My most recent was probably a Canadian penny. I live in a border city, so we have Canadian coins occasionally getting passed in change. The Canadian penny has been discontinued, so it doesn't even make sense to put it in my box of Canadian cash that I use whenever I make a trip, like I do with other Canadian coins that I find in circulation. I just put them in my swap list when I find them.
I saved a 2010 UK penny and a 2004 pound from a Coinstar today. First foreign Coinstar finds, actually - found two silver dimes, a wheatie and a steel penny so far this year.
Trinidad & Tobago 2009 Cent found instead of Eurocent.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Found three coins from Malaysia in a grocery store CoinStar reject tray today: a 5 sen and two 10 sen coins, including a type I didn't have before! First time I've found foreign coins other than Canadian coins in the CoinStar.
Last night I was having a couple(too much) beers and this morning noticed a shiny 5 Cents (2015)from Canada.
The funny thing is that here in Japan most of the coins transactions are counted by the cashiers and then processed by the point of sale machine which sort the coins automatically... I will say almost 80% specially in large business like a food / restaurant chain.
So this coins passed probably as a 50 Yen, and I was in the wrong place and time as I got only 10% of the value of the expected 50 Yen...
Απόσπασμα: "JustforFun"Last night I was having a couple(too much) beers and this morning noticed a shiny 5 Cents (2015)from Canada.
The funny thing is that here in Japan most of the coins transactions are counted by the cashiers and then processed by the point of sale machine which sort the coins automatically... I will say almost 80% specially in large business like a food / restaurant chain.
So this coins passed probably as a 50 Yen, and I was in the wrong place and time as I got only 10% of the value of the expected 50 Yen...
Drunk Canadians destabilizing Japan economy....
Haha, I just bought some rolls from the bank and I found in my quarters roll 3x US quarters and a E. Carribean 25c. So I lost a little from the caribbean coin, but well made it up from the US coins lol
Απόσπασμα: "ashlobo"
Haha, I just bought some rolls from the bank and I found in my quarters roll 3x US quarters and a E. Carribean 25c. So I lost a little from the caribbean coin, but well made it up from the US coins lol
As someone in canada, all we can say is sorry eh!
Well I could expect a bit more than sorry, perhaps the rest of the 45 Yen missing in this fiasco hey!
I am surprised that the bank does not verify the coins used for their rolls... quite good margin of profit for the bank hey :)
Banks here are very trusting... I could walk in to a Scotia and deposit a roll that's even missing a couple of twoonies and they'd not check... It just goes into the drawer and that's it. I did once almost give a roll short of a toonie... But then I remembered at the last minute and insisted that they break a fiver I had to get the change and add in the toonie. My impression was that they were happy to just take the roll short of the twoonie lol
Yesterday evening,i got at a local supermarket 50 austrian eurocents,dated 2016.
Anyone have idea if these are supposed to be in circulation at all,or i'm really lucky that someone broke a set and brought the coin into a country that even doesn't use euro?
i_getsov, you should report this finding here also, and justforfun will update with your name next to the find. Not had any coins from Austria reported yet
If I knew this thread was a thing I'd have reported this sooner. Happened to me about a week ago.
I was buying some food at one of the many local food shops. As I typically do, when it was my turn to receive change, I asked "do you have any unusual coins, commemorative coins, foreign coins?"
The cashier said that no, they didn't, and gave me the change. I looked at the change... then looked again...
"Wait, you said you don't have any foreign coins."
"We don't, where would we even get any?"
"Then what is this?"
...One of the 10 kopek coins they gave me in change was a 2014 Ukrainian 10 kopiyok.
(I actually used to get that type in change quite often, but between the political situation making travel from here to the Ukraine much rarer and 10 kopek coins generally becoming less common in circulation, I hadn't seen any lately.)
Just found a 1991 Polish 1 zloty (which was a new coin type for me) in a supermarket CoinStar machine's reject tray, along with $4 in US quarters! Some people are in a real hurry, I guess!
I found a Canadian quarter in the coinstar, along with $1.15 in US quarters, nickels and dimes, including a near mint Kisatche, LA quarter. Best haul yet from Coin Star.
In change today I got a Barbados coin instead of the same-sized UK 5 Pence ...
shown alongside a random coin it was meant to be used for. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces66.html
It is only slightly thinner than the UK coin.
I went to buy something yesterday, and only had notes with me, so for a £5.20 purchase I
gave a £10 note, and was given £4.80 change - among which was this ...
Also I remembered from here ... https://en.numista.com/forum/topic52368.html
that in the middle of the topic it says £2 from Gibraltar are rare to find in
change - and that is in that country, so even rarer in the UK.
Bahamas, 1 cent, 2015
Canada, 10 cents, 2000 [Canadian change is quite common around here]
I always feel like I look like a bum scrounging the change out of the reject tray, but occasionally I do find some interesting things. And if someone wants to abandon a couple of bucks, I have no problem having my next coffee on them.
Canada, 1 cent, 2003
Canada, 1 cent, 2006
Canada, 1 cent, 2007
Canada, 5 cents, 2006
Canada, 10 cents, 1968 (probably nickel by appearance; I'll check with a magnet later)
Canada, 10 cents, 1977
Canada, 10 cents, 2001 (Year of Volunteers commemorative - new type for me! )
Germany, 2 Euro cent, 2006
A mystery arcade token; I guess I'll just have to try it out next time I'm at an arcade!
Almost like the July find. "Did you intend to give me the foreign coin?" "Wait, it's foreign?" *looks at it* "Looks like a normal coin to me."
To be fair, the coin was a bit dark (and so was the shop, it was 10 pm), and it was from maybe the only other country that uses the same currency name and spells it the same way. And the size and color was also similar. Transnistria 50 kopek 2005, magnetic. Ironically, I had that type already. (Even more ironically, it was apparently the only Transnistrian type that I've entered so far.)
Once again I got a Gibraltar coin in change (third month in a row) ...
as shown in earlier replies. In August a £2 coin, and in September a 50 Pence coin. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5113.html
The Thai coin was under the machine. It is now the youngest Thai coin in my collection.
The other two were stacked on top of a display of peanut cans. They are the first such coins that I have found in the wild like this. The French 2-franc is the oldest foreign coin I've found in years.
Yesterday I received a Gibraltar Neanderthal skull £1 coin in my change. Was hoping it would be a year I would need, but it's ended up on my swaplist :)
Απόσπασμα: "pabandom"What it is Coinstar machine? Is it for chanching coins to bills and other way?
CoinStar is a corporation that operates self-service coin counting machines in supermarkets and large retail stores. Put your assorted coins in, get a voucher good for cash or a gift card. They keep 9% of the total, same as most banks.
Απόσπασμα: "pabandom"What it is Coinstar machine? Is it for chanching coins to bills and other way?
CoinStar is a corporation that operates self-service coin counting machines in supermarkets and large retail stores. Put your assorted coins in, get a voucher good for cash or a gift card. They keep 9% of the total, same as most banks.
so some people are leaving their coins, if the machine dont accept it? If yes, that a nice way of geting new coins!
Well I usually don't post here , I feel strange. My little town gave me some very nice coins, and silver . But I went and got winder wipers for the car. And ask if they had any odd coins they would like to get rite of. They asked is Canadian ok,i said yes. So for 40 cents I got 8 1 cent coins, mostly the 1960's. Two nickels a 1936 and a 1955. And two dimes a 1968 and 1867-1992.
I think that is now the oldest Canadian coin I have gotten in change. Before that was a 1937 or 1938 1 cent coin.
Today's CoinStar find: German 2003 2 Euro cents. Surprising how similar it is to a US 1 cent coin.
Thank you to Cerulean and others who have turned me on to this method of finding foreign coins.
Christmas Eve CoinStar find: 2011 Canadian Quarter! Thanks to Cerulean and others for tipping me off to this goldmine. I've found several Canadian, Mexican and Euro coins, as well as U.S. coins in my searches of CoinStar machines in my area.
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