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Congratulations! Nice finds.

Not really a bargain on price/profit... but still a bargain in my opinion

I got two French ecus for silver price. worn, but still awesome coins.

I just picked up a nice little lot on ebay -- 4 of them are pretty common and worn, but the 15 Kopeks is super nice. Not bad for $6.05 + shipping

Very nice indeed

Not taken photos before, now it's so late. Last year in New Zealand I've found in a second hand store a bag with halfpennies (main NZ but some Australian, English, even British India coins). I've asked for price, 8NZ$, I though was each one... I've chosen two nice ones and the seller said me about 8NZ$ was ALL BAG!! Finally, I've got 30 coins, main XF, some VF, some not common years. I've completed my collection and swapped doubles. Just one of swapped, I've changed for 8 US$ value. I think that great purchasing.

For me definitely this one that I bought last week.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces48690.html
The seller obviously didn´t know what he had and I bought the coin for around 80 Euros.
http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/world-coin-prices.aspx?category=33104
Recognizable by having no J mintmark, no edge lettering, heavier weight and also with the slightly different design of the eagle.

Not sure if it is bargain, but in about one month I got little bit over 1kg half silver coins under scrap value on ebay, but as we know, silver price is not stable, so.. however, some good grade coins, and some pre-1920 coins included, last two lots I won yesterday.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200955489120?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151101245745?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181183149861?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

most of half silver coins will go for sale very soon in local market, because I have too much of them and I will keep only good grade coins and all different years, I will sell them little bit over as actual melt value - so coins, what I am keeping, will be for free or something about that : 3 I have loads of coins what I bought few months ago for 0.39 GBP per gram and even less, so I can't be wrong. Crossed fingers that silver price will not go down too much again in next week, ha ha.

Picked this up today for $2 (AUD)

anyone know which of the 5 variations on the numista catalog this is? Prooflike maybe? that would be nice..

Here's a page with some close-ups of the different island types.

http://www.monnaiecanada.com/en/products.php?prd=636936096

Nice picture, by the way. What camera did you use?

Cita: chrismckHere's a page with some close-ups of the different island types.

http://www.monnaiecanada.com/en/products.php?prd=636936096

Nice picture, by the way. What camera did you use?

Thanks mate

turns out its a large

I used my phone, Samsung Galaxy s3, the picture quality in phones these days is great!

Don't have pics yet but just bought 1400 euro 10 cent coins for 30 USD under face.

I bought a small tin of modern world coins for just under £10 at auction and found a German 1950 Fifty Pfennig with the G  Karlsrushe mint mark on it in VF condition.

Cita: Walder CoinsI bought a small tin of modern world coins for just under £10 at auction and found a German 1950 Fifty Pfennig with the G  Karlsrushe mint mark on it in VF condition.

This one?

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1955.html

Good lord, if it is, that's a $350 coin.  Bargain of the century

Yep that's the one with a G mint mark.

I nearly didn't notice it as I don't like German coins, but I thought I should at least check them in the Krause catalogue, just in case some were of value. The rest were of no importance. Just goes to show if stuff hasn't been sorted you can pick up some rarities at auction.

On your 50 pfennig coin, are you sure that it is marked Bank Deutscher Länder and not Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Quite a lot of people think they hit the jackpot until they realize they have the common one. If yours is Bank Deutscher Länder then congrats good find.

Cita: apukingOn your 50 pfennig coin, are you sure that it is marked Bank Deutscher Länder and not Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Quite a lot of people think they hit the jackpot until they realize they have the common one. If yours is Bank Deutscher Länder then congrats good find.

Ohh fiddle sticks  

Thanks for pointing it out   , a rookie mistake like that could have caused quite a serious problem.

What a great bulk lot!  I picked up a bulk lot of Pacific coins for $10 and in it was two Edward VIII coins.  There was a 1936 Territory of New Guinea penny that I needed and a 1936 Fiji penny that I already had.  Along with that was a silver fijian sixpence (one of the 90% silver ones) and 3 predecimal fijian coins that I needed (I now only need 6 more coins to complete my collection) and also 9 other Pacific Island coins that I needed.  Booyah!!!!

A 1984 half Krugerrand that was at the bottom of a box of mixed coins my dad had in a desk drawer when he died. I remember sorting his coins...

"penny, penny, dime, krugerrand, penny, quarter....wait, what was that?"

Hi this is my  most recent bargain buy

1939 A,D,F,G,J
1940 B,D,G
1941 G
1943 G,J
Some of these have quite a good catalogue value, although I don't collect German coins I can't let a bargain pass!! Contact me if any of these interest you

Wow, I was about to say "you really like German coins" until I saw the rest of your post!

The dozey tellers at my bank branch just gave me a nice, toned 1964 Kennedy for face value. They looked at me quite blankly when I told them I was looking for silver ones -- I guess to them, they're all silver (colored) :-)

I even dropped it on the counter so they could hear the nice ring, and they gave me a polite "whatever you say" look.

I'll take it!

Preying off the ignorance of others is the collector's bread and butter.  

There's a couple of sellers I buy off who list their lots as containing silver if it's something obvious like pre-1947 NZ coins, pre-decimal Aussie coins, or pre-1965 US coins. Those auctions always get lots of bidders and it usually goes for about catalogue value. But some of the lesser-known coins like Scandanavian, South American, Asian etc slip through because they just don't know what they have, and can't be bothered looking them up  I'm usually the only bidder on those and pick them up really cheaply.

Went to the antique mall today and picked up an 1844 Victoria Half Farthing for $2.50 and an 1894 Newfoundland 50 Cent for $5.00.

watch one was here in oshkosh

Yuppers.  Originals.  It's the one with the big blue sign on the frontage road.

thank you glorkar was in there 10 year ago and nothing on coins a few but over priced. I will have to get there before the snow flyes

There are a few booths with coins now.  A lot of them are still overpriced, but I still find a few reasonably priced ones now and again.

I have just got these coins very cheap, I consider them a great bargain 6euros the lot

Been doing a lot of coin roll hunting these past couple months and I got this 1954 D nickel; I keep all my pre-1968 nickels (and the pre-1974 S mintmark nickels) so it was a nice find for 5 cents, but upon closer inspection, I'm fairly certain that this is a "D over S" variety, which is fantastic. Unfortunately, the details aren't really apparent in this picture.

Two big silver coins for $8 total:



ASW comes to just over one troy ounce :)

Very nice.  I've got an earlier copy of the Swiss coin.  I think it's a 1931 or 1932 but that one is in beautiful condition.

I also got this last week for 20 cents:

This would be a recent one for me and probably one of my better bargains.



It's valued at $350 for VF20, all of the dealers who I have spoken to seem to agree Good v fine so I'm happy that it's worth roughly £230, I paid £40.38 including delivery. The best thing is I sold my VG/F copy a week later for £30 !
Having paid £11 for that and the penny piece so having made around around £24 on that I decided that I would deduct it from the price of this beauty That's me happy for a long while now !

Brilliant, well done

Don't worry, pictures will be coming, but my camera just died..*RIP*  
I am not a coin grader, so if you have any objections, please speak up!

OK, here's the best bargain you will ever hear about!
I GOT, yes, that is right, I GOT, not paid, GOT these coins:

Free City of Danzig: 5 Pfennig 1923 VF+ ($7)
Free City of Danzig: 10 Pfennig 1923x3 VF–XF ($7x2, $18)
Free City of Danzig: 10 Pfennig 1932x2 VF ($7x2)
Free City of Danzig: 1/2 Gulden 1932x3 XF ($75x3)
Free City of Danzig: 1 Gulden 1932 XFx3 ($55x3)
Free City of Danzig: 5 Gulden 1935 VF+ ($475)

TOTAL: $918

I also GOT, yes, I GOT this one too:
USA: 1 Silver Dollar 1995 UNC (I guess?) ($42.90)

TOTAL: $42.90
+ $918
= $960.90

My grandma is the best!  

Geez, 1000 USD worth of Danzig coins!

I got a couple bargains at a coin show today

this 1797 2 Pence for $80



Isle of Man 50 Pence for $2



also bought this the other week

German States (Prussia) 3 Mark for $40

Krause says this 2-mark is worth $65 in UNC, but even if that price is not realized, I bought it for just $1 (8

^^^Neat coin!

Just bought this Denmark joblot for £22 (will post better pictures when they arrive)

1936/1938/1952/1954 2 Kroner,

1930/34/36/37/41/42/43 25 Ore,

1921/29/37/43 10 Ore,

1874/1884 5 Ore.

1874/1889/1914 2 Ore.

No pics yet but there was this time when I was sorting through a dealer's junk box (mostly 1960 onwards coins) when I saw a 50% silver 1921 George V Florin, and in VF-EF condition too! (bought for £1)
Then there was the time I found a 1866 Hong Kong one mil coin in VF for £2, the 1780 Louis XVI 1 Sol (£20 and a 1856 Seated Liberty Quarter EF for £1.

Wow, excellent finds, especially that seated liberty quarter, EF is valued at $83 for the no mintmark version.

Well, I got a whole bunch of coins for $6 yesterday...

These convertible pesos are pegged to the U.S. dollar, so there's $4 back

This is from the "French Colonies" and it's 1844, the lowest-mintage date.

A new country - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.





All this above is about 20% of the pile I bought (although it is the best 20%).

  Went today to my two coin places; the first one (at his house) I bought a bag of world coins and an East India Company coin, and he gave me another bag of world coins for free!




 Then I went to the only coin shop I know, and had a rummage through their charity coins. There I spent £8 and got some nice coins ...

          3 UK crowns for £1            UK large 50p for face value ( 8 = £4 )       £3 for very old worn coins

 Lower left in second picture is the rare 1992/93 EEC coin, which I remember someone in another topic wanted. In third picture there are 33 coins - will list them (for my own purposes) as I find out what they are.

  Early days for identification, so here is a quick list of the above 33 old coins ...


4 - 28.7mm 1806  Georgius III D G Rex / Britannia reverse  [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 662
1 - 28.7mm 1806  Georgius III D G Rex / Britannia reverse (holed) [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 662
1 - 28.7mm 1807  Georgius III D G Rex / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 662
1 - 28.7mm 180?  Georgius III D G Rex / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 662
2 - 30mm 1799  Georgius III Dei Gratia Rex / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 647


1 - 25mm 1853 W  Cinq Centimes [France] KM# 777.7
1 - 30mm 1861 K  Dix Centimes [France] KM# 798.3
1 - 30mm 1864 K  Dix Centimes [France] KM# 798.3
1 - 30mm 1866 OM  10 Centesimi [Italy] KM# 11.5


1 - 34mm (square) 1797  portrait right  / Britannia reverse [country ?]
1 - 25.8mm 1830  with ١٢۴۶ other side below scales [India] 1/4 Anna KM# 231.1
1 - 28.8mm 1903  One Cent [Straits Settlements]  KM# 19
1 - 30mm 1862  Half Anna [India] KM# 468


1 - 21.7mm 1839  Victoria left / Triskeles reverse [Isle of Man] 1 Farthing KM# 12
1 - 21.5mm 1848  Victoria left / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/4 Penny KM# 725
1 - 21.5mm 1854  Victoria left / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/4 Penny KM# 725
1 - 28mm 1843  Victoria left / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 726 *rare*


1 - 21mm 1806  Georgius III D G Rex / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/4 Penny KM# 661
2 - 21.5mm 1825  Georgius IIII left / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/4 Penny KM# 677
1 - 28mm 1825  Georgius IIII left / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 692


1 - 22mm 18??  crowned W / 1 C. crowned shield B mintmark [Netherlands] 1 Cent KM# 47
1 - 27mm 1772  Georgivs III Rex / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 601
1 - 27mm 1775  Georgivs III Rex / Britannia reverse [United Kingdom] 1/2 Penny KM# 601
1 - 29mm 1783 L  Navarrae Rex crowned shield (three fleur-de-lis) [France] 1 Sol KM# 578.9


1 - 20mm 1612  Bono Nia Docet / lion with flag [Italian states - Papal-Bologna] 1 Quattrino KM# 13
1 - 20mm 1928  Scorstat Eireann / bird left 1/4d Feoirling [Ireland] Farthing KM# 1
1 - 25mm 1811  Isle of Man Bank Half Penny / triskeles Qvocvnqve Ieceris Stabit [Isle of Man] KM# Tn3
1 - 28mm 1794  Greyhound left, B Price below / Church, Hendon Value One Halfpenny (holed)  [U.K.]

 Will add KM numbers or more details as I find them.  

The one with the fleur-de-lis is of Louis XV (15th) of France. (I read the date as 1768)

Its probably a liard or sol.

Nice finds!

Got this beautiful coin y'day for just 7.20 euros! (including shipping, which 1.20 euros)




Netherlands 10 Gulden 1970 "25 years of Liberation"

Regards

A very Merry Christmas to me - today I got in the post the bargain of my life !
More pictures to follow, and over a hundred totally unsorted coins, including USA Indian head cents, Canada tokens, hammered, many silver coins, lots of Victoria and earlier coins. Wow - the unpicked lot - what every collector dreams of.  

                 Unopened                           Envelope in bubble wrap                           Tipped out


 Counted 172 so far:
Scrap: 7 (very worn or damaged)
UK: 42 (standard coins; nothing special)
World: 23 (standard coins; nothing special)
Interesting: 71 (never seen before or old)
Very interesting: 29 (I like the look of or silver)

               UK and world                                 Interesting                                 Very interesting


 I guess out of a standard bulk lot of 172 coins there may sometimes be none of interest, or maybe four or five, but to find 100 out of 172 to be very nice makes it special - for me.  
 More details to follow, and identifications needed no doubt.

 The 71 interesting coins >
Large and thick copper: 6
  2 - 34mm UK  portrait right / Britannia reverse - date unknown - cartwheel type
  1 - 34mm UK  Georgius III / Britannia reverse - date unknown
  1 - 34mm UK  Georgius IV / Britannia reverse - 1826
  1 - 34mm UK  Victoria / Britannia reverse - 1855
  1 - 31mm Tunisia 4 Kharub 1281 (1865) ١٢٨١ in circle within wreath ٤ outside KM# 158
Silver colour: 19
  3 - Switzerland 10 Rappen 1880 1885 1895 Copper-nickel KM# 27
  2 - Switzerland 20 Rappen 1884 1891 Nickel KM# 29
  2 - Guernsey 3 Pence 1959 scalloped edge Copper-nickel KM# 18
  2 - Italy 50 Centesimi 1863M BN Silver KM# 4a
  2 - Belgium 5 Centimes 1861 1862 Copper-nickel KM# 21
  1 - UK 6 Pence 1922 Silver KM# 815a
  1 - UK 6 Pence 1946 Silver KM# 852
  1 - Ireland 3 Pence 1928 Nickel KM# 4
  1 - Sweden 25 Öre 1952 Silver KM# 824
  1 - Finland 1 Markka 1953 Iron KM# 36
  1 - Sweden 2 Öre 1944 Iron KM# 811
  1 - Japan 5 Sen 1890 Year 23 Copper-nickel Y# 19
  1 - German states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) 1 Schilling Courant 1803 Silver KM# 220
UK various: 14
  1 - 22mm Georgius II / Britannia reverse 1774
  6 - 20mm Victoria Farthing 1874H 1881 1885 1885 1885 1886
  3 - 22mm (Farthing) 1806 1831 1860
  4 - 28mm (HalfPenny) 1806 1806 180? 1854
Europe: 18
  1 - Belgium 1 Centime 1869 KM# 33.1
  1 - Netherlands 1 Cent 1878 KM# 107
  1 - Germany 2 Pfennig 1874B KM# 2
  1 - Italy 2 Centesimi 1861M KM# 2.1
  4 - France 5 Centimes 1854B 1856A 1857A 1857MA KM# 777
  1 - France 5 Centimes 1862K KM# 797
  1 - Italy 5 Centesimi 1861M KM# 3.2
  5 - France 10 Centimes 1853BB 1854BB 1855BB-anchor 1855D-dog 1856B  KM# 771
  2 - France 10 Centimes 1862A 1863BB KM# 798
  1 - Italy 10 Centesimi 1866M  KM# 11.1
Others: 10
  1 - 17mm Unknown  Arabic lettering with wreath around toughra KM#
  1 - 18mm UK token  Victoria / No income tax  No inquisition  No Peel & Co.
  1 - 22mm Ottoman Empire 5 Para 1255 with ١٢ year (1851) KM# 666.1
  1 - 22mm France 1 Liard 1656K KM# 192
  2 - 28mm China 1 Sen / Dragon reverse  Year 9 (1876) Y# 17
  1 - 28mm Ottoman Empire 10 Para 1255 with ١٩ year (1858) KM# 667.3
  1 - 28mm Ireland  Georgius III / Harp reverse  Date unknown HalfPenny KM# 140
  1 - 29mm North Borneo 1 Cent 1890H British North Borneo Co. KM# 2
  1 - 30mm UK Conder token 1795 Nothing venture nothing have / No.12807 £30,000 prize
Chinese: 2
  1 - 23mm with square hole
  1 - 25mm with square hole
UK tokens: 2
  1 - 23mm 'To Hanover' 1837 / Victoria 1862
  1 - 22mm 'To Hanover' 1837 / Victoria undated

 Amending those details as I look more at the coins ...

Well, Merry Christmas to you, looks a nice lot, I'd love to go through it as well, how much was it? Where did you get it, if it is not secret.

  Thanks - I got it on eBay in UK and cost about £17 and about £5 for postage, from a UK seller.
Listed (with picture below) as an over 1kg job lot of old UK with world coins ...


 Going to take me all weekend to look up what they are, and in it are three tiny hammered coins which I know nothing about. I have already been asked about the (five) Swiss coins in it (all before 1900) and I hope to show more pictures in daylight tomorrow (only 16:45 here in UK but already dark outside).  

I like the 2 1/2 or 5 Kurush, Ottoman coin in the last picture, looks in nice grade, usually I find them plenty here in Albania, but very worn, or holed.

  The 29 very interesting coins >
1 - 27mm U.S.A. large Liberty head 1 Cent 1824 KM# 45.1
1 - 27mm U.S.A. large Liberty head 1 Cent 1851 KM# 67
3 - 19mm U.S.A. small Indian head 1 Cent 1883 1887 1891 KM# 90a
1 - 21mm U.S.A. shield 5 Cents 1868 KM# 97
1 - 34mm Lower Canada 1 Penny Bank Token 1837 Quebec Bank Deux Sous BR# 521
1 - 25mm Canada 1 Cent 1904 KM# 8
1 - 28mm Nova Scotia 1 HalfPenny 1856 KM# 6
1 - 35mm Ottoman Empire 2½ Kuruş 1223 Year 23 (1830) Silver KM# 590
1 - 28mm Russian 1 Kopek 1800 E.M. with crowned monogram C# 94.2
1 - 26mm Belgium 20 Centimes 1861 KM# 20
1 - 25mm France 5 Centimes 1854 with Pears' Soap imprint
1 - 25mm Sweden 1 Krona 1957 Silver KM# 826
1 - 22mm U.K. Farthing Georgius IIII 1822 with Britannia KM# 677
1 - 21mm Austria 20 Heller crowned eagle 1893 KM# 2803
1 - 21mm Malay peninsula - Malacca cockerel design 1 Keping ۱۲۴۷ 1247 (1832) date KM# 8.1
1 - 19mm Netherlands Willem II 25 Cents 1848-no dot Silver KM# 76
1 - 18mm Italy 50 Centesimi 1863M BN Silver KM# 14.1
1 - 18mm Canada 10 Cents 1870 Silver KM# 3
1 - 18mm Finland 5 Markka 1953 KM# 37
1 - 18mm Belgium 50 Centimes French text Leopold II date unknown KM# 26
1 - 17mm Sweden 25 Öre 1950 Silver KM# 816
1 - 17mm Austria 5/10 Kreuzer 1859A KM# 2182
1 - 16mm Mexico 1 Centavo 1883 KM# 392
1 - 14mm Ottoman Empire 1 Para 1255 Year 19 (1858) KM# 665.3
1 - 13mm German brass SpielMark with ship  PLUS ULTRA / II . II UBER * REC II . PFE *  
1 - 13mm German brass SpielMark with ship  PLUZ  ??TI?? / ?????? REC II : PFE   
1 - 13mm German brass SpielMark with stars C. GERNEH * REC II · PFEN / LEG??NER · REC II : PFE *  

 Individual pictures (rather than those above in a pile) of the nicest ones to follow.  

Oh my!

Well, I got this for $5:


I can't complain about getting a $5 coin for face value, although apparently they are unpopular in Australia.

1st: Why the heck does the forum topics show on a single page rather than in pages like any other forum on the web? I thought updating the servers was to do that, because if you jump to "End" the loading images will push you up as they load. Well, just a small rant there.

Last week I asked my grandma if she had any old coins and she told me that they already sold all the old currency as scrap metal    But then she told me that she would ask a friend of hers because she knew she used to have lots of tin cans filled with coins.

Today I went to visit her as I usually do every weekend and wasn't expecting anything special but would be happy with old cheap coins anyway, and she gave me a wrapped paper napkin with some coins inside. So I asked how much for them and she told me they were a gift, and I was thankful so I checked them and to my surprise they weren't copper coins, they were SILVER, and among them (12 in total) a set of
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22317.html
Both years! I already had a 1918 but was missing the 1919. Those two coins are INCREDIBLY RARE, the minting numbers might deceive most because they are 3 and 6 millions, but what most people doesn't know is that once the next type was minted, the KM#455, these two years were called back by Banco de México to be melted down, because the coins must have the Silver purity minted on them and these two didn't. So they were doomed from the go (not to mention that they took the chance and chipped 8% Silver out of them), and so their true rarity. Average KM#454 1:10,000 KM#455, not just the 1:50 from the minting numbers.

So I'm very happy today. Oh! And did I forgot to tell that she also included THREE!!!
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4382.html
1932 Closed "9" Variant Coins? Finally got that series completed.

Local dealer sells bulk for $5 a pound. This was in my last buy! Cost me about five cents.

  A select few chosen from those above that I got five days ago ...









 and the U.S.A. coins ...







   None are for sale or swap.  

ZacUK I am very happy for you, great coins. You are very lucky

Going through the 4 for a $1 bin I found:
Guatemala 1928 5 Centavos XF: $15
Guatemala 1948 5 Centavos F: $0.75
Guatemala 1960 5 Centavos VF:  $0.75
Venezuela 1960 Un Bolivar VF: $2.61

So for a $1.00 I got almost $20 worth of coins :)

Picked up this one recently for hardly anything

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic12867.html#p128016

 With reference to what I wrote earlier this year on this topic about advertising on coins (I still can not work out what that www address says) here is the 1854 French coin that I got a week ago, amongst the wonderful bulk lot.


 and also below is a current eBay listing for a similar coin, so I can see what mine could be worth ! Admittedly that is a different year and denomination but it will give me an idea.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Countermarked-French-10-centimes-1862a-PEARS-SOAP-/350957822632

 A few months ago I got a UK 2 pence in change, and did not see until a few days later that it had advertising (a paper sticker) on it - so I must have been given it face upwards.  

Now, now Zac, I've already told you what the website is on that token.  it's www.geocaching.com (in a very stylized font/different language/code).  I picked one of those up too and I noticed that it is actually a replica of a geocoin as there is no true serial number on it.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15521.html

i buy today lot of coins,of course for funny money,and inside this wonderful coin :)
only 7000 minted.

Bought myself one 50 Centimes 1852 from France.

Cita: emilu2https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15521.html

i buy today lot of coins,of course for funny money,and inside this wonderful coin :)
only 7000 minted.

Nice one, which year does it has?

Not a bargain find but a bargain buy nonetheless:

I recently won an auction for a 1943 S Sixpence in really nice condition (https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18185.html) for NZD 1.50 and then the seller offered me a 1942 S for the same price!  So two nice old silver coins for three bucks!

I love getting silver coins, even small ones, for under melt value!

They haven't arrived yet but here is the auction photo:

What do you you guys think about this lot?
I paid $45 for it out of some junk box, there is Austria, German States, Swiss Cantonsl and Colonial Mexico.

ANOTHER GOOD CATCH!! :)
i buy lot of turkish otomans coins (finally) without hole for 8$ 10 pieces
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42617.html

and in them i find 20 para 1223/21 rare coin.
i need help about price,i can find on ngccoin site or krause catalog!! any hint?



but after good look on coin,i see year is 31 not 21 :(

I picked this lot up for $150 NZ ($124 USD, 91 EUR). The most I have ever spent on coins in one go - I must be getting serious...

Anyway it was an auction with bad pictures, and I took a gamble.  I think it paid off.  There were also some tokens, medals, banknotes and a few other odds and ends that aren't pictured.

Very nice lot. Congratulations.

Cita: lbillowsNot a bargain find but a bargain buy nonetheless:

I recently won an auction for a 1943 S Sixpence in really nice condition (https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18185.html) for NZD 1.50 and then the seller offered me a 1942 S for the same price!  So two nice old silver coins for three bucks!

I love getting silver coins, even small ones, for under melt value!

They haven't arrived yet but here is the auction photo:

Nice, Fiji is my main focus, I just need the 1941 sixpence now to complete it.  

Note the date and the die cracks 1945 over 3 --not listed in Numista but is in NGC
cheers Don

A very very nice coin there!

Not really sure of it's value. Also not sure of it's listing -
Both appear to be the same
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces20321.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces32474.html

But due to it's rarity on this website, and to say i found it in a bulk lot - it was a nice find (i think)
Unfortunately it's quite scratched - dam aluminium.

Bought all the following for the equivalent of 150 US dollars, I'm not a pro, but I'm quite sure it has been the best deal of my life.

Here is the story of how I got this and most importantly how I got it at that price:

I go to visit my Grandma every weekend, and she knows I collect coins, and she already asked a friend to sell her some coins for me, and she had sold me some really good coins at really low prices or even she (my Grandma) has bought them and then given them to me as gifts.
Today I went to her house and finally got to meet the lady who has been selling her coins. A really nice lady. And she told me that she used to collect coins when young and her late husband collected them as well. She then took a cheap-looking plastic bag and told me she had come to a deal with my Grandma. She told me her sons would just sell everything as scrap metal if given the change and she was sad for that as she knew her hobby wouldn't be carried over and her collection would be dismantled at the first chance.
She told me she has known my Grandma since the 1940s, and they had been great friends since then, and that my Grandma speaks highly of me and my hobby for collecting coins. So without thinking it much she decided to give me her collection, she ought some money to my Grandma so they included that as payment and after seeing the coins I seriously couldn't accept them without paying something, it was way too much, and I only had the equivalent of 150USDs, so I begged (seriously) for her to accept all my money. She was reluctant because she already had a deal with my Grandma, but I told her it was the least I could do. And that way she would cover the money she ought to her and had some extra cash for her needs.

So technically I could have had it for free, but it felt wrong. And after that story, here are the pics of the treasure:

The silvies:



From Mexico there are several types, and several years and mint marks (for those with varieties). Some from Spain, many from the USA mostly Mercury dimes and Wartime Nickels. Few from Europe, and some from other parts of the World. Dating as back as 1775.

The cheap-metal ones:



Some Wheat Pennies, Barber nickels, Dimes, Quarters several coins from around the World, some rarities from Mexico, including a "Five Centavos" from the Ejercito constitucionalista from 1914. Also a single year mint of "Un centavo" 1889.

More recent cheappies:



Common 1970-1980s coins, nothing too special.

And as a bonus from my Grandma for "paying" for the coins:















Bank notes (MOST in crisp condition) from as old as 1910s, including some (the tiny cardboard ones) that were used during the Revolution war as a mean of temporary payment to soldiers. Almost 1000 pieces of history. She also gave me all her old mailing bag, so that I could remove the post stamps  

So, what do you think guys, for 150 dollars?

Wow!

You also got one of the Canadian commemorative $1 notes. As far as I know that's the only Canadian commemorative banknote ever to be issued

That is a very impressive find, though. Don't spend it all in one place

Cita: nalaberongWow!

You also got one of the Canadian commemorative $1 notes. As far as I know that's the only Canadian commemorative banknote ever to be issued

That is a very impressive find, though. Don't spend it all in one place

I'll go and spend all at an Italian Restaurant    (Reminded me of GTA IV   )

And yeah, it is a beautiful Bank note, I also noticed it was "different" because it had two dates printed on it 1867 and 1967. Although the back looks way too much like an American dollar, because of the color  

Congratulations. This was a good haul. Good story.

Ok, bought 75 German 1 Pfennig KM1 and KM10 coins on Ebay for $10. Among the coins is an 1891G and an 1895D.
Am I crazy or is this kind of like buying a roll of wheat pennies and finding a 1909-S VDB and a 1931-S?
Wow!

Cita: polisciprofOk, bought 75 German 1 Pfennig KM1 and KM10 coins on Ebay for $10. Among the coins is an 1891G and an 1895D.
Am I crazy or is this kind of like buying a roll of wheat pennies and finding a 1909-S VDB and a 1931-S?
Wow!

Maybe the seller got the collection some time ago and it didn't sell, so he sold it for less and you got it, maybe no one noticed the rarities among the bunch of coins. Or maybe he upgraded his collection to higher grades and simply decided to sell the lower grades cheap.

I have the good fortune to have a coin dealer less than 5 minute's walk from my door so I stop by frequently, mostly to pick up supplies. He is more of a bullion dealer than a numismatist but he does keep a big plastic tray full of world coins for 10c each or 12 for $1 from which I have made some outstanding picks. He also has a smaller tray or large denomination coins for $1 each.

These, along with trays of banknotes, postage stamps, fossils etc. are on shelves on the opposite wall to the counter.

On my last visit I dropped in to buy some 20 pocket album pages and had a quick look through his junk trays but they were full of pocket change and car wash tokens. Oh well, can't win them all. I go to the counter to pay for the pages and he's got the biggest silver bar I've ever seen on the corner. It's the size of two large loaves of bread side by side. It was recovered from a Spanish Galleon sunk off the Florida coast. I'm quite taken with this, it's beautiful but of course it's not for sale. That doesn't stop me from admiring it at some length long after I've paid for my stuff.

Meanwhile he has tipped out a bunch of coins he bought earlier onto a black velvet cloth and he's going through them picking out the silver. After a while he passes me five large coins and asks me to put them in the $1 tray behind me. It takes me less than a second to realize that these coins are going home with me. 1 Churchill Crown, 1 Silver Wedding Crown, 1 1953 Coronation Crown, 1 1960 Crown and..... a flawless MS77.981 2012 5 pound coin:



I gave him $5 and laughed all the way home.

Odd ! Why people will under-sell something's value is beyond me ! Even @ 5 dollars he would have gotten it !

Cita: Mark240590Odd ! Why people will under-sell something's value is beyond me ! Even @ 5 dollars he would have gotten it !

If it's not silver they are not interested. I think they make so much easy money buying at 75% of the metal content and reselling at 100% that they are just not interested beyond that.

They buy a lot of entire collections from the relatives of dead retirees and I've been told more than once that they base their offer on 75% of the silver coins and just ignore the rest. They have bucketful's of "colorized State Quarters" being sold at little more than face value that some sucker paid hundreds of dollars for from the TV coin shows.

It works out very well for me, they know me very well and will often offer me complete collections for around $50. All the silver has already been cherry picked but occasionally there will be albums full of vintage world coins. They are getting them basically for free and as they don't want the hassle of reselling they offer them to me. I've found several silver coins which they have overlooked, usually North African and Arabic coins which often pass right through a cursory attitude.

Cita: pnightingale

Cita: Mark240590Odd ! Why people will under-sell something's value is beyond me ! Even @ 5 dollars he would have gotten it !

If it's not silver they are not interested. I think they make so much easy money buying at 75% of the metal content and reselling at 100% that they are just not interested beyond that.

They buy a lot of entire collections from the relatives of dead retirees and I've been told more than once that they base their offer on 75% of the silver coins and just ignore the rest. They have bucketful's of "colorized State Quarters" being sold at little more than face value that some sucker paid hundreds of dollars for from the TV coin shows.

It works out very well for me, they know me very well and will often offer me complete collections for around $50. All the silver has already been cherry picked but occasionally there will be albums full of vintage world coins. They are getting them basically for free and as they don't want the hassle of reselling they offer them to me. I've found several silver coins which they have overlooked, usually North African and Arabic coins which often pass right through a cursory attitude.

Even worse, I've known that most Pawn shops only hold Silver coins for about 6 months, and if they don't sell then they'll simply send them to the smelter selling them for BV or less (even coins at AUC grades).
There is a guy I know who works at a Pawn shop and sees this practice often. So he saves up his pay, and then when the boss sends him to the junk-silver buyer he simply goes to his home, takes out the money he would be given and pays his boss, without telling him he took them for himself. Because his boss wouldn't sell them at BV to anyone, he prefers them to be destroyed, because as he says "it is better to destroy coins, than to sell them cheap and devaluate others".

1 Kilo of

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces3157.html

Plus 50 grams of

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces996.html

Only 1950 to 1955. But it is a big jump forward for me.

Didn't have any of the second, and I am missing several years and varieties of the kilo ones    Time to use a magnifying glass and start looking.



Price tag: 1 dollar for the kilo. Got the other cent coins as a barter bonus.

Good for you erdvilla, you are very lucky. I need a lot of those too. Maybe this summer we can do a swap.
             yours daryl

Cita: ALLRED1950Good for you erdvilla, you are very lucky. I need a lot of those too. Maybe this summer we can do a swap.
             yours daryl

Sure thing ALLRED.

Ok, finished separating them by year, 3/4 were 1979 ones, which isn't strange considering that year alone had almost 2/5s of the whole mintage for this coin. The remaining quarter of the kilo was from 77 and 78s, with 8 coins from 74, 75, 76 and 80. It was to be expected as those years had less than 10 million made for each year compared to the 800 million from the other three years (77, 78 and 79).

Now, I found this "freak of nature" which only his mom can love  



It is a KM#434.1 Sharp stem and wide date from 1979. The UNC for that coin is rated at 1 dollar. Does this "freak" would have additional value? And if so, how much? As you can see it is UNC, but with that clear-beyond-doubt error.

On the Obverse:



There are 2 concentric "rings" on the flat surface. Could this mean the coin was struck thrice? And only on the final hit on its way out the coin was finally imprinted?

EDIT: Found this other one while looking for varieties.



Not as pretty as the other error (and not as high grade coin) but still a curiosity.

it should add value, its a nice one.Alot of it is is it common.

Lovely off-center strike, this is the appeal of searching through "typical" circulation coins

Here's a story from a few months ago. Like all good Canadians, I was looking through a pile of 25-cent coins for commemoratives, rare dates (1970, 1991), varieties, American coins, and silver. But my luck was poor, and I hadn't found very much yet... until I opened the next roll of 40 coins and these six silver cats spilled out!!

They were all next to each other, so someone must have deliberately saved them from circulation, then cashed them in! Well, lucky me!

Cita: nalaberongHere's a story from a few months ago. Like all good Canadians, I was looking through a pile of 25-cent coins for commemoratives, rare dates (1970, 1991), varieties, American coins, and silver. But my luck was poor, and I hadn't found very much yet... until I opened the next roll of 40 coins and these six silver cats spilled out!!

They were all next to each other, so someone must have deliberately saved them from circulation, then cashed them in! Well, lucky me!

Lucky! Here is pretty rare to find coin rolls, so finding 10 Nuevos pesos silver coins is almost impossible in your pocket change or bank change bags.

If only I had been aware of silver when I was young, I would had changed all my money for 10N$ coins  

Lovely off-center strike, this is the appeal of searching through "typical" circulation coins

They now really hate me at the Exchange store near the house. I was cashing a check from work there and then an old guy came in with these:





Towers made of:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14459.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces13835.html

He asked spot price, 66 dollar cents per gram, but obviously they only offered him 20 per gram. I know the owner of that store and I know he is as crooked as it can get; he would buy coins at scam-level prices knowing he would make 1000% profit. If he would have given the guy the 66 cents he was asking he would still make a huge profit, and the seller would be happy anyway, but he was hard on giving only 20.

So I had fresh cashed money on hand, and saw the old guy leaving. So I chased him and asked him to show me the coins to see which ones they were. As soon as I saw them, even when some where in pretty bad shape I instantly offered the spot price he was asking for. Because with the coins in good shape I could get more in return. And we both parted ways happy.

And as I was leaving I saw the store owner at the door... and I couldn't hide my happy smile    Dunno, if he got mad, he already let the customer leave. Maybe he expected the seller to eventually return and sell his coins as trash, but that will never happen.

Good score. Any scarce dates?

Cita: bam777Good score. Any scarce dates?

Got all dates for the 10 cents, but none of them are considered rare. And didn't get any for the rare ones for the 20 cents. That would had been like striking gold I guess.

Never mind, eh! A good score. Just checking.
Did you ask the old guy if he had any more coins?

Cita: bam777Never mind, eh! A good score. Just checking.
Did you ask the old guy if he had any more coins?

Didn't know him, and I don't like people to know I collect coins because I could become a target for thieves or something like that. So I just stick to what was in question at that moment. The only people here that knows I collect coins are close relatives and few of their closest friends. Most of which only know I collect cheap-metal coins.

As an example, the lady that cleans my house and helps my aunt cooking knows I like 5 Peso commemorative coins, so she asked the cashiers at two stores to save them up for her    and she gives them to me in exchange of pure face value.

I just won this on eBay! First eBay auction I've ever bidded on, and Numista's automatic "find this coin for sale" helped me find it, so thanks Numista.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/PANAMA-1-BALBOA-1947-MS-65-/291056210348
That was far below Krause Catalog value of $75... and the plastic coffin it comes in certifies that this coin is actually in better condition than "BU" (the top American geniuses have decided that BU is MS-63, and this is the far superior MS-65, which means you should send all your coins into their companies to attain this wonderful grade). Hooray!

Cita: nalaberongI just won this on eBay! First eBay auction I've ever bidded on, and Numista's automatic "find this coin for sale" helped me find it, so thanks Numista.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/PANAMA-1-BALBOA-1947-MS-65-/291056210348
That was far below Krause Catalog value of $75... and the plastic coffin it comes in certifies that this coin is actually in better condition than "BU" (the top American geniuses have decided that BU is MS-63, and this is the far superior MS-65, which means you should send all your coins into their companies to attain this wonderful grade). Hooray!

Congrats on winning it. Even with shipping you will still have more bang for you buck.