'Hey, one of them has a fish on it!' - El lets her inner numismatist out to play

[elvenpiratelady]

 I've been polishing coins this morning. The Christmas trip to Adelaide yielded not only a swag of presents, but a box of old coins from my grandparents. I can't resist shiny things. Clearly, my family knows me too well. My brother and I spent one interesting afternoon examining all of them. We've found ones from the US, France, the UK, Russia,

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[kaerran]

...don't mind me but yay for numismatics!

...sorry, I collect coins, but I don't have any that neat. I don't really have many that aren't Canadian. Or American, because they show up in our change occasionally. Oh wait, I lie, I got a few while in Europe, but they haven't gone into collection yet.

What I meant to say was that it's awesome you've gotten so many from everywhere. =D

[elvenpiratelady]

Yay for shiny things! My grandparents collected them, not me, actually. I haven't been to half of those places. :D

[pankaks]

yay shiny!

a country that has chickens on their coins must be awesome!

[elvenpiratelady]

Exactly. All other coins pale in comparison to the one with chickens on it. :D