I was working on a Coin Merit Badge project with our Boy Scouts. Our local coin shop had bags of foreign coins for something like $7 for a bag of 100 coins. They had British large pennies from the 1700's, German coins with beautiful eagles on them, some of which were actually silver. Some coins were much thicker than our coins. It's worth it to go look in the "Coins of the World" bucket at the coin shop, Joe.
