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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 25300892, member: 102103"]@<b><font size="4"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/60-junk-bin-picks-this-week.411823/members/lordmarcovan.10461/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/60-junk-bin-picks-this-week.411823/members/lordmarcovan.10461/">lordmarcovan</a> </font></b><font size="4">Thanks for posting the shop pictures. If it's possible to feel nostalgic for a place one has never been, then I am definitely feeling it!</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">The other local coin shop for me (sadly now gone a few years) would have a $0.25 and $0.10 bin on opposite corners of the store. Oddly, I had much better luck from the $0.10 cent bin than the other. I must have picked up hundreds of prewar Japan coins from that bin over the years. Photo was from a single visit in 2017.[ATTACH=full]1616218[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">My favorite junk bin pick was probably this <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces54055.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces54055.html" rel="nofollow">double tournois</a> from the Principality of Sedan, Frederic-Maurice, 1634-38. It's very worn, but it is my only coin from Sedan when it was independent, and only cost 25 cents.[ATTACH=full]1616219[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4">The other thing I will try occasionally is to ask dealers if they have any weird, old coins they can't ID which they would be willing to sell as-is to me. For about $1-5 each, I've had some interesting finds. Thats how I got this countermarked City of Wiedenbrück 3 pfennig ~1692 for about $5 US.[ATTACH=full]1616221[/ATTACH] </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 25300892, member: 102103"]@[B][SIZE=4][URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/60-junk-bin-picks-this-week.411823/members/lordmarcovan.10461/']lordmarcovan[/URL] [/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4]Thanks for posting the shop pictures. If it's possible to feel nostalgic for a place one has never been, then I am definitely feeling it! The other local coin shop for me (sadly now gone a few years) would have a $0.25 and $0.10 bin on opposite corners of the store. Oddly, I had much better luck from the $0.10 cent bin than the other. I must have picked up hundreds of prewar Japan coins from that bin over the years. Photo was from a single visit in 2017.[ATTACH=full]1616218[/ATTACH] My favorite junk bin pick was probably this [URL='https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces54055.html']double tournois[/URL] from the Principality of Sedan, Frederic-Maurice, 1634-38. It's very worn, but it is my only coin from Sedan when it was independent, and only cost 25 cents.[ATTACH=full]1616219[/ATTACH] The other thing I will try occasionally is to ask dealers if they have any weird, old coins they can't ID which they would be willing to sell as-is to me. For about $1-5 each, I've had some interesting finds. Thats how I got this countermarked City of Wiedenbrück 3 pfennig ~1692 for about $5 US.[ATTACH=full]1616221[/ATTACH] [/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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