I have a question which I'm hoping some DR can answer.
I found a bunch of foreign bills from when different family members have been on vacation.
I know most of them i can just bring to any foreign exchange center.
But i am wondering what i can do with certain currencies that are no longer used (for instance one bill is 50 francs). Would they still accept them at the foreign currency center. Would a bank take them? Are they now collectors items?
Any ideas would be helpful, thanks.
As another DR already mentioned, if it's a currency that has now been replaced by the Euro, it's now, technically, just (scrap) paper or metal.
Most banks - at least here in the States - require a minimum amount of currency in order for it to be exchanged for USD. *And when I got back from Australia, I could not find a place that took the coins.
If you do have a foreign currency center near you, just take it all in and see what they say. However, I have a feeling that you'll probably just end up with some paper to tape to your wall and some coins to put in a jar. -Or something like that.
And anything that is "rejected" you can take to a numismatist to get an opinion from them.