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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 8081591, member: 43872&quot;]I love junk boxes.&nbsp; A large percent of my coin purchases (by number, not value) have been 5 cents to $1.00 from junk boxes.&nbsp; Sometimes it is just adding a new country to my collection, with the coin&#039;s 10 cent price several multiples of the coin&#039;s value.&nbsp; But I collect more for interest than value.&nbsp; Some of my more interesting junk buys include these (a couple of which I posted long ago):</p><p>The &quot;damage&quot; on this well-worn coin (plus the seller not reading French) helped put it in a dollar box.&nbsp; It is a Year 5 (1797/1798) Paris mint 5 centime.&nbsp; The &quot;damage&quot; is what remains of the original overstruck decime (10 centimes), which can faintly be seen around L&#039;AN 5.&nbsp; My very old Krause (1984) lists this as &quot;reported but not confirmed.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403309[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1403310[/ATTACH] </p><p>I enjoy buying junk box coins that I have to research to ID. I really had to search to identify this from a 50 cent box.&nbsp; It&#039;s Tannu Tuva, 1934, the only year that country issued its own coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s also probably the priciest coin I ever got from a junk box.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403311[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1403312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This beat-up 1 pfennig from Saxony probably isn&#039;t worth the dime I paid for it, but it is the only overdate I own, 1801/179:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403321[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1403322[/ATTACH] </p><p>Nor is this worth more than the 8 cents I paid, but the Costa Rica 1947 10 centimos doubled die reverse is the best doubled die example I own:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403325[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1403327[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1403328[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are lots more, but I won&#039;t bore you with pictures, such as a 1797 cartwheel penny, lots of German states, a 1722 British farthing, some F to AU 1800s George IIII and Victorian copper, (I am old enough to have found a few Victorian pennies in circulation while I was on a trip to London as a teenager--what teens do you know who go to London for three days and go roll searching?) a lot of British colonials, and so on.&nbsp; I love junk boxes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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