Is it safe here? :D

IdahoGal

Lookie... I found this in my change a couple years ago. Does it make me a darksider?

spinaker2000

<< <i>you can visit anytime you like, but you can never leave! >>



I voted and you're in!!

ajaan

Nice Swiss coin. I have never found a foreign coin in change, other than Canadian of course.

trozau

"Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side."

Welcome to the darkside!

IdahoGal

It's pretty wild in here... Seems like I might actually learn something.

Aethelred

Welcome to the Darkside, I wondered how long it would take ya?

IdahoGal

Were you waiting for me?

ajaan

After collecting George III coins, aethelred is waiting for any pretty face to come along.

MSD61

Yes, welcome to the darkside I never found a foreign coin in my change either. But when I was a kid I remeber sticking a 1925 French Frank in the soda machine. It was the size and weight of a quarter and it fooled the machine

ajaan

My brother designed the automatic toll system for the Peace Bridge (Buffalo to Fort Erie, Ont). He said there was, perhaps still is, a Greek coin that is the same size and weight of a US quarter and was worth about 8c at the time. They could come up with no way to prevent the toll system from accepting the Greek coin as a US quarter.

MacCrimmon

It's a sign!!! IG and I were meant for each other!!!

Ooops! I forgot, I'm already married.

coachleonard

If it interests you enough to keep it, or even reseach it-- you're a darksider. If you toss it away in disgust, you're like those lightside people over there.

IdahoGal

I actually love that coin. I've held onto it since I found it.

oldshep

You are oh so welcome here - stick around you'll like it!!!
Shep

a2labmom

Welcome to the Dark, IG. You will find this a very nice place to be. The folks here are fantastic.

wybrit

Welcome to this side of coin collecting.

Other than the ajaan vs aethelred pseudo-flame wars and the odd troll, folks here are pretty civilized.

cacheman

heh heh

spinaker2000

Of course, there is this little rule about new members giving something away. Whatcha got????

Aethelred

<< <i>After collecting George III coins, aethelred is waiting for any pretty face to come along. >>



And what a pretty face (and everything else I'll bet) IdahoGal has!

IdahoGal

Maybe there is something in my purse... I'll have to look.


Thanks to goose3 for the pic... His boy is a cutie!

SYRACUSIAN

Nice picture IG .



<< <i>My brother designed the automatic toll system for the Peace Bridge (Buffalo to Fort Erie, Ont). He said there was, perhaps still is, a Greek coin that is the same size and weight of a US quarter and was worth about 8c at the time. They could come up with no way to prevent the toll system from accepting the Greek coin as a US quarter. >>



Why doesn't this surprise me? Fooling the machines and feeding them Greek coins.
I've considered it as a national sport and practiced it in Europe for a few years myself.

edit: my guess is that it's a 10 dr coin. Not worth retrieving it, even if BU.

ColinCMR

neat find

1jester

Hi Traci!!! So nice to see you over here! Have fun in the DARK....