Junk Shop Finds - A Very Lucky Day

Forgive me if you've already answered this, but are you currently accumulating, or flipping these for the exchange rate? The GBP has been in Flux lately, so good timing and a little luck could make a nice profit for you! I did a similar thing last year with a bunch of Japanese coins, and made a respectable profit, even after ebay fees.

Hi Finn235,

I don't sell any coins, I look for varieties and errors and keep them. I also keep all silver coins, euro coins, US coins, canadian coins and Swiss coins, as I plan to visit those areas. As for the double coins, I donate to charity.

Great finds coaster, being in the right place at the right time is part of the luck you need to find coins.

For most of this month I have been working away from home, so instead of posting my finds every couple of days. I decided to wait until the end of the month.

So I managed to buy over 420 coin for £12, but I got over €35 in coins, $10.15 in coin and 20 uae Dirhams in notes. But the main finds were:

1920 25 centimes Tunise
1938 2 milieme egypt
1844 British penny
Fake silver proof kew gardens 50p
1968 1 silver swedish krone
1940 silver 10 Canadian cents
1944 silver p mint nickel.


I am not sure if the fake kew garden is real silver, it passes the tissue test, ice test and sound test for silver and is non magnetic.

I was going to post all my finds on a monthly basis, but today I have had a real big stroke of luck. I went to car boot this morning and brought a big bag of old British pennies. In addition to the pennies there was a bag of foreign coins that included the following:
1867 shield nickle (without rays)
1873 3 cent not sure what type

Also got 4 silver coins

I paid £5 for the whole lot, about 1500 coin.

Will post pictures later

Thanks for doing that jbuck

February was my best month for coins, I brought over 3000 coins for £45. Most of these coins were British pennies and half pennies. But I did get the following:

34.50 Swiss francs
26.47 euros
15.75 us dollars
80.56 canadian dollars

The highlights are as follows:
1820 George iii death medal
1904 farthing
1873 us 3 cent
1867 Shield nickel
1993 100 lire Vatican
1951 south African sixpence
1826 shilling
1945 damaged sixpence
1922,1927,1936 sixpence
1941 3 pence
2 replica silver kew gardens 50p
1967 clipped planchet half penny
1927 1 Hungarian pengo


I doubt I will ever get another month like this. I've been offered a promotion at work which means less travelling around. I've really enjoyed trying to find as many different coins as I can.

March turned out to be another good month for me. I brought 920 coins for £25, but I got 51.45 euros, $12.21 us dollars and $29.67 Canadian dollars. The main highlights were:

1951 silver 1 Syrian lira
1864 Guernsey 4 double
1927 Palestine 5 mils
1959 Guernsey 3 pence thick flan