What's The Most Valuable Coin You Ever Held?
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I haven't had the opportunity to go to any shows that have this sorta bling, so I was thunderstruck to have been shown this coin at a B&M I frequent. Saw this gem today. 
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I’m not sure. Maybe a F12 1794 dollar with strike thru. I can’t remember what it sold for at auction where I viewed it. I’ve seen more expensive stuff without being able to hold it.
I’m reluctant to ask to hold very expensive stuff since I figure most dealers don’t want someone to handle merchandise they have no intention of buying.
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Just go to any major coin show, walk up to the HA or Stacks booth, be nice and ask to hold something. They will let you. I've held a bunch of multi million dollar coins over the past years doing that. The Eliasberg 1913 Nickel and 1804 Dexter Dollar come to mind as two I've held that way, I'm sure there are more.
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I usually don't hold anything I can't afford. The most I have spent on a coin was $600. I had to save for that. Lol I still pick it up and hold it once in a while. Lol
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An 1871-S I believe it graded PCGS MS66
I miss read the title
Two coins I have had in my hands are the following:
the 1913 V nickel and the 1804 Dollar that are in the ANA collection with Larry Shephard
1870-S $3 gold, Bass specimen (then again, it's unique)
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
I've held a couple $4-5M coins in their slab but this is the best coin in the flesh. I held this gold stater of Pantikapaion in the back room of the British Museum. The only example to sell publicly sold for $3.9M all-in and this one is far nicer:
Probably not the most expensive EVER but I do remember in great detail a 1916 SLQ in MS 65 FH.
I almost bought it!!!
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I owned a MS 64 1883-S Morgan dollar back in the early 2000's ! Nice coin! 🙂
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Here in Canada held a 1936 dot dime (only 5 known) specimen 66 worth about 250k and a 1921 50 cent (the king of Canadian coins with about 75 known) in MS-65 worth about 225k. For Canadian coins not many top those 2. Only the 1936 dot penny (3 known) and 1911 dollar (3 known) would or a 1921 50 cent in MS 66 or MS67.
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Bruce’s 1794 dollar. Wow!
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
The most valuable coin I’ve ever held is a 1909 VDB PF65RB wheat penny. Someone had brought it to the coin club I attend and was casually showing it off. I was shocked when I realized what it was! It’s not every day that someone nonchalantly passes around a $30,000 coin.
MS 18th Century US gold eagle.
Yikes. I think for me the palladium eagles and maybe a 1911D quarter eagle MS 66 is it. I’ve seen plenty of beauties at the Long Beach show but I’d be afraid to touch a 30k coin
I’ve held a few Stellas, and Brasher doubloon, but the most fun were a few raw, (some unique) pieces that Harlan Berk showed me in his office. He encouraged me to pick them up & enjoy them. It was a real treat. Handling raw 6 and 7-figure coins is something else.
After I got married....
Hmm! A MS 64 Round Pan Pac $50 gold peice.. A dream coin since I was a kid
That's 3 1804 dollars, 2 1933 $20s, an Ultra High Relief, and an 1849 $20.
Nice to see the raw coin in hand photos, just like how coins were meant to be handled.
A 1856 flying eagle cent ms 62bn. It was nice to do that
Flying eagle cents don’t receive color designations.😉
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
While working at Heritage over the years I held the Mickley and Amon Carter 1804 Original silver dollars, two 1927-D double eagles, a Brasher doubloon, and the George Walton 1913 Liberty nickel, as well as Don Partrick's 1792 Birch cent, that one was MS65 Star RB NGC CAC, one of the most spectacular coins I've ever seen. But I also had at different times, I think, pretty much all of Dr. Duckor's double eagle collection and his Barber halves on my desk. I couldn't say offhand which of those sold for the most; it doesn't much matter to me. But I was lucky to see and write about a great many wonderful coins.
(Edited to correct Birch cent grade and add photo.)
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1870 S seated dollar and boy was it incredible!
I have had the opportunity to handle a few high dollar coins at shows... Mostly gold Double Eagles... I do not recall the exact ones.... Been thirteen years since I have been to a coin show. It is a thrill to actually hold some of these treasures. I have not had the pleasure/honor of holding any of the amazing coins shown here. Cheers, RickO
I think JK @airplanenut blew everyone else out of the water.
Not sure if this one is valuable or invaluable?
Not that exciting ... An 1876-CC Twenty Cent Piece in Choice Mint State. The grade number was 64 or 65. The asking price was $600,000, which I thought was a bit high.
I have seen most of the famous rarities through glass in cases.
I was at my first or second ANA WfOM show about 10 years ago, Saturday morning, looking at some inexpensive weird slabs in a dealers case in the carpeted area. Dealer was dressed down, nice jeans and a pressed button down shirt.
Knowing what I know now, this was calculated to drive some traffic on the public day to what was otherwise a very high end dealer. At the cost of tucking a box or two of weird lower end stuff into his van, he might do SOME business that day. At least he would have somebody to talk to. But - although a long time ANA member, I was still new to shows.
Knowing what I know now, I can recognize the Saturday stare - the dealer who finished up his business Friday afternoon, left the bourse at 4:59pm and went out drinking with the others from the company and a couple favorite customers Friday night. The one at the table is the guy who drew the short straw and while the other are sleeping in to run for the airport, he is sitting there until noon or 1pm, staring off in the middle distance hoping nobody shows up to wake him from his stupor.
Anyway, back to MY dealer who was totally present.
A very nicely dressed Japanese gentleman walks by and the dealer says excuse me, addresses the gentleman by name and says I have something you might be interested in. He pulls a slab out of his pocket and hands it to the gentleman who is walking up.
The gentleman looks at it, pulls out a loupe, checks both sides for about 45s and hands it back, "Nice, but not for me".
The dealer takes it back and says to me, "do you want to look?" "Sure" (I'm here to learn).
At which point the Japanese gentleman says "how much?" and the dealer replies "90". Gentleman: "Somebody else will buy it at that, just not me" and he walks off.
Looking down at the VERY NICE MS68+ Morgan in my hand I realize that 90 meant 90K.
After a long look at a very lovely coin (maybe one small mark in the field behind Liberty's head, no cheek chatter and a very nicely struck eagle's breast on the reverse), I handed it back, trying with as much aplomb as I could muster "Very, very nice, but a little too rich for me".
The dealer smiled, said "I know, but it's a nice coin and I thought you would enjoy looking at it".
And then we went back to discussing the weird over-graded $30 Morgan's in semi-basement slabs in his case.
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1913 Liberty Head Nickel ...
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Yea, that is the time I got to look at it but I didn’t get the photo opp. Thanks for including me in the party. A numismatic highlight for me!
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
In the raw ... no picture, but I was helping out a dealer in 1991/1992 ?? that took in a gem raw Pan-Pac set with all the original paperwork and in the original box.
It was a really cool sight to behold, with a felt lined case and a all kinds of original paperwork. I think back and I don't even remember a lot of it, because it was just so overwhelming to me. Just an amazing experience at the time.
He decided to have them all graded, and before they left, I was able to hold each of them and have a quick study with a glass. Not sure I had ever been as nervous handling raw coins ... before or since.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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Know a guy not far from me who has been amassing one of the best (if not THE best) SLQ collections in the world. He’s shown me several of his pieces including a 1916 pattern that had auctioned for something like $165-180K.
The 1943-D Copper Lincoln . . . . in my hands.
Drunner
Not in my hand's but I spent 15 minutes with the Eliasberg 1913 Liberty Nickel at Long Beach years ago.......It was Sunday at the end of the show and I had it all to myself..........the guards weren't even around and everyone still there was packing up, so it was Just me and that Nickel up on that horseshoe podium.......so for a few brief minutes it was MINE MINE MINE
then I had to say goodbye...........................A friend of mine's Dad had passed away and he had quite a collection of mostly Gold and had consigned it out but he kept a SLQ that was in a cheap 2x2 and on the 2X2 it said DON'T SELL and he asked me about it......at that time I suggested he get it graded and slabbed because it was a 1927 S and I conservatively felt it was an easy MS65 and it did have a FH and figured it was worth about 50 G's at that time 25 years ago..........it's price guided today at about 200 G's
Steve
Got it 🙂
I gotta get that shirt that Mr. Nut is wearing...
I held one of the very best 1792 Half Dismes ,at a show, a few years ago.
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1913 Liberty Head Nickel. Philadelphia, PA
17-S (reverse) walker in ms66 i bought raw.
When I was 16, my Grandfather Paris, who owned a country store in Southern WV showed me his most prized possession, an 1852 Territorial $50 Octagonal Gold Piece which NGC calls an Assay Office Slug. It was worn but you could still read the writing on the obverse(the reverse was worn but had no writing on it, just some design) It was really heavy to hold for a coin.
I was so excited, as I had never held any gold coin much less something like this. Have no idea what it would be worth in any grade today, but I feel it would be many times what I have ever held afterwards. Paris died in 1978, I was 30 years old at the time, he had hidden away in the house many, many silver coins in a pickle jar($957 to be exact and a 25# nail keg of pennies(all wheat). The family divided these up and my Dad and I got $320 face value silver and my brother-in-law(ugh) got the pennies, but not a sign of the gold piece. I had a greedy aunt at the time who said he never had such a coin, so I feel I know where it went, but not really of my business as it was not promised to me. I have never held one since, but have had a dream of such.
Jim
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I didn't see it. Where?
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Did you have it graded and slabbed??
Would LOVE to see some images!!!
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