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Is CRH'ing Exclusively An American/Canadian Thing?

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 Posted 06/11/2013  9:38 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Iowa Wade to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Just curious if one can buy boxes of say, 2 Euro coins from European banks. I'd imagine that would make for some fun hunting.
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I think you'd get bags - but I have no idea.

The problem with "new" currencies is that you'll only find foreigns (and not even that, if they're counted by machine and bagged) and errors. So you can't do that high-volume hunting for silver/copper/nickel/old stuff/whatever that's popular in North America.

However, a thriving market for NIFC coinage means that you can always look for proofs/NIFC in change - but it's very rare to find (I think impaired proofs are an annual thing for even the most fanatical searchers here).

But, with the Euro - you could still have some fun trying to get all years and reverses.
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Proofs arent actually that rare. I probably find about 1 in every ten boxes of nickels
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Thats a very high frequency of proofs you are finding ; any idea why this is so ?
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Other countries do have their local equivalents of coin roll hunting. But, as I've said elsewhere, the continuing usage of "coin rolls" by banks are a peculiarly North American phenomenon. Everywhere else uses resealable plastic bags.

Further, as nalaberong said, it's less interesting in most places. The only three countries where you can search through pocket change and have even a theoretical chance of finding silver coins are America, Canada and Switzerland. And the banks in Canada and Switzerland have been much more proactive at removing silver from deposited coins and returning them to the central government for melting down. Everywhere else has reformed their currency at least once since circulating silver coins were abolished, so the old silver coins resemble nothing that currently circulates.
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I can't imagine much goes on here in the UK. Our current coinage only dates from 1971 so there's much less scope.

There was an unusual 2 penny coin issued a few years back and an undated 20p .... and I have to admit I have sat there with a bag of coins in a bored moment looking through change. But I'm really not bothered about micro-varieties like whether the Queen's nose points to a tooth or not so those are the only ones I'd be interested in seeing.

All our coinage comes in bags and is weighed, so you don't even get foreign coins from banks. And change from shops it'd be limited to the occasional US cent instead of a penny or a Euro copper. Makes it much less interesting than in the pre-decimal days.
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