# Do you keep foreign money? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-foreign-money/569579 "2011-01-31T00:18:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [February 2, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-foreign-money/569579/41 "2011-02-02T04:20:08Z")
> [@somepumpkin](#): > > I visited Guatemala about 20 years ago and have a ½-Quetzal note. It is a paper bill of denomination ½-Quetzal. Pretty money… I wonder if it is still made? [Looks like it is](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_quetzal). ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-foreign-money/569579/42 "2011-02-02T08:19:38Z")
Yeah, I collect currency from wherever I’ve gone plus a few other countries. I’m pretty sure I’ve got over 50 different countries’ currencies. I was traveling before the adoption of the Euro, so I have a bunch of different European currencies. One of the rarer things I have is actual Zimbabwean coins. I think I actually have a Zimbabwe penny, if you want to talk about low value coins! I actually have a bunch of black 100 Zim Dollar chips from the casino in Victoria Falls, which I think is kind of hilarious. I also think I have some Ecuadorian coins which are rare because they switched over to US dollars some time ago. I remember **Desert Nomad** saying that he had some Rwanda money and I was going to ask him for some since my wallet got pickpocketed by a woman of questionable repute at a disco in Kampala, Uganda. I actually got my wallet returned to me by the American Embassy about a year later! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-foreign-money/569579/43 "2011-02-02T08:42:35Z")
Yes - I’ve got a metal sweet tin in my cupboard that contains a wide assortment of coins from all over the world (including modern and obsolete ones), plus pre-decimal British coins and some versions of British decimal coins that have been phased out or redesigned - such as a number of half (new)pennies, old (larger) 50p, 10p, 5p, bronze 2p and 1p (back when they said ‘new pence’ on them). I don’t tend to keep multiple examples of the same issue of the same coin and none of these are mint - it’s just a big, rattling tin of assorted money. The kids love it. _Their kids_ might love it more (coins could be obsolete in a few decades) ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-foreign-money/569579/44 "2011-02-02T10:20:10Z")
Yes I do. I don’t keep count, but I know I have currency from most of the countries I have visited in the past decade: Euro GBP USD Swedish and Norwegian kroner Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan rupees Iranian rial Turkish lira Moroccan dirham Russian rubles Uzbek and Kyrgyz sum/som (I keep these in my bag in case I need to get outta here fast!) Probably others. It is nice to have a bit of cash at hand whenever you arrive somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-foreign-money/569579/45 "2011-02-02T12:14:30Z")
Yes, I like to collect foreign coins when I happen across them. And sometimes I like to flatten them on railroad tracks. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-foreign-money/569579.md?page=2)