# Anyone interested in trading foreign currency? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057 "2007-06-06T23:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/21 "2007-06-10T08:01:43Z")
**dgrdfd** , I am planning to make my first trip to Mexico soon, so if nobody sends you Mexican currency I might be able to score some. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/22 "2007-06-10T08:04:34Z")
I think I have some Korean coins lying around, in case **TokyoPlayer** doesn’t have any already. ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/23 "2007-07-17T03:00:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion] I can send some Hong Kong dollars. If you’d asked 11 months ago, I could have sent you Lebanese currency instead. [/QUOTE] I am not sure if you are the person who sent me the Hong Kong currency or not, but thanks to whomever did. I can’t seem to figure out who it was from the envelope (and I lost it to boot!) But thanks anyway anonymous person. Also if you sent me something and I have yet to personally thank you via PM or email, I sincerely apologize. It was certainly an oversight and not deliberate. A quick update. Everyone here has been terrific. I have so much I don’t know how I am going to organize it as a picture. I certainly don’t want to ruin it by gluing it to a picture. I thought about using some of that sticky clay stuff that my teachers used to use to attach things to the cinder block walls when I was in school, but I am not sure how that would work on a picture (with a frame, etc). I also don’t want to lose the ability of looking at both sides by putting it up in a picture. Anyways, I am attaching a picture of all the money so curious people can see everything that was sent. (Multiple copies attached for bandwidth issues). Pic 1: > **[ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs](https://imageshack.com/)** > > Host your images online with an easy to use image uploader, albums, photo hosting, sharing, dynamic image resizing on web and mobile. [http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5543/s4022548vw3.jpg](http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5543/s4022548vw3.jpg) Pic 2: [http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7228/s4022549aq7.jpg](http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7228/s4022549aq7.jpg) [http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5265/s4022549go6.jpg](http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5265/s4022549go6.jpg) Pic 3: [http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4816/s4022550qy6.jpg](http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4816/s4022550qy6.jpg) [http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/60/s4022550sf5.jpg](http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/60/s4022550sf5.jpg) Pic 4: [http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1913/s4022551ru8.jpg](http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1913/s4022551ru8.jpg) [http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4411/s4022551ly4.jpg](http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4411/s4022551ly4.jpg) Pic 5: [http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8025/s4022552gy4.jpg](http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8025/s4022552gy4.jpg) [http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4523/s4022552fh1.jpg](http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4523/s4022552fh1.jpg) Pic 6: [http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4852/s4022553ha2.jpg](http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4852/s4022553ha2.jpg) [http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2186/s4022553zi0.jpg](http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2186/s4022553zi0.jpg) Pic 7: [http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8676/s4022554sv8.jpg](http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8676/s4022554sv8.jpg) [http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6663/s4022554gb2.jpg](http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6663/s4022554gb2.jpg) Pic 8: [http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8913/s4022555bj5.jpg](http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8913/s4022555bj5.jpg) [http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7161/s4022555jo4.jpg](http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7161/s4022555jo4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/24 "2007-07-17T03:11:17Z")
Cool! I see my baht and yuan. Good luck and keep us posted. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/25 "2007-07-17T03:34:06Z")
If you are still looking for stuff, I have a bunch of small bills from the Sandbox I could donate to the cause. They’re in my desk at work, so let me know if you need them. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/26 "2007-07-17T16:05:45Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Damn. I had one of those once-ubiquitous pots for Europeans, full of coins from about twenty different countries, with a negligible face value and mostly now obsolete. But moving house a few months ago, I finally decided there was no point keeping it. [/QUOTE] Gah – don’t throw money away! International travelers who find themselves with leftover foreign currency they don’t think they’ll ever use again, can always send it off to [Unicef’s “Change for Good” campaign](http://www.unicefusa.org/site/c.duLRI8O0H/b.25945/k.D3A9/Foreign_Currency __Other_Ways_to_Give__ Donate__US_Fund_for_UNICEF.htm). [ > [@](#): > > In AIDS work a small sum goes a long way: a vaccine that prevents a mother from passing HIV-AIDS to a child during birth costs only four euros. ]([http://www.finnairgroup.com/group/group\_10\_1\_5.html](http://www.finnairgroup.com/group/group_10_1_5.html)) [ > [@](#): > > $2 can immunize 20 children against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough. > > $6 can provide a long-lasting insecticidal mosquito net, protecting children and families from malaria, which kills one African child every 30 seconds. ]([http://www.unicefusa.org/site/c.duLRI8O0H/b.2065525/k.2A9E/Change\_for\_Good\_\_In\_the\_Spotlight\_\_Corporate\_Partnerships\_\_Who\_We\_Are\_\_US\_Fund\_for\_UNICEF.htm](http://www.unicefusa.org/site/c.duLRI8O0H/b.2065525/k.2A9E/Change_for_Good __In_the_Spotlight__ Corporate_Partnerships __Who_We_Are__ US_Fund_for_UNICEF.htm)) ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/27 "2007-07-17T16:16:09Z")
You don’t seem to have got my lot. A small plastic Tupperware-like thingy half-full of coins and taped shut? ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/28 "2007-07-17T17:03:40Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] You don’t seem to have got my lot. A small plastic Tupperware-like thingy half-full of coins and taped shut? [/QUOTE] No, I haven’t got it yet. When did you send it? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057/29 "2007-07-17T18:13:36Z")
[QUOTE=dgrdfd] No, I haven’t got it yet. When did you send it? [/QUOTE] I don’t remember exactly, but it feels like a couple of weeks ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-trading-foreign-currency/407057.md?page=1)