How much above greysheet did you have to pay for your icon coin ?

barberlover · May 11, 2003 2:26AM

Beleive it or not i gladly paid above sheet for my best coin, i don't know what greysheet was for a 65 graded 92 S barber half, so i have no idea what a 66 would be. I'm sure blue sheet at 66 would correspond at 20-25 % less then grey sheet, but i will bet i paid more than any formula that would equal greysheet at the 66 level, but i'm also sure it's not a muliple.

So how much above sheet levels did you pay for all those pretty icon coins that i would have baught first if i'd seen them before you did ?

Yes, there is a point to this thread besides my own curiousity, but that point won't become clear unless enough people respond with honost answers. Les

braddick · May 11, 2003 2:32AM

My ICON green/yellow Peacock toned Ike set me back $600.00. It's $20. without the toning. That's 3000% over sheet.

FC57Coins · May 11, 2003 2:46AM

My current sigline coin set me back a whopping $20. I've had it graded and it is now in an MS65 holder, thus giving it a $50 price tag if it were your run of the mill 65. However, given the very unique colors and the fact that these things just don't happen, I'd say this coin is quite unusual and rare and nope it ain't going anywhere, so for me, below greysheet!

Dog97 · May 11, 2003 2:56AM

I got my icon @ the dog pound.

Merc · May 11, 2003 3:12AM

My PF67 1940 Mercury icon dime cost me $125 then another $28 for grading. Greysheet doesn't list PF67's It was my best ebay buy.

cosmicdebris · May 11, 2003 3:14AM

I got mine for $5.00 under Krause.

mbbiker · May 11, 2003 3:16AM

I paid $31 for mine, anyone know GS for a PCGS 1885-O morgan in MS-63??

Fairlaneman · May 11, 2003 4:28AM

My Icon coin was Free. It was a gift from a fellow Registry Member. Those Number chasing folks you always hear about on the coin forum. Seems a few have other priorities though.

Ken

LucyBop · May 11, 2003 4:33AM

Can't put a price on my icon coin baby!

barberlover · May 11, 2003 4:40AM

thats one sexy coin hepkitty!!! Les

solid · May 11, 2003 4:45AM

Graysheet doesn't list a price for a 50-D Jefferson in 66FS, but I paid
twice the going rate at the time. Sure glad I did, as I've not seen one
I liked better since!

Ken

tjkillian · May 11, 2003 4:50AM

I bought mine at the Sept 2002 Long Beach show. I paid 160% of greysheet (60% over greysheet). It is very fresh looking. An average strike at best, but the luster and surfaces really turned me on.

Tom

barberlover · May 11, 2003 4:58AM

Tom, i've never seen a better ms 64 seated half and the majority of the ones i've seen graded 67 do not have luster that full. Hard to tell from the image, but do you think that coin was ever dipped ? Les

tjkillian · May 11, 2003 5:11AM

Les, I'm not too sure if it has or has not. It looks like a nice coin and the gods at PCGS said that it is still an acceptable coin, so I'm happy with it regardless. Here's a much larger picture to try to help you determine if it has.

Tom

Tom's 1875-S PCGS MS-64 Seated Liberty Half Dollar

Tassa · May 11, 2003 5:14AM

Off hand, I don't know what the greysheet price for my icon coin is, but I paid $125 for it.

Clankeye · May 11, 2003 5:22AM

There is no Greysheet on my icon coin. I believe Krause lists it at $20 BU, or something like that. I paid $35. Boy, that dealer could see me coming.

Clankeye

abuell · May 11, 2003 5:26AM

I don't own my icon coin (I wish!), but it last sold in 2000 for $250,000.

MadMarty · May 11, 2003 5:33AM

A plane ticket to some exotic place!

MacCoin · May 11, 2003 5:37AM

I had the US flag for a couple of year and you know many have paid with there life for that Icon.

airplanenut · May 11, 2003 5:46AM

Mine would cost me upwards of $180 million if I wanted it that badly... I must admit, she's a comfortable bird and I've flown her twice

oldcameoproofsguy · May 11, 2003 5:57AM

My icon coin, the 1892 PCGS PR66DCAM I do not believe has a grey sheet value. I did pay about 30-40% above PR66 grey sheet for it. The 1915 sig line coin I paid about 30% above grey sheet for. It is really close to CAM and a borderline PR67; all in all it is a very PQ example for the date and grade. I will be really surprized to see a CAM graded for that year.

CarlWohlforth · May 11, 2003 6:24AM

I paid a little less than a thousand for this Buffalo in PR 67
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but that was 6 years ago and I had no idea what grey sheet was.

BillJones · May 11, 2003 6:42AM

My icon coin is a Chain Cent (Sheldon 4, the Periods variety) that I bought circa 1985. I believe that I paid 20% to 30% over bid at the time. My benchmark when I was buying my early coins in the 1970s and 1980s was that I would pay 30% over bid for them, but they had to meet my standards.

Today "bid" is three to four times what I paid for it.

itsnotjustme · May 11, 2003 7:28AM

I've paid in blood for my icon... about 8 gallons of red, and a dozen or so units of platelets.

millennium · May 11, 2003 8:13AM

Found mine with a metal detector

jbsteven · May 11, 2003 8:24AM

25X and then some

BlueCole · May 11, 2003 8:46AM

i would pay anything required for mine.

B.

nwcs · May 11, 2003 8:51AM

Well, I'd have to go with 0. Mainly because mine was taken at the UT-USC game of 2002. Although my next icon may be a 1973s cent. And for that I paid 1 cent.

Neil

ANACONDA · May 11, 2003 9:12AM

There is no sheet for a Barber Half in NGC Proof 68 Ultra Cam, isn't that right, Bear?

cladking · May 11, 2003 9:14AM

CU was kind enough to lend me the two coins I've used for an icon. I do have
one of each mint made for circulation in my set which cost a total of 50 cents.

Tough to say what the cost of the ten coins in my mint sets cost. I'd guess pro-
rated to the gems in the sets they were about $2.50.

RELLA · May 12, 2003 1:00PM

No sheet for my icon coin...all I know is that I offered $15 million for it but the current owner turned down my offer.

RELLA

BigE · May 12, 2003 1:23PM

Same as Dog97 here, I got mine from the tree pound-------------------BigE

SethChandler · May 12, 2003 3:17PM

Boiler78 owns my Icon, a wonderful Morgan half dollar pattern. I think he said it graded PR65DCAM. Wanna take a guess at the value?

mrcommem · May 13, 2003 8:46AM

I don't know how much above graysheet it was but my icon (1847-D half eagle AU55) did cost me in excess of $4500.

Russ · May 13, 2003 8:49AM

No greysheet value for mine, but it did cost me substantially less than it's market value.

Russ, NCNE

RNCHSN · May 13, 2003 9:22AM

I had to travel light-years to get mine, or maybe he did the traveling!

Baley · May 13, 2003 11:34AM

greysheet doesn't list a price for the grade this is in, but I did pay just about trends (at the time)

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