Adventures With The Pound And The Euro

My wife and I just returned from a week in England and another week on the continent. As usual, one of my carry-on bags contained coins left over from the trip. Getting rid of paper money is never a problem, as I swapped my pound notes for euros before leaving England and my euros for dollars before leaving Paris. The moneychangers won’t take coins, however, so I was stuck with them. I’ve been similarly stuck on previous trips and have a large stash of mostly low-denomination foreign coins. Of course, as a long-time coin collector, having all these foreign coins doesn’t particularly