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You also need some better time constraints. If you give me a full day (and a large enough incentive), I can find anything in my home, especially because the annoyingly difficult to reach places (like the inside of the stereo) can't be used to hide the coin without leaving obvious marks (disturbed dust, ...).
If you gave me this task, I'd probably cheat and put the coin into my pile of change.
Well, knowing that, if I was hiding a coin in your house, I'd make sure to disturb the dust and leave marks on the screws in as many places as possible. And I assume you would do the same if it was you hiding the coin.
Sure, but that would be way too much work. It would take you almost as much time to hide the coin as it would take me to find it. That violates the virtue of laziness.