Adventures In Poundage #3

It's been a while since my last lot, so I put in some bids on ebay items. It's nice because you can see at least some of the coins you are bidding on. I'm not looking up the individual coins in the pictures or anything, but I do look for signs that the lot has not been completely picked over. The easiest sign of this is currently useable coinage with a value over $.25 or so. This lot just showed the edge of the bag so you couldn't see much, but I did see a 5 Deutschmark coin, which is worth a couple bucks, so I put in a bid and won the lot. Here it is, completely unsorted:



It was advertised as 2 pounds, but actually weighed 2.6 pounds, and I paid $14 for it, including shipping. This comes out to $5.38/lb, which is well below the ebay average, so on that count. The 5 Mark coin was not alone - here's the other current coinage I pulled out:



11.40 Deutschmarks
3.50 Swiss Francs
160 Yen
2 Singapore Dollars
.28 Canadian Dollars

At current exchange rates that equals $15.25, which pays for the lot by itself. Another .

But wait, there's more:



Two silver coins, totaling just shy of a quarter ounce. I'd give it another thumbs up but I'm all out of thumbs, so it'll have to be a dancing banana.

So what about all the other coins? I forgot to take a picture before I put them all away, but the lot was about 80% Europe and Asia, with a smattering of the Americas, just a couple African coins, and no Oceania. The most represented countries by region, only counting keepers (note that I collect by date/mm, not just by type):

Europe:
Netherlands (11)
France (10)
U.K. (10)

Asia:
Turkey (12)
Kazakhstan (9)
Israel (6)

Americas:
Costa Rica (6)
Panama (3)

Africa:
Egypt (2)(Only African coins)

There were a total of 224 coins. 149 Keepers, 73 duplicates/culls, and 2 tokens. That's 66% keepers, at a price of 9 cents per keeper.

There was quite a diversity of countries for such a small lot - 43 to be exact. The dates skewed more recent than my other lots, with nothing before 1900, and quite a few in the 2000's. Nothing jumps out at me as a favorite coin of the lot, but I did get to add 8 countries to my collection: Aruba, Curacao, Czech Republic, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Serbia, and Uzbekistan. Overall, this lot definitely gets an A.