Originally Posted by
YCTTSFM
Comment about Qatari/UAE coins being pretty but worthless was meant to be dripping with xenophobic $arca$m but maybe didn't receive as such—sorry.
Your troubles at SJC don't surprise me; fortunately haven't seen the gaggle of dowager screener princesses wearing so many diamond rings they scratched computer screens when handling them in years: the others I don't use often enough to have an average.
Happy travels...

Ah - didn't catch that.
There must have been 50 coins in the bag - to sort out the US ones seems ridiculous. Surely there are easier pickings than sorting through bags of coins?
I once found a Guatemalan coin in my bag after a domestic US flight, but I am still down overall.