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Junk Shop Finds - A Very Lucky Day

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Thanks sel_69l and jbuck for the replies I have attached a photo of the 36 silver coin I found...
Looking good!
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This morning went to a vintage fair, brought the following bunch of coins for £2, containing the following:

5 silver coins
1868 4 doubles
1881 Un centavos Mexico
1786 half penny isle of Man
2 John Wilkinson iron master tokens
1943 steel cent
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This morning went to a vintage fair, brought the following bunch of coins for £2, containing the following:
Nice finds!
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The cheapest way to build a World coin collection, which includes silver.

When your collection is big enough to be much more interesting, culling can be a good idea. Obvious culls would be common base metal 20th Century coins, below F condition.
Keep all coins 19th Century or earlier, and all 20th Century coins in EF or better.
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Went to a local vintage fair and got 285 coins, which includes a silver 1943 quarter and a 1917 silver 3 pence.

A bunch of ww2 bank notes from Germany and Japan, I paid £10 for the whole lot.


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The cheapest way to build a World coin collection, which includes silver.

When your collection is big enough to be much more interesting, culling can be a good idea. Obvious culls would be common base metal 20th Century coins, below F condition.
Keep all coins 19th Century or earlier, and all 20th Century coins in EF or better.


sel_69l I have been slowly building an eclectic world collection. I remember some of your posts about how you did it and found them to be of inspiration.
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This week I have been working in the west midlands, I brought 550+ coins from a market trader, I paid £21, for that I got:

1907 o mint half dollar
1896 10 cents Hong Kong
1897 10 ore norway
1917 six pence Australia
1837 to hanover gaming token
1782 1 real
1844 4 pence
1901 us one cent
1806 UK half penny

I will try to post better pictures when I can
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You really do have great finds. I truly enjoy this thread and seeing all of the various world coins.
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As soon as I can figure out how to get allowed to upload pictures I will the best day that I ever had was I found a bunch of AUto uncirculated Philippines silver 5 to 25 centavos I think 1944 anyways I still have a whole bunch of them all being sold as scrap. Like I said once I get the picture issue figured out I will add some
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This week I have been working in the west midlands, I brought 550+ coins from a market trader, I paid £21, for that I got:
Nice lot!
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Thank you for the comments Thisistheshow and jbuck.

Yesterday I visited my LCS, he never really has foreign coins as he deals in British coins. However he had a jar of foreign coins that I looked through and got the following 3 coins for 60 pence (approx 80 us cents).

1945 indore state 1/4 Anna
1966 silver Finnish markka
1965 silver Swedish kroner
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Yesterday I visited my LCS, he never really has foreign coins as he deals in British coins. However he had a jar of foreign coins that I looked through and got the following 3 coins for 60 pence (approx 80 us cents).

1945 indore state 1/4 Anna
1966 silver Finnish markka
1965 silver Swedish kroner


As of today the last two contain a total of almost $3.- in silver- and this does not account for any numismatic premium between the three...so you got a great deal.
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However he had a jar of foreign coins that I looked through and got the following 3 coins for 60 pence (approx 80 us cents).
Excellent!
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Last Saturday I went to my 1st live auction, I managed to win a box of 3000+ coins and 25 bank notes. It cost me £65 in total. I got 50 silver coins and a number interesting non silver coins. I'm going to be taking a little break for a while as I have a backlog of coins that need I to sort through.

I know the 1938 eire half crown is a counterfeit, but it seems to be silver.


The 1925 nickel has no mint mark and is in great condition.


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