Finding money in the street.

The police are not going to find the owner. He should just keep the money.

As you say, if it was a wallet with a name, it would make sense to bring to the police, in this case I would keep... or the policeman would.

I would definitely have done the same - kept it. Without some form of ID, you'd never establish who the owner is. I'd only give it in if it were a wallet or purse.

Keep it or give it to someone who needs it if he do not like it

If it is only money, no wallet or identification then I would keep it otherwise I would give it to the police or contact the person.

I am with you. If it's just a note, no one would be able to rightly claim it, so I would just keep it. If I could absolutely identify who it belonged to that would be a different story.

I think it would be impossible to find its rightful owner. If you hand something in to the police, they are supposed to keep it for a certain amount of time to give the owner a chance to claim it. I doubt many people, if any, would go to the police about a dropped £20 note. If the item is still with the police after a certain amount of time (I can't remember how long) then the item should be returned to the person who handed it in (as long as the item is not illegal or being used for evidence or anything). It has been said, however, that the police would keep the cash themselves rather than handing it back. What I'm saying, in a roundabout way, is that the money would, assuming the police were honest, most likely come back to your husband anyway. If there was another person around or if there was something else with the money, there may have been a way to get it back. Otherwise, I would keep it. Perhaps your husband could put it to good use, donate it to charity or pay it forward somehow. I think any larger amount, I would use social media to let people know I'd found it and get it back to whoever had lost it.

I found a 20 once on a sidewalk with no one in sight so I picked it up.

I do not think you need to report this to the police. As they are not going to hand it over to the owner anyways. I have never had a chance or luck to find money like this. But my husband has found many times. Rather than giving it to the cops, my husband feeds the homeless kids from half the money and rest half we keep. We also need money, anything extra is a blessing for us. But we make sure we share it with someone more needy too.

I would have kept it Doubt the police will investigate and it’s hard to find the owner as no name is attached unless there is security footage but even so may be hard or takes too long / effort to return $20 something bucks. But your partner is very honest

How could the cops find the owner of money found on the street with no identification. Perhaps you can just think that it came from heaven. That's it, it is all yours to keep and to spend.

@sprite1950 I have found money on the ground before, but, lately have not. I would look around to see if anyone might have lost it. If no one was around I would take it home. There is no one I could turn it in to.

I would have given it to some poor and not to the police.

If it makes him happy to hand it in then he should do that. The money could have been lost by an elderly person or somebody living on a low budget.

I will keep the money, except if there is an address of the owner of the money, maybe I will give it to the police.

It makes no sense to give it in to the police as there's no chance of finding the rightful owner. I'd give it to charity if I found money like that.

I doubt the police would ever find the owner. For that amount, I’d just keep it.

I would keep it. If it had been a wallet I turn it in. I saw a news article a few days ago on Bing about a man who turned in 27,000 dollars into a bank he found at an ATM.

If there is no owner name I think you can keep it, because even the police don't know where to bring that

Just consider it as his lucky day.