I don't usually find much of interest in my loose change but on Saturday I found something very unusual; a Mississippi State Quarter! Now I know you are bound to be thinking "What's so unusual about that?" Well the point is that I live in England and they are not legal tender here. The quarter was masquerading as a 10 pence piece. I now have two State Quarters in my very modest US collection, the other being Pennsylvania. These are much more difficult for me to get than if I lived in the US. I would like to get the full set, I'm sure it will take me forever.
Oh cool... Vince, PM me and I'll send you statehood quarter, and you can send me an interesting coin from your country. -LTB
I'll do the same send me an address and I'll send you Hawaii and Alaska and a few other circulated ones. No charge. Tim
I'm game too. Vince, if you PM me your address I'll send you several. I've probably got at least 10 that are extras from the three circulated sets that I am working on. And if you want to send some random British coin back over here, that's sweet, and if not, no worries. Happy to just send the quarters. I got a Canadian quarter with a biathlete from the vending machine at work last week. And I vaguely remember getting Canadian pennies every so often when I was younger. That's the extent of my experience with foreign change though.
it must be slightly like how we get Canadian and British Coins that somehow filter through and nobody decides to look at it
yep. Probably from tourists. Like one time I was walking along a sidewalk and saw two Canadian coins on the ground. I picked them up and thought that that was really wierd. But then I remembered that I was in downtown San Francisco; so many tourists there, its crazy.
I usually don't realize I have Canadian coins until the coin counter at the bank reject's them. Although I did get two Canadian quarter's last week. That was unusual. As with the previous post's a pm will get reciprocal coinage. Love the new decimal coinage.
Cool find - I just got a one cent from Barbados here. It is kind of fun to get something different every now and then.
I just want to say thank you to everybody who has so generously offered to help build my collection of State Quarters. Perhaps it won't take me forever after all. Can I just say to anybody that does help, that I'd really like to give you something in return. If you aren't interested in receiving some British coins from me then perhaps you would let me make a contribution to your PayPal account.
By Exchange Rate I'm slightly ahead. By gaining a coin for my collection I'm a good way ahead. By having a small story to tell here and the generosity of the members that has followed and the friendships I'm likely to make in the process I'm miles ahead.
Indeed, you've killed three birds with one quarter. And I might be interested in contributing to your state quarter collection :smile:
Hi Vince, sent your coins this morning. Cointalk members helping Vince with his statehood quarter collection...I have sent the following...just so he doesn't get dupes: Virginia (2000) New York (2001) Oregon (2005) Kansas (2005) South Dakota (2006) North Dakota (2006) Nevada (2006) Utah (2007) Washington (2007) Montana (2007) -LTB
Thank you very much. It looks like my collection is well on it's way already. Please let me know what coins you would like form me. If you have no ideas of your own I'll suggest the new definitive set, which pieces together to make the royal shield design. It's a very interesting and popular set. I can get a set together quite easily if you'd like it. Of course anybody else who is helping me with state quarters can ask me for this set too - which is why I didn't post this as a PM.
Recently I've found at least 15 canadian pennies 1 being a centennial penny and 1 austrailian penny I've also found 3 canadain nickels and 1 Canadian dime. Oh and a peso.
Hi Vince, Wow, that would be cool! Sure, I'll take that. It's a neat set...and very creative too. The U.S. has never had a puzzle made out of coins. Let me know when your statehood quarters arrive. -LTB