Coins

Post in this thread and I'll show you a coin or bill of your country from my collection.

It's been a long time since the last thread.

i have several isle of man coins, bet you don't.

i dare you to show me

What a splendid thread to talk about different country's coins

I have a bunch of old coins and coins I've gathered from my travels. Nothing special... I'll just give them to my kids later on and they enjoy looking through them.

Let's see dem coins

OP are you there?

Yeah, give me a minute I didn't expect some replies that quickly

I got a Vitorio Emanuele II 20 lires from 1862 ;
A 10F from 1914
And a Napoléon III 5F from 1858

Got some Polish monies maybe trade merchant?

Gib moni pls

Actually I don't. It's not easy to find from Man over here, but I have from Gilbraltar or Jersey.

Here you are.

Be my guest, it's always nice to talk about that.

Fug, forgot pic

UN PESO FUERTE

Wow nice. Too bad our economy fell and now they worth nothing and not even in circulation

Here. Have you seen those coins before?

And I also have a 50z bill.

I have tons of Brazilian coins, so Ill show you the interesting ones.

Gold coins? Got any pics?

I thought so. I was about to buy a 1 pound coin, but it was too expensive. Do you still use the qirsh?

Dude nice

no
here is our monetary system
1 pound = 100 qirsh . 1 qirsh = 10 milleme. 1 milleme = 16 sa7toot

least we use mostly now is 25 qirsh/piaster.

Buying the bimetal pound or silver/gold pound?
the bimetal is worthless

>Gold coins? Got any pics?
Yes. Sorry for the poor quality.

So from left to right, 20 lires, 10F and 5F.

Here m8

Thanks.

Impressive, lovely stuff. I actually never hold a gold coin on my hands. Are those inherited from someone or did you bought them yourself?

The bimetalic one. I know it's worth nothing, but it's a pretty coin. Do the silver pound coins get used or it's mostly for collectors?

>Are those inherited from someone or did you bought them yourself?
My grandfather gave them to me, really nice coins.

Do you work at a bank or something OP? Or is this just a serious hobby you have?

Just a hobby. It's not too expensive, just a few cents for each coin, although I don't know how much I've spent during these years.

Excelent gift, take care of them, as I hope it will be a nice gift for your grandchildren.

>take care of them
No worries about that, I will.

What are these worth?

Around 600€ from what I saw.

Good thread.

Thanks. But it seems I choose a bad time to make this thread, as a mayor happening is currently on action.

Wow. Nice. Hold onto those and pass them to your children.

>100 lei
It reminds me of the good old days when Ceasca and the commies were at power.

Were you alive during the Ceausescu years? Although that coin is from 1994

I was saying of the old system, of How before there were coins that jumped the 50 bani value, and yes, sweet childhood.

bills here

Libya?

I see. Do you remember what could you buy with 100 lei during those years?

If there's one common MENA country I'm missing it's Libya. I would love to have one coin or bill, but it's quite uncommon to see on this side of the world.

Here. Not in great condition, but I found them cheap.

can't you exchange in a bank?
btw our coins are called dirhams
our paper money is called dinar

I remember I could buy candies/treats in general/bread with it, not much like a full bag but still something, basically, 100 lei =1 leu(give or take) now.

I highly doubt it.

show the one with the cow kek
i remember you had a 5 Gs. coin

Did somebody say coins?

I could to a bureau of exchange to buy some bills, but they only have European and American currencies. Also, they only have bills of high denomination.
I was about to buy this banknote one day, but the guy was asking 5$ for it. I'm not in a hurry, so one of these days I'll get Libyan coin or bill.

What about those 10 bani? Think you could buy something with those now?

NZ should be easy

see if you can get some currency from the kingdom of Libya the design was cool
i've only seen it once here cuz gaddafi actively sought to suppress any memory of that period

Think again. I could use some Yugoslavian coins and bills, but that would be cheating.

The cow one was 10 gs. Still, I've gotten more Paraguayan bills since the last time.

OP, given that asking you for chilean coins and bills is easy mode for you, I'll add an extra challenge.

Show me chilean money not currently in circulation, except the chilean bills and coins that were rotated out in favor of the current ones. This means old pesos, escudos, etc.

No $500 bill either. $100 and below is acceptable, and the old, non-bimetallic $100 coin is not acceptable either.

Forgot pic again.

Fantastic collection. Really jelly of all those Caribbean coins and that set you got there. That coin in a capslue, where is it from?

You didn't say anything about the 10 pesos with the angel. Hold on.

i-i i was only testing you haha, well done

>tfw lost all the lower denomination bills my big sis collected

Very nice.

It's from Prague, if I remember right. A friend of mine brought it back from a business trip.

>You didn't say anything about the 10 pesos with the angel. Hold on.
Seriously? But that one's commonplace. Try something harder to come by.

Any Latvian coins?

Alright. Fun fact, if I go to the central bank to change this bill, they would give me a shiny 5 pesos coin.

As the sun sets, the light is going out. But it's a one shilling coin over there.

That's a shame. What about coins, do you still have some low denomination guaranies?

Thanks.

Great gift. Do you also collect the presidential $1 series?

>Alright. Fun fact, if I go to the central bank to change this bill, they would give me a shiny 5 pesos coin.
Ohh I hadn't seen that bill before. And you mean they'll change it for a current $5 coin? Thank you for the picture!

Here m8. I never knew the actual value of these coins until I got them.

Also
>dat old $1 coin

The fucker blended very well in the picture. That or I'm sleepy.

nice

It's probably the light. And yes, they'll give you a 5 coin, just like they will give you a $500 coin for an old $500 bill.
Of course you don't want to do that, that 5 pesos bill is probably $3000 in that condition.
And thanks to you.

I have the old shilling coin but not the $1note. Nice

>Of course you don't want to do that, that 5 pesos bill is probably $3000 in that condition.
I agree, the central bank only deals with the actual value of the currency and doesn't bother with the collector's value.

Godspeed!

i have a batch of like 120 coins of 1 guarani
not good enough for a collection

I've got a few, though to be honest it's less that I collected them and more that I just didn't spend my change from the metro ticket machine. Shame they stopped putting gold dollars in those.

I don't have a collection of the state quarters, either. Collecting everyday pocket change just kind of seemed pointless; I'd rather hold on to pocket change from trips and vacations.

OP what would you say is your rarest coin? And also what is your most cherished for whatever reason?

Cool stuff, open to anyone else too of course

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do me
our old currency obv not euros

Yeah, that's why I started collecting foreign coins, I always found them fascinating.
And how about old money? I saw some old german and american coins in the picture, like the 3 cents coin. Where did you get those?

Cool stuff. I've never seen that Don Quijote coin.

The rarest is probably this 2 pesetas from Basque country, made during the Spanish civil war or that peseta from Equatorial Guinea. The one I love the most is a little chilean silver coin my grandmother gave when I was little.

The good old franc. Say, what kind of euros do you get over there? Mostly German and Belgian coins?

What year is the half Crown?

The German coins I got from my mother a long time back, and she in turn got when she lived I'm Hamburg for a few years.
I've also got her chunk of the Berlin Wall in the basement somewhere.

Sadly I have a terrible memory and collected all these coins piecemeal, often from friends, so I don't actually know where half of them are from anymore.

Here's what I had in my wallet:

10x Luxembourg
2x Italy
2x Spain
1x Germany
1x France
1x Belgium

1962, so it's not silver.

An actual piece of the wall? Neat.
Don't worry, it's great to have friends who travel and bring you some coins.
What's your rarest coin? The cayman island one?

I thought you would have more of other countries than your own. Nice to know thought, now I know Luxembourgian euros are not so hard to get.

I've got plenty of cayman island coins, so I don't think they're rare at all.
Of the foreign coins, if I had to guess, I'd say it's probably the 200 mark coin. It's got a little hole drilled in it as though someone made a necklace of it, so clearly someone thought it was special. It and the Pfennig are from 1923 and 1914 respectively, so I think that makes them the oldest coins I have here.

The most valuable coins I have, though, are a bunch of all-silver dollars and half-dollars, along with silver quarters and dimes from back when we were on the gold standard. I also have a couple Double Eagles and a few bullion coins that my grandfather passed down.
No pictures of those, sorry, since they're in a safety deposit box.

Pretty pointless to ask if you have any of our current coins so... do you have any Argentinian Australes?

You're right. Even I have one single coin from Cayman Islands.
And have you thought on selling those silver and gold coins or are you going to pass them down?

Coming soon. Also

Unsurprisingly, in my collection Argentina is the country with more quantity of coins, after Chile. And of course, a bunch of bills.
The oldest one is that 5 cents from 1904, the newest one is a 2 pesos from last year. Now I'm looking for the new 2 pesos coin released this week

I'm planning on holding on to them. They're worth a fair amount, but not enough to make an impact on a retirement plan, and in any case they'll only appreciate over time. They've already been through four generations of the family; I may as well see them along to five. Maybe my grandkids might find things have gone to shit and be glad for a few thousand dollars in precious metals.

Nice to know, I'm sure they'll appreciate it
Have you tought in buying silver or gold bullion for investment plans?

I've toyed with the idea, but between the recession and uncertainty over Brexit the price of gold's been climbing. The time to buy was a few years ago, not right now. I don't exactly have a lot of cash on hand for getting into long-term stuff at the moment, in any case. I'm just happy if I don't need to touch my savings account.

I just got back, and it seems this is over for the night.
Thanks to all the anons who posted, it was a fun way to pass the time. Maybe I'll do it during the weekend.

In any case, you still have a lot bullion on your hands.