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Valued Member
United States
174 Posts |
After a lot of searching, I have a neat little collection of foreign coins. I have them in containers by decades. All the canadians have their own divided container by decades.
I will use the Euro coins if I go back there one day.
What do you all do with the others? Specifically coins from the last 30 years from Bermuda, Singapore, Jamaica, etc?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1234 Posts |
GRATZ on 100 posts!  I love foreign coins, it only adds to my collection... the local dealers don't care about them but I am always delighted to find a fish nickel... only one so far... or a Canadian (tons)... I got a British 6 pence piece in a penny role once... not silver, but it might happen one day  I actually do a wizard-like incantation over an un-opened roll... I say "Canadian or Silver" and heck once in a while it actually happens  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
I have a plastic screw top jar with about World 200 modern base metal coins in it, all of negligible value.
They have accumulated from left over lots and gifts from well meaning friends who have travelled.
Their total numismatic value could be lower than $20.
I have no idea what to do with them.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5029 Posts |
I put some of the ones that I like in a 2x2 and the ones that are dups or I am not a fan of I have in a cup waiting for one of 3 options to occur:
1) some day one of the countries coins I have will excite me and start me collecting them (for clarification - we are only talking the modern base metal coins)
2) even better I run into someone that wants to trade or buy them from me
3) I keep them until I am a grandpa (far far away for that) and convert the little one to become the next David Bowers or Richard Snow...
Edited by scopru
10/22/2014 11:28 pm
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Valued Member
United States
337 Posts |
I have all my foriegn non-silver coins in a separate box along with my duplicate wheat, s mint, and 2009 cents. I keep them more for novelty and have found some pretty cool ones in circulation and in CRH.
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Valued Member
United States
446 Posts |
I've separated out my Canadian and Mexican coins. I had intended to take the Mexican coins with me down to a border town and spend them there, but I haven't gone over in five years and I'm not sure I'll ever cross there again due to their internal tensions (I'll stop here on that).
The others, when I get bored, go into 2x2's, which I then place into three ring binders. Duplicates are in a casino cup. I tell myself that one day I'll trade these with other collectors or sell them or something. It's more likely that someone else will have to figure out what to do with them after I am no longer on this side of the grass.
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Moderator
United States
188535 Posts |
I keep them. The finds are few and the duplicates fewer, but I do enjoy what I have. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
I pull them from circulation. I keep the Canadian coins in a small tin that is stacked on top of another tin that holds my junk silver. I make small lots of the other countries I find and try to sell them at the LCS, or at the auction at my coin club.
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Valued Member
 United States
174 Posts |
am I wrong to assume anything I get foreign newer than say, 1970 really has no value? Are there any gems from other countries later than that? I wait on the 100's I have that are pre 1970, might be some silver in there.
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
Here's what my Grandpa did with his (I shrieked when I realized he glued them).  The ones I've found are just stacking up in a tray atm. I will probably frame them too eventually. Without the glue. Nice way to have some good looking coin displays without worrying about them being taken since they don't have much of any value.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
I keep them all because why the heck not? Even when I know I'm losing a few cents by keeping them, I think it's neat to watch my small collection grow. The thrill of finding a Thai bhat in a roll of nickels is worth the 3 cents I'm losing by keeping it, IMO.
I'm passively trying to complete a set of Canadian coins, and the rest go into divided boxes organized by country or general geographic region. I don't expect they will ever be worth anything, but my family has a tradition of handing out world coins as a novelty "just because" gift to the smaller children--a tradition that I intend to keep up with my own children.
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Valued Member
United States
433 Posts |
I think I coin collecting days started out when I was around 10 years old and got a foreign coin and thats what I collected till I was like 13 and then when I was abou 18 I started collecting US coins. So I just keep all foreign coins I find |
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Valued Member
United States
330 Posts |
I just keep them in a separate container and hold on to them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5854 Posts |
I give them all to my 9-year-old son.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
560 Posts |
I spent all the Thai and Kiwi coins on holiday. The U.S coins I gave to my cousins on their holiday, and the load of Euros, U.K pounds, Yen an Renminbi are also for holiday.
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Valued Member
United States
59 Posts |
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