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Pillar of the Community
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1924 luxembourg 10 centimes  1901 Guatemala 1/4 real  1955 colombia 5 centavos  1955 lebanon 10 piastres  1967 portugal 50 centavos   |
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More nice additions.  |
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United States
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Great finds! I love this thread! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is awesome. A lot of good finds I'm jealous of. Even some silver under spot!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thank you jbuck and duncanbishop.
1000 rubles, this thread loves you too.
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Do you only look for foreign coins? I've noticed most of these coins are foreign. Find any US 90% ever?
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United States
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It's mostly foreign that shows up at the swap meet but every once In awhile I'll find some u.s. Most recently It's just been the ones I've posted, a Kennedy half, a holed Seated Liberty quarter and a merc. There are a couple people who have u.s. but ask way to much for them. Usually 25 dollars for common circulated walkers and 40-50 for common circulated morgans/ Peace dollars. Edited by keepcalmandcoinon
07/23/2014 02:20 am
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There are a couple people who have u.s. but ask way to much for them. So true. I think the best deals are with the foreign coins. Most sellers do not really know what they have, nor do they give much value to them in the first place. I really want to expand my dark side collection. I see so much opportunity at the coin shows, big boxes with something like $0.25 each on it. Really tempting. However, I need/want to finish my last three US albums first. Have to focus.  |
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United States
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It's amazing what kind of profit you can make just by doing a little research, especially with foreign coins. You start to get an idea of when they were silver for each country or what the rare dates are. It's a lot of stuff to remember but I've slowly been getting better. I wouldn't be surprised by the time I'm 80 if I could rewrite the Krause catalogs by memory.
I find the dealers with the u.s. coins are the ones that do not know what they have out at my spot. Like I stated before they are always way over priced. But I'm waiting for that day when one of them has an 1893 S I'll buy for 50 bucks while they think they are the ones getting the deal.
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Edited by keepcalmandcoinon
07/26/2014 5:32 pm
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Very nice old coppers there - the French and Italian ones are common and cheap, but the rest are very good-looking and the Chinese one is definitely a real find: looks like a Republican 10 cash from 1920: http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces27095.htmlWhat's most interesting is how the Canadian large cent and the Chinese 10 cash have nearly the exact same wreaths on them! |
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Thank you nalaberong. I found that interesting as well about the Chinese 10 cash.
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Very nice! |
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Here are my good finds from yesterday. I picked up about another 20 coins and these are the best of them. 1938 Costa Rica 5 Centimos Mintage 1 million  1926 Czechoslovakia 5 haleru mintage 1.08 million. This one is listed as rare  1951 Bolivia 1 boliviano   1918 Canada 1 cent  1921 china 20 cash   1972 west africa 25 francs  1983 south africa 2 cents proof  1904 straits settlement 1 cent  |
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Nice selection. |
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