What kind of stuff do you have that's more quantity over quality? An excessive amount. Thousands of one coin type. What coins do you hoard? Pictures would be lovely...
I always have a drawer full of better junk silver. No culls no dead presidents. And a paint can full of copper cents zincolns go away copper stays
I have over 100 of the '57 t0 '67 Mexican silver Pesos. Only .100 fine and mostly toned and tarnished, though a few still in mint packaging. I have another tub of everything else Mexican, from 5 Centavo silver coins up to Cien Pesos silver coins and most everything in between. I have a 1 Gallon Tabasco sauce jug full of '59 to '81 copper cents. I have numerous Coffee-Mate containers of pennies marked Unsearched, Unsearched '83 + , Unsearched '81 -, Unsearched rolls, Ready to Roll(searched), errors, tones, NAs (non aligned), etc.. I have a USPS box of Canadian slabs and boxed commemoratives. I have a Coffee-Mate tub of Canadian everything else from dimes to dollars. I have a large number? of Austrian 5 and 10 Schilling coins. ( I like the horse on one and the maiden on the other.) I have tubs for many different countries, none of which are full...yet. The fact is, almost everything I have fits in the "quantity" category rather than the "quality" one. However, I do have a few in the Quality category. One is an Italian 1 Marengo Isola D'Elba silver coin. 1971-marengo-isola-elba-italy-silver-159630217 From the link : " Obverse ITALIA Sunface in order chain. Reverse ISOLA D'ELBA 1 MARENGO Design is of the Isle of Elba. Interestingly enough, this coin is listed in the Colin R. Bruce II catalog of Unusual World Coins - it is listed as X# Tn11 - Isola D'Elba But the listing is incorrect - in the catalog it states that the date for this coin is ND1998 (meaning, No Date, and date of issuance is 1998), but it is actually from 1971; The reverse design is also incorrect , it states; Castle with eight shields, name above. The only coin of this series that actually has that particular design is; ASIAGO, ITALY X# Tn11, and is the only one listed that shows a picture. The value listed in the UWC catalog would be correct, as this coin is so rare and hard to find: $65.00 in BU condition. " I've looked it up on the Numista site before but can't find it there now. If I remember correctly, it has a NRI (Numista Rarity Index) of 85. I like it a lot.
I have a mint bag of 1995 cents that has never been searched for the DDO. It's only been 23 years. Someday I'll search it.
@Hookman I am finding myself inexplicably drawn to the mexican coinage recently. Here are my latest acqusitions. Overall though I have more Kennedy halves than anything else. NIFC's, minor toning, die cracks etc. And a pile of older worn out nickels. The other thing we hoard is unopened MWR of random coins.
My hoard of copper cents is small in comparison to @Pres in RVA and @Amos 811 -- almost 50,000 rolled. Mine were saved prior to 1982. Haven't figured out what to do with them, but if I end up in a wheel chair, searching them for errors, etc., is a possibility.
nice, Gilbert....wish i'd thought to roll them when i started hoarding back in the 60's....mine are bricked up loose with duct tape in cardboard coin boxes.
LOL. That must take a forklift to move.....if you ever do. My Coffee-Mate tubs are heavy enough as they are, filled with pennies. I used to search, separate, then roll the "rejects" each day, then I slowed down on that process, and now I have stopped searching altogether and the "unsearched" tubs are building up. Between my family, my part-time job, my eBay searching, and Coin Talk......I have no time left. lol
I just received a '34 Peso of the same type in the mail this morning. It's about the same condition. I got it for less than melt, and since I usually buy more than one item from each seller, the shipping costs spread out among the items, and so I'm still under melt on this one. That's my goal : Collect silver, in the form of coins, as cheaply as possible, and any good numismatic results are simply considered a bonus.
these are all copper ones, the zinc i search real well before turning them in. I will search these 16 5 gallon pals once they stop making cents altogether, or I stop buying more to look through...
Collect 1964 Kennedy's and silver eagles bullion for survival in the upcoming crisis -crash in fiat. About 2000 + Kennedy's and 250+ eagles. the rest is all certified signed eagle sets ms 70, pr70, sp70 Mercanti, Jones, Moy ,Castle Some raw Queens Beast ,Swans, Stock horse, Peace, Morgan's Ike's. Really lost count have some nice Sacagawea sets (A&B positions /w pr70). 2009 - 2017. All 5oz.ATB 2010 ---2018 so far, (hockey pucks) + Misc. 4,6,8,16 oz. medallions. Yes all locked up safely in large gun safe. & many defense items for protection!!!!!!!!