I posted a couple of pictures last week and someone told me to photograph them straight - I just found these a week ago or so - I don't know anything about them they're my grandfather is having his stuff - p
Nothing strikes me as exceptional. They all look like the coins I have in my bulk lot drawer waiting for me to go through one day. The sort you can buy for $6 or $7 a pound.
how do I go about researching these ? must type the letter in a world coin identifier if there is such a thing - I love of them are from 1936
NGC has a good online World Coin Catalog. You can search there by country, denomination, and year minted. Most of those should be pretty easy, except the Israeli coins, those will take a bit more work.
See if your local or nearby library carries any of the Krause World Coin catalogs. They don't have to be the most recent and will help in ID'ing them.
Most of them if you can't figure it out based on what it says, type in what it says in Google and you should find it right away. As others have said, these are the type of coins that most dealers sell in bulk lots or 20 cents each. I could sell a few on eBay for $1.50 or so, but it might take several months to sell them. They're common, but that doesn't mean they're not collectible. Sometimes people think only rare coins are worth collecting, but I don't think that's the case. I probably have most of these coins in my collection myself.
I could not agree more with this statement. I have thousands of coins which are desirable (to me at least) but worth less than a dollar each, many much less and mostly bough in bulk lots. But they are coins and help tell the story of the money of their country.
As I said earlier - found these in my Grandpappys things - I have only been looking at coins for about 2 weeks. I am not sure it was him that traveled there. I love it. So bang interesting and engaging. They intrigue me unlike most things. Kinda been burned out on my profession and these came at the right time. Ty guys
Lots of fun for burnout. Let's take that 5 centavo coin. Go on Google and put "1937 5 centavo" (without the quotes) and search. Click on "images" and see if you see the coin. Read about it...repeat...happy hunting and be sure and let us know if you find anything interesting.
