Old coins

While cleaning out the house we found a bunch of old coins - mainly "filler" from the late 80s. There were 100 fillers to a forint.  Occasionally utility bills still show fractions of a forint; I haven't seen it used anywhere else. Fillers were taken out of circulation in 1999; even 1 and 2 forint coins were withdrawn last year.  The silver ones are made from aluminium and don't sound or feel like real coins!

The current exchange rate is about 270 forint to the Euro.  It means a 10 filler coin, if still valid, would have a whopping value of 37/1000 Eurocent, or 37/100000 Euro.

We also found a coin dated 1881.  In very poor condition, it appears to be a 1 krajczár coin (called "Kreuzer" in Austria). Originally there were 60 of these to a Forint (known as "Gulden" in Austria); by the time this coin was issued it had been decimalized.

All of these are worth buttons!

We also found some old baking ingredients with "use by" dates up to 10 years ago!