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New Member
United Kingdom
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HI this is my first post and hope that you experts out there can help me out please....
I have a box full of coins from 24 different countries and a few notes. What do I do with them? They are some from 1900 to date.
Any advice would be appeciated
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Hello there, I am not too sure what you would want to do with them. Perhaps you might want to look at them if you are interested in studying them. Or if you want to get rid of them, maybe you can sell them off on ebay. It's completely up to you really. But honestly, quite often, unless the person that you inherited from is an extreme collector, or was a lucky collector, which often means that the collection is worth a fair bit, but unfortunately, such stories are getting to be fairly scarce. Maybe you would like to post what you got there? :) You will never know what you have :) |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Hi festeradams, Welcome to the forum. I could say the easiest thing to do is send them all to me, I'll look after them for you, but in all honesty the best thing to do is probably get the latest Krause world coin catalog from your local library and see if you can identify the coins. This is what I did. Once you have identified them, if any come such that they may be worth a bit, then post some pictures in our grading forum so you can get a better idea of there value. Regards steve  |
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Moderator
 Australia
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Hello and welcome. It depends on whether you feel yourself becoming interested in collecting coins. If so, then the best advice is go get a book (buy or borrow one) with info on the coins you have - if most are British, get a British book, if most are foreign, the Krause catalogue is the one you want. If you don't feel yourself becoming a collector, then the best thing to do may well be to haul them off to a coin dealer - look in your local phone book. We have a couple of British members who could give advice on dealers to recommend or avoid if they're familiar with your area. If you're more of a computer person and/or you live somewhere where there aren't any coin dealers handy, ebay may be your best way of getting rid of them for somewhere near their "true value". A nice, clear picture and an accurate description are essential - you can find help for both images and identification right here on the Forum. Without seeing the items, the best advice at this stage is, "be pessimistic about their monetary value". That way, if you do actually happen to have somethign rarer than normal, you can be pleasantly surprised. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Here a is a list then of what I have.....
Guyana: 25 cent 1967
Portugal: 5 1965
Austria: 1 schilling 1979
a silver 50 1946
50 1973
Netherlands: 5 cent `1972
10 cent 1958
25 cent 1969
1 cent 1964
Canada: various from 1970's
France various from 1960's and 70's
Arabic from 1960's
Eire: 2 1955 and others from 70's
Romania: 70 in notes and coins from 60 and 70's
This could take forever.......
I have more coins from other countries such as south africa, east africa, rhodesia, australia, malta, greece, cyprus, hong kong, italy, singapore, spain, west germany, new zealand.
UK and these are huge ip dated 1936, 1910, 1906 but I have about 50 of these and about 50 halfpenny ones aswell.
So anyone are they worth keeping? I dont think they are worth much so will someone want them?
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New Member
United Kingdom
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That is 1p for the english ones and no I can't see myself getting intersted in coins...i am sorry to say that!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4589 Posts |
Its a great way to learn about the world , buy finding out about these coins etc. the wealth of knowledge that can be learned is far greater than the value of even the rarist coin. but that is my opionion
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Nothing jumps out to me in value of those coins.
For example the 1967 Guyana 25c piece had a mintage of 3,500,000 and is worth 15 cents in Very Fine condition.
The 1946 Austrian 50 Groschen is Alumium, mintage 13,058,000 and is worth 20 cents in Fine condition.
If you are not interested in keeping the collection, perhaps you have a young relative that may like a jump start in the hobby of coin collecting. It would make a great gift.
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05/06/2006 11:33 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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Romania: 70 in notes and coins from 60 and 70's
festeradams I was born there.I can tell you that there is not much value(yet) on these coins/notes now.I don't know in the future.Romania used to be communist,and my generation pretty much hates everything that reminds us of that...but new generations,maybe they'll have different views.I've seen some European collectors chasing now after the old Russian coinage ( the same communist era ).I have no idea why. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4589 Posts |
Hopefully they will collect those pieces as a reminder not to repeat the past..
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Moderator
Australia
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Take them to a local coin dealer; you should get at least a couple of pounds for them. Dealers tend to trade "bulk coins" among themselves by the kilogram.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
Ireland
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try to look in your collection 1933 penny george the v and 1954 penny elizabeth ii it is something much more than 1936 george v and 1906 and 1910 george vii penny
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