Sawbuck

Ten dollar bill.

Found in "The Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner" published by The Modern Library, 1993.


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Dream A Little Dream

Sealed envelope. I opened it up and there was a 1954 wheat penny inside.

Found in "Dreamers of the American Dream" by Steward Holbrook. Published by Doubleday, 1957.

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Lost And Found

One dollar bill.

Found in "Nancy Drew: The Strange Message in the Parchment" by Carolyn Keene. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1998.

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Centimos

Five Peruvian coins.

Found in "Churchill Defiant" by Barbara Leaming. Published by HarperCollins, 2010.
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75 Percent

Torn twenty dollar bill.

Found in "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. Published by Signet, 1963.

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Nickel and Dimed

Small black velvet jewelry pouch. Inside were five very clean and shiny 1957 nickels.

Found in "The Nestorian Monument in China" by P.Y. Saeki. Published by The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1916.


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Fortunately Gone

Altered penny.

Found in "The Sybil Leek Book of Fortune Telling" by Sybil Leek. Published by Collier Books, 1969

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On Your Mark

German two mark note from 1920.

Found in "The Guiding Hand" by H.L. Hastings. Published by the author, 1882.

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Loose Change

83 cents in change.

Fell out of "Eye in the Sky" by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books, ca. 1970.

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Big Money

 One dollar bill.

Found in "The Tale of Two Bad Mice" by Beatrix Potter. Published by F. Warne and Co., date unknown (stated copyright renewal dart of 1932).

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To Counterfeit Is Death

Packet of 13 facsimile Colonial notes.

Found in "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" by Woody Holton. Published by Hill and Wang, 2008.

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Mistry Money

I received a message from a reader named Madeleine who wanted to share this forgotten bookmark:

She writes:

Greetings from Canada. I am currently reading (and enjoying) "Forgotten Bookmarks" and have a story to share: In Toronto, we have some Little Free Libraries, (which you have probably heard about), and in March this year, I picked up a hard cover copy of Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance" - one of my favourite books. I took it home - and double luck! - not only did I have a lovely hard cover edition, I found $$ inside. The "Mistry Money" was inside a note saying "This is for your stereo". The word stereo is pretty much from another era, so my guess is….the cash had been in this book for a few years. (A Fine Balance was published in 1995)

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Half Cent

I find a lot of loose change in books, I usually just throw it in the cash register. However, this morning a penny fell out of a paperback and instead of the usual coin-hitting-the-floor sound, I heard a "pink."

I tracked down the penny and was surprised to see it was empty on the other side. I can't image what the purpose of this half coin might be.

Found in "Bush Baby" by Martin Woodhouse. Published by Berkley, 1969.

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A Pfennig Saved Is A Pfennig Earned

A German 75 Pfennig notgeld, from the early 1920s.


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Lucky Day

A guest post today, this bookmark comes from reader Evita:

Picked up this Richard Russo book, "Empire Falls," at a library sale. Much to my surprise, $40 was tucked away inside!

Not a bad way to start the day.

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I Want My Two Dollars

Two one dollar bills.

Found in "Gold Coast" by Elmore Leonard. Published by Bantam, 1985.


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Good Satisfaction

Novelty advertisment, front looks like old Confederate Currency, the other side reads:

This is to certify that I ____
the happily wedded wife of ____
do hereby permit my husband ____
to go where he pleases and when he pleases, as I know he is a good judge. I also wish he would go to WILLIAM STURM for his clothing, because I know he would have good satisfaction.

William Sturm
Merchant Tailor

Found in "The Living Shadow" by Maxwell Grant. Published by Street and Smith, 1931.

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Off To A Good Start

Five dollar bill.

Found in "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen. Published by The New Press, 2005.

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On The Money

One dollar bookmark.

Found in "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy. Published by Signet, 1960.

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My Little Runaway

Two $500 bills from a Monopoly game.

Found in "The Runaway Papoose" by Grace Moon. Published by Doubleday & Doran, 1929/

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