Posted 04/15/2009 09:01 am
My local dealer buys world coins in bulk @ $5.00 per pound and sells at $6.50. He doesn't have time to sift through them and really only buys them to accomodate several other world coin collectors like me who buy 20-30 pounds at a time, drag them home and sift through them, and then drag them back for resale to him.
I've never failed to recoup the $1.50 difference each time I've gone through the coins, which so far have been very random from around the world ... as, Greenland, Acension Island, Belize, Nepal, Luxembourg, and the occasional 19th-century and even 18-century European which pops up occasionally. I've had really good luck in building a representative type set of coins from his bulk lots, as well as Mexican and UK coins by date.
I've never failed to recoup the $1.50 difference each time I've gone through the coins, which so far have been very random from around the world ... as, Greenland, Acension Island, Belize, Nepal, Luxembourg, and the occasional 19th-century and even 18-century European which pops up occasionally. I've had really good luck in building a representative type set of coins from his bulk lots, as well as Mexican and UK coins by date.
