Largest (quantity) purchase you've made...

coppercoins

If I end up with this lot of Lincolns, it should turn out to be close to 100,000 coins, which would be the largest quantity of coins I have ever acquired at once. Granted, they are coming to me as cheaply as US coins can come without being free, so I don't in any way propose that I am a heavy roller here with a 100,000 coin "deal." Thinking of it, though, left me with a question. What's the largest "deal" any of you would care to share?

mbbiker

I once bought 2 pounds of world coins


edit to say if you want to get rid of any of the rolls please let me know.

tjkillian

In shear number of coins, it would have to be a roll of 1957-D Lincoln cents, all uncirculated! Rarely do I buy more than three coins at once.

Tom

bohica268

mbbiker....no reason to be embarrassed. My first bulk purchase was 2 lbs. of world coins too. Then I bought 5 and my last ones were 10 lbs each. Thinking about 25 lbs. next time. Gotta do something til the 2003 pocket change comes out!

nwcs

The largest in total number of coins... Probably when I got $10 worth of cents at the bank. So that'd be 1000 coins. But if that doesn't count, then probably somewhere around 100 coins from one of those pot luck wheat cents deals on ebay.

Legend

1500 Seated Quarters and Halves from 1838-1876 (the Evergreen deal). Most were high grade. That was an amazing deal.

The scary part, they are only a very minor part of a huge collection. WOW!

Laura Sperber
lsperber1@hotmail.com

MacCoin

for me it was only 150 wheaties

BillJones

I never do much in volume. The most coins I ever bought a one time was probably close to 1,000 pieces. It was most junk silver.

danglen

About two months ago I bought 15,033 Wheat cents from local retiree, all separated by dates and in rolls. They fit nicely in two ammo cans, but were a chore to lug up the stairs to my office. I also just purchased 264 pounds (120 kilos) of world coins from a guy in Europe. The shipping costs on this purchase exceeded the price I paid for the coins. Interestingly enough, shipping to a business address was $180 cheaper than shipping to a residential address.

nwcs

Wait, I do remember getting some bulk silver and got 200 coins out of it. That may be the highest in quantity from a single transaction.

ccrdragon

2-3 lbs of wheaties

misterR

A couple hundred lbs. or so of Ike and Kennedy rolls. Takes a heavy duty dolly to get them to the truck.

66Tbird

Ammo box of rolled cents pre-64. took a dolly to move it and two months to search and reroll by date.

coppercoins

All very interesting responses. Like I said before, my 100,000 coin deal won't come close in value or in expenditure to some of the single coin deals made on a regular basis by others who lurk and post here. I was just curious to see if others had ever ran into a deal this size (in pounds) before.

Interestingly enough, I made a purchase once that beats this one in monetary amount by double, but the number of coins came to no more than 4,500 - it was a roll deal with BU cent rolls from 1935-1955 - 90 rolls in all. Bid on the lot was $2,450 and I got it for $2,100. That was nearly two years ago and I still have some of that lot in my safe.

Thanks for the replies.

coinrookie

One each of 1999 and 2000 uncirculated and clad proof sets. Slabbed coins would be 4 at one time.

relayer

I bought 2 lbs of coins on ebay for $25, and received a $5 baggie of junk.

Guess that's what happens when you buy coins by the pound.

nucklehead

Last year I bought a roll of 2001 American silver eagles.

prooflike

A roll of Kennedy half dollars for me.

UncleJoe

At the Orlando show a few months ago I hand selected 103 assorted Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes and Wash. quarters.

Joe.

bohica268

" 1500 Seated Quarters and Halves from 1838-1876 (the Evergreen deal). " - Legend


I had a vision of Laura scattering them on the carpet and walking among them in her stocking feet, a glass of fine wine in hand and laughing quietly to herself "Mine! All mine!".

- I gotta talk to Clankeye!

BigD5

I purchased a medium sized duffle bag full of circulated silver bullion, Roosies, Mercs, Washingtons, and Kennedies.

dram

5 rolls of 50 state 25c every three months

NoviceKris

In one fell swoop, 302 total coins. They were all raw Kennedys, SBA's, Ikes, Sac's. More than
doubled the size of my collection at the time.

Kris

coppercoins

<< <i>5 rolls of 50 state 25c every three months >>



Somebody should do a recount...50 coins? I thought a quarter roll was 40 coins.

solid

A few years ago bought 84 original BU rolls of 1955-P dimes, so 4200 coins.

MrKelso

One Sale of $50,000.00 in South African Krugerrand's in 1 OZ Denominations Same time $50,000.00 of various No motto and Motto $20.00 Gold Eagles Same Time $5000.00 of Platinum and $10,000 Silver Bullion Sale Happened in 1979 and i still hold the entire lot. I have watched it go up and down and up and down over the years. More recently This year $35,000 in a combination of Gold Canadian Maple Leafs and American Eagles as well as various other silver Coins.

No i am not rich i have holes in my shoes just like every one else does and i drive a 2001 chevy cavalier.

09sVDB

$100.00 worth of WLH's at face value from a bank.