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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1467438, member: 68&quot;]To sum it up briefly I&#039;d call half of it &quot;Gem junk&quot; and the other half &quot;general junk&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>When other people were spending a week&#039;s wages on Morgan dollar or walking half Gems I was buying modern and world Gems.&nbsp; I was couldn&#039;t afford to compete with anyone so I looked for rare coins that no one else wanted.&nbsp; It didn&#039;t matter to me if they were rare because of low mintage or because everyone was too busy with &quot;real coins&quot; to save any.&nbsp; While I concentrated on only seeking Gem I did get any date I knew was scarce even if it was only Unc or BU.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But I also like to collect coins, tokens, and medals so this means ALL coins, tokens, and, medals and a lot of this is mere garbage to most collectors.&nbsp; It includes things like countermarked pennies and Mardi Gras doubloons but it also includes some more sought after things like telephone tokens and transportation tokens.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do have several more typical collections that don&#039;t fit in either of the major categories but they all give me a lot of pleasure even where they have no real value and might never have any real value.&nbsp; Some things are for profit potential and some are just for fun.&nbsp; The only fly in the ointment is having to have so many safety deposit boxes and not seeing so many of the collections for long times.&nbsp; If I had it to do over I might specialize more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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