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Rest in Peace
United States
18456 Posts |
I'm sure everyone of us has at least one junk box . I have 2 ,one for U.S. and foreign junk silver .and one for cull copper and Nickels . Tell us about yours .  |
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New Member
Canada
24 Posts |
My junk box consists of coins I won at auctions and that ended up not being as nice as pictured when I received them. Not a big fan of online auctions anymore!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1795 Posts |
I wouldn't consider mine junk but I actually have two. One has my doubles of slabbed coins that I purchased and the other has my junk ...foreign coins, and odds and ends coins that are lowball that I picked up here and there.
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
I would say I have a junk box, but I'm just that guy who puts all of his junk foreigns in the same album as all his other coins. A lot of them are in my safe right now though
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5239 Posts |
Not necessarily junk, but I used to have a well-organized collection of foreign duplicates for trading, sorted loose by country, with the better ones in flips to avoid damage. As my collection got large, the clerical effort of keeping track of the duplicates exceeded the benefit of the trades, so I just sold the lot.
Other odds and ends just get dumped in a box, and eventually I either sell them or add them to one of my sub-collections.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
I mostly buy lots on ebay. I put the nicest coins in 2x2s or some sort of organizer if I don't want them in 2x2s. The majority of junk world coins get organized into ziploc baggies by country or currency series, and all of those baggies go into a shoebox in a horrendous confusing mess. I periodically take one baggie and cull all of the duplicates into a gallon size bag to be sold on ebay. |
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Valued Member
United States
156 Posts |
I actually liquidated my junk box as I am refocusing my collection.
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Moderator
 United States
34397 Posts |
I have a bunch of nearly cull Polish and Latvian pfennige from the mid to late 1600s. I'm working on a plan to give them away. Stay tuned to the contest forum as my plans come together.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Valued Member
United States
123 Posts |
No such thing as "junk"! It's called "resale."
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
I donate most of my extra stuff to YN bags and for Boy Scouts working on their coin merit badge.
Thus, I get paid a lot of happy smiles.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
I spend all of my IHC, LWC and Buffalo nickel culls (probably thousands over the years) in hopes of getting someone started. |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
1078 Posts |
I have a "junk" selection of world coins that don't fit any categories I sort them by (country, series etc.) or appeal to me. They go in a big box. I also have a small but pretty box of world silver that also don't fit any categories, but not necessarily less interesting.
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Rest in Peace
 United States
18456 Posts |
moxking and Coinfrog , I like your style ! It's always nice to get newcomers into the hobby.  |
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Valued Member
Slovenia
459 Posts |
Don't have a junk box as such, but a small drawer where I keep zip-lock bags with various odds and ends world coins. I sold about 1/4 of those last month and thinking about selling more :)
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
My junk box has several sub divisions:-
Poor quality ancient fake coins (50 or so)
World pure nickel coins (perhaps 200)
World junk coins (more than 200)
World junk silver coins (about 10 ounces)
World lower value banknote accumulation of perhaps 200 pieces
Miscellaneous tokens and low value medals (70 or so)
Uncirculated Australian coin rolls in original Mint wrappers from the late 1960's. (7)
I also have a junk (mainly) stamp collection, but included in it are some (50 or so), Australian States stamps pre Australian Federation in 1900. Most of them are Australian pre decimal, 1900-1966.
Maybe (excluding stamps) 1,000 pieces in all. At least 500 stamps extra.
Together, they make for a rather interesting accumulation, but they do not take part in the main body of my collection, which numbers perhaps 2,500 pieces, ancient to modern.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2403 Posts |
I don't have a junk box, mine is more of a Junk Piggy bank. Its a Bengal tiger in a cage I got as a birthday present when I was 8 years old. Same birthday I got my 1st coin which is still in there. A Turkish Lira from the 70's.
I have since added some junk US silver coins and some foreign coins I have gotten from change or found on the ground somewhere. I also have several clean plastic butter containers filled with pennies that I have no idea what I am going to do with...maybe start a penny book.
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04/01/2016 02:57 am
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