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newbiecollector

........it may be.

Looking for some ideas. I have in the past few years purchased several bank bags of coins, the 10 kilo/22 pound bags.

I have had a quick look thru all of them, several times but not with any specific purpose or preference.

Many have been pulled out as "interesting" which I will keep. Many are duplicates X10 and thats is where my problem starts.

Many of these bank bags have a LOT of coins from Spain, Portugal, Yugaslavia and various other places. I am not sure how much I have in surplus coins, from all over the world, but it is many pounds.

Finally.......my question for ideas. What do I do with all these coins? The value od each coin is in many cases approaching zero. It might be remotely possible for someone to find a special date/lower grade coin if they looked, but I think very remote possibility.

I have sent a few hands full to friends that have the 5 for a dollar type junk box places but that didn't even make a dent in the volume.

Any good ideas on how to dispose of some of this bulk? This is really a serious request for ideas.

Scioto

Do they celebrate "Beggars Night" or "Trick or Treat" (Halloween) in Stord?
A few coins an some candy would be one way to rid yourself of them and maybe introduce collecting to a youngster.
If there is a Boy or Girl Scout troop you might make a donation so some might earn a badge in Numismatics.

newbiecollector

Good ideas but it would not work here unfortunately.

We don't have the traditional trick or treat night or the boy scouts........
but thanks

1jester

Do you have room in your attic, basement, closet, garage, etc? Perhaps you could keep them and let your grandkids look through them in a few decades. Not only would that be fun for them, but they might even be very valuable by then.

dcamp78

You can try selling them, but you're gonna get 5 or 10 cents each OR sell them by the pound for about 7 to 10 dollars per pound.

Try the BST first so there will be no fees...

lordmarcovan

Well, I have a 12.5-pound sack I bought from Aethelred in Charlotte and have yet to sort, and today a 35-pound sack arrived from ajaan, so I have 47.5 pounds of Darkside cherrypickin' fun in my near future.

The castoffs will go into my 10-cent (12/$1) loose pick bins at the antique mall, but I might have too much for even those drawers. I will likely have a big bulk selloff and dump them cheaply at cost plus shipping, or just put them out on eBay at a low start and take my chances.

There are plenty of craft applications for unwanted low-value world coins, too, by the way. I sent several pounds to a forum member who was making a countertop and sealing the coins under Lucite or some similar clear sealant. He didn't care that they were low value or even if some had one ugly side, since when they are sealed into the countertop the good side will be face up.

Another friend of mine had a glass lamp that was hollow and he wanted to fill it with coins.

Another time I had a huge surplus of Greek 2-drachmai pieces. I discovered that since they were the same size and weight as a US quarter, many of them would work in simpler vending machines like newspaper machines, so I got rid of a few that way in tollbooths and drink machines, but not too many in one place, since that would have been unethical. I still had a ton of them. So then I realized that since they were a goldish color and would polish up with a nice golden shine, they had jewelry potential, so I took them to work with me (I worked in a manufacturing plant at the time), and holed each of them at 12:00 on a drill press. This was a decade before the Holey Coin Vest idea came to me, and was my first holey project. I was gonna make a shirt of scale mail armor out of them. But I never did. I sold a bunch to a jewelry/craft store downtown and dumped the rest on eBay years later.

Think creatively and you might come up with some fun ideas for the surplus.

I am facing a similar situation with 1940s-50s wheat cents right now- they're dirt common coins barely worth two cents apiece and I probably have ten pounds of them. I might mix the wheaties and worldies together into a cheap bulk mixture.