Foreign Coins in Quarter Rolls
Onastone
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Searching through quarter rolls, still searching for the elusive W mint mark, I've run across occasional foreign coins. Bermuda, Bahamas, East Caribbean, and plenty of Canadian quarters. How do they get mixed in? Whenever I drop coins into the auto coin counters, these get spit out. So how do they get in? The percentage is low, but it's still kind of annoying. Don't the sealed boxes come from a Federal Bank source? Wouldn't they be more consistently US coins?
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You can deposit rolls of quarters in your bank. Some may place those coins in rolls. Maybe that would explain some of it.
I have not searched any sealed boxes of quarters.... I have purchased rolls of quarters from the bank and I have not found any foreign coins in them. Perhaps it is my location....far away from any metropolitan area. Cheers, RickO
I have found quite a few different coins in quarter rolls. I just got a 2008 Panama it is clad like ours, when I saw your thread I tried it in my IGT slot machine and it accepted it as a US quarter. Fair chance it would work in other counters too. Out of all the foreign coins I have found this is the only one that works in my slot.
There are a few foreign coins that work in vending machines.
The Thai 5 baht coin will sometimes work in machines, it has a copper core like a quarter and it is the same diameter but a wee bit thicker.
I generally avoid searching quarter rolls, too little silver and too many Canadians.
I search customer rolled quarters and machine wrapped. In machine wrapped rolls I have found Bahama 25¢, English 10 pence, and South Korean 100 won. In customer wrapped rolls I have found English, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, and Canadian
I always assumed the "descrininator" that weeds out off-metal (foreign) coins is different in the huge coin rolling machines and a few foreigns slip through.
At my bank a built in magnet pulls all the Canadian, etc. Out before they go in. I have seen, though, that if one slips past the magnet while mixed in with good coins, it will usually get counted.
Funny you mentioned that, I've been sticking mine on refrigerator magnets.
French 1 franc coins, worthless, can pass for a quarter in change at fast food, etc. With the state, national parks, etc. program, no one knows what might be on the reverse of a quarter, so they slide through.
At the do it yourself car wash the other day, I exchanged a 5 dollar bill for quarters and got an arcade game token mixed in with quarters, never know what I will find
This was years ago but I once knew a guy who would bring back 100 Won coins from Korea (a regular business destination) to use in the Chicago area toll road baskets. Accepted as quarters but valued at half or less than that.
Smitten with DBLCs.
I've found foreign coins, slugs and metal washers in customer wrapped rolls. Far as the washers go, maybe someone came up short 1 coin and threw an at hand washer in. They usually are in the middle of the roll.
Cayman Islands quarters will work as US ones in machines. Found that out in Gatlinburg at the top of the space needle there with the penny roller souvenir thing.
When I roll coins for deposit at my bank I NEVER include anything but US coins. When I get foreign coins in change or from Coinstar machine reject slots (I got 5.40 Euros out of a machine last week) I put them aside. The Canadian coins I keep until there is a local coin show with a dealer from Canada attending. I then bring all of my Canadian change and sell it to the Canadian dealer at half face. The non-Canadian coins I accumulate just go into a box.
Would like find this one in 25c roll - PCGS65 pop of 2 none higher!
Wow! You found a slot that takes coins? Here in Vegas that is RARE.