Other Goodies Found With Grandpa's Coins

Match or toothpick holder, maybe

It's the right size for that, Cointree. I'd bet that's it. He probably got it from one of the people who worked for Grandpa at the Sinclair station, who used them to keep his cigs from getting crushed while he worked. He def got the Sinclair and PowerX banks at the station as well.

The coins in the two really old (circa early 1900's) tins were also older than most of his coins—stuff like some G1 Barber coins and Liberty nickels, super corroded Indian cents and Buffalo nickels, etc. There's one "mystery coin" that I might post here for help with identification. I'm not even positive it IS a coin—it's worn so flat I'd have thought maybe it was a nickel planchet or stamping disc, but there is the faintest straight line across one side.

Those Alka Seltzer jars might be collectible. I've looked the above up (except the cig case, since I wasn't sure what it was) and I see some identical items sold on eBay—not huge bucks, but IDC since I'm not selling, just curious.

I probably ruined the bandaid tin for collectors anyway—first time I went thru the coins I wrote on the lid what was in the tin. LOL. (Incidentally, the bandaids originally in the tin were dosed with mercurochrome— )

That's probably what Uncle Danny was doing. I have a bunch of coins like that too, where I think something's kind of cool about them but they probably aren't worthy of my "real collection" binders. LOL.