It's "Trifle Thursday!" Coins/Trinkets of little value.......

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  1. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    Jello all! Staying warm somehow, I hope. :rolleyes:
    I have a New one today again! It's "Trifle Thursday!". Coins/trinkets that are of a matter or item of little value or importance. :confused:
    Okay, obviously if they're in your collection they must be worth something, right? Well, maybe not. What are some of these low value or not so important coins to you and why if you wish to explain?
    Some of mine are my Metal detected coin finds and "trinkets". Also, most of my LMC that I've acquired....:wideyed:
    While some of the Metal detected items aren't worth much monetarily, they carry a place in my heart historically and remind me of the enjoyment of the hobby.
    The coins are a roll of 1966 LMC's that are my birth year and just there. :sorry::rolleyes:
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  3. KBBPLL

    KBBPLL Well-Known Member

    You're kidding, right? Half my "collection" qualifies. Here is an album I started and haven't looked at for 55 years that I pulled out just for you. It cracks me up that it's "starting 1962" and only goes to 1968, then it's two and a half pages of blank holes. It's also funny that I could only fill in the 1964 holes but I put five nickels from the 1940s pulled from circulation in the blank holes (far right is a 1943-S war nickel). Crappy photos but you get the idea. $0.39 for the album - time capsule!
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  4. Inspector43

    Inspector43 More than 75 Years Active Collecting Supporter

    This album isn't worth throwing in the recycle bin. But, it represents my life of collecting. I started it back in the 40's, As you can see it is covered in repair tape. My wife says it is me and I should not try to replace it.
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  5. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    CT Contest 1 2025 A2-vert.jpg These have been sitting on my desk for months.
    What should I do with them.
    I just thought of it go to BST and see
     
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  6. alurid

    alurid Well-Known Member

    I have a collection of what I call Altered Abes.
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  7. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    There are two coins in my primary collection (which I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 bucks apiece to slab), yet which have catalog values of under five bucks each.

    The first is this 1972 Tanzania 5-shilingi. I lived in Tanzania in 1972 when I was a little kid. One of these coins was my first weekly allowance, if I had been well behaved.

    This coin only had a catalog value of $3.00 in UNC when I submitted it, but since I did, it is the top population example at PCGS. (If only because nobody else has ever bothered to submit one.)

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    Later, we lived aboard a sailboat in the Bahamas in 1974. I remember Mom once offered me one of these “bonefish” 10-cent pieces if I’d jump overboard and swim back to the boat. We were anchored in a beautiful lagoon and she was trying to boost my confidence. She knew I could do it, but was too hesitant. I overcame my fears, jumped off, swam back, and collected my bounty. I later bought a Disney Scrooge McDuck comic book with it when we were in Nassau.

    So like the Tanzanian coin above, I added this one to my collection out of nostalgia.

    Of course the coin I spent on that comic book in 1974 wasn’t a proof, like the example below.

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    A lot of these Franklin Mint proof minors ended up in dealer “junk” lots because they were leftovers from people breaking up the old FM proof sets, removing the silver, and casting aside the non-silver minor denominations like this. It is these 5-, 10, and 15-cent pieces I remember best from my childhood. I think this coin had a catalog value of $1.00 or $1.50 in Proof when I submitted it to PCGS.

    I was showing my collection to my closest coin dealer friend. He saw that slabbed Bahamian 10-cent piece (which had originally come out of one of his junk lots) and said one word: “Why?” So I told him the story. Sentimental reasons, that’s why. He got it, then.

    Besides, it’s a beautiful coin with a nice design, isn’t it? Both of these coins are cool looking.
     
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    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

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  9. nerosmyfavorite68

    nerosmyfavorite68 Well-Known Member

    Alexander Jannaeus - 103-76 BC - AE Prutah - 13mm, 0.92g - Zurqieh 7dollars.jpg
    Judea. Alexander Jannaeus - 103-76BC - AE Prutah, 13mm

    I don't collect small coins, but I paid a princely 7 dollars for this one. The 'widow's mite' of Biblical times, a pretty worthless coin then.
     
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  10. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    That one’s not bad at all for a $7 Widow’s Mite, if you ask me. Some are just little lumps. That looks more like some of the $20 examples I’ve seen.
     
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  11. nerosmyfavorite68

    nerosmyfavorite68 Well-Known Member

    Yes, not bad at all. It was about how much I was willing to pay for this type of coin.
     
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  12. Neal

    Neal Well-Known Member

    This would have been relatively trivial when made:
    Caria Halicarnasus Tetartemorion, 6mm, .2 g.
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    This qualifies as trivial today. I think it has been demonitized. If not it would take millions of them to equal a dollar. Indonesia, 1961, 50 sen:
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    Edit: I looked it up. The rupiah of the 1960's was replaced by a new rupiah in the 1970s at 1000 new = 1 old. Then again later that rupiah was replaced by a newer one at 10,000 = 1. So, if this were still legal tender, it would take 320,000,000,000 of them to equal US $1. I think that qualifies as a trifle.
     
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  13. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Indeed, but I still consider that worth at least 5-10 cents as a bulk World coin. Its face value/foreign exchange value may be nonexistent now, but it’s got at least a smattering of numismatic value (if only a few cents’ worth).

    Junkbox coins can still be fun. I used to greatly enjoy such trifles. :)
     
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  14. alurid

    alurid Well-Known Member

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  15. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

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  16. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    I have one for this thread. It is a Star that I dug that is the same exact size as a Junior G-man star.
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    On top of the JGM.
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