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Valued Member
United States
309 Posts |
I once asked a group of coin dealers what they had in their junk boxes and they looked at me funny saying our merchandise is not junk. They know exactly what their inventory is and nothing occupies a coin dealer's junk box. I think for collectors that things might be different. Here is my junk box for minor Spanish colonial silver. They are toning nicely in a Georgian era, shield-shaped, brass jeton/whist token container. What is in your junk box? One person's junk may be another's treasure.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
589 Posts |
These coins are outstanding. Very nice colonials.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4883 Posts |
I wouldn't apply the term "junk" to those.
Colligo ergo sum
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Pillar of the Community
United States
992 Posts |
I have two 'junk' boxes, or rather four of them. One is British and Empire coinage in less than XF condition, the other is pre-1965 world coins in same shape, and the third is modern coinage I try to get rid of as soon as it's enough to garner a bid in a local auction. The first two boxes are the fun, what would a halfpenny buy in 1903, or a franc in Morocco in 1924, that kind of thing. What did the farmer in Gujerat get for his two Annas in 1945?
The fourth box is a chest of world silver coins, in less than the pristine condition collectors want. It's just as much fun as any row of slabbed gems, if you ask me. I'm certain one of the silver pesos is the one pressed into the hand of Fred C. Dobbs in Tampico by John Huston in 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre', or maybe it's the next one, I don't know.
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Valued Member
United States
167 Posts |
Ya I wouldnt consider this a junk box either..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
I have one junk box of post 1930's world coinage. Each of your silvers is probally a good chunk of my regular collections value. If you think its junk maybe send one of them my way haha, they look so beautiful and exotic.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
I have a few P.E.T. clear plastic screw top jars, each for:
-fake ancient coins (high quality dangerous fakes are stored separately),
-World junk silver coins,
-World pure nickel coins,
-medals / medallions I can't identify,
-screw encapsulated NCLT proof silver coins,
-Australian 80% silver 50 cent pieces
-left over tourist coins, (they are a bane, because people know I am a coin collector, they just leave all of their left over tourist coins with me)
None of these coins are in the main body of my collection.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
17943 Posts |
I have a junk box of holed, worn and damaged silver coins that I should really have sold when silver was at its peak, but didn't. I also have a tin containing grotty copper and bronze found with my metal detector.
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Valued Member
United States
453 Posts |
I keep my well circulated silver seperate in a compartmentalized box but I've never thought of it as a junk box. I guess thats just a mental thing with me.
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Pillar of the Community
Hong Kong
1270 Posts |
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One person's junk may be another's treasure. That's really true. I don't have any junk box. Once they are historical, they are not junk to me. |
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Pillar of the Community
Austria
566 Posts |
I would buy that junk at any time!
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Pillar of the Community
Austria
566 Posts |
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Valued Member
United States
167 Posts |
If you consider this junk then please PLEASE sell it to me for junk bin prices. That determines whether or not it is considered a junk bin in my opinion.
With that being said the question is will you sell it for junk bin prices?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
992 Posts |
If you sell it for junk, be sure to get 'junque' prices, they're nice looking coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4846 Posts |
I think junk is a relative term here mullen, what he would sell them at doesn't really make a difference between whether or not he would consider them "junk"
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5362 Posts |
Junk is like so many other things - in the eye of the beholder.
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Posted 02/09/2015 10:38 pm
