Interesting finds at the local shop's "junk" bin (and a chance to rant!!)

DBSTrader2

I went back to a nearby town's coin, etc shop, and wasted about an hour searching thru its 7/$1 junk bin for fun. I came back with the following:

U.S.:
12 "V" Nickels, including 2 1883 "cents"
1 "Shield" Nickel (1866-1883) - - almost COMPLETELY worn flat! Was able to identify by curly-q at top right of shield & leaf & dot to its right - - barely could make out '5' on reverse.
2 IHC's (1905, 1907)
1 Nickel 3-cent (1865-89? perfect rev. - date & entire obv edge scratched-out. Shame. Almost full "Liberty" visible)
1 "holey" "Coronet" large cent (date appears to be 1825)

DARKSIDE:
2 Mexico 10-centavos (1942 & 46)
1 E. Caribbean Territory 10-cent (1955)
1 British silver 3-pence (1943)
3 British 1/2-pennies (1937/38/41)
1 Canadian silver dime (1968)
1 Canadian nickel (almost BU - - 1927)
1 British Farthing (1930)
1 Mexican 5 centavos (1954)
1 British 1/2-penny "young Vicky" (date TBD)
1 Canadian Halfpenny token #UC-2 (Charlton): "Prosperity to Canada - La Prudence et la Candeur" (Lesslie & Sons York Kingston Dundas) (rough shape - - date 1824 or 1828)
1 large, worn Great Britain King George III penny with date & all words rubbed-out (1806 or 1807?)

PLUS.........
For $1 (since broken into 2 halves) a brown, 4-part Dansco "New Zealand Type Set Coin Album" #447 from 1962 (to match my Aussie Shillings Dansco). - - but the "binding" was so brittle that I now have 4 separate "cards" vs 1 4-page folder!! - - - 11 holes filled already......... just 23 to go!!


Nothing extremely valuable, but some interesting stuff cheap, or to fill spots in the kids' "V" nickel folders.

- - Dave




P.S. Other blue Whitman folders I've gotten there have a smell of formaldehyde to them. Anything that can be done, or should I toss them?

Hyperion

Ive been in 2 shops, the only 2 that are close to me and they have no junk box like this

Im jealous !


LOL,I guess that means all thier junk is on the shelves!!!!

Numismatics

Nice buys.

lordmarcovan

SEVEN for a dollar?

Wow, that's some good junkbox hunting!

My loose junkbox coins are ten for a dollar, but you won't find stuff like that in there! (All the more interesting stuff that is worth less than a dollar goes into 2X2 holders and my three for a dollar bin.)

DBSTrader2

The conditions on most of the coins are nothing any serious collector would jump for joy over, but just an interesting assortment.... I'm curious to find out the dates on some of the well-worn or damaged ones just to see what might have been.

I was surprised to find some silver there, though, at 15cents a pop!

And, of course, now with that New Zealand folder staring me in the face, that's a whole new avenue I will be branching into! (Anyone have tradeable extras?)

- - Dave

rhound1977

Better than watching TV, not many dealers or junk boxes in these parts......

coinkat

JUNGUE Boxes are fun...

shirohniichan

1 Canadian nickel (almost BU - - 1927)

Good catch!

The best I've found so far was a 1939 Canadian nickel in AU with a small rim nick in a 5 for a buck box. The same trip yielded Japanese 50 to 100 yen coins (some silver). After that trip the shop owner kept out the better stuff. He doesn't know me that well, but he asks for my opinions on Japanese coins. Maybe he realized he was giving away too much.

lordmarcovan

A holey large cent for 1/7 of a dollar? Geez, man, that's worth five bucks, minimum, unless it's totally trashed. Even so, two or three bucks in the worst case.



<< <i>1 Nickel 3-cent (1865-89? perfect rev. - date & entire obv edge scratched-out. Shame. Almost full "Liberty" visible) >>

Plane off the damaged obverse, to make it smooth. Then take it to a jeweler and have it made into a love token or something- with your initials, or whatever. I got a nickel 3-cent some years ago that had a nice reverse but the obverse had already been planed off and was blank. Obviously somebody meant to make it into a love token, but never engraved it. I took it to a jeweler and had a friend's initials put on it, then sent it to him as a bonus when he bought a large chunk of my old collection. It was kinda neat. His initials on the front and the Roman numeral III on the back.

wybrit

The only junk boxes I see around here are $1 apiece type things, except at shows. Good hunting and finding, sir!!

MSD61

<< <i>Better than watching TV, not many dealers or junk boxes in these parts...... >>



Same here. People just do not like to collect coins up here I guess. They collect varmits

DBSTrader2

If I don't get laid off in this coming Thursday's RIF at Verizon, we're going to get us a digital camera, so I can finally post some pics!

wybrit

If I don't get laid off in this coming Thursday's RIF at Verizon...



I hope it works out for you Dave. All the best!

DBSTrader2

Thanks! A totally short-sighted, knee-jerk reaction by upper mgmt to lagging land-line sales. So they look good & keep their bonus, they're cutting at least 10% of IT force. Never mind we're the ones with the irreplaceable knowledge base. The shame of it is that when VZ needs them back as things ramp up again, they'll be gone..... And completely arbitrary... If you're the only designer in a group, you're most likely safe. If one of 2 or 3, you could be at risk (or so at least the theory goes). So some fine workers will get the axe just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And some lesser talents (not including upper mgmt) will remain. But this is being brought to you by the same folks who, despite being a healthy corporation vs one heading towards bankruptcy, have decided to "help" its employees "be more in charge of their future" by freezing pension funding (a la IBM) come June. At the end of June, any mgmt on the payroll get a bonus to their pension balance = 18 months contribution. Then frozen and "offset" by increased 401K contributions. So you just KNEW there'd be a RIF before that date by mgrs trying to look good by reducing headcount & recipients of that "bonus"! The same mentality that projects sales each year & associated Travel, etc costs, then realizes 3/4 way thru the year they miscalculated & tell everyone to immediately stop travel - - and I bet not a single person who misforecast/budgeted gets RIF'd, or any upper mgmt person keeps his travel costs down in the first half of each year to prevent the annual "conservation game"!

By the way... did I tell you how I really feel?.........

They're going to have (job) counselling for the RIF'd folks, but the ones who will REALLY need it are those poor souls left behind to pick up the pieces!!!


Updated: I survived the cut........... but it was not pretty.................. Now back to collecting coins!!

lordmarcovan

Having been a recent victim of downsizing and a part of a department that was shut down after a reorganization, I can sympathize. I dangled in limbo for four months before finally getting a new position within the same company. And they were all set to sweep me out the door, despite earlier promises that we'd all get jobs in the company. Fortunately my new boss wanted me and needed my experience, so he cut some red tape and took me. It was a close thing.

coinpictures

<< <i>Having been a recent victim of downsizing and a part of a department that was shut down after a reorganization, I can sympathize. I dangled in limbo for four months before finally getting a new position within the same company. And they were all set to sweep me out the door, despite earlier promises that we'd all get jobs in the company. Fortunately my new boss wanted me and needed my experience, so he cut some red tape and took me. It was a close thing. >>



Been there. Done that. Flushed the T-shirt.

In 2003 we lost 1/6 of our department in layoffs at the Univ. of IL. Being the low man on the civil service totem pole, I was given my 60-day notice. Then as I was starting the job-hunting process, one of the department's biggest clients threw a fit about my being laid off, since I did some very specialized work for them. That client offered to prepay my entire annual salary to keep me on... and they did so again in 2004. I was able to keep my job, but the handwriting was on the wall. So given a second chance, I went back to college on the weekends and completed my BA that I had dropped out of back in 1988... then in April of '05 I gave my department a big "F-U!" and took a position working for that client who had so generously stepped up and allowed me to keep my job. It's been great... a much better job with a nice raise to boot, and the warm fuzzies of watching my old employer scrambling, and my old coworkers saying "Oh my God! You *can't* go!"

DBSTrader2

Coinpictures:

Good for You!! I always say things somehow manage to work out for the best! I hope the same can be said for me after Thursday!

- - Dave

NJMark1

As some of you know we have a pension problem for public employees here in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey. What is happening is the "State" has not funded it's portion of pension fund contributions for the last 7 years and low and behold the fund is dangerously low. Of course all particpant employees continued their contributions. In fact the employee contributions were raised over the last 5 yrs. When our illustrious governor Jim McGeedy came out of the closet with his Israeli lover and resignied because he put his totally unqualified sweetheart in charge of our homeland security department we got a interum gov Cody. He empaneled a study group to look at options to close the funding gap in the pension system. In a nut shell the group proposed raising the minimum age to 60 from 55 for a no penalty retirment.The penalty is 3% of the pension total for each year under age 55. The group also proposed changing the way the pension amount would be calculated from Years of service/over 55 of your average last 3 or 3 highest years salary to years of service/ 60 of your last 5 years or highest 5 years of salary.Keeping the 3%penalty but now using 60 as a minimum age. Anyway to make a long story shorter this has started a stampeed of people filing for retirement earlier then they would have. Most are VERY serior employees and the knowledge base the state,counties and towns are going to be without is pretty severe. In fact the study group warns that the loss of key employees combined with the drain upon the system by people leaving early could very well end up costing the state much more then it could save by the proposed changes. Yea I know this is off topic but the thread is sorta leading this way and I need very much to VENT at this time. So I am off to South Carolina this week to look at property to build a house and get outta dodge before the gunfight starts.

BTW dave good luck with Verizon I hope it works out for you and nice finds in the "Junk Box"


Mark

DBSTrader2

Mark:

NJ HAS a "knowledge base"?!

OK... that was uncalled for..... but being a PA resident, we're allowed to get our jabs in at NJ's expense!


What never fails to amaze me is how, time and time again, the people in position of power & responsibility not only fail to live up to it, but go so far as to screw over those they are supposed to watch out for. And nobody calls them on it.

Verizon's CEO gives himself a huge pension bonus, along with his Board, and they turn around and discontinue ours. Mis-management & poor forecasting leads to workers vs planners/managers getting the axe. Nobody checks credentials of some Israeli lover whose job is critical to protecting a state's infrastructure after 9-11. WHERE are those entrusted with our welfare? Are they ALL asleep at the wheel?


Glad to hear you like my junkbox finds!

danglen

We take care of our Darksiders

MSD61

<< <i>We take care of our Darksiders

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WOW!

NJMark1

Looks like a fun afternoon. A coffee a Krause and the treasure chest!


Mark

DBSTrader2

I see one in there that I need!!!!