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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have a bucket full of basically worthless coins from all over the world, probably about 700 of them. And I don't know what to do with them. I won't live long enough to sell them on ebay even in larger batches, and anyway, I don't want to sort them. So -- a local coin store says they'll give me 2 cents each for them. They will undoubtedly give them a cursory glance, and then they'll add them to this big wooden box they have full of basically worthless foreign coins. They let kids take a handful for free when they buy something. So far that sounds like the best idea. Any others? |
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Rest in Peace
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Try consigning with a local auction company. Divide up lots of 80-100 coins. After the house took their commission(12%) I got about $10 a piece for the 8 lots they sold. I do a lot of on line auctions, see if your auctioneers are in a national online network.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Are you completely sure that they are all nearly worthless?
Some seemingly worthless world coins can be very valuable with a certain year, mintmark or design variety.
Edit: some may even be spendable currency at face value.
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03/04/2018 01:28 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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And make sure to save any Euros. My coin dealer pays about 90 cents to the euro for coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Take them to your local elementry school to be given away free to the kids, so they can have the hardware to little more about our World.
Let the teachers decide how they are to be received by the kids.
You never know, there may be a budding coin collector among them!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Take them to your local elementary school to be given away free to the kids, Great idea! |
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 United States
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Planting the seeds of a new generation of collectors, whether through @sel's method or your own sounds like a pretty great way to de-clutter this stash. On the other hand, this thread below has a few previous discussions of this same question: http://goccf.com/t/288297"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Take them to your local elementry school to be given away free to the kids Great idea sel! |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Do you know anyone who is involved with the Boy Scouts, since there a coin collecting merit badge.
Post the list of what you have here for either sale or trading.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Kena. You totally read my mind. I was just thinking about this thread and thought about the Boy Scout Merit Badge. Both of my boys are in Boy Scouts and I'm in the process of becoming a merit badge counselor for woodworking and coin collecting. I have a bunch of extra coins available for the future Scouts that I'll be seeing but maybe a Scout Troop in your area could use a donation. They would then go to a kid that is already showing an interest in coins and that could go a long way.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks, everyone. All great ideas -- the grade school and boy scout notions, especially.
Yes, I'm in the process of checking each and every one. I look them up on World Coin Gallery to get the KM (or similar) number, then check that on NCGcoin.com. The only ones with high potential value are in poor condition and worth maybe 20 cents.
I've pulled out a couple surprises -- silver, or proof, and I also set aside some I wanted to keep for no real good reason, like it's from my birth year, or 100+ years old, or I just like how it looks.
On the other hand, my wife doesn't want me to let any of them go. She says to put them in a glass jar, for decoration. It would have to be several jars, or I'd never lift it.
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Valued Member
Finland
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Mailing them may not be a option in this case but I have used Leftovercurrency.com -service (UK located).
They pay quite well and accept coins and banknotes. You can also choose charity option if you want. They take euros, dollars, pounds, pesetas, marks etc.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Put them up for sale on CCF.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Give it to the local coin club and tell them to hand them out to kids at coin shows to encourage the next generation of collectors
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In an effort to appease my wife in putting something on the bare walls of my coin room I came across a shadow box and a cheap square end table at the local Dollar Store and I had a  .....l    What do y'all think? It's just random worthless foreign coins covered in a two part epoxy resin. I like 'em and even better....I think people would also pay you good $$$ for something as eclectic as this if you chose to sell them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's pretty darn cool. Nicely done!
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Posted 03/04/2018 01:27 am
