My Sunday Market Finds

At least you did not leave empty handed.

What I look for is something I usually have trouble explaining, but for the most part I look for bargains, silver, less-common coins I don't have and coins that I find interesting.

When it comes to bargains, I typically have a list of values in my mind as a reference point, from which I estimate values. Having this knowledge is key when negotiating or just looking through coin lots. When negotiating, you need to hope that the seller doesn't have the best knowledge of what they're selling. Best are the sellers that can't spot silver. The key here is to look around and keep on trying. Bargains have to be spotted, they don't find you.

When it comes to just about everything else, like spotting high-value coins or silvers, I have a very wide knowledge of world coin types. When looking though boxes it's good to be able to immediately identify a coin. It's also great to know dates when coins are silver, or just be able to spot the colour or other characteristics of silver (like ring tone or general reactivity and toning).

I can't really say what in the Coin World is interesting in my mind. I love collecting coins by series, usually within a date range. Similar designs and sizes make this really interesting! Currency unions and coin standards are really fun to collect. But if the design is appealing or if the coins are from a more unknown place (like the other week's Seborga and Zambia), that's anothing thing that makes coins interesting.

As for what's "unique", I usually assume this to be coins that I've never seen or that don't look somewhat similar to other coins I've seen before. Typically odd designs, shapes or aged looks gives these away. I base this on my experience when looking around, not only at the market, but in coin shops and here on CCF and online marketplaces (like ebay), too. The perfect example of this has to be the Danzig 2 gulden coin - I only recognized it being silver and bought it. I didn't recognize the design or its rarity, but when I got to terms with it I found out it was worth a fair bunch, all from an already small bargain when I identified it as silver. Another example has to be the Seborgan and Swiss ½-Frank coins, I didn't recognize the Luigino at all but I knew the Swiss coin was unusual, while the sellers knew nothing.

That being said, I don't know everything and key dates is far beyond my knowledge. Too much to remember for so little excitement. For a while ago I found a 1934 (?) Swiss 2 Rappen coin. I though it was nothing special, I just like the design but some people here picked up on the date's rarity. Same thing also happened when someone who posted here found a rare date British penny - a coin I find rather overrated and boring and would love to look through (1860'-1960's bronze pennies that is). They are everywhere, older coins are very common still and rare dates are beyond me.

What keeps me going is the constant influx of new stuff for sale. Finds keep on coming, you just need to find them.

Well, I wish you all the best mate, see what you come home with

Today was definitely more glamourus than last week. I'll let the photos say the rest.



6 Pence, UK 1939 & 1945
1 Shilling, UK 1912
1 Shilling, UK 1947
10 Pence, UK 1979
50 Pence, UK 1997

5 Pence, Jersey 1990
100 Forint, Hungary 1998
5 Dinara, Serbia 2013
5 Kroner, Norway 1999
8 Skilling Species, Norway 1819
500 Reis, Brazil 1868
1 Lira, Turkey 2009, 2010 & 2012
1 Dollar, Australia 1996
1 Dollar, Canada 2012
2 Dollars, Canada 2012

This whole slightly-more impressive lot for 130 SEK, with most of that coming from the larger silver coins. My personal favourite has to be the Norwegian 8 Skilling, as much of a poor state it's in, it's still quite unusual to see. Prior to this, I actually didn't have any pre-decimal Norwegian coins, so how about starting it off with a nice silver piece?

It speaks volumes. Nice buys.

X2an - do you know the services like Leftovercurrency.com or Euromoney24.com? You can send many old and current notes and coins there and exchange them for kronor for your bank account.

I have used these services few times and they work well. Many bulk lots are full of high face value German marks, Spanish pesetas, Swiss francs and such stuff so you can easily get back what you paid for the lot. Also look old tourist bank notes (like from Spain, Portugal, Germany) and it is even more profitable to send money for these services.

Looks like you did good!

I pulled a bunch of those Swedish silver coins from the wold coin bin that my coin club allows YNs to look through. I got about 10 coins total including a few 10 oe, sever 25 ore, 2 50 ore, and a single 1 kr. Needless to say, I was pretty happy.

Another nice group of coins.

I love the old coins -- maybe because they are silver.

I, too, enjoy seeing your world coins every week.