This thread is about coins you find in circulation that don't belong to the country (or eurozone) you found them in. Please share with us your stories of such discoveries this year.
just got this at gas station. They know i collect. And save it for me. And to top it off ,it was free.
How it ended up here in Oshkosh wisconson beats me.
Today I found something completely different! I went to a local supermarket and as I put my bike on its standard, I found a US 1 Dollar (2009-B) bill! Never thought I'd find a foreign non-EU note as such here on the streets! Unfortunately I already have similar 2009-B 1$ bill, so does anyone want to swap this one against some other banknote(s)?
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Citação: Lotus07Today I found something completely different! I went to a local supermarket and as I put my bike on its standard, I found a US 1 Dollar (2009-B) bill! Never thought I'd find a foreign non-EU note as such here on the streets! Unfortunately I already have similar 2009-B 1$ bill, so does anyone want to swap this one against some other banknote(s)?
Really interesting to hear someone finding a 2009 series note and consider it rare when they are some of the most common notes in the United States.
On Monday when working retail, I found a relatively crisp 1969 series note. Probably only worth a dollar though.
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Citação: Lotus07Today I found something completely different! I went to a local supermarket and as I put my bike on its standard, I found a US 1 Dollar (2009-B) bill! Never thought I'd find a foreign non-EU note as such here on the streets! Unfortunately I already have similar 2009-B 1$ bill, so does anyone want to swap this one against some other banknote(s)?
Really interesting to hear someone finding a 2009 series note and consider it rare when they are some of the most common notes in the United States.
On Monday when working retail, I found a relatively crisp 1969 series note. Probably only worth a dollar though.
Well, it isn't a rare find or anything but I do think it's kinda unique to find a US bill here in the Netherlands!
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Spain - 11.71%!!! A return to being the Spanish Netherlands?
Dutch love going abroad, and when I am abroad I only get coins from there, and when I go back, I only have coins from foreign country's, so thats the reason I think. It is the same with Germany, the Germans love Holland, they only have German coins, they came here, give us German money.
I have had more Brandeburger tor 20 cents then 20 cents Beatrix/WimLex. (wimlex=Willem Alexander)
the reason why there are more Dutch coins now is because of the new WimLex coins, but after may there will be more German coins haha. So yeah, Goodbye Wimlex (Also a German haha)
Spain - 11.71%!!! A return to being the Spanish Netherlands?
Dutch love going abroad, and when I am abroad I only get coins from there, and when I go back, I only have coins from foreign country's, so thats the reason I think. It is the same with Germany, the Germans love Holland, they only have German coins, they came here, give us German money.
I have had more Brandeburger tor 20 cents then 20 cents Beatrix/WimLex. (wimlex=Willem Alexander)
the reason why there are more Dutch coins now is because of the new WimLex coins, but after may there will be more German coins haha. So yeah, Goodbye Wimlex (Also a German haha)
I think the lack of Dutch eurocoins in circulation in the Netherlands can be explained by the fact that the Royal Dutch Mint doesn't produce a lot of Dutch eurocoins for circulation anymore these days and also because we don't use the 1 and 2 cent anymore. Whenever you've got 1 or 2 cent coins in your change, there was a high chance that they were Dutch, since a lot of them were made in the early 00's. Nowadays they have almost dissapeared from circulation and that affects the amound of Dutch coins found in your change. Only the 5 cent coin has been minted for (almost) every year for circulation by the RDM. The 10 cent up to the 2 euro coin haven't been made in large numbers for circulation between 2002 and 2014, with exception of the coins of our King Willem-Alexander.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Someone must have spent it as it is the same size as the current UK 50 Pence.
Occasionally we get the coins of Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, but very rarely the Falklands.
P.S. Not for swap or sale - it is the only one I have!
I got this in my change today, and was shocked. Im used to seeing the odd Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey or Isle of Man coin kicking round but this is crazy.
And I've just read I wrote the same thing as Zac, it's weird to find such a far away place in our change. The St.Helena £1 I got a couple of years back was in a bank roll.
Haven't seen much recently, but over time I've found here in Pennsylvania:
- Barbados 10-cents
- France 10-centimes
- British 10p (I'm seeing a theme here )
- some random Euro coin
- Italian telephone token (wtf?)
- from Canada at least a dozen pennies, 2 dimes and a quarter.
All either in change or in the nearest bank's coin counter reject bin.
Some bizarre US stuff as well, in change or on the ground: a red seal $5 and red seal $2 banknotes, a pair of gold-plated Roosevelt dimes, a 1911 wheatback cent in XF condition (at the grocery store!), and a dull gold-plated Connecticut quarter.
The guy at the local pawn shop is a friend of mine, so he's gotten in the habit of giving me funny things like $2 bills in change (hence the red seal $2), but recently my change came out to exactly 25 cents. He gave me a colorized Illinois quarter with a picture of Obama printed on it, in a little holder - it was marked $10 in the case!
I think this takes the cake though: the INVERSE of a penny. Someone formed a mold of the back of a Lincoln Memorial cent with a few drops of epoxy, and then lost it at an amusement park where I found it on the ground - not quite a coin, but worth keeping. Wasn't sure what to make of it at first! Does finding the opposite of a penny on the ground give you the opposite of good luck?
I was buying lunch at McDonalds on Tuesday, and in my pocket change, in lieu of a cent, I received a 2011 Austrian 2 euro cents! The common side (not the national side) has been deeply scratched, but it's still worth more than the coin I should have received. This specimen shall serve me well until a better one comes along.
I hardly ever use cash anymore, but I do occasionally get some rolls from the bank to look through. I find Canadian cents and nickels fairly often, less often - quarters. Only once found anything else - a nickel from the Bahamas. I'm guessing that a coin must be pretty close in size and weight to US coinage to end up in a bank roll, or I'd see a lot more of them.
Citação: HouseofhamI'm guessing that a coin must be pretty close in size and weight to US coinage to end up in a bank roll, or I'd see a lot more of them.
Yes, this is true. Not only must the diameter be a close match, but it must also be non-magnetic!
Citação: HouseofhamDo you also consider the South occupied territories?
Yes, but only temporarily. Actually a lot of the North and Midwest seem to regard the DC government as more and more of a hostile intrusion with each passing day.
Never could totally hate on Lincoln though. He had his flaws but he was a genuinely good man. Plus he looks good on coins.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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Citação: pnightingaleYes, but only temporarily. Actually a lot of the North and Midwest seem to regard the DC government as more and more of a hostile intrusion with each passing day.
Never could totally hate on Lincoln though. He had his flaws but he was a genuinely good man. Plus he looks good on coins.
Took the left-overs from the rolls I picked up last week back to the bank. There was a nice XF
Bahamas 25 cents coin waiting for me in the reject tray.
While shopping with the family, there was a woman using the CoinStar, and she had dumped her foreign coins, rejected by the machine, into her bucket.
I mentioned to her "I'm a collector, and I am willing to buy those coins from you."
She replied "Are you sure you want them? They're all from other countries."
"Yes, that is my specialty" I affirmed. "You have lots of different countries there. Do you travel much?"
"I do travel a lot," she answered.
We inspected a sample of the coins, and I quickly estimated the value to be about $5. She was pleased to get actual cash for her "useless" foreign coins, and I pocketed the handful of assorted coinage and headed home.
There were 31 coins from 14 nations, plus three tokens. At current exchange rates, they are worth USD$6.52 altogether.
CoinStar is a company that makes coin sorting machines. Their trademark green kiosks can be found at most supermarkets. You dump your assorted coins in, and it automatically counts them and gives you a voucher to exchange for cash. CoinStar retains a 9% fee from the tally, or you can keep the full amount as a gift card.
CoinStar thrives because US coinage is too low value to bother spending, and most banks will also charge a fee for the same service. There used to be a competing company called CoinMaster, but I have not seen their machines in several years.
CoinStar machines have an internal magnet that retains ferrous coins, and a reject tray where anything else the machine can't sort is returned to the user.
I normally get a few foreign coins at the coin counting machine at my credit union every time I go there. However when I arrived today they were removing the bags of coins in the machine and placed a number of foreign coins on the reject tray. Plus I was able to get a few more that were on a magnet. This is what I was able to get today:
Canada, 10 cents (1988,2007,2008)
Canada, 25 cents (2005)
France, 1 euro cent (2009)
Germany, 2 euro cents (2006 G)
Mexico, 10 centavos (2011)
Mexico, 2 pesos (1998)
Mexico, 10 pesos (2004)
Russia, 50 kopecks (2012)
Trinidad & Tobago, 5 cents (2012)
Trinidad & Tobago, 25 cents (2007)
UAE, 1 dirham (2014)
United States student bus token - WMATA (1982)
Looks like I need to find out when they remove the coins from the machine (smile).
Not found any foreign coin since a while, except euro coinage but most of them are usual in my region (with borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany ; and populations with foreign origins - like Spain, Portugal or Italy - living in my region or the neighbouring countries).
As part of the eurozone since only few months: I was in a Laundromat in my hometown which accepted only coins of 10 eurocents at least. A woman wanted to use it for her 1st time there but wanted to use 5 eurocent coins. So she asked me to change her coins with a 10 eurocent one. I accepted, and one of her coins was from Lithuania, the last new incomer in the eurozone...
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At my coinstar machine, which is in a latin neighborhood, I almost exclusively find Dominican and mexican coins, but sometimes a silver dime, or something like that. The weirdest one I found was a BCEAO coin from 2007. How it ended up in the bronx is beyond me.
Unfortunately, there are no coin star machines in Croatia. But I did manage to find a few foreign coins in Split; a British 5p dated 2013 and an Austrian 10c from 2002. I also was in Bosnia & Hercegovina for a day, and I noticed that the food is extremely cheap, compared to the Netherlands. Had a very nice time in both countries and tomorrow I'm heading to Ljubljana!
Oh, before I forget to mention it, I found an Austrian 2c from 2013 in BiH.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
My latest foreign finds are US cent from a public place and Soviet (!) 5 rubles (1991) at the top of parking meter.
Lying coins are very rare here, people don't use coins that much any more and the Finns don't use 1 and 2 eurocents at all. Let see if I find coins at my vacation in Greece after a week. And hopefully others than 10 bahts as a 2 euros...
I still haven't found any coins at the coinstar machine. What is strange to me seeing all the coins that are posted here. Maybe I life in the wrong area of the country.
These last two days I received US Beautiful states quarters (New Hampshire & Mount rushmore). Pretty common to receive US dimes here in Toronto too. However, when I lived in bombay I came across 50 pfennigs (FDR) a few times passing off as 50 paise coins. And only once did I come across a $1 singapore passing off as a Rs5 coin (oddly enough, this was before the Ni-Bs Rs5 was issued)
Citação: "Cerulean"CoinStar Reject of the Day: Argentina, 10 centavos (1993)
If you don't mind me asking, what general area are you finding these in? I live in a relatively small town and haven't found anything in the 6 coinstars here. I suppose bigger cities probably have more foreign travelers than we do.
Maybe it's a fun idea to create a list of all findings that are mentioned here in this topic? Would be kinda neat to see what coins people have found and where they have found them.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Lessee -- Canadian coins are reasonably common this far north in the US (not so much as when I lived on the Great Lakes directly, but it's still pretty close), so I fairly regularly see Canadian change. Had an Italian euro cent from a Coinstar machine recently, and a New Zealand 5¢, but that's about it. Same machine that coughed up a 1943 steel cent for me recently. Needless to say, I check that machine a lot. :D
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I went camping in West Virginia over the weekend. The State Park holds a pancake breakfast every morning as a fundraiser for park improvements. In my change, I received a Canada, 25 cents (1979).
It's been a while. My commute to work has changed, and I'm no longer walking past the same CoinStar twice a day. However, I still other times to sneak a peek. I managed to pinch two coins off the magnet of the machine: Canada, 10 cents (2012)
Germany, 1 eurocent (2002-A)
Citação: "Cerulean"Found on the bus: Ecuador, 25 centavos (2000)
On the floor or as a cash refund?
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Citação: "Cerulean"Found on the bus: Ecuador, 25 centavos (2000)
On the floor or as a cash refund?
On the floor.
Since the bus accepts exact cash payments only, it is not possible to receive cash back.
WMATA is gradually phasing out cash usage on their system. Buses only accept SmartTrip now, tokens having been removed from circulation twenty years ago. Paper farecards for MetroRail will be discontinued in June 2016, and cash bus fares are probably next to go. Soon enough, a SmarTrip card will be the only accepted fare payment method for the entire WMATA system, both bus and rail.
That would have been funny to receive it as a cash refund as the Ecuador is now dollarized and its 2000 centavos (and the uncirculating 1 sucre) are simple bond coins labelled to replace US cents (and its dollar unit)...
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I boldly walked into a bank, one I had no particular business in, and one that was going to lock up for the night in mere minutes, and strode to their coin counting machine in the lobby. While the concierge-in-waiting stood by with his "can I help you", I plucked all the coins from the machine's magnet, pocketed them, thanked them for their time, and walked out. The Angel of Moxie was with me today.
For the 1st time since a long time: 1 US cent 2002, instead of 2 euro cents.
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I always feel odd adding here. Everyone knows I collect and save odd things for me. And I always ask. Like when I pick up this laptop. I asked if they had any odd coins . He said yes and handed me a China people Republic 2 fen Km#2 1979 in XF . For free, with the laptop. And last month At gas station the lady gave me 9 Canadian cents.
And about the same time got a US 50 cent poof S frosted in change. And a guy at work gave me a Letzenbuerg 20 cent coin 2009. And not even sure were a Honduras 20 centavos came from 1991. Cerulean should I add these.
Or will it mess things up. I am going to keep track this coming year, just to see what I get. I get a lot of these free.
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Citação: "Cerulean"On the CoinStar this morning, a 2000 Ecuador 10 centavos, in great condition, too.
Nice one, a bond coin indexed over the USD.
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Don't know if we have a 2016 edition of this forum yet, so added this to the 2015 one. Got one of these coins in my change yesterday, in place of a 10p:
In a local supermarket (Philadelphia, USA) there is a coin-counting machine. Today I noticed a pile of foreign coins sitting on top of it. I asked a manager if I could take them. She replied "Sure, we would throw them to trash anyway - we do it regularly".
I got some 30-40 coins, mostly Canadian (CAD 3 or so total) which could be expected, but also Hong-Kong, Turkey, some Euro cents copper.
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