3,153 World Coins - What Now?

Social studies and history teachers at middle schools might like them.

Thanks for your responses everyone - to answer the question, no I have not searched these yet. I have too many Canadian categories of collections on the go which requires all my spare time so I haven't had a chance to search these. I might spend a few years going through them slowly and taking Anaximanders advice on starting a 1993 Birth Year and a OFEC collection!

Thanks again!

Got a local coin club? Give some to them to give to kids as prizes.

Update # 1

First ~1,000ish coins sorted. 66 countries so far. Abundance of Mexico, France, Germany and UK. Many neat coins!

You definitely have the start of an OFEC* collection there!

It would be very inexpensive to continue to build such a collection, by searching through the lowest price dealers' junk bins at their shop or at a coin show.
Alternatively, you could buy bulk lots of World coins on ebay by submitting low bids with a low prospect of winning, just to keep costs down.

You would end up with a quite interesting World collection that may not be worth much, but by the same token? coin, would not cost you much, either. You may even strike it lucky, by coming across a scarce or rare coin, or maybe an error.
There are lots of error collectors of U.S. coins, here in the CCF. I have quite a few World error coins.


* OFEC = One From Every Country.
There a number of OFEC collectors, here in the CCF.

Aside from OFEC and a birth year set, how about a type coin collection? One from each type (or sub-type if you want) as per Krause. You might want to continue later. Dealers would give $3-4 per pound and sell for 10-25 cents each.

Thanks everyone. I still have about 1500 coins to sort through and I found a few guys locally selling pounds of world coins.

I have 1 package of 7 lbs coming and 1 package of 3 lbs coming. Its crazy how cheap you can pick this stuff up. Works out to be about 0.05 cents per coin. Keep what I want and possibly donate the rest!