That moment when you literally strike gold

Received a couple bulk world coin lots I purchased on eBay over the weekend, which I felt had potential.



Found a handful of junk silver, as well as some better coins, and then bam!





Vatican 100 lire 1934 KM# 9 - 8.8 grams .900 gold Mintage: 2,533 coins

I don't often score this big, but it's stuff like this that keeps me picking at good looking bulk lots

 

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Wow great score!

 

Wow! Congratulations! Can't deny some jealousy here....

What did you pay for the lot?

 

I paid $155 total for the two lots. Not sure which one it came from as I dumped out parts of both to look through simultaneously

 

sweet score. wow lucky

 

I have lot envy!

I got a couple of tins of world coins for £8 from a boot sale. It looked like someone had been on their travels around the world in the 40s and 50s to more recent. Got a good number of different country coins with 3 or 4 small silver. Sadly none were gold. Got about US $4 and a few Euros that jointly refunded me the cost. My 'gold' were some zinc occupation coins from Belgium and France.

 

That's crazy.
Not just any world gold, but a good looking, low mintage, Vatican example.
Bravo.

 

I know, it's like a double whammy. There were a few other Vatican coins in there, including a decent looking 1932 silver 10 lire and a nice MS 1931 one lire

 

Wow, congrats on a huge score Mat!

 

That coin is in fantastic shape for being in a bag of coins. Great find!

 

I'm impressed!!!

 

I sense the price of mixed foreign lots on eBay just went up 20%. [emoji6]

 

The competition has been getting steadily more fierce for some years now. It's crazy the stuff you can find out there!

 

Well, I never thought to be bidding on world lots.

 

I guess it's not so different from bidding on US lots. Some good ones, some "troll lots" where the seller is trying to make it look worthwhile when they know it's all junk. Really hit or miss with bulk lots regardless of where the coins are from. It will always take time to hone a sense in order to tip the odds in your favor and learn to spot and avoid troll lots
My strategy is to bid what I see as the worst case scenario price based on what I can see in the pics. Usually works out well for me, but some people are sneaky and present potentially good stuff that is actually damaged to worthlessness on the side that is hidden. Some really tricky trollers out there, so anyone doing this has to accept the fact that they will get burned sometimes. The trick is to score more often than you get burned in the long game

 

OP, you have led me into the sin of envy. Ask the Holy Father what he thinks of that.

 

Yeah right? I'ma looking on ebay now...

 

Welp, there goes my bread n' butter

 

I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of us are envious every day that we go on the forum.

 

So really, it is hotbed of sin.