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Don't you hate getting pesos instead of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
You can't spend that at the store because the cashier won't accept it, but it's
okay if they pass it off to you when you get change. The same goes for Canadian
coins. I often wonder if Canadians ever gets one of our coins and curiously ask why their
beaver all of the sudden looks like Thomas Jefferson. I bet the get a kick out of
seeing FDR in the place of Elizabeth II.
What started out as useless unwanted change has now grown into jars full of coins
from all around the world. It bothered me quite a bit at first when I received foreign
coins but when I started getting them from Europe, South America, Australia, and
Asia I realized that I had a little bit of culture from around the world. Each coin
signified important people in history, sacred landmarks, and stood for people's ideology.
I'm still looking for coins from Africa and I'm starting to wonder if they use some
other form of representation. Unlike my domestic coin collection I am not concerned
with the scarcity of the coin but more of the diversity. I do, however, have some
silver coins from Mexico, Canada, and China. I might have them for other countries
but I haven't checked. I have far too many now to inspect them individually.
There will be a time when I have nothing better to do and I'll probably catalog these
coins in much the same fashion that I've done for my card collection and input them
into a database. Seeing how it took me months to do so for my card collection I
think I'll put that off for now.
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