THE town museum is asking returning holiday-makers to donate their leftover foreign coins to boost its funds, rather than leaving them lying around in a drawer at home.

The ongoing appeal for obsolete and foreign currency was started a decade ago with the introduction of the euro across Europe, and has since raised more than £4,000 for the museum in Cantelupe Road, said town historian Michael Leppard.

"I realised when the euro was introduced that a lot of people would be left with coins they could no longer spend, but which we could put to very good use," he said.

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