# Got a Cuban 5 centavo coin in my change **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cuban-5-centavo-coin-in-my-change/839561 "2019-09-01T17:24:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cuban-5-centavo-coin-in-my-change/839561/1 "2019-09-01T17:24:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cuban-5-centavo-coin-in-my-change/839561/2 "2019-09-01T22:14:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cuban-5-centavo-coin-in-my-change/839561/3 "2019-09-02T08:59:32Z")
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 ! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cuban-5-centavo-coin-in-my-change/839561/4 "2019-09-02T15:52:44Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > and on the other, a bird in flight (albatross? petrel? I’m no expert). Out of curiosity, I looked it up. [It’s an albatross.](https://www.leftovercurrency.com/exchange/falkland-islands-pounds/falkland-islands-coins/5-pence-coin-falkland-islands/) ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-cuban-5-centavo-coin-in-my-change/839561/5 "2019-09-02T17:19:40Z")
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 !