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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
i have a bag of random world coins that has been sitting in my closet for a couple years now. I'm into US coins and have no interest in theses, so I'm planning to sell them on ebay. its about 10 pounds. just wanted an opinion on whether I should... 1. sell as a bulk unsearched lot 2. separate them by country and sell 3. look for varieties and sell single coins i know nothing bout these coins so if you could tell me if theres anything to look for that might bring some extra money, please let me know. thanks! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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mcanniz You really should do all three but reverse the order.
First sort out the coins and look for individual valuable coins. I have done many lots like this from 10 to 100 pounds. In one shoe box sized lot I found ONE GOLD 10 Peso coin mixed in loose with several thousand coins with Krause book values of 10 cents each or less. BUT ALWAYS LOOK.
Start by sorting by country. I use paper cups to store results. Then I sort each cup by denomination so looking them up can be done easily. Retain the coins by country, denomination and value.
Group the 10 cent coins and bulk sell them. Sell coins with book values under $10 in lots by country. Sell coins with book values above $10 in small lots by type. Sell coins with values over $100 individually.
You can set your own groupings but that is how I have disposed of at least 100 pounds of bulk foreign in the last year.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Better yet you could send them to me and I will take care of them  but seriously what was said above. At the very least check them to make sure you don't have a $100+ coin in the lot somewhere. Or also sort them by silver (if you have any) and sell those separate. I love going through world coin lots and seeing what there is! Also do you happen to know any approximate dates? That could help determine value too. Good luck! |
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 United States
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How about trying to sell them here on CCF first? John1  John
He has not been a member long enough or had enough post to sell on CCF (See Rules)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Swamperbob's advice sounds like the best.
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
Buying a copy of "Standard Catalog of World Coins" is essential if you do wish to get an idea about value. You can usually pick up used copies on ebay for less than $20. Even if it's a few years old the prices don't fluctuate too much from one year to the next. |
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Valued Member
 United States
486 Posts |
Thank you all. I have a couple British pennies and half pennies from early 1900s and 1800s, but other than that, most are modern, although there is a good amount from the 1950s and prior. I'll start sorting them tomorrow. I'll let you know the results and I'll post pictures. Thanks
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Krause catalogs can be a bit expensive, if you are only intending to use them for one occasion only, such as picking out those coins what you consider interesting, and evaluating those coins only. A cheaper approach would be to use the keyboard, and look up the prices Vs condition in NGC World Coin Values. Photograph a few of them and include those in a single picture. ebay all of them as a single lot to keep ebay and shipping fees to a minimum. Describe your lot as accurately, and in as few words as possible. |
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New Member
Ireland
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hello all  new to coin collecting and to the site. I reaching out from Ireland here and wondering if you come across any old Irish coins could you let me know please thanks amillion. sorry couldnt pm you |
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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
I don't believe I have any Irish coins, but I'll check tomorrow. Thanks for the help everyone
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just throwing out what I have noticed on ebay... The sweet spot generally seems to be coin lots of about 20-100, with $3-4 shipping to cover a padded envelope and postage. If you have 1-10 coins in this lot that could be sold individually ($5 or greater catalog value), these coins can help you move your junk coins for marginally more than a "world coins by the pound" lot would. The biggest booster coins are anything US from before 1930, high exchange value coins (Toonies, 500 yen, SBA dollars) and anything with Queen Victoria on it. I have seen lots of coins go for hundreds of dollars because the seller added a couple low grade Morgan or Peace dollars worth $15 each. This will of course take time, so may not be your best option, depending on how you value your time. I have bid on plenty of lots where the seller did not bother to separate the "big bucks" coins from the junk--the result is extremely little interest and a final price of about 50-75% of the lot's worth. I would concur that you need to research and separate your coins before selling, and anything of real interest you can always sell on here. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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A random accumulation of World coins weighing 10 pounds has something like 600 to 900 coins in it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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He has not been a member long enough or had enough post to sell on CCF (See Rules)
edited by moderator Did the rules change? I thought they were 250 posts and 90 days. I've been away too long apparently |
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United States
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Yea, what weavus135 said? John1 |
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New Member
Ireland
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hi have you still got those coins? did you sort threw them? if not its ok, I would love to have my first bag hunt..
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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
sorry all, I have not sorted them yet because I've been really busy with the holidays, but I will get to it soon and will post the results.
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Posted 12/19/2015 11:13 am
