What's the one coin you most regret selling?

MrEureka

What's the one coin you most regret selling?

ajaan

Great Britain 1799 Halfpenny. See spinaker2000 icon.

fcloud

My first regret--1916-D Mercury in VG in about 1980. Eventhough, I got a great price, that date is tougher to find in the mid-grades than high end or low end.

Number two--1909-S Uncirculated Indian Cent.

Fairlaneman

A 1921P Merc Dime I sold in 1988. At the time it was a Raw Coin but I am absolutely sure the coin now resides in a 65FB holder somewhere. It was sold because I just plain left the Hobby for nine Years. After coming back into the Hobby a Dealer asked if I still had the coin. It must have impressed him a little also.

Ken

ARCO

Nothing too great. Started to sell off my core set of VF/XF halves. None of the coins were mind blowing, just together as a group they were very hard to find and next to impossible to replace.

Sold four key date barber halves, and about 6 perfectly original coins in VF-XF that I really, really miss!

Tyler

BigD5

I had a rainbow toned, ngc, mint state 64, shield nickel. May not sound like much, but it was the prettiest shield nickel I've seen, and haven't seen one even close, that isn't in an ms/66+ holder. It went for so much money, I had to let it go. I've missed it ever since.

tradedollarnut

Eliasberg 1821 PCGS PF67 quarter. Awesome coin! Worth a whole lot more now than when I sold it, too.

misterR

One of the MS 67 business strike Ikes I sold a few years ago.

njcoincrank

1795 large cent in AG. My grandmother gave it to me in 1974, and it sparked my collecting instinct. Probably got $50 for it. Since then I've sold between $50-75 million in rare coins. But I'd pay $$$$$ for that exact same 1795 .01.

goose3

VF30 1916 SLQ.
It was the only way I could swing my first '56 FE cent.

oreville

njcoincrank: That DOES make sense.

I hope you find it too!!

MrEureka

I had the unique Ormsby $5 discovered in the late eighties. I sold it, like almost everything else I buy, but it got donated to the Smithsonian and I'll never get it back.

Click to see it!

jdimmick

Mine was the first real set I accomplished as a young collector.

A vf/xf set of indian heads. Could buy one today, but it wouldnt be the same as that set.
jim d

RWW

Both the thick and thin Norse-American Commemeratives; both were unc. and raw. After owning them for over 25 years I dumped them to buy something else.

barberlover

in 1976 i baught he finest in a collection of type date saints that i paid an unreal sum of 250 deollars for, in 1979 i sold it for 300 dollars, that coin would by todays standards graded m.s. 67, i wonder what a p.c.g.s. 67, type date saint would have been worth in the fall of 89 ?

roadrunner

In 1989 I sold what is probably the finest 1858-0 quarter known.
It had lovely Wayte Raymond toning and the thickest blastiest luster in the centers. An MS65 in 1989 but today probably worth of a 66. The only "0" mint seated quarter I ever ran across with luster like a plucked from the roll 1858-P and to-die-for eye appeal. I got it out of a 1983 or 1984 Superior sale..........Hey, Andy......I think I sold that one to you and Stuart!!!!!!

roadrunner

EVillageProwler

I once owned a super-duper gorgeous 1840 dollar. That it was a ChAU specimen didn't stop it from being one of the most attractive 1840 specimens that I have ever seen. In fact, it is the second most attractive 1840 specimen I've ever seen. (I replaced it with a ChMS PQ+++ specimen that is the most attractive I've ever seen.)

The good news is that I sold it to a good friend of mine (at cost) who will offer it back to me before offering it to anyone else. So, that coin is still "in the family" as my friends and I like to say.

Recently, I sold another gorgeous Seated dollar. This time, it went out of the family. It was an 1850 in ChAU. It was PL, had fairly clean surfaces, and best of all, had gorgeous Wayte Raymond concentric toning. I wholesaled it... I should have offered it to one of the forum members. I'm positive the folks here would have treasured it as much as I did. (The coin became available when I got a super ChMS specimen to replace it.)

EVP

DHeath

Ajaan,

I've seen Spinaker's icon in person, and I don't blame you for regretting it.

njcoincrank

EVillageProwler,

Did you sell the 1850 Dollar at the St. Louis show last month?

njcoincrank

Flash

An NGC 3c Silver.. only because it wouldn't crossover to PCGS. It was a very nice coin! Now I still need one for my Type set.

MJCoin

1965 SMS Lincoln in an old MS69 PCGS holder. This was before PCGS started designating SMS coins as Cameos or DCAM's, and this one was a high end Cameo and very possibly a DCAM!

EVillageProwler

NJCC,

No. I sold it at FUN. I heard that the coin may have resurfaced recently, but in an AU58 holder (was AU55). I think my coin was accurately graded at AU55, but it was in an old green-insert holder.

EVP

njcoincrank

EVillageProwler,

Pretty sure it is the same coin. It traded hands at Long Beach.
It was in a freshly sealed PCGS AU-58 holder.

njcoincrank

EVillageProwler

Well, I guess I'm more conservative of a grader than PCGS is!!!



For those who are wondering, the coin is rather distinctive in its appeal. Its toning is obviously real and original because it is so deep. It is also somewhat imperfect, yet it is very attractive. It is the stereotypical Wayte Raymond toned coin. And, it's a ChAU 1850 dollar.

EVP

STEWARTBLAYNUMIS

Andy

I don't regret selling any coin.

I am however looking to buy a 1974 Aluminum cent

stewart

tradedollarnut

Shhhh!

Do those come in red?

roadrunner

Stewart, I was just talking about those aluminum cents today. I one was available under the table so to speak, what do you think it would go for? $50,000?

roadrunner

MrEureka

what do you think it would go for? $50,000?

Sold!!!

caitlin

An 1926d ms-66 PCGS Toned Buffalo Nickel.

airplanenut

I've sold pretty much nothing, so I don't have anything to regret

But I would regret if I ever sell my 38-D MS66 buff... so pretty!

ursabear

I regret selling my Grandmother's (gift to me) 1923 XF Peace dollar because someone told me they were common and worthless when I was a teenager.

You live and learn! That coin was really cool.

michael

i made the 1938 pcgs proof 67 CAMEO WALKING liberty half in mid december 2001 and it was history for me in january 2002

but i guess hindsight is 20/20

sincerely michael