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What was the cheapest coin you knowingly had slabbbed?

lsicalsica Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭
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So... what was the cheapest coin you knowingly and purposely had stabbed? I dont mean ones you thought were more valuable than they turned out to be, I mean something you were fully aware of the value and paid to have slabbed anyway...

Philately will get you nowhere....

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  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1965 Kennedy ms63.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably a 1938-D Buff in a PCGS retro holder for my generations set - cost of the certification was probably 60% of the value of the coin.

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coin roll hunting! 1999 wide am for 1 cent :)

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Paid double face for this


  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty sure I paid more for the grading than the coin on this one... but try to find another just like it... it's unique ;) Had to pay for that TrueView too of course :)

    Oh, and yeah, it didn't straight grade... F Details :)

    :+1:

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably some F12 common date Barber Half's. I made the 1st in a couple of dates!

  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have several Lincoln Cents that are in PCGS holders for consistency, storage and managing the inventory - that are non recognized varieties by PCGS that I still collected. This coin as just a circulated 1945 S is only worth a few cents. But its a top 100 CONECA RPM variety worth maybe $10 to those of us still trying to complete the TOP 100 RPM's.

    You can see the whole showcase here:
    https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/varieties/coneca-top-100-rpm-lincoln-cents/2176

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Common date Kennedy’s and Ike’s.

    Why? Because... well because.

  • maplemanmapleman Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    47D walker toned and lustrous that I found in a junk roll. Came back AU 55
    from an anacs freebie. I thought it might grade higher but that's looking a gift horse in the mouth. LOL

  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone gave me a proof set from my birth year so I sent them in to be slabbed. The coins are worth a little more than the cost to have them slabbed, but not by a lot.

  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 23, 2019 8:24AM

    I had some late model toned LWC slabbed that pcgs assigns no value to.
    Couple memorials too!

    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @illini420 said:
    Pretty sure I paid more for the grading than the coin on this one... but try to find another just like it... it's unique ;) Had to pay for that TrueView too of course :)

    Oh, and yeah, it didn't straight grade... F Details :)

    :+1:

    I don't know if I would have admitted this. LOL!!! Love it, BTW. :)

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1944-D Lincoln graded AU-50 in a PCGS OGH.

    It's an RPM, D/D North that is not attributed on the label.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • opportunityopportunity Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭✭

    Probably a 1918/7-D that graded G06. Cheaper coins just get flipped raw by me...too much waiting for my patience level.

    Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @opportunity said:
    Probably a 1918/7-D that graded G06. Cheaper coins just get flipped raw by me...too much waiting for my patience level.

    If you consider a G06 1918/7-D to be a "cheap" coin, what is an expensive coin?

    No malice, just wondering.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • opportunityopportunity Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭✭

    @BuffaloIronTail said:

    @opportunity said:
    Probably a 1918/7-D that graded G06. Cheaper coins just get flipped raw by me...too much waiting for my patience level.

    If you consider a G06 1918/7-D to be a "cheap" coin, what is an expensive coin?

    No malice, just wondering.

    Pete

    I don't necessarily consider that coin to be cheap, just relatively cheap for what I'd consider worth slabbing. Coins worth a couple hundred bucks don't necessarily need to be slabbed to get the money out of them. At least not what I typically deal with.

    Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,100 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AG03 1848 50c for my 100 year Birth Year set
    Paid $18.00 for it.

    When it came back with my submission graded almost gem AG03 it sported a Walkers Shortbread Cookie crumb in the holder.

    I sent it back for a 'blow off' and PCGS handled the shipping charges.

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  • TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The only cud I've ever found in change.

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  • JohnnyCacheJohnnyCache Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some times, it's just not about the money.
    An 1838 capped bust quarter in VF was my lowest.

    Charles III Album

    Charles III Portrait Set

    Charles IV Album

    Charles IV Portrait Set

    Spanish Colonial Pillar Set

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have no idea... in the early days, I am sure there were a few that should have remained in the album... But it was a novelty then.... Anyway, I really don't care...I still have them, whatever they are.... :D Cheers, RickO

  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,281 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1923 peace dollar I picked up at the junk silver store. Thought it would get into a MS65 holder and be worth the cost, but ended as super nice 64. Still a nice coin though!

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The cents that came with my Cheerios Dollar two-coin packs.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭✭✭

    An Australian Crown that my father brought back from his WWII service in the Pacific.

  • RexfordRexford Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My grandparents bought me this while on a trip to Antarctica. Pretty cool piece.

    Gobrecht's Engraved Mature Head Large Cent Model
    https://www.instagram.com/rexrarities/?hl=en

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