World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

That's good to know. Thanks for the insight.

I'm just starting my interest in world coins and simply starting with the bargain bin at my LCS, which luckily has some decent scarce coins dropped there and he usually sells them for ~25 cents each.

 

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world coins rule.

 

And actually - what kind of $ amount would be put on something like my 10 Lepta?

I understand that the world coin market is widely variable, especially in low circulated grades and even the price books/guides are very unreliable.

I also buy up pretty much every 'large' copper/bronze/nickel coins in the world coin bin as well. It's just simple plain cheap fun.

 

in that grade ? it would be cheap. now for the person that had to have it... more.

 

Having purchased similar coins I think you might be able to get around $10 for it on eBay, but it really depends on who sees it and how bad they want it. Greek coins from the early 1800s don't come up for sale that often so sometimes they fetch more money than you might expect.

 

That's the way to do it. A good way to start is buy everything from earlier than the 1940s and buy anything from unusual countries. Plus keep your eye out for dirty silver that gets overlooked.

 

Speaking of dirty silver that got overlooked:



Found these in the junk bin for 50 cents each.

 

are these Russian ? what are their dates (1846 and 1848 ?) and denominations ??? I would like to look them up in my 2016 Krause catalog

 

Austrian 20 kreuzers 1846 and 48 A

 

Austria 20 kreuzers , KM#2208 , .5830 silver weight- 6.6800g. or .1252 oz.

1846 A mintage-?
F-$2.50 VF-$5.00 XF-$10.00 UNC-$35.00

1848 A mintage-13,632,000
F-$3.00 VF-$6.00 XF-$10.00 Unc-$30.00

not sure what your coins grades are ?
2016 Krause catalog values may differ than real life values.

 

Especially when they're 2000+ years old.

 

I like 18th and 19th century, and some modern.

 

Same! 18th and 19th centuries are my favorites.

 

Here's three new ones I picked up this morning

1903 Kirin 20 Cash(es) matches my 1903 10 Cash(es)

1901~1903 Foo~Kien 10 Cash

1906 Fung~Tien 10 Cash

 

Just won this "baby" that commemorates the 500th year of the University of Leipzig.

Mintage: 125000 (normal) + 300 (proof)

 

Gem grade also Great pickup!

 

I forgot to post the previous one I had received prior to the Saxony one... So here it is!

 

Attractive coins, both. The TPG company's label for the Baden piece is a little misleading, by the way: Baden-Durlach ceased to exist in the mid/late 18th century. It merged with the Margraviate of Baden-Baden, and the two became "Baden".

Christian

 

Yup I had already noticed that the TPG does sometimes miss on the accuracy of the correct state. In this case its not even a matter of giving it the wrong state (that would be even worse) but simply not being historically accurate. Thanks for the FYI.

 

Not mine . it's up for sale in Germany.