Foreign currencies

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:52 pm

Do you have foreign currencies at home?

(Foreign: I mean not from the Euro-zone)

Coins of your last trips? Notes "in case of"... ?
Where they are from?

I have a little pot, with coins from Denmark, West africa (Franc CFA) and Switzerland.

No bill...

Olivier.

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:23 pm

I have some Venezuelian Bolivars coins and banknotes left overs. And also some other foreign coins / notes from an old collection

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micro · Post by **micro** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:21 pm

Olivier wrote:Coins of your last trips? Notes "in case of"... ?
Where they are from?

I have a little box with left-overs from many places. I'll open it for you:

I can see coins from UK, USA, Canada, a Russian 100 roobles note, Indonesia, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland, and a handful of $1 notes.

Old coins from the euro zone: Vatican lira, Netherlands, aluminum chips from the GDR, Austria, Spain, Greece, France, Portugal, Germany.

And 2 oversized memorial coins from both a metro inauguration in Hamburg and a natural history museum in Berlin, the latter depicting an Archaeopterix.

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:46 am

I opened a memories box and found quite a lot of coins and bills. I found quite a lot of Hong Kong coins(2000$HK), $1500 HK cash, 14.000 japanese yen, 5200 yen coins, 100$ U.S. in bills and $10 coins. I found a Canadian 100 from 1935 and about 50$ in older coins. To european, I found a 1963 500 Franc bill, a 10000 ancien franc bill (Bonaparte), a Cezanne 100. Found about 200F worth of coins, I found, very suprising a 10000 BEF bill, a 2000 and a 1000. I found a couple of D-Mark (100DM) in bills and a few coins, I found quite a few British 1 pound bills, I found a ton of Dutch coins and a 250 gulden note. Theres more, I havent sifted through yet. I still have a long list of bills to go through.

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:50 am

bhoeyb wrote:I have some Venezuelian Bolivars coins and banknotes left overs. And also some other foreign coins / notes from an old collection .

What do Bolivars look like?

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:56 am

micro wrote:
Olivier wrote:Coins of your last trips? Notes "in case of"... ?
Where they are from?
I have a little box with left-overs from many places. I'll open it for you:

I can see coins from UK, USA, Canada, a Russian 100 roobles note, Indonesia, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland, and a handful of $1 notes.

Old coins from the euro zone: Vatican lira, Netherlands, aluminum chips from the GDR, Austria, Spain, Greece, France, Portugal, Germany.

And 2 oversized memorial coins from both a metro inauguration in Hamburg and a natural history museum in Berlin, the latter depicting an Archaeopterix.

waaaw! Nice collection!!
I have never seen roubles... Neither Indonesia, Singapore and Norway!

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:57 am

eurobillsandcoins wrote:I opened a memories box and found quite a lot of coins and bills. I found quite a lot of Hong Kong coins(2000$HK), $1500 HK cash, 14.000 japanese yen, 5200 yen coins, 100$ U.S. in bills and $10 coins. ....

It's funny to see that we all have very different coins and bills in our collection.

It depends on the countries we have visited before...

Sneakster · Post by **Sneakster** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:34 pm

Well, the only foreign currency I still keep are some UK notes & coins from my trip to Scotland some years ago. I keep them in a glass display with all my whiskyminiatures and other stuff, such as a quaich and a hipflask and so on...

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 5:07 pm

Sneakster wrote:Well, the only foreign currency I still keep are some UK notes & coins from my trip to Scotland some years ago. I keep them in a glass display with all my whiskyminiatures and other stuff, such as a quaigh and a hipflask and so on...

Hips!

Are there different banknotes for England and Scotland? I have found some notes specificaly from Scotland on the web...

K3lvin · Post by **K3lvin** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:15 pm

Olivier wrote: Hips!

Are there different banknotes for England and Scotland? I have found some notes specificaly from Scotland on the web...

I'm not sure, but I think that some Scottish banks have right to release their own notes. And I think that same goes for Northern Ireland, too. (I'm not so sure about that, I guess they use the euro alot there, at least near the borderline)

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:55 pm

I have a huge coins and banknotes collection here, I have currencies from many countries all over the world.
Canada, USA, Spain, Barbados, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia, Uruguay and on and on and on.

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Thu May 01, 2003 4:49 am

K3lvin wrote:
Olivier wrote: Hips!

Are there different banknotes for England and Scotland? I have found some notes specificaly from Scotland on the web...
I'm not sure, but I think that some Scottish banks have right to release their own notes. And I think that same goes for Northern Ireland, too. (I'm not so sure about that, I guess they use the euro alot there, at least near the borderline)

Yes K3lvin this is true, there were at least 4 or 5 different banks issuing notes. It was confusing for my tellers when I had the exchange office.

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Thu May 01, 2003 4:55 am

I found more today, a Finnish 500 Mk, a French Curie 500, a German 100, a 5 Dutch Guilder, a American 100, A Canadian 1954 20, a Austrian 5000

, I was extremely suprised, A Irish 20 punt, a few Scottish 10s, A older 1977 Belgian 5000F, A Japanese 10000 yen, a couple of Swedish and Denmark 100s, a Spanish 1000,5000,10000, a couple of Italian notes totaling 150000L, a portugeuse 5000 esc, a Polish 200, a few Greek 100s,500s and a 10000 and about 300 more notes, from unknown, not worth noting bills. In coins, too much to sort through. Thats pretty much it.

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Thu May 01, 2003 4:59 am

BTW: Anyone here have a good 1000 dutch gulden of the most recent issue? I need it to complete a album containing an example from every country, every denomination of legacy currency. They were only the most modern ones, no previous notes. I will trade or buy from you if its reasonable, PM if you can make an offer! I can trade for maybe a full complete stack of Ensor 100 BEF bills.I can sell a such bundle for 450-500€.

K3lvin · Post by **K3lvin** » Thu May 01, 2003 5:41 am

eurobillsandcoins wrote:Yes K3lvin this is true, there were at least 4 or 5 different banks issuing notes. It was confusing for my tellers when I had the exchange office.

I found some pics of them:

I wonder if UK ever joins to the eurozone, will there be Scottish, English, Northern Irish and Welsh eurocoins?

EDIT: I read some info on Scottish notes from http://www.scotbanks.org.uk/ and according to it all Scottish banks issuing notes have diffirent looking notes! So for example they have at least 3 diffirent looking £20 notes:

How on earth they cope with this?!

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