worthless/priceless collections

I'm just curious about junky coins anyone has, that they dont want to spend because of time spent time on them(and sentiment) and if you have any plans for them.

I have a few really junky wheaties that my grampa had and I've been saving junky quarters ( not nasty or sticky ones) Once I get 40 quarters, I thought it might be funny to give to someone I owe $10 to, or as tip to a bad waiter, but I will probably just keep it.

 

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I'm woking on a collection of holed coins. not quite junky

 

I have some Buffalo nickles with partial dates , a holed large cent and a SLQ with no date , but they were my parents so I'll hang on to them .
rzage

 

Yeah I usually take my junk coins save them up and usually buy a good coin with them... PS Hey Randy those are some ugly quarters...lolol

 

But look at the toning on the top couple
rzage:hatch::hammer:

 

Saving all the really junky cents I find in rolls searching and gonna use some for cleaning practice and the rest might go to the bank that won't let me get rolls to search. Have about $8 worth so far.

 

I have a 17?? Large cent thats almost worn flat.

 

I have a bucket full of 1943 steels that are all rusted! what to do with them?

 

Experiment with the WD-40 and industrial toilet bowl cleaner on them and give cleaned coins to YN's?

 

I have a 5 gallon bucket started of ugly cull wheats, but have a " collection " set of holed wheats that I find bag searching.

 

I have a pseudo collection of things I've found while searching rolls of Kenney halves. It includes guitar picks, driving range tokens, dimes, pennies, and a host of foreign coins from Mexico, Denmark, England, Israel, and Australia. My favorite is a 1947 Australian penny that is almost the exact size of a US half.

 

The vast majority of coins given to me or left behind by relatives are junky. Walking halves worn down to marble smoothness; buffaloes that look more like pudding; pennies that smell like a junkyard. True, they have sentimental value, but they're worthless except as a novelty. Unfortunately, I have quite a horde of these since I have the "coin collector" reputation in the family.

I could probably sell the wheaties... but the rest... I have no idea...

 

An easy worthless/priceless short set I put together is a collection of all of the silver roosevelt dimes in circulated condition -- 1946 to 1964. It's cheap but neat.

 

I like to collect all the clad- the coins with dirt on both sides of them after Metal Detecting. Once I finish collecting I bring them to the bank to put them through the counting machine- Boy do they love when I do that!

 

thanks all I have a rusty looking buffalo,and a few holed coins too (a half dime,large cent, and steel cent) I also have a few that have a ring sodered(sp?) on. they only old us gold coin I own is a 1854 $1 that has soder damage.

I found 1 in the backyard where my dogs do their buisness that looked like an ancient coin. ( I washed it)

Thier all toned:whistle: lol that one 2nd from the right deoes has a rainbow tone (hard to see) .. i guess the rest have pantina. lol

 

Well, at least it's silver

An 1878 Morgan that a dealer threw in for zip when I bought ten others from him. It was in a flip marked " worst cull ever." I can't count the feathers and no 7 over 8. If I squint real hard with 10X loupe I pretend I see CC.

Yeah, I use it as a pocket piece.

 

that looks pretty cool.

 

This I got from my grandmother....guess the books are right, these things really did circulate out west.

 

Every time I look at a worn Morgan, I see someone sitting in a saloon in the middle of a card game, betting the $$$ and getting shot while trying to cheat at a hand. or some stage coach getting robbed with all these Morgans sitting next to the driver as he's shot by some banditos who get back to their campfire to split up their bounty. :mouth:

 

1965 P Quarter ?

Just kidding. Someone punched three very neat "Ps" on this two bit piece. The third is on the eagles wing.

Was he / she testing his punch? Maybe bored? Perhaps to see if the coin was ever returned to him / her in change. Either way it's staying with me.