OT Non-USA monies- begging again!

Hubby's had several trips to the Canary Islands and he ALWAYS brings small bits of leftover cash home with him.

Only thing is ... I'm pretty sure it's Euros (which aren't that "exotic" seein' as how almost all of Europe is usin'em) ... but I keep thinkin' that they've got the Canary Islands seal or something like that on'em.

When hubby gets home I'll have him ferret'em out and see if they'd be special enough - or would the fact that they came from the CI be special enough??

Let me know when you get a sec!! Meanwhile, I'll rack my poor brain to remember all the other "exotic" places hubby's been!! If not him, then I'm sure some of our friends (one of which has been to S. Africa, Tanzania, etc).

Hugs!! Connie :)

Any monies from anywhere are appreciated- she has some duplicates (not many!) and they have as much fun sorting them and comparing those as anything. ANY small coins would be very much appreciated!

Leslie & Everybody

I have some Russian rubles....and some Mexican pesos, I think. Are any of those missing from the collection? Like Connie, I'll have to do some digging. But if this isn't for Christmas, DH and DS will be back from a trip to St. Petersburg on the 23rd. I'm sure they'll have some then.

Claudia- yes, please! Sierra, Josh and Bill would love to have a few small coins from Spain. Thank you! Please email me and we can work out the details quilteacher AT yahoo DOT com

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

Ok! mumble mumble.....now where did I put them????

Answered by email.

True, the currency used in the Canary Islands are Euros's, used all over Europe so not very exotic, but each of the Euro countries has their own coins (the bills are the same for all of us). Spain and therefore the Canary Islands, has the face of the King on the 1 and 2 Euro coins, Cervantes (the author of Don Quijote) on the 50, 20 and 10 cent pieces, and the Santiago de Compostela cathedral on the 5, 2, and

1 cent pieces.

I have easy access to plenty of these here > Hubby's had several trips to the Canary Islands and he ALWAYS brings small

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I have one problem ... I don't have your snail mail addy!!!

Hugs!! Connie :)

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I'll keep my eye open for Korean coins - does she have any of those? We lived in Korea and ended up with a handful and they keep cropping up in random places, including my purse, a 100won coin is almost exactly the same as a quarter. So I'll designate a place to put them when I find them and hopefully send you some - probably in the new year. I'd offer UK coins, but I bet you'd have plenty of takers for them!

Cheers Anne

really? in which case, I'll add some British coins to the pile, at least I know where they are!

I used to have a small collection of foreign coins, but I've no idea what happened to them, shame as a lot of them were European ones which don't exist anymore, including some with holes in!

Cheers Anne

Could she say which countries she's got?

This is a nice site:

Or you want to be tricky you can something like this to the end of that URL (this one gives the list of countries I've been to): /worldmap?visited=USMKSIATUKBABGBECZFRDEHUIEITMTNLNOSKESPTAUTRHRNZFJGRBHYU

All you're doing is giving it a list of two-letter codes for countries. You get a map with the countries on your list coloured in.

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Leslie,

please can you send me your snail mail addy as I know we have a weird and wonderful collection of coinage here.

Lizzy