Not Expensive but Here It Is

lilolme

Unlike the others this one is a semi-recent purchase. I saw it and just liked the black holder combined with the nickels. Thought it would look good on one of the old stuff / junk shelves and so I bought it (Oh, and it does look good there). I noticed the 1943 not so good but have not made it out to somewhere yet to replace it. Looks fine on the shelf but I know it it there.
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lilolme

Back again. I used to buy these 'paper weights' (years ago) when I saw them. Often $10 or there about. Here are a couple of simple cubes.

Single coin (Ike)
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5 coin (1960's)
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may

Found CRH some time back, and it does have a date.

World67

After upgrades the past 2 months, this is now the cheapest coin in my set per PCGS book.

OAKSTAR

@Kurisu said:

Did you get it for 50¢ at a bank?

braddick

lilolme

@braddick said:

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I don't know what happened to that one but it does have an interesting look to it.

TomB

I love all these Bicentennial sets, Capital Plastics holders and lucite coin blocks. I think they're really attractive and just really cool.

braddick

@TomB said:
I love all these Bicentennial sets, Capital Plastics holders and lucite coin blocks. I think they're really attractive and just really cool.

Then you will love this one:

TomB

Heck, I had even previously hit the "Like" button on that psychotic Ike looking at the cosmos through Hubble you posted earlier tonight.

CoinHoarder

TomB

That Dominion holder is probably worth more on its own than the Franklin inside.

lilolme

@braddick said:

@TomB said:
I love all these Bicentennial sets, Capital Plastics holders and lucite coin blocks. I think they're really attractive and just really cool.

Then you will love this one:

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Cool, I have one of those (different date) in a cube.
Cube - 5 coin, 1959 proof
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TomB

I think the cubes are really cool. I have a similar cube with 1967 Canadian Centennial coins in my office.

braddick

@TomB said:
Heck, I had even previously hit the "Like" button on that psychotic Ike looking at the cosmos through Hubble you posted earlier tonight.

Thanks. For $11. what could go wrong?

OAKSTAR

MWallace

@OAKSTAR said:

Are you saying you didn't pay enough for that? Damn!!

OAKSTAR

@MWallace - LoL!! I laughed out loud when I read that!! 🤣 👍🏻

lilolme

Here are a couple of flat square ones with the 'sands of time'.
I recall that I paid extra for the polished Morgan one - it has a CC on the reverse.
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CoinHoarder

Typekat

Since this just came back “questionable toning”, I guess it’s now my least valuable vintage coin:

https://d1htnxwo4o0jhw.cloudfront.net/pcgs/cert/48418232/medium/273289458.jpg

Typekat

Sorry, I misspoke:
the above 1929 Lincoln is labeled “questionable color”, not ‘toning’.

AUandAG

I'm a Harris Holder type of guy!
bob
vegas baby!

lilolme

@AUandAG said:
I'm a Harris Holder type of guy!
bob
vegas baby!

Okay, maybe I should know this but where does the Harris Holder term come from?
Those reminded me of the similar 5 coin mint set holders (some previously in the thread).
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@Typekat said:
Since this just came back “questionable toning”, I guess it’s now my least valuable vintage coin:

Ouch. I am not a copper type but have seen so many different shades and read so many different things. One more here.

johnny9434

@lilolme said:
This one was in the box with the Ike.
Hey, where is the blue'ish?

Was just looking at mine just the other day, got the unc set to

AUandAG

@lilolme I don't know, but always assumed Harris is the name of the manufacturer. Old memory but may be incorrect as time seems to fade a lot of stuff!

Some_of_it

Also not expensive:
San Francisco Mint medal struck in 1978 at the Philadelphia Mint with no Mint mark. Mintage 2,318. It takes a little hunting to find the no mint mark SF Mint 38mm medal.

Donald Regan Secretary of Treasury medal. This was the first time the mint produced the Secretary medal in small size. 33mm with only 1,493 minted in 1984. The experiment was not repeated.

1973 Boston Exhibit Washington before Boston bronze medal in 38mm. I don’t know why this was produced in bronze as it is not mentioned in the director’s report. Very common in this size in pewter as part of the America’s First Medals Series.

Meltdown

lilolme

1968 and the proof sets are back (another from the box of stuff).
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CoinHoarder

JBN

Had this for over 40 years. It is a nice size for display.

coinbuf

Picked this up at the monthly coin show, cost $9. A very ridiculous purchase but I'm slowly filling out a circulated 20th century registry set so you I need it even though I really don't need it. Would have cost me way more to have one certified myself so a bargain of sorts.

lilolme

@JBN said:
Had this for over 40 years. It is a nice size for display.

Display size - that is what I thought and bought one (top of this thread page) and put it on 'stuff' shelf. It is black also. He had a white one (I think it was) but the black just looked better for the nickels I thought.

mirabela

I helped a dear old friend dispose of her late dad's accumulated coffee-can hoard, to the tune of about $3100 in realized sales and a big bag of US 90% that she's keeping in case of apocalypse. I kept this coin as memento of the experience. My friend's mom, also deceased, was my junior high school French teacher, and to judge by what else was with it I think this piece probably came from one of her early trips to France.

braddick

I picked this one up as the date is strong for being a VG08.
Usually the date is worn/weak on the lower grades.

oih82w8

I still have a few sets of the 1982 Lincoln Cent Varieties from Virg Marshall III similar to this image.

lilolme

Hmmm... looks like I missed one of these. I think I must have gotten at least one of each type they had back in the day.

lilolme

An irradiated dime. I recall looking into these and I think there was a thread on them. I don't remember the story now.
I believe this was the single most common style/type of all of them.
I did a photo of the smooth backside also for reference.
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PerryHall

I read somewhere that carrying one of those irradiated dimes in your pocket could cause you to become sterile.

World67

@Manifest_Destiny said:
Cheapest coin in my set currently per PCGS book. I have what should be a VF in a submission to replace it.

This is the cheapest coin in the set now.

lilolme

These were not expensive. Free.

CoinHoarder

Picked this Morgan up at a coin show on Sunday for $30. Not really cheap, but I was impressed by the lack of defects on this heavily circulated coin.


I picked this key chain up at my LCS a few days ago.

lilolme

@CoinHoarder said:
I picked this key chain up at my LCS a few days ago.

I like that key chain. Looks like it has hardly been used if at all. It would hang nicely on a collector box, shelf of stuff or similar.

McMiserton

I was perusing my local coin shop and came across this token from the New England Numismatic Association 25th Anniversary Conference in (1969). I thought it was pretty cool and the shop only wanted $1 for it, so I snatched it up.

The numista.com site doesn't have this token listed. They have the 24th Anniversary from 1969, then it skips to 1971.

Anyhow, here is the token.

Smudge

Tonedeaf

lilolme

CC Mint souvenir - Struck on the original press.
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@McMiserton welcome to the forum.

Dropdaflag

My two lowest value Morgans.

Mercury

lilolme

Have had this one for a long time. Rotated to get some of the depth.