Coin collecting

[charlesr]

When I was little (30 years ago), I used to collect coins from all over the place. My dad would give me change brought back after trips abroad.

I have a shoe box full of coins that is probably no longer legal currency anywhere. What on earth do I do with it?

[vanpeebles]

Take em to a footy match

[abigsmurf]

Most country's central banks will still exchange them but I suspect it's not worth bothering to do that.

Best bet is probably ebay or a seeing if a charity at an airport will take them (most quite happily accept foreign change).

[Super Grover]

Halloween - trick or treat. Give them kids some coins as a treat. It'll be too dark for them to have a proper look at what they've been given.

Everyone's a winner ... or not if your'e the kids.

[Azda]

Scatter them on a beach.Some metal detector bloke will think he has hit the jackpot

[EvilBoris]

glue them to a sheet of card, frame it then sell it to an antiques shop or something

[charlesr]

Keep em coming. I'll try all these.

[JP]

Annexe Chichester, declare independence and change the name to Charlesester. Import yourself a pallet of Polish people (£17 a dozen at the moment) and spend the rest of your life as the dictator of the worlds smallest nation who's sole national income comes from healthy food.

You already have a ready made economy in that shoe box so you're pretty much ready to go, right now!

[Square]

Annexe Chichester, declare independence and change the name to Charlesester. Import yourself a pallet of Polish people (?17 a dozen at the moment) and spend the rest of your life as the dictator of the worlds smallest nation who's sole national income comes from healthy food.

You already have a ready made economy in that shoe box so you're pretty much ready to go, right now!

I vote this idea.

[Darwock]

Has somebody been slipping something into John's tea recently?

[Dogg Thang]

Hide them in bricks and wait for someone to come along and smash them with their head in search of goodies.

[spagmasterswift]

Make all of your decisions based on the toss of each coin in the collection until you've got through the lot and post up how your life has changed...

[EvilBoris]

Even better, write it into a book and then get Jim Carey to play yourself in a Hollywood version of your book.

[davesol]

melt them all down together to create a brand new alloy. Use that to build a spaceship - according to this people will pay $200,000 each for a trip into space.