Not the usual time of year for Cuban tourism. Wonder how it got here?
The nice lady at Robins doughnuts rejected it. It’s a bit thicker than a dime. I just handed it to her in a handful of change and didn’t notice it.
I have a big pile of mixed foreign coins that I bought off Ebay once on a whim. I have considered randomly leaving individual coins on a shelf or sidewalk or something when I’m out and about just so someone will wonder how a 1927 1000 Reis coin from Brazil (the first one I picked up just now) ended up there.
I – in the UK – somehow in recent years, came by (not deliberately) a very tiny coin of former Yugoslavia, bearing the date 1965: value 5 paras (100 paras made 1 Yugoslav dinar) – inscriptions in both Roman and Cyrillic scripts.
Twice in the past year or so, I have received in change – whether accidentally or otherwise – a Falkland Islands 5 pence coin: identical in size and non-detail appearance with the British 5 pence – very small (though bigger than the abovementioned Yugoslav item), silver in colour. It shows the Queen’s head on one side; and on the other, a bird in flight (albatross? petrel? I’m no expert). Some while ago, I had for years a Falklands one-pound coin: as with the 5p, superficially greatly resembling a British one-pound coin, but showing on the “non-Queen” side, a sheep – I suppose it would have to be either that, or a penguin ! To my regret, the coin and I parted company years ago.
I suppose the likeliest way of Falklands coins landing up in Britain, is their coming back with personnel of the armed forces, and thence getting mixed-up with UK coinage – not many people go to the Falklands on holiday !
Out of curiosity, I looked it up. It’s an albatross.
Thanks. I suppose the albatross is iconic for that particular area; but my learnedness either ornithological or numismatic, was insufficient for me to be sure !