French 7.62 (30-06) value?

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I was digging in the mancave tonight and I found some ammo(no, really!):p I have no idea where I got it from. (no, really!) Some searching on the net indicates it was made in France in 1953. The headstamp has 4-53 at 12:00, P at 3:00, 7.62 at 6:00, at TE at 9:00.(Cartoucherie de Toulouse, Toulouse, France) My camera-foo sucks so I stole a pic with similar ammo online (right cartridge):

http://3.bp.########.com/-0wkFf9QUKWU/TyRnN5otjKI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/CgZu-dRs_4M/s400/IMG_0865.jpg

The stuff I have has the same red/purple primer sealant and black bullet sealant. It appears to have either a steel jacketed bullet or cupro-nickel.

From what I gathered from my searching, this stuff is corrosive as all heck and popular consensus seems to be it is also unsafe to shoot. So suggested it might have value as a collector item. So my questions are: How common is this stuff in Canada and what might it be worth to a collector? I have 15 loose rounds, two of them show a bit of corrosion, the other 13 are excellent.

Thanks for any replies.
 
You're right, it is horrible ammo. Very common, so no real collector value, in the US or Canada. I guess you could pull the bullets for reloading.
 
The French had a lot of US crew served weapons after WWII, in addition to their own 7.65x54 MAS weapons. I have a box of their 30-06. It is just a curiousity from my point of view.
 
My uncle put ten rounds of it through his Garand about 6 years ago. He said he's never seen filthier milsurp ammo coming out of a western nation. He was just shooting at water jugs at under 100 yards so he never really got to see how accurate it was, but he said it probably wouldn't have been too impressive had he tried to put it on paper. I believe him.
 
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