UN Smorgasborg

[thurmownator]

Picked up two boxes of halves from a usual bank over lunch (well, one was missing a roll (I only paid $490 for it) but I'll round up. I'll go through those boxes tonight, but I also asked if they had any foreign coin; and they did.

I picked up (gratis) from:

Canada

15 quarters (69, 73 (comm), 74x3, 77, 79x2, 80, 81, 84, 93, 03, 04 and 05 (comm))
6 dimes (74x2, 77x2, 87 & 89)
2 nickels (87 & 03)
1 cent (74)


West Germany

a 5 mark coin (83)


France

a 1 franc coin (73)
a 10 cent (euro) coin (99)


Sweden

a 5 kroner coin (88)


Bahamas

1 quarter (77)


Cayman Islands

2 quarters (92x2)
1 nickel (05)


Honduras

2 20 centavo coins (91 & 96)

Netherlands

a 10 cent (Euro) coin (01)


Bolivia

a 50 centavo coin (01)


South Africa

a 10 cent coin (02)


Mexico

a five centavo coin (73)


People's Republic of China

i jiao coin (05)


Greece

a 50 drachmai coin (88)


United Arab Emirates

a 1 dirham coin (minted between '73 - '89) (My Arab is rusty 8))


................and to top it off; a 43d steel US Lincoln cent.


Not a bad little haul; and I haven't even gone through the boxes of halves yet. 8)

 

[jewelerdave]

sweet, one of my bigger banks has been saving me the odd balls and rejects, I have not totaled them up yet as there are too many, I have a coffee mug full of Mexican and Canadian so far, Euros, etc. No silver from it yet but I keep waiting. Some places are so friendly, others...not so much.

 

[thurmownator]

Unfortunately, the foreign coin bonanza was the best part of the visit to that bank yesterday.

The two boxes of halves I also picked up (#s 332 & 333) didn't similarly come through for me.

Box # 332 had an 82 proof and an 03d, while # 333 was a skunk.

Oh well, the foreign coins were an unexpected find and there's still more boxes of halves to pick up this week.