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Mercfan
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May be another man's treasure.
I posted this on the World forum, but my respect for the knowledge and insight of those who frequent this forum makes me want to solicit your thoughts as well. My apologies in advance to anyone who's offended by a question about non-U.S. coins on the U.S. forum.
I know NOTHING about modern non-U.S. coinage. But at the end of a walk last night, I took a look at some stuff that a neighbor, who's moving, had put out by the curb that afternoon. Among some nice picture frames and like-new board games, wall clocks, etc., was a large glass vase filled with just over ten pounds of coins. I took them home for a look, and found them to include a mix from quite a few countries. Not many have dates prior to 1960, but I imagine they must be worth something.
Any thoughts?
And I thought it was cool to find a dime or a quarter on the shoulder of the road on occasion!
I posted this on the World forum, but my respect for the knowledge and insight of those who frequent this forum makes me want to solicit your thoughts as well. My apologies in advance to anyone who's offended by a question about non-U.S. coins on the U.S. forum.
I know NOTHING about modern non-U.S. coinage. But at the end of a walk last night, I took a look at some stuff that a neighbor, who's moving, had put out by the curb that afternoon. Among some nice picture frames and like-new board games, wall clocks, etc., was a large glass vase filled with just over ten pounds of coins. I took them home for a look, and found them to include a mix from quite a few countries. Not many have dates prior to 1960, but I imagine they must be worth something.
Any thoughts?
And I thought it was cool to find a dime or a quarter on the shoulder of the road on occasion!
"Coin collecting problem"? What "coin collecting problem"?
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Al
Have fun with it.
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<< <i>Dealers here pay about $7 per pound for modern darkside (no Canadian). >>
That is not unreasonable, though I get MY non-silver bulk Darkside for about 7 bucks a pound including plenty of older stuff, even low-end 1800s coins. But that is why I have been buying from the same source for years.
In practice, I ususally would pay $4-5 a pound for all-modern stuff. If it were offered in person. If I had to buy it long distance and pay the shipping, I would probably pass.
Still, that is a helluva nice find. See my reply to your Darkside post- I gave you a link to the Metal Detecting Forum Awards where I think you might be a contender for May's "Best Wild Card" Item" award. (The Wild Card Category is for treasure hunting finds made without a metal detector-it's pretty much our "miscellaneous" category.)
On the paranoid viewpoint, couldn't this tip off the garbagemen that there may be more valuable coins inside?
Looks like this time you were able to cut out the middle of the equation and go straight to the coins - nice find
many coins?
Al
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>.....at the end of a walk last night, I took a look at some stuff that a neighbor, who's moving, had put out by the curb that afternoon. Among some nice picture frames and like-new board games, wall clocks, etc., was a large glass vase filled with just over ten pounds of coins...
Any thoughts?
Tip waitresses with them.
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actively circulating in Europe a few years back. This type of mixture will whole-
sale at only $3 per pound. Canada, France, and Mexico can really lower the
value of a mixture because there are so many coins that are so very common
and low value.
There are lots of really hot world moderns and you might find them in some
types of bulk mixtures but not this type. The desirable ones are generally
collector coins from the '50's through '80's that found their way into junk
buckets because of low catalog prices. Some of these are up 50x to 100x
in the last several years and might still be found in the types of accumulations
that dealers put together.
A close-up would provide a better opinion on value.
<< <i>I think you might be a contender for May's "Best Wild Card" Item" award. (The Wild Card Category is for treasure hunting finds made without a metal detector-it's pretty much our "miscellaneous" category.) >>
StikeOutXXX, thanks for pointing me to the Krause catalogue! I stopped by a used book store when I was out of town yesterday, but they didn't have a copy.
CladKing and Lord Marcovan, thanks for the ballpark numbers on value of this sort of mix. I've been out of town on a job since Thursday afternoon, and I really haven't the time to take more than the cursory look that I took on Wednesday evening when I brought them home. Not a lot from France, as I recall. Lots of the half-dollar sized and larger ones coins seemed to be from the Phillipines and Australia. One 1940 Canadian small cent inVF condition did catch my eye, so I know that at least one predates the sixties. I was mostly doing a quick scan for silver content (and trying to get a sense of where in the heck these came from).
Russ, we are lucky to live in a terrific neighborhood--but I never knew that free money at curbside was one of the perks of living on our block.
That brings us to Grip's good question. Before I find the time to take another look at what's in that batch, I'm going to ask my neighbor why he tossed that vase full of money.
Oh, and I do have a much higher quality file of this image that you can enlarge to see a lot of detail. I can e-mail that to anyone who PMs his or her e-mail address. It's a busy time of the year for me, and I doubt that I'll take another look at what's in the vase until late July.
Just an unusual find and an interesting experience.
Knowledge is the enemy of fear