What is your biggest bargain?
jtryka
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Thought it would be fun to share the biggest bargain you've found so far.
Mine is an 1873 Open 3 double eagle that I bought for AU money (i.e. $50 over melt) and sent it off to be graded and it came back MS-61.
PS- I still think it's a 58.
Mine is an 1873 Open 3 double eagle that I bought for AU money (i.e. $50 over melt) and sent it off to be graded and it came back MS-61.
PS- I still think it's a 58.
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70 Buffalo Dollars for ~$30 each
11 2002 $5G CVC for $200 each
Tyler
So a 1873 ms63 trade dollar I bought off teletrade in a anacs ms60 holder for $300.
Oh, my biggest bargain was a 1878-S Morgan that I picked up for $40, found it was some variety (don't remember which one), and sold it for $110.
Coyn
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currently putting together a collection of world and US silver dollars of the 1800's
My World dollar collectionJust updated 3--03
Frank
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Type collector since 1981
Current focus 1855 date type set
K S
PCGS MS64 I got on eBay a few years back. The seller was a dealer
who used no reserve but a single low first bid of $4000 below the
going price at the time. I placed my high bid and at the end
of the auction I had the coin for the first bid + 100. The dealer
had been called out of town and lost track. There were no other
bidders at all. It shocked the heck of me when I won.
The seller honored my winning bid and took a trouncing of a
several thousand dollar loss. The dealer said I won the coin
fair and square and insisted I had nothing to feel bad about.
He Fed'xd the coin without knowing me and only requested that
I wire him the money that next day so he could make a purchase
of an antique classic car right away. He even sent me a picture
of the car. He was short of money.
When is the last time a seller sent you the coin before you sent the
money?
- Charlie B -
My website
al h.
Another was a 1936 S Walker I bought in 1968, sent in twice for grading and is also housed in a PCGS MS 66 holder. Original cost for the coin was $35.
Charlie - Pinnacle Rarities sent me an 1883 Seated Half in PCGS MS 65 on memo, though I had already established a track record with them when they sent me the coin (yes, I bought it).
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
BC
1928-D SLQ in MS65 for $350. Regraded 6 years later at 65FH and sold for $3200.
1918-D Merc in MS63FB for $950. Regraded about a year later at 64FB and sold at a premium at about $4000. IMO, the coin was a Gem. Should have kept it...
1919-D Buffalo MS64 bought in 1993 for $1200. Six years later the MS64 price was $1900 but had it regraded to MS65. $3500.
I put all the "gains" in a mutual fund in 1999 and subsequently lost 40% of it. So much for traditional investments. lol
jom
How about waiting on line for 4 hours at the age of 12 in 1965 (or 13 in 1966...I can't remember which) with crisp new and tattered silver $1 certificate dollars and redeeming them for circulated silver dollars at face value at the New York Federal Reserve?
A bunch of the silver dollars were the CC silver dollars! I carted away close to $600 of the silver dollars of which 30 of them were CC dollars! I worked hard as a newspaper boy to save that much money......actually it was $300 I saved and my grandfather matched it!!
You couldn't beat circulated CC dollars for $1 each!
Sold for $305. (I bought it six minutes after it went on Ebay)