Need some help with a small lot of foreign money please.

I am helping a friend clean out her parents home & this lot of foreign money is one of the things we have found.
She has no attachment to it so she put the bag in one of my many boxes of stuff to sell.
I have found some of the items on ebay & they are all over the map. None are in pristine condition & in fact some have some severe condition issues.
My question is should I just sell the whole thing as a lot or individual items or a mixture of both.
These are the ones I had considered listing individually - BWDIK so that is why I decided to ask here first.
The 50 German Mark note is from 1914. The British Guiana $1 bill is from 1938. The Netherlands 2 1/2 cent coin is 1872. The 5 1 penny coins are from 1917, 1919, 1920 & 1927.



Thanks for any & all advice or opinions!!!

 

Thanks Davey!!!

So what you are saying is I should try the British Guiana & the 2 1/2 Gulden by themselves?

How about the German 50 marks note? There were a few that sold for decent money.

Should I just lump the silver coins in with the lot?

I was going to start the auction listings at $9.99 for individual pieces & the lot. How does that sound?

She does not have any preconceived ideas as to what anything will sell for & was thrilled with her first check for $356.50 that she got Saturday night.

 

The German note selling for anything is a fluke of getting two uneducated bidders at the same time

Do a lot of just silver and a second lot for the rest (or throw one silver coin in the lot so you can put SILVER in the title)

 

THe tiny Douai emergency notes are ones I am not familar with, but it's been decades since I dealt extensively in notes and they may be fairly common on closer examination.

British Commonwealth collectors while relishing a perfect note as much as anyone, will still buy scarce notes in reasonable condition, so the BG dollar will sell.
Apart from the 2 1/2 gulden, the coins would go in the appropriate scrap boxes, and the notes would go in the common notes rummage box. The West African 25 Francs is uncommon but too poor to bother with.

If listing, I'd do the minor coins as one lot because I can't see anything apart from a few grams of silver worth the postage to anywhere.

In general, davey has it pretty well sussed.

 

Thanks Davey, AF & Terry!!!

I think I will split them up into 3 lots just to make my life a little easier. The Gulden, the British Guiana dollar & then everything else.

Should I do anything to the coins at all or just sell them as found? I was thinking of at least giving them a good wash in some mild soap & water.

I am glad I did a little research on this lot though because I almost took it to the local auction house, but foreign money rarely gets much interest there like American coins do. As a matter of fact I may see if I can get some cheap lots in the future.

 

If the British copper coins are worth as little as I think they are, they might be best drilled for jewelry. Coin jewelry bracelets can be worth more than they would be as common coins. I'd sell them intact though and let the buyer worry about it. Don't polish the silver coins; collectors like them grungy.

 

The British coppers are worth as little as you think they are.

Otherwise I'd not have many thousands of them :-(

I'd not even wash them. Any form of cleaning coins is usually rated as taboo, because it's easier than spending a week explaining the few things you can do that won't devalue the coins.

As a matter of fact I may see if I can get some cheap lots in the future

If you have a pretty good grasp of world history, things to look out for are banknotes from regimes that did not collapse, which is pretty much the British Empire and not much else. Maybe Scandinavia and Switzerland....

Assorted small foreign, what we coin folk call 'minors' won't have any silver in them after about 1950, mid 60's for richer countries. In general they are worth about $10 a kilo if silverless. You'll have a good chance if you pay $5 a pound or so, of finding something intersting, but you are far more likely to this in a jumble of coins in a box with other junk than in what appears to be a collection.
If that is going for a few bucks at your local sale, that's probably all it's worth.

Some of my best coin finds have been among stuff tucked away in drawers and forgotten.

Larger coins like your 2 1/2 gulden are more sought after, they usually had a worthwhile value at the time and tend to be scarcer, but again, after the 1950s they were usually copper nickel and pretty common.

If you do see something that looks interesting. you know where to come for some quick comments.

 

Also...if folks have a lot of old cheap coins and want to make into jewelry, they sell coin holders to hold the coin in place with a bale for a bracelet or necklace.

Example

 

The square Dutch coin is 1939 & the French coin is 1954.

Thanks again for everyone's help!!!