Still can't believe this....

Bought a lot of junk silver and these were in there....

Matt helped me determine that my one coin I had looked up is in deed a key date coin. Hard to place a value since I can't find any past sales for this coin anywhere.

The Canada one is just a plain 10 cent with a little filed rim so I don't need much help with that one.

Haven't dug into the other two yet as I know nothing about foreign coins, so any additional information would be greatly appreciated

1888 Venezuela Gr 2.500, 1/2 Bolivar

 

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Venezuela, 1/2 Bolivar, 1888, Y#21, mintage-230,000 .835 silver
grade/value
F-$400.00 VF-$600.00 XF-$1,100.00 UNC-$2,000.00
very lucky find. awesome. not sure what grade your coins is in ???
values may vary in the real market vs. Krause catalog.

 

Venezuela, gram 5 (bolivar), 1935, mintage-5,000,000 , .835 silver
grade/value
F-VF-$BV XF-$5.00 UNC-$6.00
values may vary in the real market vs. Krause catalog.

 

Canada, 1911 10 cents, KM#11, mintage-2,737,584 , .925 silver
grade/value
VG-8-$5.00 F-$12.00 VF-$20.00 XF-$45.00
values may vary in the real market vs. Krause catalog.

 

It happens more than you think with world coins. I bought an album of world coins just for fun once. On many of them they had "prices", (I didn't bid on this, in fact paid like $120 for about 300 coins total). On one "price" it had listed $650. I thought, yeah right, and looked it up. In the 5 year old Krause book at the time it had actually gone up to about $800 for that coin.

World and ancient coins are a much better place to get rewarded for your knowledge than US coins generally. Most dealers in the US don't bother, and only look up very high grade foreign coins, and generally ignore ancients altogether.

 

Chile, 1907, 20 centavos, KM#151.2, mintage-7,625,000 , .500 silver
grade/value
F-$2.00 VF-$4.00 XF-$10.00
values may vary in the real market vs. Krause catalog.

 

Score, Watch what you try and sell it for, except on Fleabay

 

Dealers especially ignore non-silver coins. They know silver has a value and will usually look it up, if just to find out the silver content. While they're there, they'll look at the price. If it's a base-metal coin they're not likely to look it up and assume it has no value.

 

That is my bread n' butter

 

The market for Venezuelan coins has cooled down some over the past year or two, after a huge surge. Still, prices are generally higher than Krause lists. That 1/2 bolivar is in pretty rough shape, well circulated with scratches on both sides. It's still worth a good $150-$200 on the auction block, and can probably get more in a retail situation.

Definitely a great find, congrats

 

Someone must really want it. It's got 7+ days left and were already up to $280 with 11 watchers.

I guess you never know when there isn't many of them for sale on the market. I'm just hoping it doesn't stop there lol

 

supply and demand. let us know what it goes to...curious here...

 

Jeez! Last time I saw one it went for under $200 and was also in rough shape.

 

I know thet feeling my friend. I recently bought a sheet of 20-coin plastic inserts for $5 a pop and found a nice silver Costa Rican coin worth $125. So yes if you educate yourself on especially world coins you can make a nice small profit. Just FYI. Buy the book before you buy the coin.

 

$330 with 3+ hours to go.

 

Holy Snikes!!

 

Is it going international?

 

Amazingly no. The last 3 bidders were all in the US.

 

Nice.

 

Well done!