Old Foreign Coins & Currency

[Stella]

Does anyone know anything about old foreign coins & currency?  There are only two primary resources in the greater Denver area that I found with a quick internet search and I had an "undeliverable" email bounce back from one and am waiting on a response from the other.

They're primarily from the '50's and '60's.  A few from the Sierra Leone, France, Laos.  Also currency from Brasil and Indonesia.

Not likely worth a whole lot but I've had them for as long as I can remember but don't necessarily need to keep them so I'd like to know values.

Thanks!

[cyrus buelton]

not really pertinent, but my wife has some really old Russian currency. She found it in a used book. I think it was from one of the last dynasties.

She has all sorts of foreign currency from her bartending days, guys would give them to her because she liked collecting them.

Some pretty cool stuff out there.

[somegirl]

I'd look on ebay to see if anyone is selling something comparable.

[il d00d]

Nothing to add but a story...

I got a box of old coins from my grandmother, whose father used to work on Dutch Atlantic ship line - they did the same thing airliners would do when landing in a foreign country, ask for all the loose change that could not be converted at the destination country.  The result is a pretty fascinating collection from the 30s and 40s that I suspect was supplemented with some other coin collecting on the side - there are Roman, and I think Etruscan coins in the mix.  There are also some Nazi coins, which give me the heebie-jeebies.

I looked on ebay to get a general idea of the worth of the ones I could identify.  Unfortunately, old does not necessarily mean valuable - Roman coins are a good example.  The empire reached to (almost) Scotland in the North, and Africa in the South.  The empire was huge, and for a long time - they minted a lot of coins.  Also, people keep finding buried pots of Roman coins, further adding to the supply.  I hope I inherit one nonetheless - a 2000 year-old man-made anything is a pretty badass thing in my book.

Anyways, I suspect you will find the most valuable and desirable coins on eBay will be rare American currency - I found quarters that only ran for a year or two going for four to five figures.  Good luck in your search and be sure to post up any good resources you find...