NYC Selling 500 Pounds Of Foreign Coins New York City Selling 500 Pounds Of Foreign Coins Collected From Its Parking Meters EDITED---For reasons of copyrights.
Beats me, call the NYC Dept of Transportation. Every source is either of the two big wire services, and they don't say.
Great NPR story about this. You can hear the guy describe what he's found. Diversions: Coin Collector Buys Parking-Meter Treasure Aug-01-2007, All Things Considered Jim Corliss, outbid four others for the lot. He has made a hobby of buying foreign coins.. New York City's Department of Transportation this week sold off 500 pounds of foreign coins it collected from city parking meters. The buyer, Jim Corliss, outbid four others for the lot. Corliss, who has made a hobby of buying foreign coins, talks about his collection
