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What coin(s) do you wish you had purchased 25 years ago?

abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Perhaps they've gone up in price too much over the last couple of decades. Any coin series or single coins you wish you had purchased pre-1995?

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold was the play.

  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Scarce/rare gold or simple common stuff?

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,364 ✭✭✭✭✭

    CC dollars and anything gold.

    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • batumibatumi Posts: 818 ✭✭✭✭

    Any or all of the St. Gaudens 'Big Five', or a 1921. The archives from twenty-five years ago make it seem these were going for a song. Same as early Walkers in gem!

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Chain cent

    Successful BST transactions with 171 members. Ebeneezer, Tonedeaf, Shane6596, Piano1, Ikenefic, RG, PCGSPhoto, stman, Don'tTelltheWife, Boosibri, Ron1968, snowequities, VTchaser, jrt103, SurfinxHI, 78saen, bp777, FHC, RYK, JTHawaii, Opportunity, Kliao, bigtime36, skanderbeg, split37, thebigeng, acloco, Toninginthblood, OKCC, braddick, Coinflip, robcool, fastfreddie, tightbudget, DBSTrader2, nickelsciolist, relaxn, Eagle eye, soldi, silverman68, ElKevvo, sawyerjosh, Schmitz7, talkingwalnut2, konsole, sharkman987, sniocsu, comma, jesbroken, David1234, biosolar, Sullykerry, Moldnut, erwindoc, MichaelDixon, GotTheBug
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    More gold... having the good fortune to foresee (through many sources, I am not prescient) the impending rise in gold value, I should have stacked even more. Cheers, RickO

  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭✭✭

    LOL, I was in high school, it was sports and girls back then. Didn't get back into coins until after college!

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Palladium bullion coins.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1955 or 1972 DDO

    Instead bought the 1995 ddo

    BST: KindaNewish (3/21/21), WQuarterFreddie (3/30/21), Meltdown (4/6/21), DBSTrader2 (5/5/21) AKA- unclemonkey on Blow Out

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1916 slq, 1909 s indian head cent in high grade, 3 legged buffalo nickel

  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good mutual fund would have made me so much more money. I could now afford the very coins I wished I had purchased 25 years earlier.

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can tell you about coins I wish I HADN'T purchased! ;)


    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,538 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1792 Half Disme.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,381 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wish I picked up some cool Bolen medals back when they were unpopular.
    Especially the Pioneer Baseball Club, which is now 7-10xs the price

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold Saints of all kinds and key date Morgans.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold for sure... but also early Large Cents in VF20 or better... Trade Dollars (just in the last 10 years)...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm with @ARCO on this one. S&P is 4 times what it was 25 years ago, NASDAQ and DOW are 6 times higher. Not many coins on my want list that have done near that well when looking at my 1994 Red Book.

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • santinidollarsantinidollar Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Any old gold.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty much every MS or conditional rarity my 18 year old self could have afforded. Plus a bunch of 90%.

  • GoldminersGoldminers Posts: 4,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A MS64 or gem octagonal Pan-Pac.
    However, I couldn't afford it then, and I still can't quite get up the nerve to pull the trigger on one now.

    My US Mint Commemorative Medal Set

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Goldminers said:
    A MS64 or gem octagonal Pan-Pac.
    However, I couldn't afford it then, and I still can't quite get up the nerve to pull the trigger on one now.

    Just do it....you won’t be sorry.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • ParlousJoeParlousJoe Posts: 451 ✭✭✭

    Wish I had bought the 1995 AGE Sets back then, was going to buy a couple of sets but wife talked me out of buying them. Then had the opportunity to buy a couple of the 1995-W PR70DCAM's at the time too for great prices back then and ended up passing on them as well. Those are some that I really regret not buying at the time!

  • ernie11ernie11 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Barbers, Barbers and more Barbers.

  • cnncoinscnncoins Posts: 414 ✭✭✭✭

    The list is too long....should have kept many of the coins but as a dealer, we buy and sell.

  • dave700xdave700x Posts: 59 ✭✭✭

    Much more classic gold and 1995W ASE's from the mint.....

  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Barbers !!!!! Any series but especially halves!!!!!

    New inventory added daily at Coins Make Cents
    HAPPY COLLECTING


  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Humbert octagon slug

  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,691 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1873 cc seated quarter and the 1870-cc from the Richmond sale, couldn't afford it then, and still cant , because they have tripled in price.

  • Raybob15239Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭

    1894 P 1885 CC and 1893 S Morgans.

    Successful B/S/T transactions: As Seller: PascoWA (June 2008); MsMorrisine (April 2009); ECHOES (July 2009) As Buyer: bfjohnson (July 2008); robkool (Dec 2010); itsnotjustme (Dec 2010) TwoSides2aCoin (Dec 2018) PrivateCoin Jan 2019
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dave700x said:
    Much more classic gold and 1995W ASE's from the mint.....

    The 1995-W ASE didn't exist 25 years ago. :D

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Anything gold.

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  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The coins I wanted bought, then I stupidly sold them. I remember in the mid-80's no one was collecting mid-grade bust dollars and I was buying XF/AUs for $1000. I had sets of draped halves, seated lib halves, etc. I've never put back together. Look at rare date CC seated halves from the mid 1980's to now...ugh! Even low grades are crazy.

    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 24, 2019 11:57AM

    This sold for $16,100 in October 2001-- almost 18 years ago. I could really use it for my set.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1916 doubled die obverse Buff.

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