Bag Of World Coins

Junk Boxes are like everything else - VARIABLE.

In my experience dealers who concentrate on US coins often sell foreign coins at steep discounts because they have no normal outlet. They are also least likely to waste their time hunting for varieties in Krause. That goes double for specialist dealers who are too focused on what they like that they can not be bothered with "other foreign". Most dealers will sort out the silver but rare varieties are hardly ever spotted. As if they have any JUNK silver and offer spot. I usually just buy all they have and take a gamble. So far it has paid off well.

ebay is often heavily checked and usually NOTHING GOOD remains. I can only recall getting one really good bag on ebay and that was from a brand new seller who had no clue. The ebay photo was awful and when I wrote the seller had NO IDEA what was there and really just wanted to get rid of the stuff.. I took a risk and bid $25 for 50 coins. I won the auction for $20. When they arrived they were all silver - 10 were 8 Reales and the rest were second republic Mexican decimals including 5 pesos. One of the minors alone brought OVER $!25. IT was a great payday.

I have tried many times since but it is ALWAYS JUNK.

it's more secure to find actions or sales start from 0,05 or 0,10 or more euro's or dollars for every coin. You see what you take and you don't have big risk.
In e-Bay many coins is fake, reproductions, replicas or have plating. And the most sellers hide in the text that describe the coin. So take care about this.
From the other side buy coins with this low prices is only for make specified collections like 1 coin form every country of the world and not for collection with one theme, etc. Also in this cases the shipping cost perhaps is bigger than coin price !

I have many cheap coins (from 0,05 to 1,00 euro) for sale. but I can't shipping without paypal pre-paid or bank transfer and I prefere always persons that I trust. So make some collective knowledge for what you want and for the sellers and once again: take care in internet.

My plan for purchasing some world coins is just to have something to look through and organize on a rainy day. I have a few boxes on US cents and nickels that I keep on hand but I am looking for a change of pace when I don't feel like looking at the exact same coin over and over again and just checking out the mintage date.

I would prefer a bulk lot of coins instead of purchasing 2-10 at a time. I have a world coin book on order that I plan to use to reference my coins so I can sort them by country. While I am not ultimately interested in finding silver and key dates, I would rather have the coins in more of an unsearched state, and not purchased from a major coin shop online who has meticulously sorted out every coin even remotely worth above face value.

I think for the time being I am going to surf ebay and look for people selling world coins who don't have a history of selling them.

You can try garage sales at old places & forgotten shops.