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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2   LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 11-05-2009, 01:52 AM   #1 (permalink) hrhomer Member     Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Outer Sunset, SF, CA Posts: 129 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by volker00 That's quite a collection you got there! Yeah. I only wish I'd started collecting earlier Joe   11-04-2009, 12:50 PM   #2 (permalink) coleguy Coin Collector     Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: California Posts: 2,097 My Mood: I usually get a lot of Canadian coins from about October through March, as the snowbirds move in for the winter. The rest of the year not much, but occasionally a few coins from Mexico as the border is somewhat close and we get a lot of migratory farm workers coming through. I just throw all this into a jar because I know next to nothing about foreign coins. Guy~   11-04-2009, 12:58 PM   #3 (permalink) Inquisitive Junior Member     Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: NYC Posts: 43 My Mood: I got a loonie in the return slot from a coin counting machine. I see a couple of canadian cents every year. most of the time I will just include them with everything else & spend or roll.   11-04-2009, 01:10 PM   #4 (permalink) NMBSURFER1 Junior Member   Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 104 I hardly ever get foreign coins in change. But searching through rolls is a different story. Probably one foreign in every five rolls and mostly all Canadian.   11-04-2009, 01:34 PM   #5 (permalink) scottishmoney Yep   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Krasny Vostok Posts: 2,533 Got a 1973 Barbados cent in change this morning, funny looking because it has a trident on the reverse. __________________   11-05-2009, 04:28 PM   #6 (permalink) Billy Kingsley History Via Numismatics     Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Dutchess County, New York Posts: 405 My Mood: Blog Entries: 8 Quote: Originally Posted by scottishmoney Got a 1973 Barbados cent in change this morning, funny looking because it has a trident on the reverse. That reminded me...how could I have forgotten!- that last month for my birthday my mom got me several rolls of coins from the bank as part of my present. In one of the nickel rolls there was a Barbados five cent piece. It was a nice surprise, and it turned out to be one of only three coins from the roll I kept (one of them was an upgrade, and another was for my run over by a truck collection) __________________ Billy Kingsley Member ANA, SPMC I don't care about a coin or note's "value" or material composition. I care about what it is, and it's place in history! Collector of all coins and currency!   11-04-2009, 03:38 PM   #7 (permalink) Just Carl Numismatist   Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,474 Kind of gets me mad that I seldom find them in my change any more. Long time ago I used to find all sorts of foreign coins in change but nothing for a long, long time now. I think part of the problem I use credit and debit cards so much, I seldom see change of any kind. As to those cards, my Son doesn't even carry cash of any kind. He uses those type of cards every where.   11-04-2009, 06:08 PM   #8 (permalink) desertgem Senior Errer Collecktor     Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,494 My Mood: Living 10 miles or so from Mexico, one might suspect more of those in change than Canadian. But there are so many Canadian "snow birds" here, I get more Canadian in my change ( in the winter time). Odd world! Jim   11-04-2009, 06:57 PM   #9 (permalink) scottishmoney Yep   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Krasny Vostok Posts: 2,533 Quote: Originally Posted by desertgem Living 10 miles or so from Mexico, one might suspect more of those in change than Canadian. But there are so many Canadian "snow birds" here, I get more Canadian in my change ( in the winter time). Odd world! Jim I have only ever gotten one Mexican coin in change, as a quarter, and it was one of the older Peso coins. Most of the time their coins are just not the right size or composition to masquerade as American coins. I have even gotten 4-5 Panamanian coins in change over the past few years, but they are the same composition - even the sandwiched coins in 10, 25, etc. that the USA coins are. __________________   11-05-2009, 07:16 PM   #10 (permalink) Phil Ham Hamster     Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York Posts: 526 I got some british coins in England; some dutch coins in holland, and some chinese coins in china. Does that count? If not, I just got two Canadian quarters yesterday at the Elks Club.   Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. 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