I am a very casual collector of foreign currency & was wanting to get sm thoughts on this.
Last nite I went on eBay for shits n giggles & looked at auction prices for coins. The first few pages of any of the search results … sm prices started as low as $0.05USD for small-denomination single coins. Many of the low prices I saw were even for older coins of various collector worth -- like a 1923 Polish złoty, supposedly 'minimal circulation' for less than $5USD. Also sm claiming to be 17th-century original coins 'found via metal-detector' for less than$10USD. But that sounds WAY too good to be true.
I had already thought abt going to my local bank to ask if they would trade me American $$ for foreign notes/coins. Looked up exchange rates for sm of the countries I'm interested in. Sounds like it would be a better tradeoff than going thru eBay; even if it's a bit more expensive, at least I can see upfront what I am getting.
I don't really focus on any single feature … pretty much any denomination, age, or whatever of foreign currency + any Lincoln wheat-ear penny will find a spot in my collection jar. I like older coins too but again, don't know much abt 'what makes it worth anything' & don't really care.



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I don't sweat
the other 5% .......................
Bastards. Guess I will be giving Amazon another

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