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I Feel Like I Scored, A 1935 British George V Half Crown For

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I feel like I scored, a 1935 British George V Half crown for 20 cents

OK so I have decided I want to do a crowns of the world set (ordered a dansco album for it) mixed with world bullion.
So I head to my local coin shop, now I had done some research and have educated myself a little on crowns and ask if they had any foreign crowns or any silver foreign junk coins. I am completely skunked as the shop mostly only deals in US coins being a a US shop. The lady does bring me up a bucket of just random foreign coins that are just 20 cents each, probably just where they dump all there foreign coins when someone tries to sell them.
I decide I might as well grab a few of the Brittania pennies that I like as they are cheap and fun and going through the coins I discover a 1935 half crown which I know is %50 silver. I mean this is a coin shop that has thrown a %50 silver coin in with random junk foreign coins and pennies. I mean I wouldn't expect a normal store to know the difference or your regular average joe but good gravy this is a coin shop selling a $5-10 coin in a junk bin.
I felt like I finally scored I always check coin stars and never see anything I feel I never get that lucky silver coin find so score and a coin shop none the less.
Do you think British coin shops do this throw all the random a US coins in a junk bin including the occasional 1968 Kennedy half dollar.
I also grabbed a Elizabeth 1955 half crown, a Elizabeth 1965 chuchhill crown (it will likely go into my crowns set until I get more because why the heck not kind of cool looking coin and it was 20 cents) and some random pennies and centavos I just liked the design of figured fun little coins. I also got a brittania one ounce and silver eagle for my set.
Still love the silver coin for cheap though :)
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 Posted 08/04/2014  8:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tkbslc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice! I got a 1941 one for $1 recently under similar circumstances. Nice larger silver coin with a bit of history.
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 Posted 08/05/2014  12:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sirdizzy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think I need to start checking these foreign junk bins more often and educate myself what to look for :)
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Dont forget, the Churchill crown has a face value of 25 pence, so thats another small victory.
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Do you think British coin shops do this throw all the random a US coins in a junk bin including the occasional 1968 Kennedy half dollar.

It's getting harder to find coin shops in Britain, or so I'm told, but if Australian experience is anything to judge by, the opposite is the problem. "Everyone knows" US coins are more expensive than they should be, so you're more likely to find, say, 1982 half dollars being offered for $5-$10 each than to find cheap US silver in the bargain bins.
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 Posted 08/06/2014  3:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sirdizzy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
LOL at with the exchange rate of the pence versus the dollar its closer to 40 cents versus the 20 I paid, that is a small victory
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