# Ask the guy with 17 currencies in his wallet\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-17-currencies-in-his-wallet/528226 "2010-02-09T02:49:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-17-currencies-in-his-wallet/528226/21 "2010-02-09T05:38:02Z")
> [@Remarkable](#): > > I’m curious about the coins more than the notes, the notes you can convert, but (in my fairly limited experience) they don’t always take the coins.. hence a couple of small piles of foreign denomination shrapnel at Rancho Remarkable. > > So do you have a fishbowl full or have you managed to exchange them? I have a bowl of sorts but since I have been moving countries every 90 days at times, I usually send them home (the US - even though it is not home in the traditional sense) with other stuff or drop them in a box at an airport for some charity. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-17-currencies-in-his-wallet/528226/22 "2010-02-09T06:45:48Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > Don’t you think that would be highly illogical? [No Captain](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6850966739), not at all,[thread=550971] it is apparently quite common.[/thread] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-17-currencies-in-his-wallet/528226.md?page=1)