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<p>[QUOTE="TexAg, post: 3676898, member: 86167"]I recently became interested in Foreign coins and have been categorizing them by country in 2 x 2 holders and placing them in plastic pages in 3-ring binders. While visiting my Mom in Houston, her very sweet neighbor Nancy came over to bring us homemade bread and drink a cup of coffee. We talked about several things and somehow my foreign collection came up and I showed her my binders which I brought with me as I have a couple hundred coins which I still need to go through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Her and her husband Peter had visited many countries and recognized some of the coins in my collection. She left and came back with a cigar box full of coins, some loose and some sorted in envelopes by country. She said, “Enjoy them, our kids aren’t interested in coins!” After many protests on my part to no avail, I finally accepted them gratefully and told her I would add them to my binders. Between the loose and the ones in envelopes, I estimate there are about 200 coins! A quick glance at most of them did not reveal any silver coins as most have dates from the 1960’s and forward. I will have fun going through them, nonetheless, making my collection even better! The really odd thing about my foreign collection is that, with very few exceptions, all were given to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]987473[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]987474[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TexAg, post: 3676898, member: 86167"]I recently became interested in Foreign coins and have been categorizing them by country in 2 x 2 holders and placing them in plastic pages in 3-ring binders. While visiting my Mom in Houston, her very sweet neighbor Nancy came over to bring us homemade bread and drink a cup of coffee. We talked about several things and somehow my foreign collection came up and I showed her my binders which I brought with me as I have a couple hundred coins which I still need to go through. Her and her husband Peter had visited many countries and recognized some of the coins in my collection. She left and came back with a cigar box full of coins, some loose and some sorted in envelopes by country. She said, “Enjoy them, our kids aren’t interested in coins!” After many protests on my part to no avail, I finally accepted them gratefully and told her I would add them to my binders. Between the loose and the ones in envelopes, I estimate there are about 200 coins! A quick glance at most of them did not reveal any silver coins as most have dates from the 1960’s and forward. I will have fun going through them, nonetheless, making my collection even better! The really odd thing about my foreign collection is that, with very few exceptions, all were given to me. [ATTACH=full]987473[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]987474[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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