# How to turn a pile of seemingly unremarkable coins into money? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874 "2013-05-09T08:03:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/21 "2013-05-09T18:07:22Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The quarter is worth at least $4 US in scrap and probably about twice that to a collector. The other coins are only worth their face value. Spot silver value today is $4.33 (per quarter, not per ounce). To be worth more to a collector, it would have to be uncirculated (shiney and in a protected holder). In our town, the coin place will buy any silver or gold at the spot value. Not sure where else to go. Ebay and other online sites have knocked the props out of most of the collector type coin shops in our area. Maybe look for a coin collection event? Or a flea market/rummage sale? ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/22 "2013-05-09T18:52:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Forget eBay - just list the grab-bags here in the Marketplace forum. I’m sure any number of Dopers, myself included, would take a flyer on one. I shall have to look up postage rates from here to other places. Then I might. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/23 "2013-05-09T19:04:36Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > I shall have to look up postage rates from here to other places. Then I might. I’m in the UK - and I’ll be interested in mixed random bags of these coins if the price is reasonable. Which charity is this raising funds for? - I might also be interested even if the price isn’t reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/24 "2013-05-09T20:02:05Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Have you _tried_ CoinStar? In the UK? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/25 "2013-05-09T21:36:34Z")
We do have coinstar machines here in the UK, but of course they’ll reject everything on that list, as they’re configured for Sterling. (In fact, some of my collection of random foreign coins came from the reject chutes of coinstar machines - some people just leave any rejects in there) ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/26 "2013-05-09T22:40:24Z")
Make an “ **=£s** ” sculpture or framed work and auction it. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/27 "2013-05-10T13:38:14Z")
> [@JerrySTL](#): > > Also if any of the coins are older, say pre-1960, then they may have _ **numismatic** _ value depending on the condition of the coin and things like mint marks. I learned something new today. You can check today off the list. Ignorance fought on 5/10/2013. Not only did I not know the meaning of numismatic; I don’t know that I’ve ever heard or seen that word before. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/28 "2013-05-10T23:07:13Z")
I’ll take the NUM badge and mining token - PM me what you want for them. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/29 "2013-05-11T23:42:50Z")
If there are enough of them, dig out a good mixture of small-sized ones, drill tiny holes in them, and make them into charm bracelets with about 10-12 coins on each one. Offer them on Ebay. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/30 "2013-05-12T08:07:48Z")
In my vocabulary “do something with them” includes the option “throw them away”. Problem solved! ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/31 "2013-05-12T08:36:19Z")
> [@](#): > > 25 coins in three denominations I can’t identify, but which seem to have Angkor Wat on one side and a studious looking young man in glasses on the other These are almost certainly from Thailand and not Cambodia. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/32 "2013-05-12T12:02:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Forget eBay - just list the grab-bags here in the Marketplace forum. I’m sure any number of Dopers, myself included, would take a flyer on one. This.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/33 "2013-05-12T13:05:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Forget eBay - just list the grab-bags here in the Marketplace forum. I’m sure any number of Dopers, myself included, would take a flyer on one. He’d have to buy a membership. Guests aren’t allowed to sell stuff in the Marketplace. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874/34 "2013-05-13T08:25:34Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > 25 coins in three denominations I can’t identify, but which seem to have Angkor Wat on one side and a studious looking young man in glasses on the other > [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > These are almost certainly from Thailand and not Cambodia. Indeed, the “studious young man” would be the Thai king. I suspect you have one-, five- and 10-baht coins. Those all have various temples on the reverse (but not Angkor Wat). So does the two-baht coin, but that one’s pretty new. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-a-pile-of-seemingly-unremarkable-coins-into-money/657874.md?page=1)