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Pillar of the Community
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Pretty cool  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Sweden
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Another Sunday down, got another nice batch after searching the market for not too long. Today's total was 80 SEK. Ended up with three lots, one from another plundered savings bank! Lot #1 cost me 20. For that I got these:  13 Indian Rupees  Ł1.39  Some old Sweish change (basically scrap metal, that's how common they are)  And miscellaneous coins in the lot. Lot #2 went for 10 SEK.  Most interesting things here are the Netherlands Antilles 1 Gulden and Belize 5 Cents. And the treasure from the savings bank:  For 50 SEK, not worth it in my opinion. But there's no way I can know that beforehand. That's called gambling, sometimes it pays and sometimes it doesn't. Can't be lucky everyday. Now gotta find some use for tha bank itself... See you in two weeks, I can't go next Sunday  |
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Finland
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Nice finds! I use same methods like you and it is like getting paid for coin collecting. It is not widely known here that some exchange offices takes coins too, so people throw many worth of €1-5 coins to 20 cent/ each bins. Also almost every bulk lot contains few excheangable coins what I have bought online.
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 United States
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Yes, more nice finds! |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
1078 Posts |
Two weeks since last time and another bunch of coins brought home. Feels like it was worth being gone last week considering what I got today. 120 SEK for two batches or 60 SEK each Batch No. 1:   25 Cents, Liberia 1968 50 Cents, Liberia 1966 10 Cents, Liberia 1960 (silver) 1 Centesimo, Italy 1904 And some old silvers  1 Skilling Danske, Denmark 1782 1 Öre SM, Sweden 1747 1 Öre SM, Sweden 1683 6 Kreuzer, Bavaria 1806 (date extremely faint!) Batch No. 2: 30 Coins for 2 SEK/each   1 Öre KM, Sweden 1725 1/6 Öre SM, Sweden 1675 1/6 Öre SM, Sweden 1718 1 Rigsbankskilling, Denmark 1813 (2x) 1/4 Skilling (Token), 1799 and 1800   5 Francs, Tunisia 1954 5 Centimes, France 1901 1 Millčme, Egypt 1950 (2x) 1 Dinar, Algeria 1964 25 Cents, Netherlands 1942 2˝ Cents, Netherlands 1916 5 Cents, Netherlands 1941 6 Pence, United Kingdom 1942 (silver) 10 Penniä, Finland 1905 And unillustrated: (2x) ˝ Franc, Switzerland 1968 and 1969 100 Yen, Japan Taisho 42 5 New Sheqalim, Israel 1 Dollar, Hong Kong 1990 5 Dollars, Hong Kong 1993 50 Pence, United Kingdom 1999 1 Dinar, Algeria 1992 500 Pesos, Colomia 1993 5 Krónur, Iceland 1987 10 Krónur, Iceland 2005 100 Krónur, Iceland 2006 1 Mark, Germany 1976-F Forgot to add: There were two currencies in Sweden in the 17-18th century. SM = Silvermynt = Silver Coin KM = Kopparmynt = Copper Coin Edited by X2an
10/18/2015 2:11 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Neat pick ups X2An! Love that centismo! |
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United States
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Very nice batch! |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
1078 Posts |
Sadly no new finds today. There was a bunch of sellers but few had coins and the only ones I saw were either common as dirty or totally overpriced (or fake). Better luck next time?
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United States
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Better luck next time? I hope you have better luck next time. I enjoy looking at your pics. |
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United States
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Not every trip can be a winner, but I am sure you will have better luck next time. |
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Sweden
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Should have mentioned it earlier, but I couldn't make it to today's market simply because I was on a train from Oslo headed for Stockholm, it arrived quite late, past 4 PM, or as we would say it, 16 o'clock. I don't have anything special planned for next week, so Sunday market then! In Oslo I found a nice coin shop called "Numisma". Here's their website: https://www.numisma.no/shop/In there there was a whole bunch of gold coins, ancients, modern, a junk bucket (although too late, they had closed but forgot to lock the door when I stumbled in the second time, 20 minutes past closing time). Among the gold coins (Norweigan/Danish/Swedish/Finnish) there was a slabbed $20 gold coin, Saint Gaudens for only 10 500 NOK  Didn't see what grade or TPG, but impressive nonetheless. I walked out with a 1915 Cuban 40 cent piece, 1917 Norweigan 10 řre, 1961 Săo Tome E Príncipe 5 Escudo piece and a 1947 Hungarian 5 Forint coin. Nice shop to look around in, tidy, spacious, coins well displayed, very large and varied inventory, highly recommended! I dunno. Thought I should bring a story since I have pics this time |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks for the Numisma link! Some pretty nice gold, and the US $20's are competitively priced. What I really like is the Scandinavian and Russian gold though. We don't see much of it in the US. French, Swiss, English, sometimes some German, but never Finnish 20 Markkas.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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The dry spell continues! Today was another grey, dull day with heavy winds and drizzle. No finds to be found, this pasttime is very good weather-dependent, sadly. Better luck next time?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Yes! Better luck next time.
I think we all spend a lot of time hunting for coins. I haven't found anything for over a month, but I keep trying.
I hope you have better weather next week.
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Better luck next time? Of course! |
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