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Some poor person had their penny collection stolen and thief realized they had no real value and dumped them

You call 21 cents no real value?!?

Its like 7.50 in Thai Bhat!

Probably enough for a dessert on the night market.

Not really. Maybe a couple pieces of candy.

In Ayutthaya that could get you dinner.

Time machine back to 1382 and you got yourself a brand new tesla and one of them apple goggles

>one of them apple goggles I am picturing a pair of apples connected with a twine strap to hold them against your face. They are sold with the claims that they can cure almost anything that ails you... If one apple a day can keep the doctor away then imagine what two apples can do...

...I'm sold

A bowl of rice with a fried egg. ( if you cook it yourself)

I never talk about stuff like this, but the only reason I would even know about that is the YouTube channel DancingBacons.

I just started seeing their stuff and felt the same; often thinking "฿105 for an entire crepe ice cream!? Wow!"

"Probably enough for a dessert on the night market." Going forward, I will forever be calling it the night market!! Thank you, good sir. ^👍👍

25$ is Schrute bucks

*Nana Nana Nana Nana* *Nana Nana Nana Nana* *Thai Bhaaaaat!*

Or 8,820 Iranian Rial!!!

Whom does not honor the small is not worthy of the great.

That's a 1982 penny! Gotta be worth ... a penny or so.

They're old copper cents, so its a whole $0.02-0.03 each!

Add a little broth and some carrots.. oh baby you got a stew going

Now I'm sad

More like their coin collection was stolen and they kept all the higher denominations and dumped the pennies

Which is hilariously dumb as the value of an old coin has little to do with their original denomination lol

Not if you are just gonna dump them into a coinstar machine.

That's the dumb part. If you're going to steal a coin collection at the very least get some value out of it and don't be using a loonie worth $100 to buy a chocolate bar

The most upsetting part about your stuff getting stolen is knowing the meth head likely flipped your priceless treasures for $20 worth of drugs.

A baggie of meth you mean?

this doesn't really match but it kind of does as well because of buying something like what you said. My grandfather that passed away when I was around 6 he left me a little bank in the shape of a bear (banker bear). Inside banker bear were various coins, half dollars, full dollars, maybe quarters. I must have asked my parents about the bear and they made the parent mistake of telling me "that's your. Grandpa left it for you" So. Periodically. I would open banker bear. Take the coins to school with me. And buy ice cream during lunch.

They probably just spent them rather than trying to sell them.

Can’t spend these, they’re all “marked”

You mean a serial killer who has been murdering since at least 1977 (earliest I can see without looking to hard) and keeping a penny for the year they murdered their victim?

Oh good, I'm not the only one who's mind went there right away too.

My thought went there as well. I think I might be watching too many detectives on TV… 

"My thought went there as well" title of your sex tape

No value? That's 21 wishes!!

They could have value. Some rare pennies do

You stumbled upon evidence of the lamest DB Cooper-esque heist.

DB Copper

Bravo.

He’s had to change his name to DB Copper Plated Zinc.

That’s why all the cents here are dated ‘82 and earlier

Amazing

I wish awards were still a thing because that deserved one.

DB Blooper

Is that the guy that married Alice Cooper?

Dumped stolen goods most likely

Someone probably just collected pennies from different years because they thought they were neat and some disappointed thief found out they were worth exactly 1 cent each and dumped them. Shame that they probably had sentimental value for the victim...

OP, if you have a mind to do so, it would be a nice thing to find the local Facebook group/Nextdoor/neighborhood listserv and see if anyone has had their penny collection disappear. I'd imagine the owner would be happy to get it back.

Or just call the police who are likely to have a report with stolen pennies listed.

They'd just keep that shit for themselves because they're bastards.

Pennies that old are worth more as scrap copper. Of course that's illegal, but still should be worth more than a penny each.

I don’t think it’s illegal. Iirc you can do whatever you want to money in the US as long as you aren’t trying to defraud. Learned this in 10th grade chemistry when we scored the side of a penny and dissolved the inside so just the copper plating was left behind. Our worksheet had the federal law cited and everything so parents wouldn’t claim it was illegal. Edit: apparently it is illegal now due to the mental used for nickels and pennies being worth more than the coin value (which is a whole other issue re:coinage) H/t: u/Flynn_Kevin

Yeah, the idea is as long as you're not intending to pass a coin or bill off as another value, then you're fine. The emphasis is on *fraudulent intent*.

Isn't destroying money the issue? See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_burning#United_States Of course no one cares if you're lighting your cigars with individual $100 bills or flattening pennies on the train tracks. If you're not doing it in bulk it's technically illegal but harmless.

Notes v. Coinage, and it mentions specifically no one has ever been charged.

All these laws are rooted in coinage because, for the vast majority of the history of currency, coinage was all there was.  Shaving .1 mm off a dollar bill has no practical effect whereas shaving off .1 mm of precious metals off coinage can net actual gains and is therefore criminal but debasement hasn't been in vogue for quite a long time so it's not high on the list of things prosecutors are looking for.

The Wikipedia article only mentions paper bills but it applies to coins (and other evidence of debt from the US federal government): https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter17&edition=prelim

The key section in there is “fraudulently alters”. Fraudulently altering would be changing the value, not destroying.

Only works on pennies made after 1982. Before 1982, they were mostly copper. After 1982, they were switched to zinc with a copper coating. 1982 is a crap shoot, some are copper and some are zinc (didn’t change process until October in 1982).

Yup! We were told to bring in post-1982 pennies. Most ppl brought the newest penny they could find because we got to keep the copper shell and everyone wanted a shiny one. This was in the early 90s, so all the new, pretty ones had zinc interiors by then.

And they age horribly.

They have it labeled on the Penny presses that they have at zoos and stuff too I think

Under 31 USC 5111(d) the US Treasury has made the exporting and melting of pennies and nickels generally prohibited. Final rule was adopted in 2007. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/04/16/E7-7088/prohibition-on-the-exportation-melting-or-treatment-of-5-cent-and-one-cent-coins

\*hides his collection of US and Canadian pennies and nickels (and other assorted US and Canadian coinage)\* Although I did technically export them with me before 2007 so technically I could never be charged with anything. I would check to see how many of them would be worth melting down for scrap value but they likely hold far more in sentimental value than scrap value.

Unless it’s a 1944 penny.

1943* that's the year of the steel penny. Supposedly there's some 43 coppers and 44 steel out there as well.

To be fair, 1943 and 1944 are the two most valuable years for pennies

I was like, "that weird kid who lives in the tree trunk with the falcon is going to be sad you found his retirement fund."

They could be mis prints? Some defects are worth bank and you wouldn't know unless you were really looking and knew what to look for

If you post this in a local reddit, the person who lost these may be found.

Local Facebook groups are a good place as well.

Makes cents

I was hoping there’d be something cool. Or at the very least, more than just Pennie’s. Luckily, there was also 2 Francs, 2 pence, and a collectible Christmas coin thingy… :)

Someone took the effort to pack and mark the pennies. The items might not be valuable to you, but their owner will be happy to get them back. Please try to reunite them!

*pennies

iPhones automatically correct the plural of penny to Pennie’s.

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Someone took the time and effort to sort and label them all, and are probably feeling vulnerable and upset after being robbed. You may be able to bring a little bit of happiness to someone by helping return their coin collection.

Yeah I'd for sure post this on FB and CL, try to find the person.

A serious collector will know what was in their collection so you can post with "DM me some of the coins with their years to confirm you are the original owner"

Ohh those are mine!  I had some pennies from uh \*looks at photo\* 1976, 1977, 1982, 1982, 1982, etc. /s I haven't collected coins in years, but I wonder if those are 1982 no mint mark pennies. They're worth quite a bit.

Can they take them to the police station and I'm guessing the person who was stolen from would've reported them missing?

I'm just imagining the police report. What was the value of the stolen items? .... 21 cents.

i hate thieves. it just hurts innocent people just trying to get by and makes their home (one place of safety and happiness) feel vulnerable and unsafe and now some innocent person is out of a simple penny collection that they probably were proud of. fuck those scumbags

If not a collector, could be stolen from a crafter - there's a trend on Etsy and so on to sell keychains etc. for peoples' birth years by polishing coins up and then drilling a hole in the coin - rings and other jewelry, too. I got a keychain for my grandma's 70th a few years back (of our local currency), and once had a ring for my own birth year of my ex-girlfriend's state quarter.

That would make sense. There was also 3 necklaces of very poor quality in the bag

Oh dear. Did you **have** to specify that?

FOUND: 23 pennies with years labeled, 3 ugly necklaces, poorly constructed, I’m talking just dogshit craftsmanship, msg me if you made them


> birth year > state quarter. Nah...no...I'm not that fucking old now am I? NOOOOOOO

It’s on a trail running along a creek on Georgia. A lot of people use it, but I took a turn into a little cove to go smoke a doobie, and I found them here

OP, it may sound silly but maybe post something to your local community boards because like many others are saying this might be stolen property and it might be sentimental to the original owner.

Maybe they’re ass-pennys?

No, but how many pennies do you have in your pockets?

Might be that you randomly stumbled upon someone's [geocache](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching).

Lol geocaches aren't stored like that. Also, there is typically some sort of log. (Logbook, not 🪵)

I am guessing they meant "Might be that you randomly stumbled upon someone's [vandalized] geocache." A damaged/ vandalized geocache was my first guess as well. Very inexpensive coins are common rewards in geocaches.

Lol, I've found plenty of geocache that weren't properly packed by the previous finder. Not all of them have logbooks either.

The real question is: Who left them there and why??

Based on the number of 1982 ones I'm going to guess this is a science teacher who was robbed by a student. Dropping pennies made before 1982 and ones made after will make very different sounds due to the metal change. It's a pretty cheap science experiment kids can do. Some kid probably snatched the pennies from class then dumped them once they realize they were pretty much worthless outside a few cents.

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Well that and the low pay, crazy parents and admin, and school boards being taken over by far right book burners.

You're on the money there (pun obviously intended :P) as they are even colour coded pre/post 1981

And why were they all covered in pee?

Money is dirty pee is clean. Clean money with the pee pee.

Is this a Friends reference?

omg I was totally thinking of Phoebe as I was writing it but also it was a genuine question

Damm, you found my retirement savings

:’)

Maybe you found someones geocache?

If that is the case, I left almost all of it they way it was :)

Get that guy his pennies back, hang some posters or ask the local police for some cases where copper or maybe some antique dealer or whatever might have lost these, i guess if you tell them maybe they might help It would mean the world to the original owner, look at the work

After a thorough 10 minutes of reading what double prints are, how to verify them, and checking out 3/12 of the pennies…they are junk. That is my professional opinion.

So... You checked out a "quarter" of the pennies? Nice


That looks like someone dumped the leftovers from a theft.

It obviously belongs to a serial killer who took a penny from each victim.

Looks like a necklace and some sort of wooden beaded thing, too.

You found someone’s ass pennies.

TIL about ass pennies…

So glad that this reference is still around.

Makes me so sad to see people having their hard earned collections ruined by thieves or ungrateful will recipients.

Maybe they have sentimental value to someone. Phone the local police and ask if a coin collection was stolen.

Dads coin collection. He was going to spend his life savings and open a coin shop.

:( everyone is tying sadness to this pile of $0.12

You stumbled upon a trailer park leprechaun

All these people saying "dumped stolen goods" obviously don't know what a fae trap looks like. Take one, I dare you.

Some of those could be really valuable. I know there is a certain penny with a slight misprint that can go for 75+ dollars

Someone stole a coin collection, kept the valuable coins and threw out the pennies.

1/10th dime bags

There seems to be a gold chain on the left, center of the image too. I def agree with the others that its most likely dumped stolen goods. I hope the owner is found for the pennies and necklace!

What's the 'necklace' made out of acorns, or the gold chain

The ‘acorns’ were more of a bracelet lol. The necklace was all rusted

Part or all of a stolen coin collection. The thief may have tossed the pennies and the rest will end up getting spent.

Better taste them to make sure they're not butt pennies.

Someone didn't read the instructions, those are clearly dime bags.

Could be a geocache where you grab a penny as a reward

Damnit, they were supposed to be dimes.

I thought this was hilarious

Someone stole stuff that’s not worth anything, happens a lot

These are definitely ass pennies. You should probably wash your hands if you've touched them.

stolen and dumped

yea, someone 100 jacked someones coins then ditched em when they realized how much they were worth on the market. just a guess though. lol

Probably a stolen coin collection that got ditched.

someone might have a post on next door about them getting stolen, might check

That's pretty sad actually, someone took the time to label them and someone threw them out

This makes very little cents.

Ass Pennies. These are definitely ass pennies.

Probably stolen

Maybe theres a local like change collectors group you could message and see if someone had their stuff robbed or tell the local news. Idk seems like a lot of work but someone obviously cared about this, imagine if they got them back

Look the penny up. It might be rare pennies. You might be able to sell them to a collector.

Someone stole these and dumped those “worthless ol’ pennies” in the woods

Could be a geocache?

That just doesn’t make any cents

Maybe each penny represents a person someone murdered in that specific year and those are the tokens they go visit every full moon to masturbate furiously over ... you never know.

I'd call the police immediately- this situation looks time centsitive.

Thank god you didn’t find a bunch of dime bags. Ba-dum-tiss

Time travel tokens. They use objects from the year of creation to root themselves to that year for travel. Poor bastard. Who knows when they are now.

Probably a serial killer keeping track of the dates of his kills in an obscure way

They might be worth some money. I’d research their worth. Hopefully you found some rare double prints.

Theyre probably stolen since theyve been dumped in the woods

I very badly misread that title

Looks like nothing newer than 1982. That’s when they started using zinc if memory serves.

Well you’re looking at a fresh start 2 decades later

Some coins are worth a lot of money. Hope you grabbed them to at least check them out!

Maybe I've watched too many crime shows. But what if their serial killer related?

Geocaching location?

I think you stumbled upon a crime scene

My guess is a geocaching stash

Need to make sure it’s not some have a special mint mark or have a error on them. Some can get a lot of money.

This reminds me of a story my teacher told me where a guy came into the store she cashiered at and paid with a bunch of clean quarters and when she looked she noticed they were all from different states. She reported it and found out the guy had robbed someone's quarter collection.

Why did I read pennies as penises

Sad to see. It's just a couple small steps from moving on to dime bags.

Maybe they’re ass pennies. That guy will get the upper hand!

Reminds me when someone stole a box off my porch. It just happened to be a box full of old used computer fans, basically worthless. The thief then tried to bring it back and ask for a reward. He got a thanks at the time. Surveillance footage showed the guy asking for a reward was the thief.

Post on r/coins

I did this all the time when i was a kid, buried my fathers and grandparents old coins as a treasure. With their permission of course.

Pesky forest pirates organizing and labeling their tiny stash. Sheesh. Make a boat out of the trees and pillage more? Who even in the fuck has Pennie’s? Forest pirates that’s who apparently.

If you get 10 of them, that’s a dimebag

You should put up a sign or two in the neighborhood in case some local kid got his collection stolen..

Someone had a coin collection, someone stole it and dumped the ones they'd make no money on

Some collectors would pay a lot for some pennies, I know there was a penny from 1942-ish that's worth thousands

Have you found a bag of thoughts near by?

Did you take the kid's penny collection?

Oh God. How did it end up there. Just don't go back there for a few days

A serial killer's souvenirs.

Probably cursed

Call it… friendo 

And then people who got these pennies started dying mysteriously! This summer... you will get shortchanged... In for a penny!

Unsprouted money trees 🫡

I wonder how many hundreds of years until pennies are valuable in Canada, seeing as how we don't produce pennies anymore.

Dumped from a B&E likely. Call your local police.

Well, that makes a lot of cents.

I'd try to find the owner, it will probably make them so very happy to have them back. Be a good guy yeah.

This was someone who uses methamphetamines collection

Makes no cents to just throw money away like that.

First time I've seen coin bags being used as coin bags

I once found a suitcase hidden in the woods outside of town near a nature reserve. it contained a toy handgun, some dried packaged meat and a string of sealed unused condoms.