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I have to pay for them Monday and wait and wait and wait for the registered lettre to come. I got the invoice yesterday. Also picked up a Bradbury Wilkinson print, the highest denomination and rarest of a countries whole currency series.

Couple of more very very rare prints from BdF, one from a far flung colony, and the other from a country that contracted them to do a shortlived series. Will post images when they come.

Nice '77

Aldi does have some good stuff, but Trader Joes totally rocks.

Got a 1 Hryvnia coin in change, a brand newish Volodomyr Beliki coin from 2006, the first time I have ever been handed one in change without having to pester the cashier to get it. Maybe I am making some progress here. OTOH I made a decision to not save other than stuff like the above from change anymore. I piled up about a 2 kilogramme bag full of coins, but they are a pain, so I am doffing them off to little old ladies with collection cups here in the city. Lots of people lost their pensions after the USSR crumbled, and never got another pension from Ukraine, so they beg to get by because they are too old or infirm to work. It is not like the USA where there are people that can work out begging, here they really have no other choice.

You could do a whole theme collection from the socialists countries of pollutant belching factories on banknotes, I know Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia also had them. Curiously Russia preferred to just put different visages of the Kremlin on notes to remind people then who was boss. The reverse of the Czech 10kcs from 1960 has a factory in the background on the front and a dam on on the reverse it, no doubt not environmentally friendly.

When I get those old notes like that I save them for emergency money, I have quite a bit lately because of the economy, people seem to be spending these more.

It looks like a tool check to me, the worker would give the check to someone in the tool room who would give them the tool they wanted, the check was put on a board with that tool's name on a peg. This eliminated, or rather was supposed to eliminate the disappearance of tools in a factory.

You would think those 1940's islamic fundamentalists types would have had major issues with those semi-nude 19th century French women. Too bad that design wasn't issued during the day, perhaps they had the "fine Bostonian lady" types also?

Found four Ukrainian coins in the Boryspil airport this morning, also found a British penny, the first of the new type introduced in 2008 that I have seen, curiously a 1964 US cent, and a Russian 50 Kopek dated 2009 on the floor from just walking around waiting for someone to arrive. Seven coins in a couple of hours. Not bad.

Yesterday only two 1 kopek coins, but I spent most of the day in the Leninskyi Raion district administration building, so I was a bit out of commission.

Only one of the really low value coins I have found is dated before 2006, the one is dated 1992. In fact most of them are either 2008, or 2009. So it tells me they are filling landfills, jars etc. I remember a few years ago some of the 1990's dated kopek and 2 kopek coins were made of aluminum, and were even more unpopular. When you have aluminum coins you know you have scraped bottom, much like E. Germany did.

Three 1 kopek, and one 2 kopek coin in on ground finds yesterday. I have 50 or so 1 kopek coins, and I would think about 40 of them are finds lying on the ground. There are nearly 8 of them to a US cent, and I wonder why they make them, because when they are given in change, they are mostly cast off. I find them on the ground in supermarkets, near bus stops etc. My four year old daughter and I have been in a competition to find money lying on the ground, I have found by far the most coins, but she has found the most value, usually 10 kopek coins. Curiously here in Ukraine they make three coins that are worth less than a cent, 1, 2, and 5 kopeks. And most people don't even seem to like them or want to use them. They exist only because like in the USA stores price stuff like 4.99 hrv per etc. At least petrol is in even hrv/kopeks, like 6.80 per litre. They make 1 hryvnia coins, and I have a few that I have bought from registers, but they usually are never given out, much like the Sackie/Prexibux, they exist but are NOT used.

Yesterday I found a total of six coins on the sidewalks, usually near bus stops. My daughter found two. We are in a serious competition to find as much money as possible. My best find was 5 kopek coin, large silver coloured coin. Hers were two 10 kopek coins which are actually harder to see on the ground than the low value 1, 2, and 5 kopek coins I find. Lots of smaller value coins here, even 5 kopeks coins are worth less than a USA cent and sort of get thrown away or dropped and not picked up.

I find lots and lots of 1 and 2 kopek coins on the ground here, they are worth about 7 and 3.5 to a US cent coin so they often are castoff. But I have found up to 50 Kopeks lying on the ground, they are worth about 7 cents or so. My youngest daughter and I have a competition to see who can find the most coins. So far today, it is about 6:30 in the evening here, I have found three coins today. She has only found one, a 10 kopek coin. I get a kick out of having to teach people English on the fly around here. Everybody wants to learn American English, perhaps a soon new side job for me.

BTW YOC, nice penny. I once owned a similar example of the PAXS penny but minted by Winedi on Cntl, Canterbury. Unfortunately I sold it when I started acquisitioning kiddos.

Bild nicht verfugbar - I think I just found a new German curse word to try out on unsuspecting miscreants

1982 Canadian 25 cents.

Nice notes Jtryka! Here is another old acquisition, but one I never imaged before and actually kind of forgot about: Usually I am not the promotional note kind of collector, but this one has a classic feminine vignette and was printed by Bradbury Wilkinson and Sons in the 1920's it is actually fairly scarce in uncirculated grade.

Nothing amazing, but a 1982 bronze cent.

Very nice, I have not seen that one in the flesh before.

She should have put it in a safer place by giving it to somebody that cared about it - you!

Then just pass them on by, pay them no bother, I will check them for treasures like that 1921 Lincoln above and the occasional silver lining in the form of a 1964 dime etc. Better the mes, and nae the yous me thinks.

It is the insert area where stuff piles into if the machine doesn't take it. Often times people miss the coins in there, or just leave them there because they are Canadian etc. I have not seen the machines that don't have them like Art has, I would imagine those things could really rip you off if they took stuff they were not crediting you for.

56 cents in Canadian change, including a 1962 5 cent coin that is worth more than face in melt value even now. First 12 sided Canuck 5 cent in quite sometime.