I have been quite lucky at finding notes and was thrilled as a child to find a half crown buried in the sand as I made a castle. This bought ten ice cream cones! One roll of notes dropped in a shop was promptly claimed by the lady who came rushing back when she realised her loss!

yoyo, that is quite a heap of cash! What are you planning to spend it on? Many years ago I found a purse containing nothing but four 'florins' (2 shilling pieces). I was very honest and took it to the police station. After about three months as nobody had claimed it the police phoned and told me I could come and collect it.

I had a good-natured but rather 'simple' friend who while waiting in a supermarket queue noticed a £20 note on the floor. She tapped the woman ahead of her on the shoulder and asked "Did you drop this?" Of course the answer without a moment's hesitation was "Yes."

Vee.....I am just going to keep adding to the jar and not spend it. A lot of the coins are a bit corroded by road salt or run over by cars . I am finding , lately, there are fewer finds because I believe most people just don't carry around cash but are using money cards ( or whatever you call the cards that are reloadable).

I once found a Dunkin' gift card and was able to purchase one donut with it !

I am a 'finder' by nature, when others would never find sea glass I always had a bowl full of it when we were vacationing in Florida.

That's pretty amazing. All that in just 3 years...

The $10 bill was in the parking lot of our grocery store.

Before I started keeping my coin jar, I once found two $5 bills along the curb of a street where I walk.

Usually my walk involves the high school campus and parking lot as well as the surrounding neighborhoods. Most of the coins are from the school campus area.

It is amazing what is out there that most people just walk past and don't bother to pick up !

Has anyone ever heard of the tradition of tossing dimes onto the coffin at a burial.....believing that thereafter if you come across a dime on the ground it's a sign from the deceased ?

Never heard of the above superstition yoyo.

On the same lines as your 'finds'. I have just been reading A Mudlarking Year by Lara Maiklem a diary of the finds she has made in the river mud of the Thames. It is the sort of book to 'dip into' rather than read right through. She has learnt the best times to search the river bed and what can be found at certain areas at low-tide and has found everything from glass bottles, to clay pipes to a range of coins going back centuries. She has obviously had help from archeologists with much of what she has picked up and can stand next to a pool of sludge and identify an object that most of us wouldn't even notice.

This is her second book so I have ordered her first volume which I hope gives some indication as to how she got started and the help she must have had.

My personal rule is that found money goes into the next charity collection tin I encounter.

I have never found anything 'interesting'. A friend walking through a recently ploughed field picked up something that turned out to be a fourteenth scabbard for a short dagger.

Metal detecting is popular over here although much of it is just luck. I was recently shown a very small silver coin (think size of little-finger nail) dating back to the Saxon era . . . one of the Edgar's, Edwin's . . . I asked where it had been found and the guy was very loath to tell me but eventually let-on that it was from a field several miles away. I think he was worried that I was about to pick up a spade and dig in one particular spot.

Just to add, as I was writing this the postman has arrived bringing my new copy of Mudlarking. Purchased at a third of the price through a 'well-known' on-line retailer. I shall enjoy dipping into it.