Posted 01/26/2012 03:16 am
There are, of course, Hawaiian coins, the ones you'd find listed in the back of the RedBook dating from the Kingdom period in the late 1800s. However, I wouldn't consider them to be necessarily "more obtainable" in Hawaii itself. While they ought to be more common there, they're also more likely to be over-hyped and over-priced in the tourist-trap souvenir shops. I know when my Dad visited Hawaii in the late 1980s, he bought me a Hawaiian dime for sixty bucks - twice what the catalogue value for them was at the time.
Hawaii isn't the major transit stop-off point it used to be, but up until the 1990s, every flight from the Asia-Pacific region bound for Canada or the US stopped there to refuel. And Hawaii is still a major tourist destination for international as well as US holidaymakers. So if you find a coin dealer, they're probably much more likely to have bucketfuls of foreign coins to look through than a coin dealer in the mainland US.
Hawaii isn't the major transit stop-off point it used to be, but up until the 1990s, every flight from the Asia-Pacific region bound for Canada or the US stopped there to refuel. And Hawaii is still a major tourist destination for international as well as US holidaymakers. So if you find a coin dealer, they're probably much more likely to have bucketfuls of foreign coins to look through than a coin dealer in the mainland US.
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