That Vichy France 1 Franc looks a bit different, a bit smaller than the coin I posted above (but reviewing what I posted, your coin is in better condition), but the Franc (a gold coin in the 19th century) had become a fairly low value coin by the time the 4th Republic had fallen with the 1940 Armistice with Germany and it would remain so until De Gaulle introduced the nouveau Franc in 1960. Just looks around and a high quality Barber Dime isn't cheap, but it's a positively powerful design with less of the wear of circulation. Yet worn circulated coins have a story of being passed through many hands.
The Eire 1p and 2p still work in British machines, if you buy any collections here you'll have tons of them. Can also try at manned tills, but riskier. Though saying that I've received both American and Canadian cent coins from the Co-Op tills before.
I still have yet to find any of the Semiquincentennial coins in circulation and I check my bank every few weeks. Are they being hoarded and scalped like Pokemon cards?
They seem to have vanished like that. The price of $245 is already selling for a good deal more:
Coin roll hunting would probably be a better deal at this point. I guess I'll just have to keep asking the bank if they have new coin rolls but all the ones they've had so far were just pre 2026 stuff. And no half dollars to boot.
It does look well and obviously hard to photograph.
