Newspaper Clipping of the Day

Via Newspapers.com

Accounts of mysterious "rains" of money are more common than you might think.  The following example comes from the "Stockport Advertiser," June 4, 1981:

They could be forgiven for thinking it's raining pennies from heaven down Reddish way. 

For cash has been literally falling from the sky on St Elisabeth’s Church — but the well-wisher is remaining strictly anonymous! And the more the rector, the Rev. Graham Marshall, finds more suddenly appears. 

Said Mr Marshall: "Apparently last Thursday evening while I was on holiday, a little girl was walking in the church grounds when a 50p piece dropped in front of her. 

“She thought it must have been thrown at her but couldn’t see anyone around. When she looked down she found several pounds' worth of coins lying there in the grass. 

“I came back on Saturday and a local shopkeeper rang me up and told me children had been spending large amounts of money on sweets. They told her it had just come out of the sky. 

“At that stage I went over to the church and there was quite a crowd of people there collecting coins that had just appeared on the ground. 

“While I was there another one appeared. One minute there was nothing there and the next thing there were more coins. 

“I like to think it’s a magpie or some other bird nesting in the roof which has decided it’s about time it paid some rent.” 

But Mr. Marshall (pictured left outside the church) has been on to the roof and there is not a bird’s nest in sight. 

He added: “It will probably turn out to be birds but at the moment I can’t explain it. Some of the coins are stuck so far in the ground that I’m beginning to wonder if they’ve come from down below the church!

 

This was the only story I found about the phenomenon, so I can't say how long the showers of coins lasted, or if the mystery of their appearance was ever solved.