I’m not a coin collector per se, but over the years, I have tossed some coins into a box that I keep in the safe. I halfheartedly saved the quarters with the states on them, but only amassed a few of them, many being duplicates. I also saved JFK half-dollars when I found them and put a lot of “Suzi Bucks” (Susan B. Anthony one-dollar coins) in the box, most of which came out of postage stamp vending machines as change.
On the foreign coins side of the box, I have a variety of coinage from places we have visited or have come to possess mysteriously. There is a 500 peso Mexican piece, a bunch of Italian coins brought back from Rome, some interesting French-Polynesian coins from a long-ago visit to Tahiti and a cold-war relic zehn pfennig (ten pennies) coin from the Bundesrepublik of West Germany.
I have no use for them other than as money in the US coins case. For the foreign coins, I may pass them along to the grandchildren for their amusement. Click on the image to enlarge.
I’ve got a very similar collection…including some coins and paper money from Viet Nam…I have no use for any of the coins so I guess whoever finds them first after I’m gone can keep ’em …I don’t think they’re worth having to leave them in my will.
Norm
I’ve got a stack of currencies from the various places I’ve been in my travels.
Some of the notes are quite pretty, but I have no idea of what their current value is.
They mean more to me than any exchange ratio could provide me with.