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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Today I saw a loonie embedded into some mud... the snow has melted quite a bit for January and the dirtiest slush has been baked rock-hard by the January sun. Sadly, it was just in the gutter at the bus station and the arriving bus cut short my attempts to finagle it loose with a pencil (don't worry, I was watching out for the bus the whole time).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Foreign or domestic. I pick up anything. It's all free and if you get enough you can get something you really like.
I have quite a collection of foreign coins. Someday soon I'll bring them to a international money changer and see what they are all worth.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
Do you find foreign coins on the ground?
My only foreign (well, non-USA) find has been at school, France, 10 euro cent, 2011. I think it came from some returning classmates who went on a school trip to Europe over spring break.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Ghostrider, do international money changer in the US accept coins? They don't in Australia we can only exchange banknotes and even then they wont accept banknotes with a low face value like the Chinese 1 Yuan.
I too pick up all the coins I see on the ground, in one of the streets in Adelaide coins were embedded in the concrete by the council when were pouring the cement.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
I happen to live in an area that draws tourists like flies to a family picnic. I think that for every 15 domestic coins I find, I'll find maybe 2 foreign. Mostly from Canada or Bermuda but I do find many English and lately euros.
If I get enough of them and I happen to travel to their home country, I'll do a little repatriation.
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 Australia
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I have quite a collection of foreign coins. Someday soon I'll bring them to a international money changer and see what they are all worth.
Ghostrider, do international money changer in the US accept coins? They don't in Australia we can only exchange banknotes and even then they wont accept banknotes with a low face value like the Chinese 1 Yuan.I'm pretty sure most moneychanger places in America are the same. It simply isn't worth their while to deal in small change, even for coins with a fairly high face value, like the Canadian $2, Austrlaian $2 and European 2 euro. Ghostrider will probably have to take his cache of foreign coins to a coin dealer, rather than a moneychanger. Or do the travel-there-yourself thing. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Thanks for confirming that Sap, that is what I thought.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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I'll pick up any coins I see lying around - on my recent Caribbean vacation I picked up an East Caribbean 1c off the street in Castries, St Lucia - and a couple of Barbados 1c coins in Bridgetown, Barbados!
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I'll pick up any coin! Actually, I seem to be the only person in my grade that notices coins on the ground...
"Look, something shinny!" I'll say and stop in mid sentence to pick it up.
I even noticed a dime covered in ice once, after around ten minuets of prying it out I finally got it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1795 Posts |
I'll pick up any coin I find...As my mentor would say A Penny saved is a Penny Earned.....Ben Franklin. Also another saying.......I've heard is ... Cents add up to dollars.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
595 Posts |
I will pick up any coin even in the middle of a wet muddy road. Probably the lowest value coin that I pick up somewhat regularly are the current issue Russian 1 Kopek coins (picked up in Russia, not the US). As january1may pointed out earlier in this thread, they are worth about 1/30 of a cent. In fact, I think I have picked up about as many as I have received in change. They aren't too common either way though. They even seem to be ignored by some of the less fortunate people on the street who can't make ends meet. Two weeks ago in Florida, I spent about 5 minutes digging a corroded quarter out of the mud with a pencil. The quarter had fallen into a small gap between a small tree and a fence post. When I was a kid, I reversed the situation and used epoxy to glue several coins to the sidewalk in front of my house. Then, I watched from the porch as everybody who walked by tried to pick them up. After a few days, some kid picked up a big rock from the neighbors garden and and beat on the coins until they bent and popped out of the epoxy. Even as a kid, I was happy to see someone put some effort into getting them. This has been a fun thread to read  |
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Valued Member
Canada
129 Posts |
I would pick up any denomination of money I find it's free money
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
You can't argue with free money. Once I found a Buffalo nickel in my couch. |
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Valued Member
 United States
368 Posts |
today I found $0.22 of clad, 2 BU 2013D cents and 2 dimes (didn;t catch the dates)
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Valued Member
United States
337 Posts |
I would prefer a Half Cent to even a SBA dollar. The older the better. |
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