I feel like I scored, a 1935 British George V Half crown for 20 cents

OK so I have decided I want to do a crowns of the world set (ordered a dansco album for it) mixed with world bullion.

So I head to my local coin shop, now I had done some research and have educated myself a little on crowns and ask if they had any foreign crowns or any silver foreign junk coins. I am completely skunked as the shop mostly only deals in US coins being a a US shop. The lady does bring me up a bucket of just random foreign coins that are just 20 cents each, probably just where they dump all there foreign coins when someone tries to sell them.

I decide I might as well grab a few of the Brittania pennies that I like as they are cheap and fun and going through the coins I discover a 1935 half crown which I know is %50 silver. I mean this is a coin shop that has thrown a %50 silver coin in with random junk foreign coins and pennies. I mean I wouldn't expect a normal store to know the difference or your regular average joe but good gravy this is a coin shop selling a $5-10 coin in a junk bin.

I felt like I finally scored I always check coin stars and never see anything I feel I never get that lucky silver coin find so score and a coin shop none the less.

Do you think British coin shops do this throw all the random a US coins in a junk bin including the occasional 1968 kennedy half dollar.

I also grabbed a Elizabeth 1955 half crown, a Elizabeth 1965 chuchhill crown (it will likely go into my crowns set until I get more because why the heck not kind of cool looking coin and it was 20 cents) and some random pennies and centavos I just liked the design of figured fun little coins. I also got a brittania one ounce and silver eagle for my set.

Still love the silver coin for cheap though

 

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Congrats. I'm always surprised when I am able to do this. Generally when I go through my coin shop's foreign bin I'll buy maybe 300 coins and 5 or 6 will be silver. It seems so obvious which ones are silver but they just miss them. Some that commonly slip by are British 3 pence, Swedish 10 ore and Mexican 25 centavos from 1950-53.

 

I don't know about British coin shops but in South Korea this past June I found a merchant in Seoul who had a small box of half dollars for sale at the equivalent of $2 each.

Most were your common and circulated halves from 1971 but there were three 40% halves mixed in the lot. I bought two of them. Two dollars each wasn't bad and to top it off they came in nice capsules.

 

Yea that's totally interesting I guess you collect your country of orgins coins first. I mean I am doing 3 different US type sets and a bunch of other random sets like a Franklin, Sac dollar, presidential dollar, Washington Statehood, National parks quarter sets.

I just thought a coin shop would know better to at least check the silver of the coins first.

This is my first branch out into foreign coins so I have done a lot to educate myself,

 

The only British coin shop I went to did not have any silver in the junk bin. The only American coin in the junk bin at the time was a clad Ike. The shop was in Bath.