I decided to give the Super Macro function on the Canon PowerShot Pro S5 IS a workout. I live in Newport, RI, which is a tourist resort, and we get people from all over the place visiting here, mostly in the Summer. I work in retail and many times in my career I've worked downtown in the tourist areas. So I see a lot of strange things that end up in people's pockets which they try to spend. I have a small collection of foreign coins I've been handed in change or which I've found in a register where I've worked. So I decided to shoot some of these today.
Euros and their lesser denominations seem to be popping up a lot lately. That's liable to be the yachting crowd, although they could also come in with the cruise ship crowd in the Fall. This first coin is a 1 cent coin from Ireland, and I'll bet that came in with the flood of young Irish students who come to Newport to work every Summer:
Next is a 2 cent coin, but I see nothing here to tell me what country it represents. A generic Euro maybe?
And a 5 cent coin from Spain:
One of the more interesting coins, in terms of trying to figure out how it made it to Newport, is this 50 cent piece from Kenya:
I don't read Chinese, but I suspect this coin is from Taiwan:
And finally, this 25 centavo piece from Argentina:
We also get a lot of Canadian coins here, being close enough to the border, but they're so common I don't even notice them any more unless the vending machines spit the quarters back at me as unacceptable. So there are no shots of Canadian coins here.
And that's today's rainy day amusement. As you can see, the Super Macro setting on my camera is a really handy tool!
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