Worldwide Type Coin Collectors

At my LCS, I've picked up 1 and 2 £ coins [even one 5 £ commemorative coin] in the junkbox because someone would have to go to the UK to redeem them (also 500 yen, 5 Swiss Franc, 2 euro, etc.). Last summer my daughter traveled to N. Ireland with a college group; I gave her over 100 £ in coins, including the copper nickel 5 £ coin. She went to a fair in Belfast and bought a scarf for 4 £ with it, getting a £ back in change. Of course, the fact that she is an attractive, well-mannered American probably didn't hurt to facilitate the transaction [or the fact that the transaction was in N. Ireland]. I feel like I got good value for my 20 cents.

I have a world type collection going nowhere and doing nothing.
Thinking of selling it at a decent discount of perhaps 50% catalog estimated but I only had low ball offers from dealers not acceptable.
I need to find someone that wants to begin with a pretty darn good jump start on collecting world types.
Probably a couple thousand coins all in holders and binder pages countries A to Z.
Instant collection to proudly display they can build on.

I have a world type collection too... also not doing too much. I have significant numbers of British, USA and Australian coins collected by date and then some mixed binders of more diverse coins (the basis of which was my granddads war coinage from when he travelled around with the army in WW2 (Africa and Germany mainly)but I added many too with my multiple trips abroad (Carribean Islands, Bahama's, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Holland, Belgium, France, Hong Kong etc etc)

I have reached the stage where I will add stuff if it turns up and I haven't already got an example but I don't chase around too much for world coins (try to concentrate on ancient coins and adding some gold bullion)

I have krauss catalogue sitting here on my desk, such a massive book is rare to see and it states on the cover "60,000 illustration" so that gives you an idea of the number of types 1900-2000.

"OneFromEachCountry"

I like that as a great coin collecting theme.
Did you happen to see or are you a member of that group in Canada called "EveryCountryCollectorGroup"?

Here is a link to that collector group.
https://ca.groups.yahoo.com/neo/gro...country/info

http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/everycountry
I saw their table at a coin show and they have a checklist of every country.

Albert, unfortunately the average type coin will never get 50% of catalogue, since so many are so common and are very slow sellers. You might get 50% for some of the better ones. I know of no dealer who will pay that much for huge lots of mostly common coins.

There is a reason dealers have "junk bins". The work involved in trying to sell them individually eats up all their profit.

I recently sold a large mass of duplicates to a local dealer who is prepared to deal with high volume, low cost items, and has a customer base for that. I was happy to accept 20 cents apiece for the better material, and 7 cents apiece for the common stuff.

Albert, you might want to consider breaking your set down by country, and listing on ebay as several lots. ebay bidders expect to get a good deal, but the smaller and more focused the lot, the narrower your audience but the closer you will get to catalog. List all of the coins as one huge lot, and you might get $0.25 each.

Personally, I was an accumulator until just a few months ago. I still passively build sets, but have begun to narrow my focus toward Panama, Japan, and US Philippines. Most countries fall into the "boring, zero challenge" category, or have massive rarities or a prohibitive number of circulating commemoratives.