I thought there was a thread for this, but searching I don't see anything. OK, so I'll start one. Flea market yesterday - guy has a ziplock bag of what looks to be all Mexican coins (after all, I live in Southern CA). I root around in them and come out with these for $1 The one centavo is 1906, I was intrigued with a 500 peso coin, I like owls (gonna get me an Athena one day) and I like Indian coins. What have you found?
Ohh I like those while (especially the owl one, the eagle on in the top right of the bottom pic, and the one centavo) I don't have any experience buying coins I have found 2 mercury dimes in the bottom of a coin star and a wheat penny in the bottom of a sticky old cup holder if those count. Edit: (pictures) Thanks, Jacob
I like your coins and I think they are definitely worth a buck to get them. I have only found this one coin at a local store. There is a little plastic cup where they have pennies that people can take or leave. To be honest, I do not know how that works or why it is there; but, I always look through the cup to see if there are wheat cents in there. If there are, I ask to exchange those for new cents. The lady always agrees. This day when I came across this coin at the bottom of the cup, the store owner invited me to take it. Neither of us knew where it was from. I found out once I got home that it's from the Ukraine. I like it a bunch for a couple of reasons I won't go all into here.
The 500 peso coin was before the devaluation. (1000-1 face value would be 50 centavos (1/2 a peso) about 3 cents) most likely worth more as a coin to a collector. 50 cents says NGC. The Euro is worth more than a dollar but there is no way to cash it in. The old centavo is worth 50-80 cents depending on the variety.
Yeah, didn't think I was getting rich, just like I found a couple of 500 yen coins in a junk box and thought...Wow, those are almost $5...and then I realized that I wasn't going to Japan in the near future.
Actually my daughter and her husband went to Japan some time later and I gave them a bunch of modern coins I didn't want.
Here's a few. The Turkish 25 kurush is gold and has about $50 worth of gold in it, so I'm pretty proud of finding that for 15 cents.
It was at my favorite local coin shop, which like most coin shops has world coin junk bins but specializes in U.S. coins. It's a small coin. I assume they just thought it was a token or something. It's also Turkish with no Western date or writing on it, so it's easy to dismiss if you don't know much about the series. I only knew enough to know it might be something good, until I got home and was able to do some research.
