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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Topher, post: 223671, member: 8489&quot;]Sorry, Aidan, I haven&#039;t been back in this thread in a while, so I didn&#039;t see your questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t even get my bank to order me 50c coins here.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got to try a few different branches, and maybe some other banks, but I&#039;ve managed to get all of FOUR 50c cons since I moved to Canada 4.5 years ago.&nbsp; One was in change at the Post Office the first week I arrived (the lady in front of me refused to take it in change, so I gave her 2 quarters).&nbsp; The other 3 I got from a bank about 2 months ago, and they were ecstatic to get rid of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re right, I keep EVERY foreign coin I find.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a few rolls of US change that I&#039;ll save up and take back and &quot;repatriate&quot; it when I return.&nbsp; Of course, I&#039;ll just exchange it for more rolls that I can search, or use it for the toll to come back to Canada.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t found any Irish coins at all here.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I lived in Australia, though, I did manage to get the occasional Fiji or NZ coin (which I kept).&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a few of the Kiwi 20c coins, but never got one after they changed the reverse, and of course, I don&#039;t have any of the new designs yet.&nbsp; I also got one or two coins from Papua New Guinea, and even got a coin from South Africa once.&nbsp; I enjoy seeing these coins and wondering just what they went through to get to where they are now.&nbsp; That&#039;s part of the enjoyment I have in collecting coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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