What is your cheapest slabbed coin that is also one of your favorite?

HoldTheMayo

I bought this common date Peace Dollar for about $100 at auction. It's one of the few Peace Dollars I've actually seen with blue toning.

Che_Grapes

Picture doesn’t do it justice but the luster on this specimen is through the roof!! I tried to capture it in different lights —

HoldTheMayo

@Che_Grapes Wow, that's a gorgeous Kennedy. You can really see the luster pop on the first pic.

Mr_Spud

Probably this SBA I pulled out of a cheap Home Shopping Network looking SBA set in some generic case that was in a dealers junk box. I submitted it and it came back PR67CAM. It’s not valuable, but I like how it looks.

BryceM

A design the US Mint got 100% right.

braddick

coinandcurrency242

moursund

coinbuf

Purchased this year from the BST, not rare but at $75 I like the old Hallmark holder and a touch of color for a Peace dollar is a nice break from the blast white ones that I have.

Downtown1974

These things are a dime a dozen, but I still like them. Picked up this MS64 for the colors.

U1chicago

gtstang

This is one of my favorites for under $100.

gtstang

Here's a 21 with a little blue.

SeattleSlammer

ms70

@U1chicago said:

Pretty cool!

scotty4449

I love this Lincoln. 66 RB CAC, cost me about $65.

privatecoin

A beauty.

Che_Grapes

@gtstang said:
Here's a 21 with a little blue.

What grade? I love 21 peace dollars - if mine will ever get out of being graded I’ll post it here! I’m hoping it’s a MS65 - fingers crossed!!

scubafuel

dbldie55

My first 2 PCGS Morgan's cost $25 each. Still have them.

joeykoins

purchase price

$1
Submission fee
$25

Also,
Free gift $0
Submission fee $25

bramn8r

This was $20 in the coin dealers junk box, graded by "NNC" ?

P0CKETCHANGE

It’s this Franklin for me —

CoinHoarder

Picked this one up for $15.00 from DLRC on 06/26/2009.

koynekwest

AU58-

alefzero

Lowest priced Early US dollar I have gotten, but still super rare. Someone put a hole in it probably a couple centuries ago, but it is still a BB-91/B-32. Presents well to me.

Weiss

Bronze Drachm I bought when I was maybe 6 years old at the coin shop upstairs from my mom's store.
I think I paid $4 for it with birthday money. That was about 45 years ago. It's probably worth about that much today, but I'd never sell it. Had it slabbed a few years back.

Che_Grapes

@alefzero said:
Lowest priced Early US dollar I have gotten, but still super rare. Someone put a hole in it probably a couple centuries ago, but it is still a BB-91/B-32. Presents well to me.

That looks like a bullet hole to me!! Either way you win!

SkyMan

$30

ms70

Cheapest slab I've got, at least I think it is. F15.

Floridafacelifter

69CAM
Pop 293
$360

fox9487

Purchased for $1 along with around 300 of his kin at the bank maybe 8 years ago. Included it on a modern value submission as an after thought just so I could get the minty green box.

Walkerfan

$75 in an old 2.1 slab.

DDR

AU-58. Bought it raw for $20.

ricko

I picked up a 1964 set of coins, in Mint envelope, cello intact, with a AH Kennedy, at a gun show, for $20. Cheers, RickO

1946Hamm

$20 each.

Meltdown

I've posted this one before but it's nice.
It cost me $35 and at the time I thought "That's a lot of money for a raw quarter." but it sure was pretty.

hummingbird_coins

@gtstang said:
This is one of my favorites for under $100.

That is a really nice Peace dollar for under $100 and great toning too!

messydesk

This one cost me less than $30.

WAYNEAS

@Floridafacelifter said:
69CAM
Pop 293
$360

I love the Kennedy's.
I own a twin to yours.
Wayne

Cougar1978

Slabbed Mod Commem $ and ASE say MS69-70 can get for $15-$25 over melt or less. Super deal vs US generic $ which seem to have been promoted into stratosphere.

JeffersonFrog

Less than $100, less than $10, less than $1. Shoot, they were free - an unexpected "bonus gift" from an eBay seller. The ACG troubles were before my time, but I've always liked these holders. And free is good ...

hummingbird_coins

@JeffersonFrog said:
Less than $100, less than $10, less than $1. Shoot, they were free - an unexpected "bonus gift" from an eBay seller. The ACG troubles were before my time, but I've always liked these holders. And free is good ...

That's great for being a free gift!

crazyhounddog

I bought these years ago for 5 bucks each. I was, and still am, bowled over by the beautiful toning.
By the way, Great thread👍

Russell12

I love the look of worn Lincoln cents, for $20, i thought this was cool.

Barberian

I have a handful of TPG-slabbed US coins worth around $100-125 retail, but only have sellers' pictures for a couple of them. I have another coin being graded now at that approximate value, a 1874-S WB-3 (R3) half dollar in VG sent in to provide a coin for comparison for properly attributing a WB-4, the principal coin in the submission. Anyway, this is an 1855-O that I couldn't resist even though it was 30% over retail price guide values and the obverse wasn't in focus.

My "cheapest" slabbed coins are Canadian and Newfoundland coins purchased for $30-50. Here's an example.

JRGeyer

I'm a sucker for West Point coins, this one is currently up on coin facts:

ChrisH821

Very close to CAM (should be IMO) PCGS PG: $12

Love the surfaces on this one PCGS PG: $45

Another that I am not sure why isn't CAM. PCGS PG: $60

joeykoins

@crazyhounddog said:
I bought these years ago for 5 bucks each. I was, and still am, bowled over by the beautiful toning.
By the way, Great thread👍

Awesome Jefferson's, Joe!
Now, why does that particular one look so familiar?
Thanks Joe

asheland

This was $80 or $85 I forget. It’s splendid for the money:


And I am beyond happy with this for $200:

WillieBoyd2

PCGS graded Mexico 1898 Peso restrike:

Mexico 1898 Peso (1949 restrike) PCGS MS-62

In 1949 the San Francisco Mint struck 2,000,000 and the Mexico City Mint struck 8,000,000 copies of the 1898 Mexico Peso for use in paying soldiers of Nationalist China who were fighting the Communists.

The San Francisco Mint coins were kept in a bank vault and then returned to the mint for recycling. The Mexico City coins were distributed to several destinations in Mexico and sold as bullion coins.

I became interested in researching these coins several years ago and acquired several Mexico 1898 pesos, both original and 1949 restrikes, including one graded by our host PCGS as MS-62 for $70.