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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7916109, member: 10461&quot;]Post some World coin types that you have <i>spent</i> while traveling outside your own country.&nbsp; Extra credit if you also tell us what you bought with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, here are two examples of coins that I spent during my gypsy childhood abroad.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently paid well in excess of what either of these coins is worth when I slabbed these at PCGS: $45-ish or so apiece to slab coins worth $2-3 each, tops.&nbsp; Simply because I wanted to add these to my collection, which is nearly all slabbed stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aside from their nostalgic childhood associations for me, I think both of these types have cool shapes and designs, and were far more interesting to me as a kid than any American coins were (though I liked US half dollars).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Tanzania: 5-shilingi, 1972.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1367804[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>We lived in Tanzania in 1972.&nbsp; I used to get one of these per week as my first allowance, if I had been well-behaved.&nbsp; I was six years old at the time.&nbsp; I spent one on a plastic model airplane kit, once, as I recall.&nbsp; I love the shape of the coin as well as the fact it has a cow and some bananas on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was tickled pink to find this- a Mint State (if somewhat bagmarked) example of my favorite Tanzanian&nbsp; type- with the right year, even- when I was going through a bulk bag of World coins.&nbsp; I knew it would be a keeper.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Bahamas: 10 cents, 1974.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1367805[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>We lived aboard a forty-foot trimaran sailboat, island-hopping in the Bahamas in 1974.&nbsp; I liked these “bonefish” 10-cent pieces not only for their “floweredy” shape, as I called it (“scalloped” is the correct term), but also for the bonefish shown on the coin.&nbsp; Living on the boat in the Bahamas was like living atop a giant aquarium- the water was so clear you could see everything swimming beneath.&nbsp; Including bonefish.&nbsp; And some terrifyingly massive manta rays.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was a bit chicken-hearted about the sea life, while my kid sister was the daredevil.&nbsp; One day Mom offered me one of these coins if I would overcome my fears, jump overboard, and swim back to the boat.&nbsp; (We were in a calm anchorage, not out at sea.)&nbsp; I did, and spent the coin on a Disney comic book about Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.&nbsp; The ones I spent were not proofs like the coin above, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>What world travel tales do you have, along with some examples of - and stories about - the coins you spent while abroad?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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