Junk box finds for this week (post yours).
dcarr
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Post your junk box finds here.
To qualify, the coins have to be found in a batch of loose (naked) coins, or old 2x2 holder coins, offered at a relatively low fixed price per piece.
Here are some of my recent. I spent a little time this week at a couple different local coin shops.
One had Indian-Head/Bison nickels, loose in a bowl, for $1 each.
Another had .900 fine US coin priced at "melt" value. Both shops let customers pick through the bins.
This is what I came away with:
Nickels:
1926-S (key date), 1927-S, 1938-D/D (EF45).
Dimes:
1926-D, 1941-D (AU53), 1945-S (micro s), 1945-D (unusual mint mark position), 1955-S (brilliant unc.).
Quarters:
1915-S (semi-key date), 1937-D, 1943-S.
Half Dollars:
1917-S (reverse side mm), 1918-S, 1919, 1943 (MS62), 1949-D (AU55), 1964-D (proof-like).
Dollars:
1886-S, 1904 [P].
Here is a group shot and some close-up:
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While visiting a small shop out of town I found a few pieces in some flip boxes I went through. Bought the silver coins in a lot at $2 below melt. They gave me a good deal on the raw coins because I bought some gold coins and a few slabs. Nothing major I just bought these to fill some holes for the albums and the type sets. I included some pics of the better grade coins.
Cents:
• 1858 Flying Eagle - LL (F+) .......... $15
• 1909 Indian (UNC) R/B ................ $10
• (Roll) Lincoln - pre 1929 mix (G/VG) .... $5
Nickels:
• 1945-P Jefferson (BU) ........... $below melt
• 1935 Buffalo (UNC) .......................... $3
• (20) Common Buffalos (F/VF) ...... $1 each
Dimes:
• 1914 Barber (AU) ................... $below melt
•1945 Mercury Head (BU) ....... $below melt
• (Roll) Roosevelt-mix (G/VG)... $below melt
Quarters:
• 1945 Washington (BU) .......... $below melt
• (10) Standing Liberty (G/VG) $below melt
• (3) Seated Liberty (G/VG) ...... $below melt
Halfs:
• 1945 Walking Liberty (BU) .... $below melt
• 1963 Franklin (BU) ................. $below melt
• (Roll) Franklin -mixed (VG/F) $below melt
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I bought this from a $5 box a couple months back...
It’s a sad day when many dealers would consider those junk. Well done.
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Thanks,
I understand that not every coin shop owner has the time to sort these things out.
But someone had to throw the coin into the bin in the first place. If I was tossing Walking Liberty Half Dollars into a "junk" bin, I think I would notice one that is apparently uncirculated.
Coin shop owners are sometimes not as savvy or knowledgeable as their customers. That can provide some opportunities.
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The '26-S nickel is a really nice find out of a junk box. Doesn't belong in a junk box with it's full date and half a horn on the Buffalo showing imo.
Several months ago I bought a few Walking Liberty halves out of a dealer's 90% junk box. One of the halves I bought out of that box, for a little above melt, is a 1917-D obverse, full rims, with no PMD. Fully good condition, in other words.
If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.
Tommy
I need to find a B&M store with a junk box! These are the junk box finds I kept...
Walker with PVC damage for $2.50... when silver was ~$5/oz...
Best bulk bin find for Liberty Nickels... 95 cents...
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Here is an auction lot I won recently. My bid was based only on the sellers pictures.
The price was somewhat high due to the scrap gold content.
I have now received the items as shown.
Who can spot the special item in these seller's pictures ?
Hint: RIGHT click on an image to open it in a new tab and then view that tab (and zoom in, if necessary):
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Thanks, it was the only early year in the bin, everything else was 1960's 😎
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The 42/41 Merc jumps right out. Great score.
No friggin way you scored a 41 over 1 in that lot. That is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!
42/41
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Had to zoom in, but when I saw the 42 Merc, I figured that had to be the one. And in decent condition to boot!
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Not only that, but TWO FOR THE PRICE OF NONE (an unexpected bonus - only one side of the coins was shown in the auction)
I just posted about this one in another thread- I bought it loose with a few other coins. No idea yet on who it's from or if it has any value:
As noted on the other thread, Lyman and Thurman were die sinkers from the 1880's on in Lynchburg.
While it wasn't this week, I pulled this out of a dealers junk Morgan box, priced at melt.
@dcarr - That's seriously 2 needles in a haystack kind of odds correct? I've done my fair share of pawing through 90% mercs for 20 years looking and have not found one yet.
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My guess is that the two dimes were picked out by somebody many years ago.
Then, by mistake, they got merged into this random lot.
This is what I think because there were only two dimes in the entire lot, and both were the over-date.
Had there been other random Mercury dimes in the group, then I would be inclined to believe that it was just an unsearched lot.
In other words, somebody, somewhere along the line, knew that these two dimes were special.
But another person, subsequent to that, did not know.
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+1 on that my brother! @dcarr great score!
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