Show me a coin you hated having to sell!

bsshog40

I had to sell my SAE dansco not too long ago. Took me quite awhile to fill it but life's priorities took over. Is there a coin or series that you really hated to sell but had to?

LanceNewmanOCC

where......to......start.....

daltex

Haven't sold this yet, but am about to.

It's not worth too much, but I love the toning pattern.

edwardjulio

ifthevamzarockin

MS-62 DDR

OKbustchaser

If anyone knows her whereabouts, I really would love to get her back.

oih82w8

I originally purchased her as an PCGS AU53 CAC. Cracked her and she came back PCGS AU55 CAC. Sold her at a moment of weakness.

1818 50C Overton 112 PCGS AU55 CAC

Paradisefound

😔

@oih82w8 said:
I originally purchased her as an PCGS AU53 CAC. Cracked her and she came back PCGS AU55 CAC. Sold her at a moment of weakness.

1818 50C Overton 112 PCGS AU55 CAC

jesbroken

I don't have just one. Medical forced me to sell most everything twice and these are the 3 coins I wish to have back constantly.
Rick Snow helped me with two of them
Jim

bsshog40

Some very nice coins all! It's sux when we have to get rid of them. Hopefully they went to good homes.

lkenefic

I typically don't keep pictures of my "Ex's" around...

But, yeah... I can think of about a dozen or so Morgan Dollars from a date set I had to liquidate to satisfy a tax bill... an XF 1873 Trade Dollar... and a couple of other nice/original XF-AU Type pieces...

Eldorado9

Sold it back in 99. It was in a 65 holder. It's now a 66

Weiss

I move stuff occasionally to help support my own collection. So there is a fair amount of catch and release.
This is one of the few I think of when I think of regret.
If you've been in the coin game for awhile, you've seen dozens if not hundreds of early 1970s bronze and silver medal sets. The type offered in Parade Magazine or Good Housekeeping, sold by the Danbury or Franklin Mint, limited to the first 50,000 orders, etc. etc.
It's hard to break the knee-jerk reaction to these sets. They are flat out junk. Overproduced, no collectors, no value melt bucket fodder.
But the truth is that some were actually good. Some were really, really good. Well designed, well executed. This set is an example. It's really hard to appreciate from smaller pictures--these are massive 5+ troy ounce medals. .999 pure silver and bronze by Medallic Art. Super deep dish high relief. Pristine condition, the clamshell looked to never have been opened. With the COA and matching edge-mark number 16 of 5000.
They aren't what I collect, and I didn't "need" them. And I sold them for 3x what I paid for them. But they were definitely a case "Tom's Law of Numismatics". I'd never seen them before or anything as good as they were in my near 50 years of collecting. Makes me wish I'd kept 'em.

LanceNewmanOCC

@Eldorado9 said:
Sold it back in 99. It was in a 65 holder. It's now a 66

i know i/we have all seen coins that are graded high enough to where there is about no life in them.

your ex-cbh, is the opposite. just from the pics and the apparent lack of contact marks, it looks as though it may have room to move up a bit. what a beaut!

Paradisefound

1909/8 $20 Saints Gauden 😔 just because I have a couple of them; silly isn’t it?

Paradisefound

If I may aske you @daltex Why selling it if it’s not worth too much AND you love the toning???

@daltex said:
Haven't sold this yet, but am about to.

It's not worth too much, but I love the toning pattern.

Eldorado9

@edwardjulio said:

Yeah, I'd miss that one too. aka Trophy Coin

Swampboy

I miss it
Picked it up at a coin show and sent it in.
I posted it here and a few years later a member came across it and made me a solid offer

skier07

I miss the 1872-CC more with only 83 survivors but the toning on the 1795 $5 is absolutely amazing.

asheland

I did not mind selling at the time, but looking back I have regretted this for many years:
Sold in 2012

LanceNewmanOCC

@skier07 said:
I miss the 1872-CC more with only 83 survivors but the toning on the 1795 $5 is absolutely amazing.

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even if one made a really handsome profit, those would be tough to let go of! love the cc.

BillJones

When I was a dealer I sold this Matte Proof 1908 $10. There was no way I could have kept it.

I could have never owned this piece. I had it on consignment and highly recommended that my best customer buy it. He didn't. If he had bought it, he could make $100 thousand on it today.

coastaljerseyguy

Agree, where do you start, & stop. To fund my son's college education, here's a few. Had >50% of the SLHs in the Dansco & also sold the 78, 81 & 85 CCs in GSA.

steelielee

why o why

yspsales

Probably the killers were some unattributed VAM's in PCGS holders.

Had all the TV's at one point, and half the MS examples.

All the raw examples paid for the cost and reslabbed grading of the unattributed ones.

They are as scarce as the big 14.xx 1878 8TF VAM's

Steadily declined in price as sold, but did net me about $5K.

I still search for them on occasion, but to no avail.

Checking the pop report, others may be looking since MS examples have doubled.

LanceNewmanOCC

@yspsales said:
Probably the killers were some unattributed VAM's in PCGS holders.

Had all the TV's at one point, and half the MS examples.

All the raw examples paid for the cost and reslabbed grading of the unattributed ones.

They are as scarce as the big 14.xx 1878 8TF VAM's

Steadily declined in price as sold, but did net me about $5K.

I still search for them on occasion, but to no avail.

Checking the pop report, others may be looking since MS examples have doubled.

i know someone that liked to fancy themselves as a confidant of mine but despite them knowing i am not just a numismatist but a coin detective, offered to attributed some rolls of 1878 coins mentioning up front there are several desirable ones to keep an eye out for, especially in au-unc rolls.

was FLAT-OUT turned down despite having done a few other groups previously that, imo, worked out well for everyone. (i've been turned down on several occasions when offering up this service, surprisingly) actually happened with more than one person, believe it or not. then only to hear these same people whine about tough times with money afterwards. oh how life is FULL of painful ironies. many lessons for us all. to be up-front, i was not offering to do it completely grats, i certainly wanted a small percent for my knowledge/time/effort but would have been a pittance. i have found a few good ones in rolls at shops, long ago.

yspsales

Tried to find the two coins...

Can't find or remember the exact coin... top pops in a 2019 Quarter.

Sold them both for north of 2K.

Looking back at the pops now, my regrets have quickly faded

I sure there is an example somewhere... still racking my brain.

spacehayduke

Four of my faves that were very hard to part with and knowing they were not replaceable:

justmenutty72

@ifthevamzarockin said:
MS-62 DDR

As a collector of doubled dies and rare die varieties, I feel ya bro👌That’s an extremely tough coin in mint state, and the nicest I’ve ever seen except on CoinFacts. I’d miss her too. When I sell a coin like this, I always have the thought that one day I will replace it, but with an even nicer example. And that’s how it usually works out for me. Unless the coin has drastically gone up in value. At that point I’m SOL, so I just settle for the nicest I can afford, provided it’s at least an earlier die state. Die state sometimes trumps numerical grade for me.

jtlee321

This one really hurt. I wish I didn't have to sell it, but I had to.

JeffersonFrog

Sold it to a fellow Board member a little over a year ago. Wasn't long after when I found myself wondering, "what WERE you thinking?" Not a particularly valuable coin (MS63 BN), but I still miss it.

jesbroken

@jtlee321 said:
This one really hurt. I wish I didn't have to sell it, but I had to.

Wow! JT, I can totally understand, that is one spectacular buff. I know how I would have felt its leaving my herd.
Jim

Smudge

@spacehayduke said:
Four of my faves that were very hard to part with and knowing they were not replaceable:

I think I would have sold bullion or a kidney first.

Catbert

I guess I didn't have to sell this coin, but decided to do so since it was an outlier to my collection goals and I decided to use the funds for other coins. Would I've liked to have kept it? Of course and especially since I bought it in November 2021 and then turned around a few months later and sold it back to the dealer. C'est la vie!

bsshog40

@Catbert said:
I guess I didn't have to sell this coin, but decided to do so since it was an outlier to my collection goals and I decided to use the funds for other coins. Would I've liked to have kept it? Of course and especially since I bought it in November 2021 and then turned around a few months later and sold it back to the dealer. C'est la vie!

Sweeeeet

WilliamF

I had too much money into this one to keep it, it's a shame because this coin had outstanding luster in hand, it's the only large cent I've ever owned that actually had cartwheel luster, I regretted selling it pretty soon after I did 😢

mark_dak

Sold it for more than double what I paid but something tells me I'm going to be kicking myself some day!

breakdown

DisneyFan

It was a MS64 that did not CAC. The buyer bought it,

cracked it out and got a MS64+ and a green sticker.

daltex

@Paradisefound said:
If I may aske you @daltex Why selling it if it’s not worth too much AND you love the toning???

@daltex said:
Haven't sold this yet, but am about to.

It's not worth too much, but I love the toning pattern.

Kind of hard to explain, but I made a deal. . .

Joe_360

Should have never of done it...

ricko

I do not often sell coins. I have sold some gold sets, back at the peak prices... and a gold error coin... perhaps a couple of others. I have sold when someone really wanted a coin, not because I had to... I enjoyed the coins while I had them, now someone else enjoys them. I will likely sell others someday... Or someone will sell them Cheers, RickO

lkenefic

There should be a "cry" emogi for getting rid of some of these pieces....

PerryHall

@lkenefic said:
There should be a "cry" emogi for getting rid of some of these pieces....

lkenefic

@PerryHall said:

@lkenefic said:
There should be a "cry" emogi for getting rid of some of these pieces....

d'oh!

justmenutty72

😭, this one’s balling, which is what I felt like 😂🤣after I sold my AU53 1903-S Morgan, MS62 1923-S Walker, and the AU50 1927-S SLQ. The Walker and Morgan have doubled their value since. The Morgan and SLQ were both undergraded and would’ve easily gotten a green bean or next higher grade if I were to resubmit them. All were highly lustrous blast white coins. Still get sick to my stomach thinking about it 🤢…😂🤣Gotta see if I can locate pics of them, it was about 10 years ago

LanceNewmanOCC

@justmenutty72 said:

Gotta see if I can locate pics of them, it was about 10 years ago
.
you find em yet?

robec

I sold a complete set of PR67 Buffalo nickels to fund an upgrade to an MPL set. I didn’t think it would ever bother me, but I consider it my biggest regret in regards to coin collecting.

split37

Not a high grade nor an expensive coin, but I collect color not grade. The funds from this one allowed me to get several higher-end toners. I got this one raw with 2 others (which I still have). I would have preferred to keep all three together. If ever the chance comes up, I'd buy it back.

Here are it's mates. I believe they were all in the same album together; perhaps a Wayte-Raymond National Coin Album?

lkenefic

Oh Gawd!! Talk about your not-so-great trips down Memory Lane! I have a few, but the one that stands out is an AU 1873 Trade Dollar with amazing details, luster in the devices, and subtle toning. I had to sell the bulk of my collection in 2012 and this piece went with it... I typically don't keep pictures of my "ex's" around.

Fast forward ten years and I've replaced that piece with this one. It doesn't have the same subtle toning of the initial coin and it's not the first year of issue, but it's solid for the grade... unfortunately, if you've been following the price of Trade Dollars over the last decade, I have much more into the new piece that I ever got for the one it replaced! Such is life...

Treeman

It is my avatar...