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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I don't get much coin rolls, but one time I got two or three Canadian penny rolls from a relative that weren't searched (freshly from a bank). As I was looking through, I found a 1995 one cent coin from Singapore in BU condition.
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Canada
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The U.S. of A. could operate on plastic bags if they didn't use it for the cent. Nickels, quarters, dimes, can all be weighed (uncommon to see silver, although they're around, and even if they were counted towards the total weight the customer would still lose).
Canada, though has a unique problem, in that it changes its coins' alloys every 15- years, it seems. We have dimes that were nickel until 2000, quarters with the same issue, nickels with nickel then cupro-nickel and finally steel, and pennies with all sorts of anomalies. Even loonies and toonies are going the way of the penny.
The usual foreign coins I find are Euro cents and Barbados quarters.
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United Kingdom
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Even here we have had coins changing alloy (and size)in recent times., at least you guys in Canada still have some coins which are pure nickel and some with silver - I am so envious ! The best you can get with roll hunt here are old bronze pennies and 2p coins and in the not too distant future it will be exciting to find cupro-nickel 5p and 10p coins ..... I tend to get the impression that Isle of Man coins are one of the most frequent foreign coins in bags here ...
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05/19/2013 4:04 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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You're lucky to have all the dependencies that use the same-sized coins, though. Most of my foreign finds wouldn't pass muster through a coin counter, and so I can either commit roll fraud and hope the scarily accurate tellers won't sense it through the paper (one decided that a dime roll I had was 1 dime thick - she opened it up and indeed counter 1 over... this is a 1.22 mm difference...), or suck it up and lose money on the deal. Most non-American foreigns are used to deliberately cheat rolls/slow-witted cashiers, and it's a rare foreign find that's worth above face value.
The best find I've seen was made in the 70s by my father. Someone gave him a dime in change, and it was an Edwardian 1903H! The best find I've made were six silver Centennial (1967) quarters in the same roll, but I have yet to find silver in any other denominations.
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United Kingdom
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Roll fraud  ! At least you have experienced finding silver , did you keep the silver coins ? |
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United Kingdom
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Got a bunch of 5 pences from the bank to make a set of 5 pence for a friend in Oz. Found a 1992 5 pence coin from Jersey in the lot.
I did like roll searching more when I lived in the US since silver and other old coins could be found. In the UK, oldest coins would be the 1 pence or 2 pence from 1971.
Ken
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United Kingdom
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An associate of mine got a 1910s half penny in change masquerading as a 2p. A guy I know who ran a till has had silver 3ps hiding in change as 5ps. He apparently once got a cupronickel shilling, I have no idea who could possibly think thats still a thing. SOme people just dont look at their money.
I once also counted up some charitable donations from one of those tins and found all sorts of rubbish and old stuff in there
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Interesting finds !  Do you know long ago he found the half penny ? And what sort of condition was it in ? |
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United Kingdom
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It was 2013 and it was in alright condition - it mustnt have recirculated long. He lives up in the north.
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United States
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Here in the States I often find Canadian coins which is great. I'm happy to have them.
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United Kingdom
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Hi, we get bags of 50p, £1 and £2 most weeks. Foreign coins tend to be quite common eg the Cyprus coin shaped like a 50p. Latest is a Turkish lira masquerading as a £2 coin. The bank pay us back what we are down. but we also find some goodies eg the Rio handover £2 coin (not widely circulated) a Falklands £2 and an abolition of slavery broken out of an uncirculated set. Latest good find is a Gibraltar frosted 50p which I have to look into - any tips?
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United Kingdom
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I found a frosted gibraltar 50p...im not sure if its proof. I think it might just be a nicely made coin (odd for a dependency).
Im going to put a couple of farthings into circulation at some point. See how far they get.
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United Kingdom
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Oh wow , interesting stuff - I wish I could find the coins you guys find  - I can only count with one the number of foreign coins I have found recently and I would still have a few fingers left! Let us know when you place those farthings into circulation it will be very to see if they get found by someone on the forum ...... |
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United Kingdom
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Well, Ill put a message on them and send them to another area of the country. Get them spread. Ill leave em' somewhere next time I have to take a trip away, maybe.
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Canada
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Maybe you should get a collar-press (somehow) and stamp an e-mail address around the edges? I've considered doing that in Canada, but our only round plain-edged coin is the nickel, and something tells me we'll stop making them soon (the NDP is pushing for this), and I have no idea how you'd get an edge-lettering press made for home use.
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