Your Greatest junk tray find!

joeykoins

Hi guys,
What is your Greatest
find in the junk Silver tray?
Greatest, can be defined as best valued, most gorgeous, too rare for the junk tray, coolest or just greatest sentimental coin you ever found?
Here's mine,

1891 CC Morgan Dollar.

This gem was surprisingly in the $25 tray. Yes!
Sure, it has some issues but for only $25?
My Greatest! How bout you guys?
Thanks

Abehunter

Cool find

johnny9434

Nice score Joey and good eye

TennesseeDave

1881-S Morgan that graded 66 at Pcgs.

Maywood

erwindoc

My best/favorite find ever was a 1932D Washington quarter amongst the junk silver. It was probably VG if I remember right.

ShaunBC5

1921 Merc. 40 cents in maybe 1998 at a jewelry store with a junk bin (entire bin was 4x face)

Joe_360

@joeykoins
How long ago was that buy? Great buy Bud!!!

Treashunt

Best?

Has to be this:

In a dealer's junk box

original price tag:

Sorry for the crappy pictures.

Obv:

Rev:

TxCollector

@Treashunt said:
Best?

Has to be this:

In a dealer's junk box

original price tag:

Sorry for the crappy pictures.

Obv:

Rev:

Wow!

joeykoins

@TennesseeDave said:
1881-S Morgan that graded 66 at Pcgs.

Wow! I bet you felt like this!

joeykoins

@Joe_360 said:
@joeykoins
How long ago was that buy? Great buy Bud!!!

Thx.
That was awhile ago. Posted here many times. Probably, going on two years?
Too many issues to send in.
Two Rim dings, some kind of hit @ K5 on obv.
and maybe a scratch in the field too.
Still awesome, with a beautiful patina.

joeykoins

Oh?
I forgot about this Mercury.
This find might actually be my "Greatest?"

1920s Mercury Dime

Found in the $5 tray.
I couldn't believe my eyes. In a $5 junk tray?
Later, you'll see why.
So I snatched it up, for only $5. Close to Silver value. Beautiful, decent BU, FB, Great toning. Probably, a ms 63?
The 1920s FB, would be in the neighborhood of near $1000!
Got home, right away, sent it in.

Few weeks later...
The darn gem came back "Cleaned Detailed"

I didn't see that coming. Even my coin dealer friend, who knows grading quite well, didn't see that coming as well.
Wow. From a $1000 coin to a $50 coin.
Oh well.
Welcome to the coin hobby, right?
Full of joy and disappointment.
This, is most evident, my Greatest junk Silver find.
Even though it came back, Detailed. It's still titled FB.
Can anyone see this being Cleaned?
Amazing.

Barberian

A love token made from a 1798/7 16-stars dime found at a DC beltway coin show 35 years ago.

Kliao

Not the typical junk tray at a LCS but a few years back, I found this in the garage of an estate sale in a small box with some casino tokens. Lady there let me have it for 25 cents! It was also my first silver dollar in my collection as it was in my early days of collecting.

I could quadruple my money taking it to the bank!

joeykoins

Your toning looks similar to my CC.
Great find. Also, a conversation piece too.

lkenefic

Wow! I need to shop where you guys shop!! Mine aren't nearly that impressive.

$0.95 Bulk Bin:

$1.95 Bulk Bin:
This one was green from PVC... still evident in spots

Colonialcoin

1860-O Seated Dime in AG for $1.

Glen2022

Great thread. I'm going to pay more attention to the junk trays.

LanceNewmanOCC

found some 99p morgans in junk dollar buckets xf/au a few times. easy date to look over imo.

i THINK i may have found a CC morgan once.

34-d DDO peace dollars (never the small D though)

i think the 72 p $1 type 2 that came back 65 is the best junk tray/bucket find. was an even $1k at the time.

16 p 5c ddo that graded pr 1 (ag3 details with old large scratch/dig)

several discovery coins (decent ones imo)

a mexican small gold coin in the foreign poundage bucket. 8 years ago? like a $60 coin or so at the time.

was sitting beside a coin buddy that found a d/s indian cent, kinda rough but was pretty neat as it had a large rotation but not flip over.

tbh, i haven't really done well finding stuff in junk trays if you take away buckets/tubs etc.

how about a thread stuff we NEVER found that everyone we know HAS found. lol

never found a 35 5c ddr in the wild.
01 p $1 ddr
42/1 p or d 10c
09s vdb

dcarr

Nice finds posted so far.

I got this out of a $1 junk bin at a local coin shop fairly recently. It doesn't look like much, but apparently only 3 or 4 are known to exist (all holed):

joeykoins

@dcarr said:
Nice finds posted so far.

I got this out of a $1 junk bin at a local coin shop fairly recently. It doesn't look like much, but apparently only 3 or 4 are known to exist (all holed):

Awesome find, Daniel. I'm surprised Rob
( Lordmarcovan), didn't beat ya to it!

asheland

Not a coin, but just as good:
1959, London hallmarks, sterling silver and gilt, retailed by Tiffany’s in London, 22ozs of silver…

$4 for the pair

Barberian

@Kliao said:
Not the typical junk tray at a LCS but a few years back, I found this in the garage of an estate sale in a small box with some casino tokens. Lady there let me have it for 25 cents! It was also my first silver dollar in my collection as it was in my early days of collecting.

I could quadruple my money taking it to the bank!

If the 1884-S is worth $30, then this is worth 120 times more than what you paid for it. My understanding is if one scores a coin worth >100X more than you paid for it, then it's worthy of a prestigious "You suck!" award. Usually this is given for small purchases of $10 or $20 dollars that turn out to be coins worth several thousand dollars, but I feel that it can apply here as well.

So, congrats Kliao! You suck!

Barberian

@asheland said:
Not a coin, but just as good:
1959, London hallmarks, sterling silver and gilt, retailed by Tiffany’s in London, 22ozs of silver…

$4 for the pair

This is worthy of a "You suck!" award as well. Nice job!

Boosibri

72-CC 50c VF20 in England and a XF45 Guatemala 1949 1/4 Quetzal at a local place

asheland

@Barberian said:

@asheland said:
Not a coin, but just as good:
1959, London hallmarks, sterling silver and gilt, retailed by Tiffany’s in London, 22ozs of silver…

$4 for the pair

This is worthy of a "You suck!" award as well. Nice job!

Thanks!
What’s cooler still, is that I collect British silver and love them! They’re part of my collection and look awesome on my desk.

I enjoy well beyond the monetary gain.

MaineJim

This would really qualify as "junk" find - found at the town recycle center (dump). A box of 1870 sterling silverware.

Jim

NumisOxide

@dcarr said:
Nice finds posted so far.

I got this out of a $1 junk bin at a local coin shop fairly recently. It doesn't look like much, but apparently only 3 or 4 are known to exist (all holed):

Neat piece! Is it listed in the Schornstein book?

mirabela

Not the world's greatest pic. 35-D Unc/FB Merc was $2. Never sent it in, just popped it in my 7070 as my type example.

ricko

@joeykoins .... You might try sending that 1920S dime in for reconsideration. Cheers, RickO

joeykoins

@ricko said:
@joeykoins .... You might try sending that 1920S dime in for reconsideration. Cheers, RickO

Back story;
Me and my dealer friend made a swap with this Merc. awhile back. He like it as much as me. He sweetened the deal by giving me 2 NGC coins. One 1947s quarter
ms 66 with an obvious RPM. He knew about it too. Plus an 1939 ms66 FB Merc.
He was very generous. Both coins had a together value of $350+. What a deal, huh?
Anyway, he was thinking along your lines.
He resent it in to PCGS. However, it came back still Detailed. He tried it again, yep, you guessed it. Detailed, once again. So including my submission to this Merc that makes 3 times submissions! To NO avail.
Now, I'm going to the Chicago ANA Show next week. We're going to try one last try
time. This time with our friends across the street, NGC. I hope, for his sake.
Thanks RickO

One More Thing...
That NGC quarter. I crossed it over to PCGS, submitting the variety RPM.
It did come back ms 66 w/ the variety.
So, I did pretty good with this junk Silver find, afterall. Hope my friend does as well?

dcarr

@coinJP said:

@dcarr said:
Nice finds posted so far.

I got this out of a $1 junk bin at a local coin shop fairly recently. It doesn't look like much, but apparently only 3 or 4 are known to exist (all holed):

Neat piece! Is it listed in the Schornstein book?

I don't have that book, so I don't know.

Barberian

@Treashunt said:
Best?

Has to be this:

Obv:

Rev:

Wow! A dream score. You definitely suck!

A friend of mine once scored a half ounce of gold from an estate auction for $20. Two quarter oz. European gold coins were in a small box of junky foreign coins and nobody else recognized them as gold. He took the two coins to a local DC coin show and traded them for a nice Newfoundland $2 gold coin for his collection.

Treashunt

@Barberian said:

@Treashunt said:
Best?

Has to be this:

Obv:

Rev:

Wow! A dream score. You definitely suck!

A friend of mine once scored a half ounce of gold from an estate auction for $20. Two quarter oz. European gold coins were in a small box of junky foreign coins and nobody else recognized them as gold. He took the two coins to a local DC coin show and traded them for a nice Newfoundland $2 gold coin for his collection.

He did great.

And thanks for the 'you suck.'

kiyote

It wasn’t quite junk tray but I got a 3 ounce Engelhard silver bar for two dollars over spot.