Ever see a coin in the wild you used to own 20+ years ago?
braddick
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I just did!
In the early '90s, I found an extraordinary, problem-free 1847 Seated dollar on a bid board at a coin shop in Carlsbad. I bought the coin and submitted it to PCI and a slew of other excellent coins. (Back in the day, PCI was acceptable as their turn-around times were like five days, and it was inexpensive to get coins graded as they ran decent specials.)
It came back PO1, and I happily kept it for a while. Somehow I ended up selling it and kind of forgetting about it. Well, until today! I was cruising a popular internet auction site (ok, it was eBay) and just now stumbled upon it!
I just thought it was neat to see an old friend again.
(And no, I won't be repurchasing it as the new selling price is 4X's what I originally purchased it for...)
Do you have any stories of coins you've owned and much later come upon again?
peacockcoins
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No... I still have all of them...
Cheers, RickO
Yes…I told the dealer that was my coin and he responded “Correction! It used to be your coin.”
Tom
The closest I’ve ever come to that was earlier this year. I was asking a dealer if they had any gold dollars and they reached back and pulled out the only one they had from their special box.
It turned out that it was one I had sold a different dealer a little while earlier as I had upgraded the coin to a much nicer one. I thought about asking the price but just smiled and said thank you and handed it back.
As @ricko stated, I too have all of mine.
Hopefully others will share their findings of old “separated friends” that were once part of the family but now have regained contact with.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Don’t blame you for not wanting to buy the coin back because of that horrible scratch across Liberty’s body on the obverse
How can they tell it is a proof?
I used to own this one but sold it. When I saw it come up, I bought it back as it has awesome eye appeal ...
I bought this coin raw from Lonesome John Devine in early 1980's. Sold it maybe 30 years ago thru Len Roosemalen auction. I wondered if I would ever see it again, recognizable due to strike thru reverse. I replaced it with a different one just a couple years ago, coincidentally from Jon Sullivan. If anyone has error coin shopping needs Sullivan's error coinage website is a must visit. I'd guess I've bought at least 100 error goodies from him last ten years. All keepers.
https://www.sullivannumismatics.com/coin/pcgs-5c-1969-s-jefferson-nickel-struck-dime-planchet-ms65?v=8114
Ricko, you never sold a coin???
Really? Not even to upgrade?
Mike
My Indians
Danco Set
@alaura22.... Back around 2012 I sold a set of gold Britannia's, and recently sold a gold error coin to a forum member, but other than that, no, I have not sold any coins. Cheers, RickO
Ricko
Some backround, How long have you been collecting?
With over 88k posts I'm sure it's been awhile.
Mike
My Indians
Danco Set
For NGC it means poor.
peacockcoins
Two other examples of poor 1 NGC coins:
peacockcoins
I always thought PO 1 would have a partial date. Those two look like AG3.
I once was working on a collection of early half cents (1793-1808). I gave up when I couldn't find a 1797 gripped edge for over 5 years, and sold them in 2003.
I happened to see my old 1796 C1 No pole on Great Collections about a week ago. The coin has been through a lot of changes: First it was in the PCGS F15 holder when I bought it out of Heritage in 2000 (lot 5281, at that time, it was a new discovery in an attic in Florida).
The dealer who bought it removed the verdigris from the surfaces and eventually it was in a ANACS F12 details, cleaned, holder. Since then it has been in various NGC and PCGS holders, and it now resides in a PCGS VG-10 (straight-graded) holder (coffin).
Curiously, this coin sold for less last week than I sold it to HLRC in 2003.
I bought this from Fred Weinberg in 1975. Sold it to Mike Chambers. It ended up with Mark Lighterman. Mark showed it around a couple years ago at a coin show.Today it is worth $250,000.
Yea, but more three or four years ago when I saw it. It was 1797 16 stars dime in VF. A dealer friend and I thought it had been repaired, but there is was in a Ch VF holder.
Several times. I even bought one of them back in a new holder and with a new cert number. I didn't recognize it as my old coin until I got it home and photographed it, LOL. Pretty sure I paid more the second time too...... D'OH!!!!
I've seen probably three or four of my former coins "out there" in higher-graded holders. That's always a bit of a bummer.
I sold one after a forum member correctly pointed out some problems with a four-figure coin I owned. I sold it to a dealer (and made a small profit, actually) and saw it later at a Summer ANA in yet a different dealer's case. New slab, higher grade, same problems, and being offered for maybe 10X what I sold it for.
I might disagree with your usage of "in the wild" though. To me, that usually means a coin circulating in commerce.
Had to sell this endroll toned pair around 2003 and always remembered and kind of regretted selling, especially the obverse toned coin. Found the obv toner on eBay by itself a year or two ago with a very reasonable buy-it-now and was very excited to add it back into my collection.
Nope.
Even though I've looked.