help with foreign coins please

[hotrodsonoma]

I just inherited a bunch of turkish lira coins.did the currency converter to usa dollars.does anyone know where I could sell these?any help would be gladly appreciated.I have a total of (53) 100 lira,(13) 500 lira,(4) 50 lira,and (1) 10 lira coins.figured it up on converter and came up with $6725.60 usd. would be nice to sell these to someone.

500 lira converted to $280 usd each
100 lira converted to $56 usd each
50 lira $28 usd each
10 lira $5.60 each

could this be for real?wow
if so I would sell them all for $6000

thanks alot.
boy this would help catch up some bills.

[GySgt Hartman]

Are you sure they aren't Italian Lira...?

[hotrodsonoma]

Originally Posted by GySgt Hartman

Are you sure they aren't Italian Lira...?

has TURKIYE CUMHURIYETI wrote on all of them.and a moon and star on # side.

[losikid]

Go to a bank that does currency exchange.

[hotrodsonoma]

Originally Posted by losikid

Go to a bank that does currency exchange.

thanks kid.

going to do some calling about it tommorrow.

here is a pic.not to good.using black berry.:(

[losikid]

Originally Posted by hotrodsonoma

thanks kid.

going to do some calling about it tommorrow.

I though i was lucky a year or two back i came across a handful of $1000 peso's

Did currency conversion and i had like $8500 USD worth of peso's.

Went to the bank to get them exchanged and it turns out it was the old style and arn't worth nothing but as a collectors item. So make sure you got current coins.

[hotrodsonoma]

Originally Posted by losikid

I though i was lucky a year or two back i came across a handful of $1000 peso's

Did currency conversion and i had like $8500 USD worth of peso's.

Went to the bank to get them exchanged and it turns out it was the old style and arn't worth nothing but as a collectors item. So make sure you got current coins.

will do.that would be my luck too.

they are from 1989

[TattooKenny]

Coins in foreign countries change all the time. A lot of times they are still good in that country though. Look at the US. We still except all of our coins and bills from the past! Though most of our old stuff it would be dumb to spend instead of selling, lol! I hope it works out for you! I would call a coin shop and ask them first ,)

[losikid]

Originally Posted by TattooKenny

Coins in foreign countries change all the time. A lot of times they are still good in that country though. Look at the US. We still except all of our coins and bills from the past! Though most of our old stuff it would be dumb to spend instead of selling, lol! I hope it works out for you! I would call a coin shop and ask them first ,)

My case is mexico changed currency, i had the old peso...not the new peso.

I'm not talking about just newer/older minting's.

[binaryterror]

Looks like Turkey swapped to the New Lira in 2005

2005 — 1 U.S. dollar = 1.29 new lira (The use of New Turkish Lira, which drops 6 zeros from the currency Turkish Lira, was implemented in 2005)

[@Maxcipollino@]

Originally Posted by binaryterror

Looks like Turkey swapped to the New Lira in 2005

2005 — 1 U.S. dollar = 1.29 new lira (The use of New Turkish Lira, which drops 6 zeros from the currency Turkish Lira, was implemented in 2005)

this is true!

in italy none can chage back your turkish lira to euro, you can only buy but not sell, during my trip to turkey, if i had liras in hand, i was obliged to ask the change at the airport or at a exchange office, no possibility to sell at city bank...

[GRIMGREG]

Originally Posted by binaryterror

Looks like Turkey swapped to the New Lira in 2005

2005 — 1 U.S. dollar = 1.29 new lira (The use of New Turkish Lira, which drops 6 zeros from the currency Turkish Lira, was implemented in 2005)

Sounds like the same deal as losikid ran into then.

They might be worth something to a coin collector, but usually world currency isn't worth much to collectors either. Even rare and unique stuff doesn't carry much value.

[ecoli]

Exchange rate in 1988 (closest year listed) was 1300 lira per 1 US dollar. So your total of 12,010 lira would be worth about $9US in 1989.

However, with the monetary adjustment dropping 6 zeros from the old lira, your 12,010 lira would be adjusted to 0.012 "modern" lira. Basically, not even worth a single penny.

Sorry man, I think you've got a pile of shiny coins not worth much other than looking at them. Maybe you can fool some vending machines into taking them as US coin !

[johnnyh66]

wow, bummer man.