What's the most money you've found on the ground?

I occasionally find some coins, but yesterday I found 2 x 1000 forint bills (about €5) during the walk to the train station. I was amazed!

My bigger finds:

- 2 x 1000 ft (of course)

- 500 Ft bills (worth €1.25) I found twice, once in February, when I was walking home, and once in a hotel during a storm. It was on the balcony, soaking wet.

- A few years back (in 2019), I found a winning scratch-off ticket next to a bush, at Tesco. It won 500 Ft.

- A 50 groszy coin (€0.10) when I was in Poland.

- And like a 100 coins.

I'm also interested, what was the most money you've found.

As a child I had a playground near my grandparents were I could sift through the sand under the swings, slides etc and find on average 5 to 10 DM in coins and occasional notes. As a small child this was quite a lot of money and was invested in ice cream and other sweets.

The largest amount I found was a 50 € bill that was blown into my  jacket on an empty street, gave it to the police and collected it when nobody asked for it. The largest amount I couldn't keep was a few 10000 € in boundled 100 € bills that some dropped in a bank. 🥲

On my trip to Korea earlier this year, I found a 50000 KRW ( 50 CAD) on the street. I picked it up and stood there for a minute to see if anyone seemed to be looking for something they dropped.  but everyone seemed to be going on with Their business 

a US $20 bill, but have found several of them through the years

Idolenz

The largest amount I found was a 50 € bill that was blown into my  jacket on an empty street, gave it to the police and collected it when nobody asked for it.

Very few countries with this kind of trust.

I have a habit of scouring the streets, and I regularly find small change. Mostly 5 euro cents, less often 10 or 20 cents. I have found 1 euro coins twice and a 2 euro coin once.

But my highest catch was a 100 USD note. It was many years ago in the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was very crowded, and I was in a river of people going up the stairs. A few steps up, at eye level, I saw something paper that had the colors of a banknote, but was tightly rolled up to the thickness of a matchstick. I grabbed it and put it in my pocket, assuming that it would be a maltreated dollar note.

Back in my car I took it from my pocket, unrolled it and to my surprise it turned out to be $100. I was in doubt to report it back to the reception desk of the aquarium. In the end I decided that if one is that careless with 100 dollar notes, then it would be a good lesson to feel it. We used it to buy ourselves a US National Parks pass.

Sometimes I find small change coins in the street, mostly 5 and 10 cents (by the way, found a shiny 10 cents this week).

Very rarely I find foreign coins. I already found an US cent, an old french franc and an old UK pound (earlier this year, posted on the montly addition thread).

My highest find was a 20 reais note very long ago, just walking on the street.

A $20 bill at a county fair. Paid for snacks all day.

People here rarely drop their money but I did find a 10 toea (about 3 US cents) once. I did find quite a few pennies, nickels, and occasionally dimes while I was in the US last year.

Most commonly I find 1ps an 5ps on the ground but once last year I found a pound coin on the floor.

Car keys ;)

And few five euros notes.

And here in Madrid look like copper coins are not appreciated I usually find 1 or 2 or 5 cent euro coins twice a week.

Last year I also found a cigarette dispenser in a drained dam, 20 euros in 2 euros coins after the local police told me they know the machine.

£20 in a multi story car park in Hampshire - Kerching !!!

When i was just a kid, me and my granddad went searching for coins that fell on the ground after funpark left our village, one time in total we found 1250 Kč (around 50€) he took me to bakery and toy shop and we had a great time.

I've been keeping a spreadsheet of found money since mid-June, and I have collected $9.20 from uncollected change, Coinstar machines, and random coins on the ground. The highest I found since I started tracking was $0.87 at a McDonald's. However, the most I've ever found was $20 on some bleachers at a local high school in 2011.

When I was about 15 in the early 90s, I found a $10 note once and felt bad about keeping it as it was in a kids purse. I was young, surviving on pocket money and that $10 paid for some food and spacies.

Lately the most was a $5 note in a puddle about 3 years ago and when I delivered papers in the wee small hours, often found coins from 10c to $1 on the road, in gutters or in the carpark of a supermarket.

Usually its 10c coins as they are copper coloured and easily lost. More rarely 20c, 50c and $1 - as they are not very valuable now. I seldom see any notes or $2 coins as they are large and hard to lose.

100 dollars bill outside a closed petrol station in South Carolina. Actually, it was my 8 yrs old son that first saw the bill. 

Some_Nerd

I've been keeping a spreadsheet of found money since mid-June, and I have collected $9.20 from uncollected change, Coinstar machines, and random coins on the ground. The highest I found since I started tracking was $0.87 at a McDonald's. However, the most I've ever found was $20 on some bleachers at a local high school in 2011.

I used to keep a spreadsheet of all the Coinstar rejects I would pick up every year, just US change alone would total at least $50

Have found £10 and £20 notes on pavements etc before. 

best find I ever found was an Australian $5 bill on the floor at the pools, this was in New Zealand but the bank my mom worked at did foreign exchanges at the time so we exchanged it, I got $5.20 for it which made 9 year old me feel quite rich

Back when I lived in Russia in the 80s, we used to go to a large nearby intercity bus station. It was the closest place that had arcade machines within walking distance. Being kids with not much pocket money, we'd often go to the locker area and check the reject trays to see if any coins had been left behind (there were several hundred lockers there). One time we went there, I found a wallet next to a trash can with a little over 200 Rubles in it. This was when most people earned less than a 100 a month. By far, the largest find for me.

A few years back, found a bunch of $5s, $10s, and $20s leading up to a door, about $80 total. Someone had probably reached into their pocket for the keys and pulled out a bunch of bills along the way without noticing it.

Two $20 Canadian bills. My friend and I picked up at the same time what we thought was a single $20 but it was $20 each!

Gold $2.50 bury at John r busch brewery in Washington Missouri 

John r busch and Adolphus busch are both brothers 

Gold $2.50 is a 1896

I am sorry, some of you are a greedy and dishonest lot. If I found anything bigger than $10 I would be doing my darndest to find out who owned or lost it, unless it was buried 20cm down or something.

Feel free to share you story of how you found more than $10. The part about how you did your darndest to find out who owned or lost it is optional.

I never found more than $10, but my post further up the thread explains when I did and how bad I felt keeping it.

I found a 20 euro bill in the supermarket this morning, but I saw it fall out of the lady's pocket in front of me, when she took out her credit card to pay. I don't know if that counts? Of course, I told her, she had lost the bill, so I got the biggest smile of today!

Sjoelund

I found a 20 euro bill in the supermarket this morning, but I saw it fall out of the lady's pocket in front of me, when she took out her credit card to pay. I don't know if that counts? Of course, I told her, she had lost the bill, so I got the biggest smile of today!

I’ve had a similar instance and did the same as you; just can’t keep it when you know who it belongs to. 

My gold $2.50 find is part of my family history charlie busch is my great great grandfather  and one of the 9 brothers in Anheuser busch family of  late 19 century-early 20th century

50 Dollars is the most I have found here in Wellington, New Zealand - which I found lying in a gutter a few years ago.

I ended up buying some food that day - as I was very hungry! 

Even if I see 10 Cents on the ground, I will still pick it up, even though you can't buy anything with 1 coin of 10, 20, or 50 Cents.

Aidan.