What's the oldest or most valuable foreign coin you've found CRH'ing?

[FormerTeller]

I'm going to piggyback on Rosco53's thread, in that I too enjoy finding foreign coins when I CRH. So what's your oldest or most valuable (or just your favorite) foreign coin you found when coin roll hunting?

My personal best I think is an Italian 1960 silver 500 Lira coin that I found in a MWR of halves. Got to love that foreign silver!

 

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[IceePirate]

I found a 1959 Canadian silver half while searching through some boxes of MWR, strange too since the diameter is a bit smaller than the regular US halves. maybe a mm smaller

 

[rcs]

Mine is a Canadian half as well, a 1956.

 

[Spizzerinctum]

1869 20 francs French gold coin found in a machine rolled box of nickels.

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Oldest for me would be an 1859 Canadian cent. I posted my story here back in 2012. Long story short, got some halves for my birthday, but one half roll was marked foreign and only had half-dollar sized foreign coins.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coin-roll-hunting/282930-birthday-halves.html#post2676554 Post #8 shows the pictures

 

[GB1]

mine was a 1925 1 peso from Paraguay

 

[DTW]

Mine was a 1944 silver 10 cent piece from Newfoundland, before their coinage merged with Canada. It had a mintage half a large as a 1916-D Mercury dime, so it easily is the rarest coin I've ever found. Unfortunately, it is only worth around 5-10$.
Still very cool!

 

[Coinfucius]

Oldest I could think of from hunting are a couple of George VI Canadians, oldest I've ever found is an Iranian coin from 1880.

 

[mountainman 2]

Some time ago I pulled a smooth 1816 king George half crown from a bag of halves. That would probably be my oldest. I don't have much knowledge on foreign coin values but a box of halves had a nice 1915 Silver Arabic coin. I think I gave that coin to someone.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...ign-coin-half-dollar-roll-can-someone-id.html

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...e-leads-some-nice-finds-update-1816-coin.html

 

[Zomotion]

My oldest was a 186? One penny in a box of halves. So slick but could barely make out a partial date

 

[Rosco53]

I have a 1904 Canadian nickel, got it in my change when I was working up there, thought it was a dime initially until I had my microscope...

 

[mdj]

When I was dime roll hunting I found a Honolulu rapid transit token from 1924.

 

[TxAg]

My oldest and most valuable (due to silver content) is a 1910-C Indian Rupee. I found it in a Loomis box of half dollars. What made it doubly exciting was that it was an ender which I dubbed a “Rupender”, lol! Most disappointing foreign coin was a 1947 Mexican 5 pesos COUNTERFEIT. Thought I had a chunk of silver until I researched it on the internet and read some warnings about about fakes. Sure enough it was magnetic, weighed too light, and had a “Medal” alignment.

 

[gordon and tanner]

1859 Indian Head. Found in customer wrapped roll.

Keep on Searching
Dad and Tanner

 

[Immy]

1859 Indian Head. Found in customer wrapped roll.

Keep on Searching
Dad and Tanner

Old? Sure. Foreign? Don't think so.

 

[Dozer D]

An elderly old gentleman that I know gave me A LOT OF FOREIGN COINS all sorted in envelopes. The OLDEST one was a 1758 Mexico 1/2 Real. That is my oldest of ALL COINS I have in my possession, US or foreign. You can see pics of them on my NEED ID postings a few months back.

 

[gordon and tanner]

Oops, did not see "foreign"

Dad and Tanner