty unbelievable. The penny counter just shot up again!

03/26: 1 penny, 1 dime, Coffee Tree Roasters

03/28: 1 penny, 1 quarter, Schenley Plaza
1 penny, S Highland Ave
1 penny, 1 quarter, Whole Foods
1 $20 bill, Whole Foods parking lot

04/01: 1penny, 1 dime, Duquesne University
1 penny, Whole Foods

04/04: 1 penny, 1 quarter, Aldi
1 penny, 1 dime, Whole Foods
1 penny, 1 nickel, Walmart
3 pennies, 1 dime, Best Buy

04/05: 2 pennies, Kentucky Ave

04/11: 1 penny, 1 dime, 2 quarters, Whole Foods
1 quarter, Giant Eagle
1 penny, Trader Joe’s

One Nickel Found

A shiny nickel!

03/25: 1 nickel, Whole Foods

Two Pennies Found

Back to Pittsburgh and I only find two pennies. Damn!

03/23: 1 penny 5th Ave
1 penny at Carnegie Library Main

Ten Pennies and One Quarter Found

On the way back from Philly, we found a whole bunch of pennies and one quarter. Back to Pittsburgh, where the change finding is not as good as in Philadelphia.

03/22: 10 pennies, 1 quarter, on the way back from Philadelphia

Over Twenty Dollars Found in One Day

This was a huge payday. Walking around Philly, money seemed to be everywhere. My wife stumbled across a rather large pile of pennies at a bus stop in the old city. We found 35 pennies at once at the bus stop. (see picture) Throughout the day we found some more change. However, after dinner, we found the biggest find yet; a $20 bill! Amazing! The penny blog counter just grew by leaps and bounds!

03/21: 35 pennies at once, 13 pennies, 1 nickel, 4 dimes, 1 $20 bill, in Philadelphia

Five Pennies and One Dime Found

The Pennsylvania Turnpike gave us 13 cents, but then stole $21 from us in tolls. Philly greeted us with two cents.

03/20: 3 pennies, 1 dime, on the way to Philadelphia
2 pennies, in Philadelphia

Two Pennies Found

Not the best day, but at least I still found some money. One penny was just barely sticking out of the bottom of a fire hydrant.


03/17: 1 penny, sidewalk in front of the Cathedral of Learning
1 penny, Forbes and Schenley Dr

One Penny Found

Wow, a big find!

03/16: 1 penny, Schenley Plaza

One Dime and Three Pennies Found

This day was a fairly good money finding day. I found a big 13 cents!

03/15: 1 dime, Big Lots
1 penny, Target
2 pennies, Greyhound station

Four Pennies Found

This day I found a large number of coins, but each coin was only a penny. Oh, well.

03/14: 1 penny, Kentucky Ave
2 pennies, Trader Joe’s
1 penny, McDonalds

Two Pennies Found

This day I found two coins; two pennies.

03/11: 1 penny, 5th and Neville
1 penny, S Highland Ave

One Cent Found

While walking around the neighborhood, my wife and I found a penny on the sidewalk.

03/09: 1 penny, Ellsworth Ave

One Penny Found

While shopping for a few groceries, I found a single penny at Trader Joe’s.

03/08: 1 penny, Trader Joe’s

One Dime Found

As I was looking for a tasty pastry to buy, I found a nice shiny dime under the danish display case at Prantl’s Bakery. A tasty pastry and free dime!

03/07: 1 dime, Prantl’s Bakery

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I found three pennies this day. All three were heads up. I guess that they're all lucky.

03/06: 1 penny, Kentucky Ave
1 penny, Hillman Library
1 penny, 5th Ave

Ka-ching! I found a dollar bill at Target. What a nice find. Then, I found a dime a few minutes later. Not the pot of gold that I was hoping for, but not too bad!

03/05: 1 dollar, Target
1 dime, Old Navy

I added a big amount this day; 1 cent!

03/04: 1 penny, Schenley Plaza

Lately, haven't had much luck finding change. I'm still waiting to find that gold krugerrand or a nice pot of gold. I'll be looking for rainbows this spring.

02/26: 1 penny, Target
3 pennies, 1 nickel, 1 dime, Giant Eagle

For those interested in a summation of the money that we found thus far, I’ve added a “Change Found Total” feature to the blog. Each time that I report what we found, I will add the new total to this feature. While the total is not very large, keep in mind that it’s free money and we’ve only been counting for less than two months.

The 25th was a nice and sunny day; perfect weather for searching for change.

02/25: 1 dime, Schenley Plaza

1 penny, Aiken and Walnut

The 24th was a big payday. Well, not really.

02/24: 1 penny, S Aiken
1 penny, Ellsworth

Recently found change:

02/22: 1 dime, Whole Foods
2 pennies, 1 dime, 1 quarter, Walgreens

02/23: 1 penny, 5th Ave.

Finally, all caught up.

02/09: 1 penny, Craig St. and 5th
2 dimes, 5th Ave
1 penny, Schenley Plaza

02/10: 1 penny on 71D bus
2 pennies, Schenley Plaza
1 dime, Trader Joe’s

02/12: 2 pennies, Whole Foods

02/14: 1 dime, Dollar Store
2 pennies, Target
1 penny, Trader Joe’s

02/21: 7 pennies, road trip

Ok, I’m playing catch-up again. Due to my inadequate blogging skills, I have drastically fallen behind. Here’s a quick post to get back on track.

02/01: 13 cents

02/02: 12 cents

02/05: 2 cents

02/07: 69 cents

02/08: 23 cents

02/09 and after: still looking for the piece of paper with my records…

First things first. Blogs are not easy to keep up with. I was never a diary keeper, and I guess that I never will be. So, with that said, I have some catching up to do.

January 31^st was quite a successful day. My wife and I did some shopping in Ross and found a stunning $1 and 16 cents. Not that that’s a large sum of money. But when you’re use to finding only a few pennies and maybe a dime, anything close to a dollar is exciting. I didn’t keep accurate records, but the bulk of our money was found in one of those machines that converts change into bills. I guess that someone forgot to check the dispenser near the bottom of the machine. It dumps out things that it thinks are not coins, but most of the time what ends up in the bottom dispenser is actually money. So, when we walked by and saw it, I think that I said out loud, “Oh man!” I quickly grabbed the change. A lady was walking by, and I really believe that she thought that I was a bum, because I had gotten so excited about the money.

01/31/09: $1.16, Ross area

Last week I found only 6 cents. Not much, but every little bit counts!

01/29: 1 nickel, Schenley Plaza; 1 penny, Hillman Library.

Not much to report from the weekend. We found some change, but not much.

01/24: 1 penny, Aldi Foods; 2 dimes and 1 penny, Robinson Mall

A temporary thaw is taking place as I write. In the hopes of finding some change emerging from the layers of melting snow, I walked around Hillman and CLP during my lunch break. I found two pennies and one nickel, each still partially buried in dirty, wet snow. All three coins were found in front of three separate parking ticket dispensers.

Change found since last post:

01/22: 2 pennies, Whole Foods parking lot; 1 dime, inside Whole Foods

01/23: 1 penny, near parking ticket dispenser in front of CLP; 1 penny, near parking ticket dispenser in front of Frick Fine Arts Building, 1 nickel in front of parking ticket dispenser at Schenley Plaza

The piggy bank didn’t get much fatter over the weekend. I’m starting to think that because of the Market Place story, more people are picking up change. Well, I’m sure that’s not why, but it sounds like a good explanation as to why we only found 4 pennies this weekend.

Change found over the weekend:
01/17: 3 pennies, Trader Joe’s
1 penny, Giant Eagle

We started to save our found change on January 5^th. However, with all the recent snow, finding change on the sidewalk has been difficult. I suspect that once the snow melts, many pennies, nickels and dimes will come out of their winter hibernation and into our piggy bank.

Tally thus far:
01/05: 1 penny found in front of Hillman Library
01/07: 1 penny, 5^th and Craig (also, a 42 cent stamp found on Kentucky Ave.)
01/08: 2 dimes, Whole Foods
1 penny, Bellefield and 5^th
01/11: 1 penny and 1 dime, Target
3 pennies, Trader Joe's
01/13: 1 penny, Hillman Library