During the following decades, foreign coins became the widespread currency.
At the time, there was no mint in the United States; foreign coins were used.
We feel you could not really recall a chance glimpse of a foreign coin fifteen years ago.
Eventually, traders began using various foreign coins as stores of value.
Rather than accepting the loss of 25 cents, he decided to give back the foreign coin.
He also put aside interesting foreign coins sent into the mint as bullion.
In 1898, an American business traveler did what a lot of us do today: He brought home a few foreign coins from his trip.
Each year, 58,000 pounds of slugs and foreign coins are found in the city's meters.
He also designed foreign coins produced for other countries by the mint.
You know how suspicious people are of foreign coins!