Adventures with Bulk World Coins
By Dan Lewis |
Mon, 18 Jun 2007
A great numismatic adventure that can be appreciated by young
and old, newbie collectors and experienced numismatists, is spending a few
hours going through a bag of bulk world coins.
These coins can be obtained inexpensively, and can be purchased by the
pound in increments of 1, 3, 5, 10 and 25 pounds.
Generally speaking, the majority of the coins found in these
lots come from counting houses all over the world. These companies have contracts with amusement
parks, transportation systems and a host of other entities that process large
volumes of coins. In the daily receipts,
thousands of pieces turn up that were not originally intended to be used as
legal tender in the place they were found, and are rejected by the counting
machines. These are the coins that make
up a large portion of the bulk world coins that are sold by the pound. It is not unusual to find medals, tokens or
other interesting items in any given bag.
