Moved Mom to a nursing home and in clearing out her "stuff" I found a baggie with coins from a lot of different countries she had travelled to in the '80s. Where do I turn to find out value or cash these in? Any ideas??
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If you like them, keep them as momentos. Even if you could exchange them all, you would not get much would be my guess.
A baggie sounds suspeciously like about $10 worth. Your kids might like to have them. I have a very impressive looking 10,000 wan bill from South Korea. It is worth about $3. |
Check out numismatic sites on the web or visit a coin specialist. If any are in cases or frames don't take them out and handle them, they may be mint. Unless your Mom had a habit of buying or collecting coins, they are most likely just loose change from overseas shopping trips. If after checking dates/values you still don't want them contact a coin collector's group in your area, banks and exchanges usually only cash notes.
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Originally Posted by PMY in QCA-IL
Moved Mom to a nursing home and in clearing out her "stuff" I found a baggie with coins from a lot of different countries she had travelled to in the '80s. Where do I turn to find out value or cash these in? Any ideas??
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Originally Posted by blahel
Originally Posted by PMY in QCA-IL
Moved Mom to a nursing home and in clearing out her "stuff" I found a baggie with coins from a lot of different countries she had travelled to in the '80s. Where do I turn to find out value or cash these in? Any ideas??
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Originally Posted by HELLuvvANGEL
Originally Posted by blahel
Originally Posted by PMY in QCA-IL
Moved Mom to a nursing home and in clearing out her "stuff" I found a baggie with coins from a lot of different countries she had travelled to in the '80s. Where do I turn to find out value or cash these in? Any ideas??
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We still have some Canadian monies (a 5 dollar bill and some change) laying around. Sadly, it is probably worth more than the money in my wallet all 4 bucks......LOL
Oh well, I very rarely carry cash......haha |
Find someone born in those years and give it to them?
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Got any grandkids who might like them? Probably not worth much, sounds like pocket change and they are not that old.
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Donate them to a social studies teacher to use in class. Very few children have the opportunity to see foreign currency and it's really interesting to compare it to our own.
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I have my dad's souvenier from Germany from WWII, a Mark. I have coins from different parts of the world that were given him in his tip pan at the airport. AND, we were military and gather some.....I wouldn't know what to do with them either, except they are mementos. But, a social studies theme paper on a particular country's monetary system sounds very scholarily. Wow, the ideas you get in good company. You gals are great.
Blessings, Ruth ps see thread POP BEADS |
If you have any Irish coins, please PM me. I have an idea to use them for jewelry, and there are no more Irish coins. (it's all euros now). I would be willing to pay a little bit for them, and to have them shipped. thanks.
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i do scrapbooking, and i try to smgle out money fromevery place i've been and put it on my scrapbook pages. maybe try to do the same thing
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Thanks for the ideas ladies, I guess they probably aren't worth too much. Sorry "Hazeljane", no coins from Ireland, but you did give me an idea - my daughter makes jewelry too, maybe she can use them for something. (Grandchildren are in HS, so probably not very interested in the coins.)
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I would mount them on a nice velvet background and put them in a frame. They will make a nice memento of her travels.
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