Another Fun Poll:You can have 2 out these 8 lots for free from my collection-Which would you choose?

Since everyone seemed to enjoy the first poll, I am doing another one that you guys will hopefully like. The coins and other items compiled into lots here are all from my own personal collection.
While it may be my stuff, I'm not giving it away lol. Pick what you would want in your own collection, this is not guessing which is the most expensive. I also threw some extra collectable things in the lots to make it harder to choose hopefully. The coins are all circulated unless otherwise stated. Have Fun!

P.S. Sorry for all the abbreviations. I have limited amount of space to list each lot.

 

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I went with the modern and wheat cents, enjoy searching them for errors and varieties.

 

Not really interested in any of the coins. (No reflection on your collection--simply my taste.) but I went for the two fossils.

 

All good! I kind of figured the fossils would attract votes. The 7 centimeter (2.75 in.) fossil was found by my great-grandfather when he was farming a field in the middle of Texas. It is a prehistoric sea creature. He passed it on to me 8-9 years ago. The details on it are very sharp.

 

Hmm. I think the Lincoln, Washington, and Gettysburg medals seem to be the most interesting to me.

 

I did want to elaborate on the history of those medallions. The Abraham Lincoln proof medallion was from my to Washington D.C. I bought it inside the Ford Theatre where he was assassinated, The Gettysburg token medallion was given to me by a tour guide when we toured the fields of the battle of Gettysburg. The George Washington medallion was from my dad, who went to Mt. Vernon and got it there when he was a teen.

 

You know me, I had to error on the side of Silver besides a lot of the other stuff I have duplicates of already the 750+ pieces of cardboard was tempting.

 

Those "750+ pieces of cardboard" are worth $950 if sold individually lol. There are some good chrome cards from the early 2000s. If this wasn't my collection, I'd be picking silver too.

 

I know a guy who collected a few names and a bunch of graded cards.
He was always wanting me to put a bid in on eBay for him and he would pay me back.
I kept reminding him that I wasn't a bank a couple times I was with him he didn't have his phone and begged me to put in a bid for him.
I won 2 graded cards, some purple card and an orange card $95 worth it took him over 3 months to come up with the money to cover them.
When he was going through a divorce and living with friends, I offered to store the cards so he wouldn't lose anything moving around till he gets settled.
We loaded 6 shoeboxes in the back seat of my truck.

He commented that there was $30,000 in cards in those few boxes I said Not To Me, but Okay IF you say so, I'll put them with the rest of the junk in my Junk Room
When I got them home, I put 3 boxes in each white plastic trash bag...tied the handles and put them up on the top shelf in my Junk Room.
He's still not settled, still living with friends...
It's been about 2 years now and I haven't moved them, he owes me a couple hundred bucks that I've reluctantly helped him out with over the last few years but he's only talked about the cards once.

 

Wow! What a story! That guy is blessed to have a good friend like you. Hey, if he ever decides he doesn't want those any more, I'll gladly stop by your place and take that junk in the white trash bags off your hands.
I will tell you, I have been collecting cards twice as long as coins, and I notice that I impulse buy a lot more with cards than coins, curiously. I will spend $20 on cards at my fair's card booth in 5 minutes, and then $4 in coins in 15 minutes at the coin booth. Thanks for your story! From the photos, I don't think he was kidding. I could see two quality cards with pictures I knew instantly.