Have you ever bought a used coin album or supplies and got more than you expected?

davewesen

A few years ago I bought at auction a part filled type set in either a blue Whitman with slides or Dansco. A while later I pulled out a slide to put a coin in and a very nice small coin pops out hidden behind a page. I do not remember if it was a 3 cent silver or half dime, but do remember it was worth more than I paid for the album and few assorted included coins.

Just a couple days ago I was looking in a half box of used coin tubes and picked one up that had 7 - 1958 quarters jammed in there. Nothing that a few taps on the counter could not clear out. I am a bottom feeder, so this tube was also worth more than I paid for the box of used tubes.

What have you bought that also brought a pleasant surprise?

ifthevamzarockin

I got a dime book that everything looked normal but they put all their duplicates in the holes, there was 2 of everything.

jdimmick

One time I bought a bunch of used albums and supplies. Guy was a real pain in the arse to deal with on multiple prior occasions. I really didnt want them becuase they dont sell , but he begged me to buy the used supply deal, so i did just to get em out of the store. Low and behold, I ended up finding a real nice xf/au 1892-o Barber quarter that had slid down in the binder of the dansco album

moursund

Bought a used IHC album at LCS, had 2 IHC in the extra slots... Total value about $1.50. 😉

MarkKelley

I bought a box of 48 used blue Whitman folders at a flea market. A deal was struck for a quarter each (!) and the box was mine for $12. When I unpacked them at home the very bottom one had 12 silver Roose dimes in it.

thebeav

I bought a banana box of used folders at an auction. I remember it wasn't a lot of money. I found about 10 dollars face in 90 while going through the albums.
I used the ratty ones to start a campfire. They really look wild while burning......

Treashunt

I got a partial set of Barber quarters once, in a used Whitman album.

At home I found 3 or 4 quarters that had slid into the back. At least one was a better date, but no '01 S, of course.

Another time I picked up a Canadian coin book. At home I found an old piece of Canadian fractional currency.
Paid a dollar for the book, sold the bill for $10 or $20 I forget how much.

seanq

Back in the early 1990s when I was in college, I went to a local coin auction and bought four partial sets of Lincolns in Whitman folders. In one of the books, in the hole for the 1922 No D, was a genuine Die Pair #2 example in Good. I bought the lot for around $25, sent the '22 to ANACS where it graded Good-4, then flipped it to a local dealer for money to buy an interview suit.

Sean Reynolds

ricko

No special finds in albums, but years ago, bought a Chevy used car, found two quarters '53 and '57 under the back seat. Cheers, RickO

1630Boston

@seanq said:

then flipped it to a local dealer for money to buy an interview suit.

Sean Reynolds

Did you get the job ?

291fifth

I found a Barber dime in a used Whitman album. It had slipped out of its space and was under the paper covering. Unfortunately, it was just a low grade common date.

WAYNEAS

Great stories.
I did buy a metal coin storage box with 2x2 Lincolns, but all were common coins.
Still have that storage box.
Wayne

Whit

As a kid in the mid 1960s, I bought a 39-cent Whitman folder for walking lib. halves. Several weeks or months later ... forgot the exact time ... I turned the paper covering over and found two walkers from the 1930s.
Whit

JMS1223

Not a coin but a pretty awesome find. Years ago I bought a single 1950s Eisenhower FDC for $1-$1.50 and sealed inside was his famous D-Day letter given to the soldiers that stormed the beaches of Normandy during WWII. Even though the letters are printed (not hand signed) they still bring $300-$600 each on eBay as a historic WWII collectible. I think I got around $360 for the one I found (had folds and wrinkles so didn’t bring top dollar but still great for something I paid $1 for).

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Dug13

A few months ago, I was at an estate auction that had a broken piggy bank. The small pile of coins were clearly visible. I ended up with high bid of 35.00. I had guess-timated it had close to $50.00 of coinage in it. After I got it home and looking through it, it had 42 silver dimes mixed in with the rest of the change.

ms71

@ricko said:
No special finds in albums, but years ago, bought a Chevy used car, found two quarters '53 and '57 under the back seat. Cheers, RickO

Hey, those were mine! My girlfriend at the time will vouch for me if I can locate her.

moursund

@ms71 said:

@ricko said:
No special finds in albums, but years ago, bought a Chevy used car, found two quarters '53 and '57 under the back seat. Cheers, RickO

Hey, those were mine! My girlfriend at the time will vouch for me if I can locate her.

Yeah, that might have been my wife. She says way before we were married, she lost a '53 and '57 quarter from her penny loafers when she was out on a date with her grabby boyfriend.

BUFFNIXX

Bought a used standing liberty quarter folder for a quarter and when I got out of the store i saw there were 9 circ
quarters in the third page of the folder.