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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4950546, member: 10461&quot;]The thing about world coins is that the varieties are seemingly infinite.&nbsp; No resource, be it book or video, is going to tell you everything you need to know.&nbsp; The Krause catalogs are just the most comprehensive single source.&nbsp; Just a starting point, if you will.</p><p><br /></p><p>You never know what will turn up in a bulk lot, and that’s the adventure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do try to look for lots that have some older material in them.&nbsp; That betters the odds.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Still, I had a 20-pound bag once that was nothing but modern 1970s-1990s material, and it was a dull lot with slim pickings, yet out of that whole bag I did get one single interesting find.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was a somewhat scarce variety of 1863 US Civil War token, with a prominent clipped planchet error.&nbsp; How <i>that</i> ended up in a German Bundesbank bag that was otherwise all modern European coins is anyone’s guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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