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Cool coin, first time ever seeing one of these. Found this along with a 1900 Liberty Nickel (same roll) and it had to be in the very last roll of a $100 bag of nickels from the bank.
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When I used to roll hunt half dollars, my bank actually asked me to pull out any foreign coins I found b/c, as a bank, they were held accountable when they sent in the rolls for excahnge.
Common grading company shortcomings & resulting co$tly mi$take$ to collectors (using Kennedy No FG halves):
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Earle42 wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:53 pm When I used to roll hunt half dollars, my bank actually asked me to pull out any foreign coins I found b/c, as a bank, they were held accountable when they sent in the rolls for excahnge.
Wow that’s interesting. So you weren’t allowed to keep them?

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Technically you made a profit because 20 Rappen in exchange for USD is just under a Quarter.

Also Switzerland has a similar thing to the US where coin hunters can find coins as far back as the 1874! Apart from the silver 1/2 Franc, 1F, 2F and 5 Franc (although the silver value of the 5F was only about 70% of coins face value) where they were replaced with copper nickel types in the late 60s due to the silver crisis where people exported the coins to West Germany to be melted illegally.
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cool find! :)
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Earle42 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:53 pm
When I used to roll hunt half dollars, my bank actually asked me to pull out any foreign coins I found b/c, as a bank, they were held accountable when they sent in the rolls for exchange.
Wow that’s interesting. So you weren’t allowed to keep them?
I should have elaborated. I could do anything I wanted with them b/c after all, I had "paid" for the rolls of coins I was looking through and so they were my property.

The bank let me get my halves from there and also take them back to cash them in when I had searched them. The tellers sort of had fun watching the progress of me filling the album.

Te head teller told me if I did not pull the coins out, that they would be getting them back. Since I was doing $1 at a time when I got them, it was easy for the foreign ones to get lost in the volume when i returned them.

I did not keep most of the foreign coins b/c I have a lot (understatement) of foreign coins that just sit in a bag stored away b/c I just have never gotten around to worrying abut trying to organize them.

I do, however, collect Canadian coins. I grew up close to the border and so the word "foreign" just does not match up with Canada to me. I grew up getting/spending Canadian coins in pocket change b/c of it, and so was able to make decent collections of their coins as well.
Common grading company shortcomings & resulting co$tly mi$take$ to collectors (using Kennedy No FG halves):
https://tinyurl.com/y7rksxu8

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