what foreign coins have you dug up in the US

[northeast hunter]

just wondering what foreign coins have been dug up in the united states..here are some i have found

or if you don't live in the US...what us coins have you dug in foreign country's..and what country are you from

1..1960..one centavo from the philippines
1..1923..50 centimes
1..1892..one cent..Canada
1..1989 10 ?
1..1994..Canada dollar
1..1928..British penny

 

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[TORRERO]

Well the "10" is Ten French Francs.

 

[northeast hunter]

THANKS...thats what i thought...

 

[lordmarcovan]

I don't keep a count of the more modern foreign coins I've found (i.e., those dated after 1950, unless they're silver. The more modern world coins go into my Wheatie and token jar instead of my main "Digger's Diary" album.

Here are the world coins that are in my album, in the order they were found.

#1, (Coin #1 in my album): 1944 Mexico 5 Centavos. The very first coin I found with my detector- even before I found a Memorial cent! It was in our front yard- our house had been occupied by Mexican laborers during WW2, I later found out.

#2: (Coin #12 in my album): 1913 Canadian large cent. A bit of a heartbreaker, as it was in very nice condition before I scratched it with my digging knife. I wasn't digging too carefully because I expected it to be a screwcap (rang in just below zinc penny range on my detector's meter.)

#3 (Coin #24 in my album): 1966 Canadian 10 cent piece. First foreign silver for me- though the US had quit making silver dimes by 1966, Canada continued making (80%) silver coins for circulation until 1968.

#4 (Coin #80 in my album): 1914 Canadian large cent. When found, this was mounted in the center of an aluminum disc, obviously one of those encased "lucky coin" things, but the aluminum part was so horribly corroded it was unreadable and had to be discarded. The cent itself had some crud on it but nice details.

#5 (Coin #115 in my album): No Date (ca. 1876-1901) Canadian large cent. A Queen Victoria Canadian large cent with decent detail, but the date was so weakly struck that it was the first thing to wear off the reverse.

#6 (Coin #157 in my album): 1943-D Australia sixpence, made into a button. This coin was tapped into a convex shape and made into a button, probably during WW2. A US serviceman probably brought it home as a war souvenir. Interestingly, it was originally struck at Denver in the USA- the US Mint struck many coins for foreign governments during the war.

#7 (Coin #161 in my album): 1776-FM Spanish Colonial (Mexico City) half-real. Holed. This was my first coin from the 1700's. I found another half real on the same site, a few feet away, the next morning. I have used pics of this coin as my avatar on some internet chatboards. Though the avatar pictures below are "staged" and the dirt in the pictures covers the hole in the coin, it did sort of look like that when I dug it.

#8 (Coin #162 in my album): 1787-FM Spanish Colonial (Mexico City) half-real. Found on the same site as the previous coin. This Spanish silver circulated widely in the USA before 1857, and there probably more Spanish silver than US silver in circulation here in the South, at least until well after the Civil War.

#9 (Coin #187 in my album): 1779-FF Spanish Colonial (Mexico City) 2 reales. First of what I call "The Colonial Trio", which were all found on one site.

#10 (Coin #188 in my album): 1782 Irish "Hibernia" halfpenny (contemporary counterfeit). Second of "The Colonial Trio".

#11 (Coin #189 in my album): 1782-A French Guiana (Colony of Cayenne) 2 sous. Third of "The Colonial Trio".

#12 (Coin #201 in my album): 1781-FF Spanish Colonial (Mexico City) half-real. Holed. Found in a sand road that dated to colonial times. A Civil War button was found nearby, so it might have been dropped after the colonial period.

#13 (Coin #203 in my album): No Date (ca. 1780-1793) France 6 Deniers or 2 Sols. Found in the same colonial sand road as the previous coin. Very nearly unidentifiable, except for a very faint outline of King Louis' head.

#14 (Coin #216 in my album): 1940 Canada one cent. Not a terribly exciting find, but since it predated 1950 I put it in the album instead of my bulk "Wheatie & Token" jar.

#15 (Coin #224 in my album): 1658 Spain 2 maravedis. I call this one "THE coin", for many reasons. First, it is the oldest coin I have found so far. Secondly, it made the papers across the state (and later the country, via wire services) for its historical significance, since it turned out to be a clue to the location of a long-lost Spanish mission. Third, when I took it to work and showed it off with the newspaper clipping, I was able to strike up a conversation with a nice lady, who's now been my wife for six years.

Newspaper clipping: http://images.honesty.com/imagedata/1/0/9/14595109.jpg

#16 (Coin #245 in my album): 1941 Great Britain shilling (Scottish reverse). Silver.

#17 (Coin #260 in my album): 1738 Great Britain halfpenny.

#18 (Coin #262 in my album): No Date (circa 1770's-1780's) Spanish Colonial (Mexico City) 1 real. Made into a crude love token of sorts- holed and crudely engraved with the initials "SD". Found near Charleston, SC, on a site that produced artifacts dating from the Revolutionary War to the early 1800's. Worn nearly smooth, but the mintmark and part of the shield were visible.



That's it for now. I have dug a number of other world coins but they were more modern and I didn't log them into the Digger's Diary.

 

[JW]

Netherlands, Canada, Belgium and England all dug in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.


HH

JW

 

[littlehugger]

Is Chuck E Cheese a foreign country?
We have probably found a dozen or so of their tokens in playgrounds over the years.
Kids love em!
Maybe I will hoard them, and take them with me when I hunt, and give them to the kids who bother me, to bribe them to go away. Or to get them to dig for me.
Hugger

 

[Monty]

Three or 4 Canadian coins of various denominations. My strangest was a Jamaican penny dated 1952 I found in a church yard. It has a pic of Queen Elizabeth II on it and is about the size of one of the old US large cents. It's not copper either, rather has a silver nickel like finish on it. Monty

 

[Jeffro]

Japan, Phillipines, India, Mexican, and Canadian all found in one visit to the ballpark . I also found what I thought was my first gold coin way up in the hills near here, washed up on the bedrock of a creek. Just about came unglued when my detector screamed at me, and I saw that "gold" edge sticking out of the dirt! Man, I was staggered- I found out later it's not gold, however, but still an interesting piece found in the most unusual of places.

 

[dnewbury2]

I once found a 1944 British half penny. Probably somebody's memento of being in England in WWII.

 

[Digginman]

The regular Canadian Penny I dug isn't that unheard of. Finding it in a cow/horse field while relic hunting near Toms Brook, Virginia is.

 

[Huntin' 59er]

A Rupee from India.

Huntin' 59er

 

[stoney56]

Mainly Mexican in this area. Banged in as a half dollar, but what the heck-at least it wasn't a bottlecap.

 

[ZumbroKid]

This is an interesting topic, that i've been meaning to get back to. Here is one i dug up. It's German 5 centesimi 1862.

 

[Leon]

I haven't found very many foreign coins. The first coin in the pic is an, "1862 Belgem 1 Cent". It's a little worn, but still in pretty good shape for it's age. The second coin is a, " Chinese Cash Coin dated 1909, 1911". I'm not too sure this is a real coin. The edge of the coin looks as if the coin was made by the use of an injection mold and It has a ring around it, and a small piece of the metal sticking out, from what looks like the point of injection... Probably a reproduction...The third pic is of my favorite, it's a, "1935 French Five Centimes". Very nice coin with a lot of the original details. The last pic is a, "1938 Canadian Dime" ( silver ). Funny, it's the only Canadian coin I ave found...
Good luck all, & Happy hunting~

 

[JBEIA]

I've found coins from Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, and China. I have found many canadian coins and the rest I have only found one of each. A lot of different countries for Iowa...I live near Iowa City, a college town, that's were I found the Chinese and French coins. The german coin, my first foreign coin, wasn't a surprise since many of the farmers were I grew up are from Germany. Can't remember dates and don't have my book with me.

JBE

 

[ZumbroKid]

Here are two more i dug here in town. First an Italian coin, no date i can see, i doubt it is very old. Second is from Kenya a very large coin, bigger than a quarter. Has a nice back design. I'll post more later when i have time.

 

[captain ahab]

found this trinidad and tobago dime on the eastern high plains of Colorado