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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Getting a chance to look through some old world mixed/country coins, what all should I look for. Silver I know, but are older(like pre'60s) world coins worth anything?
What should I be looking for?
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Valued Member
United States
384 Posts |
There is so many coins out there. The only thing I can say is, take your Krause catalogs along.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
842 Posts |
I look for three kinds: Canadian coins, French coins, and German Third Reich coins. Just my preferences, though...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
609 Posts |
I would just get what I liked. I collect US coins that are valuable, but my world coin collection is entirely built on weather I like how it looks or not. |
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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I look for any old coin, or new coin. I try and make sets, usually of a time period of when the coins are cheap, so around 1850s onwards to the present day. I have such sets mainly from countries I have lived in so that I have had time, but you can ususally pick these these coins up quite cheap on ebay though. The tough one is China, not knowing what is fake and what is really fake! |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3345 Posts |
Any specific dates or varities? Any Aussie coins to look for?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
651 Posts |
Try something very different such as African. I rarely hear activity on this subject.  I like the Mexican coins my self though.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
672 Posts |
I like pulling US Phillipines coins out of the world box, there always nice to find. I usually try to pick anything up thats decent from the 1800's though too.
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United States
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Valued Member
United States
259 Posts |
when I started collecting these several years ago I bought a bag of world coins from an internet seller. Although it was mostly small denomination, modern coinage which I literally had to throw away, the ones I kept had cool designs like animals (African countries past and present have some of the best). Then I started with Australian pennies, then Canada 5 cents, Peru Sols, Philipines, India (British and Portuguese). Come to think of it, the list is endless. Now my first choice is a coin from a country I don't have. Since I have coins from 214 countries, and there are about 368 (give or take) listed in World Coins, that still leaves alot to collect. I'd always go with those that are hardest to find. Greenland, Biafra, Chad come to mind.
Edited by chasinva69
05/24/2011 08:06 am
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have been collecting world coins for more than 20 years now. My collection grew out of ancients as a base about 40 years ago, and now includes all world coins of all centuries and eras. A by product of this type of collection is that I never stop learning about World history and cultures.
I went down this track, simply because I knew that it would be impossible to complete this series!
When my coins are to be sold out of my estate, they will be sold as single items, because the next collector will be looking for particular single items for his own collection. This is one of the reasons I acquire world coins as singular items.
After some years, collecting patterns emerge naturally, and interesting sub series within the collection have appeared. Quite often, a single coin can have a legitimate place in one or more sub series, and so links between the coins become obvious.
When I am considering a coin to buy four criteria are applied;
1. Has this coin grabbed my attention?
2. Is it good value for money?
3. Would someone else want it when I kick the bucket?
4. Is the condition OK?
The result of this strategy is that the value of my collection seems to be rising faster than the value coin market generally, and there is a broad cross section of the numismatic community that seems to be interested in at least some part or other of the collection.
I only collect coins that were issued for circulation, in other words, have actually been used as real money.
I do have interesting small collections of medals, tokens, NCLT's and stamps, but they all have been given to me.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Any specific dates or varities? Any Aussie coins to look for? Australia has many interesting varieties that are discussed in detail on the forums here. Here's one to look for, that I found in a group of world coins. Most 1939 halfpennies don't have the roo reverse. My approach is to focus on a few countries, and learn as much as I can about scarcer dates and varieties.  |
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Valued Member
Australia
146 Posts |
The holy grail of Aussie coins is the 1930 Penny
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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DVCollector: That is a rather pleasing '39 'roo reverse.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
sel_691, thanks! I have lucked out finding some nice predecimal coins. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I went through a kaughy can of forn coins that I had already pulled all the 6d from.
Found a few ounces of silver, a 1932 Baden commem 2 marks, an xf 83 Hawaiian quarter I didn't know I had, a mess of coins from Cuber, and a 10-20-40 centavo + 1 peso set of 1895/6 Puerto Rican coins that were worth a heckuva lot more before they were made into jewelry.
and an 1829D 4 pfenninge in ag/g.
And I'm meeting some folks later today with a few hundred earlier forn coins. Wish me luck!
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Posted 05/23/2011 8:12 pm
