Bambooski

Today I got a 1836 Belgian 2 cent coin, 1867 Italian 10 Centesimi H, 1867 English penny, 1903 English penny, for a euro each!

ooh I like that one

Ah thanks!

Yep, that's one of the French coins.

I see the date on the Spanish coin now. Wow! I would have never noticed that!

½ cent French Franc..... isn't that ½ franc ? There was no half centime coin, the smallest was the 1 centime and I never saw that in circulation (been in France since 1976)

 

Regarding the spanish coins: the design is from 1975, the actual date is on the reverse, in very small numbers, in a star.

 

regarding the swiss coin: Switzerland does not participate in the Euro, so up to now, they have only "pre euro" coins

I don't know very much about these coins, (making it all the more exciting), you're probably right.

while there look out for any Portuguese currency from early 1900 up to late 60s some can be very lucrative....

Unfortunately I have already left that area, but I will certainly keep my eye out on my travels. Thanks!

It's wonderful here, I certainly will give you the details

I need to come down there and buy me some

Meet me there!

We came across a tiny little antique market displayed on the ground. I saw a gigantic pile of coins, and instantly I was on the ground looking through them. I got these coins, many of them at less than face value, and the total price was the equivalent of about 2 US dollars! (I'm in Africa.) I found it funny how you could buy a US quarter for less than a dime

• ½ French Franc- 1965 (pre euro)
• 2 French Francs- 1949 (pre euro)
• 25 French Centimes- 1923!!! (In excellent condition, too!!) (pre euro)
• 1 French Franc- 1939 (pre euro)
• 1 French Franc- 1977 (pre euro)
• Spanish 1 Peseta x2 (whoops!)- Both 1975 (pre euro)
• Spanish 25 Pesetas- 1975 (pre euro)
• Lebanon 50 Piastres- 1971
• Swiss 1 Franc- 1968
• Spanish 5 Pesetas- 1996 (pre euro)
• Algerian 20 Dinar- 1975 (obsolete)
• Algerian 5 Dinar- 1977 (obsolete)
• German 50 Pfennig- 1969 (pre euro)
• Jordan 50 fils- 1949
• China 1 something- 1997
• Turkey 50 Lira- 1971
• Turkey 100 lira- 2003
• Syrian 10 Pounds- 1997
• Netherlands 10 Cent- 1973 (absolutely teensy tiny little coin!!!) (pre euro)
• Tunisian 100- 1960
• Libyan 50 Dirhem- 1975
• Moroccan 50 Francs- 1951
• Moroccan 10 Santimat- 1987
• Iraq something… I’ll post this later!
• Algerian 50 Centimes- 1988 (obsolete)

I will post pictures just as soon as I get new batteries for my camera!

This was a while ago, but I'll post it anyway.

I waited for the person in front of me to finish using the coin machine, and when they walked off, I looked in the reject tray. This is what I found:

1979 Italian Lire- uncirculated! (pre-Euro)

Belgian 5 Franc (pre-Euro)

6 or 7 euro cents (ranging from one cent to five cents)

Costa Rica- 10 cent

An Egyptian coin

2 50 pence British and about 5 1 penny pieces

A Mexican dollar

1 Canadian cent, 2 nickels, 3-4 dimes, 3 quarters, and a 2 dollar coin

Quite a few regular USA pennies, dimes and quarters

I had to stick my hand waaaay up the machine to get all that out!

Good luck ski

 

 

Nice goals. You're going to have to be either very lucky or search many many rolls. Best of luck with it. Let us know about what you find -- I love being jealous

Thanks very much, and best of luck to you both!

You and me both Art, I love to envy, helps me find what I need to search for

I completely agree! Sometimes when I've got nothing better to do I read blogs about people who have found massive hoards of old coins, etc.

I'm gonna stick to copper and gb purchases

That's a great goal, I like focused collections like that

Once I get home I'll post some of mine.

1. Find 100 Wheat pennies in circulation (I'm close)
2. Find my first Buffalo in a roll
3. Find my first Mercury in a roll
4. Organize my foreign coins

Welcome!

I wish I had one

I saw those at my visit to the Philly mint, they are really quite amazing.

What the heck happened to this penny?!

A lovely ender

Last weeks results (100% 2013)

Today was good! I got 5 penny rolls, yielding one wheat (1947) and two Canadians (one was an ender!) Two nickel rolls got me a 1941 and a 1954. Nothing in 3 dime rolls, nothing in my quarter roll. The lovely teller spent ages looking for rolls with old looking coins on the end, and then she handed me a popsicle (it was boiling today, as everyone knows.) What a lovely teller. J