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biggfredd Rest in Peace United States 9104 Posts	Posted 05/26/2011 5:08 pm So much for that. Two Canadian nickel quarters and mostly zinc and lunarmum Asian stuff. Report this Post to the Staff
Bacchus2 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2885 Posts	Posted 05/27/2011 10:24 am It's funny that somebody mentioned Biafra as I found one is a junkbox trawl . It's a terrible picture and the coin is not that exciting to look at - but it was an interesting find none-the-less. It's in AU condition so a lucky find for an aliminum coin. My Papal States coin collection: https://diadumenian.com/Papal%20Sta...0States.html Medieval coins collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Europe.html Indian Rupee Collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Rupees.html Minor world Silver: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...20coins.html Report this Post to the Staff
drdave Pillar of the Community United States 721 Posts	Posted 05/27/2011 11:12 am It's an interesting question. I've always loved world coins due to the history and imagination of some of the coinage. I went to my local coin dealer last week and he had a bin of foreign coins I could search through. 25 cents a piece. A lot of early 20th century Great Britain copper pennies and half-pennies. Other miscellaneous stuff, but I think all the silver had been picked through already. Do you think 25 cents per coin is a waste of money? Most were pretty circulated. Report this Post to the Staff
RoyalBaber New Member United States 30 Posts	Posted 05/27/2011 6:19 pm Russian coins for sure. Teia Heritage Auctions Report this Post to the Staff
Nic Pillar of the Community Philippines 1156 Posts	Posted 05/28/2011 06:02 am Over here, when faced with a huge bowl of world coins at 10 cents each, I usually go for small to medium sized coins which are basically unreadable, I just look for that little white metal sheen at the edges or on Obv/Rev, then I just buy it. It's a game I call a 10cent bet I have found some 7 silver world coins along the way, reason is the dealers dont really have the time to clean a coin to see what it is or read from what country it comes from, so when they see an unreadable, blackened, tar coated with very dark patina on it, & it's shaped like a coin, they just throw it in the huge bowl Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 05/28/2011 07:18 am My local dealer has nation wide access via chain of shops and leftovers from auctions. A lot of the rejects from these sources end up in his junk boxes. The junk boxes have a $20 per coin purchase price, $15 $10, $5, $2 and $1. At any particular time there may be perhaps 2000 coins to scavenge through. On a visit to the shop, I may but perhaps five or more coins. Like any scavenger, I like to think I have found the best value for money buys. When I review my finds back home against catalogue prices, I have usually succeeded in bettering the catalogue values by a factor of three. Over the years, I think I have developed a reasonable degree of skill in getting best value for my budget. I have acquired perhaps 2,000 coins for my World collection in this manner. This particular coin dealer and I have become good friends over three decades. I have even sold coins back to him, for his own personal collection. The most significant coin in this regard is a Roman gold aureus, which he bought from me many years ago. He still has it. Report this Post to the Staff
augsburger Pillar of the Community Germany 1064 Posts	Posted 05/28/2011 10:54 am I have so many world coins that I forget, you see a nice coin you have never, ever seen in your life before, buy it for hardly anything, go to put it in the folder and there is a better one staring out at you. The last one was a candian state coin of Sasakawiggin or whatever that province/state/region of canada is called! (just hoping no canadian sees this!) Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 05/28/2011 1:26 pm Quote: Over the years, I think I have developed a reasonable degree of skill in getting best value for my budget. I also enjoy this aspect of collecting--learning how to spot gems in a dealer's stock. Focusing on a few countries and learning mintages/scarcity/varieties is so rewarding. Here's another coin I picked up for $1.50 Edited by DVCollector 05/28/2011 1:27 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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