Here's an idea I had back in my metal detecting days when I ran across a site that was loaded with old silverware from old1900s hotels that long disappeared.
I thought it would be cool to have made a framed and matted shadow box thing containing a silverware piece I dug up with a postcard from that hotel (lots of them for cheap on
ebay) and a little something about why that hotel was important. Because on their own, the silverware was worthless. And I had a whole mess of it.
So now here's the thing: I was born and raised in Chicago, which was home to the 1892 Columbian Expositon (world's fair). It ran from 1982-93, and was where people of that day first saw electricity, among other things, So I got the idea to repurpose my Expo coins that way, adding stamps of the day made specifically for the world's fad or spoons or other flat-ish stuff that would make an awesome presentation piece for auction buyerrs or a good place on your wall or something. It occurs to me that there is probably a bigger and more profitable market ror bundled stuff rather than, say, a single coin that has no real collector value on its own, but put into a different context with other exonumia stuff, you might have a winner.
I'm not saying unload your coin crap. I'm saying this might be a way to put your non-collector value stuff into something that tells a story. For example, I've got a collector-worthless German 1959 1-mark. What was happening in Germany in 1959 that I could add to the coin to make the preentstion awesome? Postcars? Stamps? A medal or something else? Or what? -- which you could probably find on
ebay for next to nothing.
So for those of you who have a bunch of World/USA coins sitting around doing nothing. you might consider something like this.
See, it ain't necessarily what you got. Sometimes it's what you got that you could turn into something bigger.
Just sayin'.
Posted 01/09/2021 9:34 pm
