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Message:: [QUOTE="OldGoldGuy, post: 2111132, member: 72697"]I never fully understood it myself, but a few of my US dealer friends have a bucket of foreign coins that they sell for pennies apiece. The only time they pay attention to them is to check a random one here or there for silver content. At coin shows, a few kids will pass through and spend 45mins-1hr digging through them picking out a small handful with their allowance money ($2-$10). Then, I made friends with a gentleman from England, who had a bucket of "foreign" change that he brought with him when he recently moved to the US. At one of the shows around here, I was sitting talking to him for a few hours. I happened to catch a barber dime on top. I asked how much he charged for coins in that bucket. "5 for a dollar" was his reply. I asked if he had gone through it before, and his reply was "not in this decade". So I grabbed a few handfuls, and started pulling out 90% US coins that to this former man of the crown, were foreign coins. I pulled out around $2.50 face in 2 mins. It was about 10 coins (+/-2). I handed him $3. One was a Barber half in XF-AU. Not going to retire me, but it was funny that "foreign" to a foreigner is home grown to me.[/QUOTE]