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 Posted 05/22/2012  06:10 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Walder Coins to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have been searching through bags of Fifty Pence Pieces as their is a commemorative series of 28 differing Fifty Pence Pieces representing most of the Olympic Games as we are the host nation this year.

I get the coins from my local Post Office where I don't have to pay a fee for getting change but the down side is they are a mixture of fresh and re-released coins.
Unfortunately I haven't yet came across any error coins but I am surprised about how many coins I have been given which are not legal tender.

Is this a problem in other parts of the world to?
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Yes we get the odd foreign coin in our change here in Aus.
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Hello and welcome.

By "not legal tender", I assume you mean coins from other pound-using territories (Jersey, Gibraltar, Falklands etc)?

If so, then the answer is "yes" - it's pretty normal, wherever you are in the world, to find foreign coins in change. Especially if the foreign coins have a more-or-less identical size and shape to local coins.

Here in Australia, for example, we often find coins of our Pacific neighbours. Americans often find Canadian coins, and vice-versa. And I don't know if Thai 10-baht coins are still turning up in change in Euroland, but I know they used to be a big problem there.
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