What is the biggest collection (or more likely "accumulation") of coins you have ever seen
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Biggest being defined as the actual number of coins, as opposed to most valuable.
I remember reading a CW article a few years back about a guy who tossed into plastic garbage cans (55 gallon in size) all of the pennies that passed through his hands since 1958. He retired and spent his free time sitting in an easy chair taking the pennies he had accumulated and putting them into rolls [to be taken to the bank]. I do not remember how many cents he was estimated to have had, but he had multple 55 gallon plastic garbage cans located throughout his home. It must have been hundreds of thousands of cents. I assume that there are quite a large number of wheat cents and even more UNC Memorial cents in the garbage cans.
I also remember reading about the guy who had thousands of Ike dollars.
Then we also have Mr. Redfield and Mr. Binion, who each had hoards of silver dollars totalling over 600,000 in number.
I remember reading a CW article a few years back about a guy who tossed into plastic garbage cans (55 gallon in size) all of the pennies that passed through his hands since 1958. He retired and spent his free time sitting in an easy chair taking the pennies he had accumulated and putting them into rolls [to be taken to the bank]. I do not remember how many cents he was estimated to have had, but he had multple 55 gallon plastic garbage cans located throughout his home. It must have been hundreds of thousands of cents. I assume that there are quite a large number of wheat cents and even more UNC Memorial cents in the garbage cans.
I also remember reading about the guy who had thousands of Ike dollars.
Then we also have Mr. Redfield and Mr. Binion, who each had hoards of silver dollars totalling over 600,000 in number.
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Pete
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the New York Subway Hoard was in the best tradition of important hoards. Its contents were staggering, including 45 complete sets of Barber dimes (minus the 1894-S) and 24 complete sets of Barber half dollars. The hoard also included what Littleton coin buyer Jim Reardon observed was "apparently the largest group of 1916-D and 1942/41 Mercury dimes to hit the market in one transaction," with totals of 241 of the key 1916-D Mercury dime and 166 examples of the 1942/41.
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Just an insane collection.
Also, seen roughly 4 million Wheat cents. That was a big pile of cents.
Lafayette Grading Set
If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
at the West Point Depository (before it was an official
Mint) in 1973.
they were in jars, boxes,drinking glasses,cigar boxes, buckets, tins, tupperware, piles, bowls, ...anything that would hold a lot of them ...or just a few
literally covering any flat surface in the basement of the early 90's year old farmers house...he said "I always liked them so after the war i started putting them down there."
( he meant WW-1)
didn't know what a rare date was ....didn't quite understand what a doubled die or a re-punched mint mark was.
"nope I just liked collectin' em"
they were bought in entirety by "coin vault" about 7 years ago.
A collector friend of mine passed away and left for a dealer liquidation a cataloged collection of 44,000 world coins , and they weren't modern ones. I got first pick of the Philippine portion which was a serious collection.
Krueger
of memorial cents. He said he'd scout down nice bags and go through as
many as several bags picking out the nicest hundred rolls.
This would be more than a quarter million coins. If he was good at chasing
down nice bags he'll be sitting pretty in a few years.
I've heard of a bag set of quarters but it ended at 1985. It was probably
busted up years ago. It was just "run of the mill" coins though.
I saw a bag set of dime, quarter, and half proof coins but they were only
about a ten year run and were being split up.
There was a story of a Texas dealer who accululated some fifty bags of '50-D
nickels. It's not a lot of nickels but it's a lot of '50-D's.
There was a picture posted here of about 6,000,000 cents spread on a street
in New York. It probably cost more to handle them than they were worth.
That makes it more a health and hygeine problem than a charity drive.