# What to Do with Old Foreign Coins

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 1, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-old-foreign-coins/1006580 "2024-09-01T20:18:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-old-foreign-coins/1006580/41 "2024-09-04T19:27:43Z")

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Moderating:

> [@Mark\_Finn](#):
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> Test them out in vending machines. The French 20 centime coins (worth 4 or 5 cents at the time) used to work perfectly as quarters.

A reminder that it’s against board rules to promote illegal activities.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-old-foreign-coins/1006580/42 "2024-09-04T20:10:06Z")

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This may have been a fluke: Some years back, I stopped into one of those **We Buy Your Gold** stores and ended up selling my high school ring (don’t know why I bought it in the first place), a half dozen rolls of wheat pennies (got 3 cents a pence) and a big bag of sundry foreign coins, which he bought by weight (I don’t remember the exact tonnage or the exchange rate). I walked out with $118.00 at a time when I desperately needed $106.50. I could have kissed him, but didn’t.

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