I Bought This Box Of Foreign Coins At An Estate 6 Months Ago. Help?

Just because there are multiples of the same coin, does not mean that they are all different or that the owner "knew their foreign coins" and had a reason to keep every single one of them. It could simply be a "hoard", rather than a "collection". Not every collector gets rid of their duplicates.

For example: I see a tin with a whole bunch of Netherlands Antilles 5 cent pieces, plus at least a few other Netherlands Antilles coins scattered about the place. This would be a very typical "holiday hoard" from someone who went on a Caribbean cruise and kept all their spare change while visiting the Dutch Caribbean islands. Or perhaps they simply thought the square 5 cent piece was exotic and unusual, so decided to keep them all.

Likewise, if there's a whole pile of British and Indian coins of the same date and type, it's likely just "holiday money" souvenired from a world trip.

Thank you so much, that makes sense

I wouldn't use Krause (or any catalogue) as a price guide. As another poster suggested, ebay sold listings is your pricing friend. And coinoscope app with numista should help ID the coins and key dates etc. I might be interested in some if I knew what was there.

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