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How I Built a 7,000 World Coin Collection in 1 1/2 Yrs. for Free

1 1/2 years ago a simple phone call asking if a dealer had some world coins got it started. The dealer gave me the phone # of a local dealer who sold by the pound. I bought 20 lbs. for $100. Putting them in 2 x2s and putting them in binders and being a member of Numista made it easy to catalogue this first batch.
The great thing was that another dealer would give me $4 a pound for the cast offs. So over the next 18 months I bought and sold close to another 200 lbs. One batch of 100 lbs. I bought for $3 a lb. and sold for $4 a lb. You need to have Price Waterhouse to figure out the the bottom line but I know after selling some of the coins on ebay and buying several albums and 5000 2 x 2s and sheets to put them in I am about even.
With the ability to do swaps on Numista I have been able to build my World collection of:
1- 7,000 coins
a- 4,000 different 165 countries
b- 2,000 different second collection
c- 1,000 different third collection
2- 1,375 United Kingdom and Possessions
a- 790 dif.UK
b- 424 dif. Canada
c- 192 dif. Australia
d- 120 dif. Hong Kong
e- 120 dif. New Zealand
f- 429 dif. misc. colonies
3- Still have 60 plus old world copper coins to identify (photo below)




A world without coins "Chaos"

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