I've inherited a moderately sized collection of coins from all over the world. I'm curious if anyones willing to help me dig through them. I am currently photographing each coin front and back. It's been tons of fun, but I'm coin illiterate. I dont intend to sell...for now but I'm curious if I should invest in some insurance or a safety deposit box. Feel free to email as well edited
First of all.. DO NOT SHARE your e-mail. It is against the rules! There is a World Coins forum here on CoinTalk. Post your coins there. Most world coins you can get 4 or 5 for $1.00 at the flea market. Welcome to CoinTalk
That is great that your are enthusiastic. And I'm only trying to help. Again.. welcome to CoinTalk Peace
I seem to be unable to edit or remove. Thank you for your help.I Apologize (third time now) if I misunderstood you. I figured I would be able learn more from a site like this than Wikipedia etc..
Hi Alicia. Welcome to CoinTalk. Not sure if anyone told you yet do not clean yours coins because it will kill their value. Your Australia 1921 cent is Bronze, Has a mintage of 7,438,000. Your coins value in grade in very fine is $6.00. In extra fine it is valued at $40.00 . I look forward to seeing more of your world coins.
No need to apologize Alicia, you're just new here and simply didn't know. And it's not that it's against the rules per se, it's that we want to help our members protect themselves. Ya see, this is a busy place, a popular website. And as such, at any given moment, 24/7/365, there are 40-50 bots accessing this forum that are archiving and/or harvesting information. Now some and probably even most of the bots are harmless, nothing more than search engine bots. But some of them are not harmless, some of them are specifically looking for personal information, stuff like email addresses, phones numbers, mailing addresses etc etc. And once gathered that info is then sold to 3rd parties, spammers for the most part. So if you post that personal info, well, I think you get the message by now. In any event I removed your email address.
I believe what he meant to say, is at any given moment there are 40-50 bots from outside sources attempting to harvest information.
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I've just completed selling a large world coin collection on eBay that spanned several centuries. I'd suggest you purchase a set of Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins for each century of the coins you've inherited. It will help you learn about the coins, their value and most importantly, a bit of history and geography for each coin. I recommend the DVD set, so you can search easier. Try to figure out how much each coin might have purchased in the year it was minted and you will grow to appreciate the knowledge of world history the coins can provide.
The vast majority of members of Coin Talk are more than willing to help with your questions. You can also find useful information on sites like this: https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/australia-penny-km-23-1911-1936-cuid-1068216-duid-1220864 As you can see, your 1921 penny has some value in grades xf and better. Unfortunately, I have no clue on how to grade Australian coins.
True World coins often sell by the pound. But! Older coins might be silver. Especially the higher denominations. Even the lower value ones may have more metal value than face value. You can find books for world coin values. But they are huge and kind of expensive. If your coins are older, a used one would do fine. Also, you can always go on Ebay and check. Dang near everything is on there. Amazon too. Places like that will give you a real world idea of value. And, you can check prior sales results. I would research this. You can probably find useful info on over 80% of it. But if you do not, it may indicate either extremely common, or great rarity. But, if rare, its less likely to happen. But you never know. Enjoy your search.