How did some dinars end up in your house? Did either of you serve in the military over there? Just curious.
My friend that I mentioned earlier in this thread has acquired some Somali and Congolese coins, which wound up at the coin store he moonlights at via local refugees. (I asked about the Somali mint; it’s in Germany, of all places.)
I used to have an old Iraqi 10,000 dinar note with Saddam on it given to me by a family member in the military. I threw it out eventually, because who fucking cares?
Old paper currency burns well–like, really well. Don’t hold it in your hand while igniting. You could use it to start a charcoal grill.
If there is any value (the British pound notes were demonetised years ago, too), it’s likely to be only to collectors, if you can find one or a dealer who sells old currency to them. Or someone who can find a decorative use for them,
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The research in this article seems faulty
The dinar investment scam has existed since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 when currency speculators assumed the post-invasion Iraqi government would stabilize and the pre-war dinars would explode in value so they started buying and selling them en-masse. Lots of soldiers returning home from service found themselves taking home duffel bags full of dinars they had traded with locals assuming this would be the case. Whoever wrote this article seemed to pick 2012 as the date simply because there’s a book on Amazon about Iraqi Dinar scams that was first sold in 2012 but I quickly found a news article from 2009 talking about the dinar scam.
We discussed this at length when she found them. She doesn’t remember ever seeing them before and assumes her exhusband acquired them somehow, likely eBay.
If you have enough, make a Monopoly set with real money. My dad was in Brasil in 1970(?) when they devalued, and realized later that he blew it: he could have done the big bills with old bills, and the small bills with new, and had a way cool Monopoly set.
Actually that sounds like something an Etsy seller could make money off of…
I always thought it would be cool to use real money in Monopoly. A quick Google search says the bank starts with $20,580 except the rules state the bank “never” runs out of money (like it could with houses and hotels).
I can’t find any really large lots or stacks of foreign currency on eBay. Sometimes movie money or play money comes in lots but then you might as well just use the standard Monopoly money.
As far as the OP, find a coin club or a scout troop and donate it. Much less hassle and you’re unlikely to get rich anyway. OR drop some on a sidewalk and set up a camera and record if anyone picks them up, then post it to YouTube. That’d be cheap fun.
Eh, throw them into a Salvation Army kettle.
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