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<p>[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 1593774, member: 40017"]Well - I will share an alternative to all the above: Put a small wanted ad in your local paper. I do that in the UK, and although I get asked to look at a lot of junk, I have also had some enormous victories that will pay for the ad for the next 50 years. Many people are convinced that their old drawer full of coins - local and foreign - are too worthless to take to the bank, so a small ad offering cash for old coins can get them moving.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have had a bag of old coins that the owner described as "c**p" which proved to be mostly 19th Century Indian Silver. I have had bag loads of pre-decimal coinage that the owners have wanted no more than face value for that have contained large numbers of 0.500 and 0.925 silver. And on top of that, searching and researching through 20 kilos of mixed coinage is great fun, and a real education![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 1593774, member: 40017"]Well - I will share an alternative to all the above: Put a small wanted ad in your local paper. I do that in the UK, and although I get asked to look at a lot of junk, I have also had some enormous victories that will pay for the ad for the next 50 years. Many people are convinced that their old drawer full of coins - local and foreign - are too worthless to take to the bank, so a small ad offering cash for old coins can get them moving. I have had a bag of old coins that the owner described as "c**p" which proved to be mostly 19th Century Indian Silver. I have had bag loads of pre-decimal coinage that the owners have wanted no more than face value for that have contained large numbers of 0.500 and 0.925 silver. And on top of that, searching and researching through 20 kilos of mixed coinage is great fun, and a real education![/QUOTE]
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