Searching though a few mixed pounds and found key date

Jinx86

Now if this were only a US minted key date from this era....wow. Really starting to understand how many world coins seem under valued.

Coin was a 1839 Russian 10 Kopek with mintage of 350,000. Maybe worth $10 on a good day.

lordmarcovan

You said a "few mixed pounds" and I thought you were talking about modern UK 1-pound coins.

Bulk cherrypickin' is a blast, ain't it? And you must have had a pretty good mixture to get something so early-dated, let alone a better date.

Jinx86

local dealer doesnt do anything with world coins so I worked a deal where I buy anything and everything he gets in world coin wise. That includes silver...I couldnt beleive it when I found a Kiangnan Prov China Silver Dollar. Still have it too, has one large and several small chop marks to it.

lordmarcovan

Cherrypicking bulk world coins used to be my favorite game.

Jinx86

Ive read that once before when youve posted it. I love hearing storings of great coins being found with very little $

StubbyMcNumbthumbs

That's what got me started collecting farthings. While at my local B&M in Nashville a few years back, I was waiting for Mike to finish with another customer, so I started picking through his 25cent box and found a really nice 1773 GeoIII farthing. I thought "If this were an EAC from the same time frame it would be at least $75-$100 in this condition." Then I realized these WERE legal tender in America back then.

It wasn't long before I was putting together a set. Now they're my main focus.

olmanjon

Love cherry picking those little foreign beauties. It is my passion.
Olmanjon

olmanjon

Jinx
Was that Kopek the cm mint mark?

Jinx86

Wish I knew, all I can make out of the MM is the M....well worn example

amwldcoin

My best pick out of poundage was a Bechler Gold Dollar. I almost missed it too! They look quite brassy and I tossed it in the token pile to only go back 3 coins latter thinking wait a minute! I have no idea where or what group it was in as I used to let it pile up before I would go through it. Was a nice problem free example also!!!!

Jinx86

Wow, gold....now thats what Im talking bout.

BillyKingsley

I love doing the mixed world coins. I would say, not counting Canada, roughly 95% of my world collection came from doing the mixed pounds. Let's see...I did a pound for myself in 2008, I got three pounds for Christmas in 2009, 1 pound for Christmas 2010, and I used a Paypal gift card from my mom to nab a 5-pound lot off ebay, which arrived 12/30/10. Then in January of this year I bought almost a pound of pre-1900 coins from Ajaan. That was cool. Especially as I don't, err, didn't have a whole lot from the 1800s.

I have not found anything really spectacular, two minor errors- but very cool to me even though everyone else says they are "worthless". Bah. I don't do this to sell them, I do it because it's fun. And to make my collection larger.

The oldest I've gotten, from all those lots combined, but from ajaan is from 1766, but it's worn so smooth I couldn't ID it on my own. Luckily a specialist saw it and recognixed it, because it's identifying characteristics mostly gone. It was a one-year type.


Not counting the lot I bought from Ajaan, the oldest I found was from 1893, in the first bag I bought myself back in 2008. French 10 centimes.