What Do You Do With The Foreign Coins?

I also keep all of them. I have started a Canadian Album for the Nickels.

When I first started roll hunting (a few months ago), I traded them back in with my coin dump, but I recently decided to start keeping them, and it's turning into another fun little collection.

I live about 125 miles south of BC. We generally go to Victoria at least every year or so. Any Canadian coins go with me to be spent.

I save all my American change and go to the American bank to get rolls of half dollars. After I search them for silver I use them to buy American goodies you can not get in Canada. (You guys have like a bajillion different flaovurs of Arizona Ice Tea and breakfast cereals.)

Any Bermudians I keep for a date set I am half working on. All the others get put into plastic capsules by the group of 3. I then put the capsule in my Gumball Machine and drag it to the coin shows for the kiddies.

I agree. Well said.

The initial question puzzled me a bit, until I realized it was coined by an American.

I'm from Europe and as a child I lived at a place where I could reach 5 different countries within a 2 hour drive. This was before the Euro. All these foreign coins and currencies were actually lots of fun to me and a main reason to get interested in money and coin collecting. I still take a set (as complete as possible) of circulation coins with me every time I visit a new country (or try to complete and expand my existing set when re-visiting) as a souvenir. This has resulted in about 100 different such sets by now (and growing).

My advise: keep collecting them for fun, or try to trade a few in case you get too many of them, and maybe try to visit the countries they belong to, to expand your collection? :)

I keep all my foreign coins and if/when I have duplicates, I do trades with some of my friends. I have quite a large collection of world coins from about 183 different countries.