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Hi everyone, I am a new member of this group and wanted to tell you about the flea market finds I found today. I should start out by telling you that I am an American currently living and woring in France. I had been feeling left out reading about your bank finds so I decided to start checking out the local flea markets, I went to one of the many Sunday morning flea markets today and found the followng coins:

1921 S Morgan Dollar - paid $19.74
1916S Wheat cent - paid $.66
1943P Nickel - paid $.26
1951 Canadian Quarter - paid $.26
1953 Canadian Dime - paid $.26
(5) Silver Roosevelt dimes - paid $5.17

I know most peopledo not get this kind of chance but I would suggest to anyone visiting Europe to check out the local flea markets for American coins. They are not collected here and there are opportunities to score silver under MP.

Nice haul!!!

So how cheap can you buy the old franc coinage that is .999 nickel?

you are doing just as we are with bank finds

Justification for a trip to Europe!!! Yay!!

I have not priced any of the old francs because that stuff will be priced at retail over here. I found the things I posted in boxes of miscellaneous "foreign" coins...

Nice haul....I'd hunt them flea markets like nobodys business....
I own (1) 16S after lokking at millions of pennies and you buy one for half price of a G4...very nice....

hags

Nice little hunt! I haven't been to France since 1990, There were some nice places to visit over there and got tipsy in several disco techs as they called them.

Very nice finds.

very nice finds.hope it helps buying a 7 dollar big mac, or 8 dollar a gallon gas

I had the same type of luck last time I was in Europe too.

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback. It is nice to get the encouragement that I am going about this the correct way. I only wish I would have thought about it earlier. I was here for 4 years and probably could have really cleaned up. BTW- for those of you who are interested, a Big Mac value meal costs more like $7.80 total at the current exchange rate.

Franco American wrote:BTW- for those of you who are interested, a Big Mac value meal costs more like $7.80 total at the current exchange rate.

I bet it tastes better over there too!