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What is the most common foreign coin (not including Canadian) that you guys have found? And how often do you find them?

 

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Yes it's an upgrade for my primary book for sure. I love finding old coins with their original bluish luster still present.

 

I haven't found one in almost a year, for awhile last couple of years I was finding them every couple of weeks.

 

I would say the mexican peso. Some times I have found mexican regular cents in dime rolls but more common is the 1 dollar coin in nickel rolls. It's hard to say how often you find them. Maybe 1 in 8 boxes of nickels. I hope I was of help. It may be different for other collectors depending on where they live.

 

Bahamas, Panama, Philippines and Euro 2c coins in BWR and in CWR I find mostly British pennies in cents, 5p coins in dime rolls and 20P coins in nickel rolls.

 

Wow! To find them every couple of weeks you must have had to search alot of cents.

 

What he said. I also get a fair number of nickel-sized Swiss coins. Lots of foreign coins in the Boston area.

 

found this really good looking minor scrapes and scuffs but brilliant in person. if i could have saved it a few years back this could be really nice.

 

Mexican.
Then, not so much in rolls, but in bags I get all kinds of everything. Kinda fun actually. the most recent was a Irish 1 pound in with halves.

 

So I started looking through a part of my collection. What I had been doing was throwing all of my old nickels in a box not including silver of buffalo nickels. Out of what I got through today I ended up finding 14 1939 1 1938 4 1942 non silver and a 1942 d non silver. Best of all I found my 1938d and my 1950 d.

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-indian-head-cents.194701/page-8

About halfway down the page

 

Thanks.

 

Picked up a handful of rolls while cashing a check today:

Nickels: 1943-P (first war nickel in over a year), 1947-D, 1949, 1949-D, 1954-D, 1956-D, 1957-D, 1968-S

Pennies: got 7 solid rolls of 2016-P (kept the remaining 6 when the first one was solid upon opening). 2000 Wide AM (2nd found), 1 wheat ender (1953)

 

Canadians are the only foreign coin I have ever found.

 

How often do banks have Ikes?

 

I've only encountered them twice at a bank in three years of asking.

 

The last time I found some at a bank, they were in a sealed bank envelope labeled "Half Dollars". I've always suspected that the bank accepted that batch as half dollars, but they sold them to me as dollars.

 

I find Ikes like once a month. Usually it's 1 or 2 and are common dates but a couple of days ago they had 137 worth one being 40% silver. You can read about it in the last page or 2

 

I found 300 at one bank about three weeks ago, all in old rolls. Excited that may contain a peace or morgan. No such luck, nothing exciting that I didn't already have so sold them back.