11-27-06 (PIC ADDED)

[mr.theman]

Picked up $130 today and found

1 = 40%
2 = 90% JFK

Not much but I was very happy. This bank usually has around $100 rolled at a time but I messed up and took $600 back to them before I realised that they roll their own coin instead of sending it back to the reserve. This shows that I finally got through all of those dry rolls of presearched silver.

Ended up with about $250 in halves on the rest of my trip and found 6 = 40% and 3 foreign coins

1 PISO from REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS 1990
$500 from ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS 1988
L.100 REPVBBLICA ITLIANA 1970

Also went through my grandmas change while I was there for the holidays. She had a zipper type bank bag full of halves, Ikes, & SBA. Found
15 = 40%
1 = 90% JFK
I told her I would sell them next time I sell mine and take her the money. Wish I could have went through my grandpas change before they cashed them in. He saved his change for years and had dozens of 5 lbs coffee cans sorted by denomination, probably a couple thousand in change.

HH
Mr.T

 

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[Immy]

Re: 11-27-06

That would have been fun to search thru! Without coffee cans where would people hoard coins? Good going on your silver finds.

 

[Snee]

Re: 11-27-06

Very nice!

 

[MalteseFalcon]

Re: 11-27-06

A 500-dollar coin? Or maybe 500 Pesos? Is it a solid ounce of gold?

 

[mr.theman]

Re: 11-27-06

Nope it says $500. It's not gold (I should be so lucky ). I doubt its worth much American. Does anybody know?

HH
Mr.T

 

[Snee]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Great-discontin...DVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140005058072

It took me awhile to find. I had little to no luck trying google, so I tried ebay and it had four or five hits. It'll be good to add to any foreign coin collection you might have, but you can abandon any hopes that that's $500 american money!

 

[Postalrevnant]

Congratulations,

God yeah, that would sure be awesome to find some peps that have saved coinage for many years. Saved just to save and are going to turn into banks anyways. I would give em more than face value of course, but WOW that would be very nice.

Rev

 

[MalteseFalcon]

Wowsa...that coin is one of the most bizarre I have ever seen! Ahhh...according to the blurb at the bay site they switched to Nuevo Pesos (N$) which obviously means that the dollar sign stands for a peso. So it is a 500 peso coin.

Neat find though....highly unusual.

 

[goldinmypan]

Here's your coin.

http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coin.php?image=img5/121-529&desc=Mexico%20km529%20500%20Pesos%20(1986-1992)

XF = .50
UNC = 2.00

 

[mr.theman]

According to a currency converter I found online, http://www.xe.com/ucc/ , 500 mexican pesos is worth $45.43 USD. Surely this coin is not worth that much is it?

HH
Mr.T