Move Over Lincoln

DustDevilMarc · Mar 5, 2014

Ok, I love to search through boxes of pennies. In today's penny box I found Chief Urraca, died 1531,who fought against the Spanish Conquistadors. Apparently he is somewhat of a hero in Panama. This is my first foreign non-Canadian coin from a role of pennies. What other non-Canadian foreign penny-sized coins have you found?

BuffaloBoy · Mar 6, 2014

Nice! I've found a Bermudian penny the other day, it has a pig on it.

kawika18 · Mar 6, 2014

I found one of those last year. I have also found one from Bermuda, Barbados, Germany, and a 2 cent Euro.

ShaunB · Mar 6, 2014

My son found a Bahamian cent, similar to this.

Hunterhound · Mar 6, 2014

Nice finds guys. I'm going to need to jump into pennies. In the few boxes I have so far, I've only been checking nickles, dimes and picked up my first box of quarters today.

jamesandsons · Mar 6, 2014

Bahamas, Panama, and the 2 cent Euro... I can't think of any other penny-sized coins. I keep a lot of all my different foreign coin finds in the logs section.

exnatomp · Mar 6, 2014

British pennies, 2 Eurocents, Bermuda, Bahamas, Barbados, the list is endless. I think I have at least one coin from every continent I my search of penny rolls. I toss them into a beer growler.

50cent · Mar 6, 2014

That guys a heck of alot cooler than lincoln. This guy on this balboa cent is a real CENSORED.(I'm not using it as a swear word, it's not bad IMHO but if it's against T/net rules and you are offended by it I'll go back and remove it)

Joe777Cool · Mar 6, 2014

50cent said:
That guys a heck of alot cooler than lincoln. This guy on this balboa cent is a real badass (I'm not using it as a swear word, it's not bad IMHO but if it's against T/net rules and you are offended by it I'll go back and remove it)

I am offended.

silvermagnet · Mar 6, 2014

British pennies are a few millimeters bigger than us cents so I doubt you would find one in a roll

xrunndonex · Mar 7, 2014

Hunterhound said:
Nice finds guys. I'm going to need to jump into pennies. In the few boxes I have so far, I've only been checking nickles, dimes and picked up my first box of quarters today.

Quarters 250 a box?

xrunndonex · Mar 7, 2014

50cent said:
That guys a heck of alot cooler than lincoln. This guy on this balboa cent is a real CENSORED.(I'm not using it as a swear word, it's not bad IMHO but if it's against T/net rules and you are offended by it I'll go back and remove it)

I can't stand the bad language I gotta go to church!

50cent · Mar 7, 2014

xrunndonex said:
I can't stand the bad language I gotta go to church!

I can't language the bad stand.

Zukovsky · Mar 8, 2014

I've found many, but here are some of my favorites! Sorry for awful lighting. 1964 Republic of Columbia "diez centavos" (left), Trinidad "1 cent" piece(middle), 1975 Hong Kong "twenty cents" piece(right). Also, it seems a lot of England pennies show up around where I am. I have 7 of them in total.

BuffaloBoy · Mar 8, 2014

I usually find the middle coin, from Trinidad and Tobago, in my dime rolls. I really like the hong kong one, I found a $2 coin from hong kong in a roll of halves before

Zukovsky said:
I've found many, but here are some of my favorites! Sorry for awful lighting. 1964 Republic of Columbia "diez centavos" (left), Trinidad "1 cent" piece(middle), 1975 Hong Kong "twenty cents" piece(left). Also, it seems a lot of England pennies show up around where I am. I have 7 of them in total.