Junk Shop Finds - A Very Lucky Day

I've sold another bunch of modern foreign coins, and used the proceeds to add to my world silver coin collection. I brought a 1979 malta 1 lira coin. The toning on this coin is wonderful, it cost £3 ($3.70 USD).



Today, I also brought a bag coins from from a secondhand bookshop, I'll post pictures of what I find later.

So this week, I've been working down south near London, whilst on my lunch break I popped into a second hand book store, I was just browsing and got talking to the owner. I asked if had coins for sale as he had various other items for besides books i.e maps, advertising signs and medals etc. He brings out a bag of coins and notes, he wanted £30 for the whole lot (approx $37).

Most of the coins are old pre decimal British coinage, but I did get 22 silver coins and 11 euros in notes and coins.

I went to a local market yesterday and picked up the following for £6 ($7.50 approx), I got 3400 in Japanese yen, 2 German 50 pfennigs and 4 silver coins.

The silver coins

1941 South Africa sixpence
1954 Sweden 25 ore
1944 D War Nickel
Very worn 5 Egyptian qirish

I've sold some more modern foreign coins and brought the following 1953 South Rhodesia crown coin. I hope to sell some foreign coins and hopefully buy some more interesting world silver.

It's been a while since I last added to this thread. Today, I visited a local market and came across a stall selling bric-a-brac. For just £10, I picked up a bag of coins and was thrilled to find 16 silver coins inside, including a 1927 Australian florin and a 1945 half crown in excellent condition. Most of the other coins in the bag were pre-Euro coins from mainland Europe, with little monetary value, but I'm delighted to have scored a deal like this after such a long time.

A very interesting way to build a silver stash, for (sometimes) well below the ASW silver price, with at least some numismatic interest as well.

I have about 20 ASW ounces of World silver coins, built up over a very long time.
It is a good way of starting an OFEC collection, base exclusively on silver coins.

Awesome score, mrv!