Do you have a coin Junk Box??

I just responded to some threads by suggesting that the item be tossed into the 'ol Junk Box. I have had a coin Junk Box ever since I started collecting over 50 years ago. It is full of "stuff"--mostly low grade circulated common date type coins (bust, seated, barbers, etc.) and tons of wheaties, bufffalos, mercs, standing libs, walkers, Morgans and the like. It is a great source of gifts to kids, and such gifts serve as a means of promoting the hobby.

I assumed everyone has a Junk Box, but maybe this is not so. Do you have one? If so, tell us about it.

 

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I have a few. The one thats used the most is a metal circular piggy bank that looks like a $100. I toss alot of junk world coins in it and occasional circulated buffs & IHC.

 

I've got a small junk box, I clear it out every six months or so. But I have never kept bust anything in it, mostly world coins, wheaties, random silver, buffs, etc.

 

No, But i have one for notes, Funny after all these years iam discovering
Some real nice stuff

 

My daughter has a little case for her foreign coins. I keep all my cheap ebay stuff in a little tin bank with different pictures of Las Vegas on it.

 

Ive got one! Throw world and low grade coins in it. Store it away for the later years i guess

 

With out first knowing the history of the coin, I would never tell anyone to "just toss it in the junk box" because that's all it is, junk.

 

I have a few little junk boxes, but have never told anyone that took the time to post a coin that it was junk. There is usually a better way to tell someone the coin has little value.

 

I have a few "junk" containers. One for all the BU AU 83+ cents. Many tubs of 82.5 and earlier copper cents, I look at it this way, Silver was once really low priced too, and with the worlds economies growing at such rates copper could be the next silver. Then I have two large pottery bowls full of foreign coinage. I had a older co worker give me all his foreign coins from family and friends that went on vacations back in the 50's and 60's all BU stuff, I felt pretty lucky for them. I figure this is the best I can do for collecting out of circulation in this day and age. Heck, I'm 24 hopefully all this will be worth something for my kids/grand kids. Also, my most recent purchase at face value of 100$ of northern mariana quarters in their original shotgun rolls from the bank. Perhaps they'll be worth something for my grand kids as well.

 

I prefer to be blunt and honest. Junk is junk,

 

I like to save the Whitman's Sampler candy boxes for the junk stuff. It can't be just any Whitman box, though. It has to be a "double decker".

Chris

 

I have an old biscuit tin from the 1950s that I store all my wheats in. I used to keep silver in with it, but then I moved it to albums.

 

I used to have a huge 6-liter vodka bottle that I would use for Kennedy's & Washington's, but I got tired of bailing them out on the DUI charges so I quit.

Chris

 

One that you previously emptied of chocolates?

I have a 1888 IHC that is just about slick, it came out of a steel bank that my Uncle gave me 40 years ago, it just happens to be his birth year.

If I ever posted a picture of it here and someone told me to just toss it in the junk box because it's junk, I'd be very upset. And that you can take to the bank!

Happy Collecting

PS: The steel bank is in the shape of a treasure chest with a locked flap located on the bottom. Did not have a key, but managed to shake the cent out and that's when I found out it was an 1888

 

A few years back, I got (among other coins) from my uncle a Liberty head nickel that is almost completly smooth. The only part that hasn't been worn away is tiny part of the outline of Liberty's face. If that part had been worn off, I'd have no way of identifying the coin at all. I can't even tell what year it's from.

 

I just emptied 3 old 3# coffee cans of coins from way back. I am now going from Junk Cans to a Junk bucket, as I am learning what's there. LOL

 

Hey, lots of good stuff can repose in a junk box,

 

You are such a nice person major.

 

You can have a key made for it.

A butter knife works well for getting change out of banks.

Chris

 

LMAO!


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I have a wooden, velvet lined box that I toss miscellaneous items in... including foreign coins found from general circulation... generally Canadian specimens...