What's the nicest "Bonus" coin you've ever received?
JeffersonFrog
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Every once in a while, eBay sellers will promise to throw in a "Bonus" coin. Every once in a while, eBay sellers will throw in a bonus coin without telling you in advance. In my experience, the coin is usually a wheat penny, maybe a war nickel, but more likely a modern MS coin pulled out of change. The coins below are by far the nicest "Bonus" coins I've ever received. Both coins, one order, without any advance notice. Interestingly enough, I can't remember the coins I paid for, but I still remember the eBay seller.
If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.
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I have never received a bonus coin from a seller. Of course, I do not buy a high volume of coins anymore - that certainly may be a factor. Nice bonus coins.... Cheers, RickO
I've received a G4 Mercury dime a few times. Can't quite remember who the dealer was.
Dave
This coin was a surprise bonus from an ebay seller right around Christmas last year. I was thrilled
Awesome thread @JeffersonFrog !
I have received quite a few bonus items lately. As you mentioned, most are heavily worn War Nickels or Buffalo nickels, but for me those are a bonus. I plan on sending them to my favorite Hobo Nickel carver for a little spa treatment.
However to your point. I'll need to take a few additional photos tomorrow, but I recently received the token pair below as a bonus. They weren't promised, they just showed up in the envelope. They are off metal strikes of the 2014 ANA "Kennedy Nickel" tokens. Most all of these were struck in pewter as ANA giveaways. These two, copper and brass, had probably less than half a dozen each struck up.
The brass token was also struck on a split planchet.
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I've had some Buffalo nickels, some modern nickels, State Quarters, gold plated dimes, a postcard, and some other odds and ends.
One of the more interesting "bonuses" I received was when a seller was refunding me a bit of shipping for ordering a couple items that shipped together.
I received three $1 Federal Reserve Notes, and this . . . . .
Photos taken of both ends.
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Busy chasing Carr's . . . . . woof!
Successful BST transactions with: Bullsitter, Downtown1974, P0CKETCHANGE, Twobitcollector, AKbeez, DCW, Illini420, ProofCollection, DCarr, Cazkaboom, RichieURich, LukeMarshall, carew4me, BustDMs, coinsarefun, PreTurb, felinfoal, jwitten, GoldenEgg, pruebas, lazybones, COCollector, CuKevin, MWallace, USMC_6115, NamVet69, zippcity, . . . . who'd I forget?