Found 2025

Every year the Kirkland family keeps a jar of ‘found’ coins - and once per year I do the accounting. Previously: 2024, 2023, (no 2022 post?), 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. We’ve been doing this since 2004.

Here’s what we found in 2025!

Even fewer coins than last year; I think the approaching cashless world is cutting into this, plus our family now has two very independent teenagers. We’re not taking as many slow ambling walks as we did back when they were in elementary school.

Plus: the abolition of the penny finally happened this year. Who knows how this will affect this!

We did still pick up 147 individual coins, which adds up to $11.82, plus some miscellaneous euro Erika found in Germany and the Netherlands this summer. Tracked in our ongoing spreadsheet, of course.

As always: these coins are stored in the archive for the one-day future Erika Kirkland Museum of Found Objects.