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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ErrorHunter43, post: 2016482, member: 54353&quot;]I have made friends with the tellers at my bank and they have begun saving any foreign coins they find for me. They said that normally they would simply toss these coins in the trash. These are the coins that their coin-counter spits out into a reject slot when customers cash in their coin jars (very similar to a coinstar machine). </p><p><br /></p><p>The thought of money being thrown away is disturbing, not only because of collector value but because someone somewhere out there could really use this money. </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, the majority of this is Canadian coins (I have, to date, $98.54 canadian from this process). But some of the other coins are somewhat mysterious as to how they got into circulation in the US to begin with. These include British Pennies and Half Pennies from the early 1800s, oddly shaped Asian and Israli coins, extremely small Soviet Russian coins, British Pound coins, and large Austrlian twenty-cent pieces. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the process I have also gotten a few Mercury dimes, standing liberty quarters, and V nickels which were mistaken as foreign because of their design and wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>Have any of you gathered a collection like this? Do you ever wonder if foreign banks toss out American coins? How do you think some of these stranger pieces got into circulation here in the US?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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