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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4948120, member: 10461"][USER=115398]@Everett Guy[/USER] - knowledge is key.  If you're going to hunt through World coins, you'll have a lot of fun, and will probably find some interesting things.  However, without the reference books to know what you have, you'll be hunting blindfolded. The Krause catalogs are the keys to the kingdom.  They're big, thick, and semi-expensive, but worth it.  Each volume covers a century of coins from all over the world, so you've got your 21st century volume, your 20th century, 19th, 18th, and 17th.  When I was doing it, there was no volume covering all the 16th century (1501-1600) coins, but you're not likely to find many of those in bulk lots anyway. I would start with the 20th century volume, which covers all the 1901-2000 coins.  That gives you coverage of most of what you're likely to find in those flea market lots.[/QUOTE]