Who do you trust for coins in bulk?

[bunhead]

Hello, everyone. I'm a collector of low value circulated coins, principally British. I got started buying a kilo of world coins on my birthday every year, and spending many a happy hour sorting them. I don't believe for a minute that what I bought wasn't pre-searched for goodies and I certainly never found anything outstanding, but I had a lot of fun for not a lot of money.

I usually end up giving away my coins to kids, doing what I can to steer their interest toward history (and most particularly British predecimal currency).

I've had a read through the backlog of posts here and obviously you guys are proper collectors with specific goals, but I wonder if any of you ever buy unknown coins in bulk and, if so, from whom. I moved from the US to the UK seven years ago (yeah, wow, it's been that long since I've bought a bag of coins) and so my old supplier is no longer an option.

[PWA 1967]

Hi bunhead and welcome to the forum.

Not my thing as prefer to look for the better quality ones,but just thought i would say hello.

Pete.

[Nordle11]

Hi bunhead,

Just echoing what Pete has said, although back in my early days I did used to buy a lot of cheap bulk coins from ebay to sort through.

Welcome nonetheless

Edited August 2, 2015 by Nordle11

[scott]

ebay is good, once bought a a good load of them... and found a Rhodesia key date sixpence.

not bough a load for a long while, everyone catches onto them and pays a fair bit on bulk on ebay now.

[Mr T]

Sorry - not from the UK so I don't know what the best option is there, but I usually go for a dealer's junk box at a coin show (no postage!). It depends what you're looking for but I do okay looking for low value circulated Commonwealth stuff. If the dealer is lazy you can find some half decent stuff too (VF-EF early 20th century, UNC late 20th century). There will almost certainly be no rare dates of any value but a rare variety isn't out of the question.