Post your best junk bin finds. My best was a 1932 Swiss 5 rappen in possibly MS-63 for $.25. Other finds include an 1888 and three 1896 LHNs. All are very heavily worn, but probably worth more than the .50 each I spent on them.
Amazing! Is the 59-D FBL? Do you think the toning came from a mint set? What was the price on them? I'm guessing melt.
My best find was a junk bucket that a jeweler apparently decided to sell off as a batch. It included this, this, these, and oh yeah, this. Oddly enough, I can still click through to the original auction on eBay, even though it's more than three years old at this point. Unfortunately, the original auction photos are long gone.
An 1808 Half dollar. It has a hole in it but still a good find. The dealer was ticked when he saw that his employees had put it in there, but I was a younger collector so he let me have it.
it was =) It is worn like crazy, the reverse is almost non existant, (contains distant traces of design) and the obverse is a solid G4, both sides are cleaned shin, but for $1.30 I could not pass it up
in that same bx i found a barber dime that was in vf condition, I thought that it was holed at first, but after I looked at the reverse, tehre was no damage, just an obverse scratch. I paied the same buck 30