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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 952, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Whoa! Look at that!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I was at an ANA Convention -- Ft. Lauderdale, I think -- and I looked in the junk box and there was a Mexican 8 Reales.&nbsp; It was worn, of course, but not damaged; a seven dollar coin, easily.&nbsp; &quot;Do you mind?&quot; I asked the dealer.&nbsp; He laughed.&nbsp; &quot;I do it just to see how many people will miss it.&nbsp; You were not the first people this morning to go through the box.&nbsp; It&#039;s yours.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a couple of shops in my area. One has the &quot;Junk Boxes&quot; broken down by value: 5 for a Dollar; 50 cents each.&nbsp; But people throw coins in the wrong boxes, and the owner gets tired of re-sorting them.&nbsp; It is pretty easy to help him out while I look for things to take to school.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the shops will sell them by the pound, but the price is steep: Nine Dollars per Pound.&nbsp; But you get to pick and choose, so it comes out OK for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>At most coin shows, there is always someone at every junk box.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot say that I objectively &quot;cherry picked&quot; a junk box, in the sense that the dealer had no idea what was in there or what it was &quot;really&quot; worth. but like all collectors, the junk box is the magnet that draws me to the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>My most recent take was a couple &quot;Democritus/Atom&quot; coins and a few Elizabeth II Two Shillings.&nbsp; Again, these go to school with me as sops to my eighth graders.&nbsp; For instance, when studying ancient Egypt, everyone got one with an assignment to write out everything you can figure out about the culture from this artifact.&nbsp; We tabulated some of the results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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