I just bought/sold...

MrEureka

Tell us about a coin you bought or sold IN THE PAST WEEK and why you did it.

I'd like to see this thread last forever. It would be interesting to see how people are thinking, especially as the markets change.

mirabela

This is a very good idea for a thread.

I've had a busy week, mostly selling, but I'll talk about two related transactions in particular.

I sold a Stone Mountain commem in raw XF45 and bought one in NGC 64. I did this because this massive upgrade in quality can be achieved for only about thirty bucks. Given the tiny price increments from circ all the way to 64, I finally concluded it makes no sense to own a Stone Mountain half in any condition below near-gem unless the particular coin is unusually eye appealing and wonderful. The outgoing coin was nice, but it was not earth shaking. I have not received the new one yet; we'll see what we think when it gets here. Whether or not this particular coin lights my fire, I'll stand by my logic.

STONE

Raw 1840-O w/ Drapery Seated Lib. Quarter. Nothing special, just an AG/G example and wasn't much $$$-$12.50.

Why did I buy it? It was in my dealers stock of coins and I didn't have one till then. Oh, and the mintage is only 43,000 and is listed for $30 or so


I haven't bought many coins in the past month because of my Cross-Country and school schedule, but cross-country ended this weekend and I plan on being more active this next month or so.

RYK

Interesting idea for a thread. I will lead off:

I purchased the 1842-C LD $5 for my Charlotte half eagle XF/AU date set this past week. I purchased it from Heritage because it was extremely original and crusty. I was able to view the coin in person in St. Louis, and it was among my favorite coins in the sale, having the "black-and-gold" look that I seek.

bhartman35

1937 Mercury Dime FSB
1945 S Walking Liberty Half
1943 Walking Liberty Half
1941 Mercury Dime PCGS MS64FB
1935 Mercury Dime MS65FB

As for what I've sold:

1941 Mercury Dime, MS-64

RichieURich

I bought an 1825/3 quarter with "L" counterstamp in Choice AU, and sold one in Cleaned EF. I bought the coin because it was a nice upgrade and a beautiful coin, I sold the other coin because I sold a counterstamped quarter to a local collector at a show a few weeks ago, and he said he was looking for the other 3 such quarters. My option if he hadn't bought it was to list it on BST or take it to Baltimore, I was fairly certain it would sell in one of those venues. I'm still looking for an 1825/3 quarter with the "E" counterstamp.

coinguy89

I sold two Brilliant Uncirculated 1943 Lincoln Steel Cents on eBay last week. I'm begining to think though that it wasn't a good idea. Because of their perfect condition I now think I should have kept them. They were so attractive and I needed a bit of extra cash I thought I'd sell them. However, I only recieved a few bucks for them.

coinkat

I bought a red unc 1933 Cent in a Century for Progress token holder for the cent which was in Chicago... probably quite common... but nonetheless, an interesting conversation piece.

ram1946

I bought a 28-S Buffalo in PCGS 64. I used an extra 28-D Buff in NGC 65 that I had bought from the same dealer several months ago as a trade toward the new purchase. I've also sold 1915 Buff in PCGS 65, 1928 Buff in PCGS 65, a 1928-D Buff in NGC 64 and a 1938-D Buff in PCGS 66, all of which gave me the extra money I needed to complete the 28-S purchase and still leave me with a few extra dollars.

LindeDad

Bought 2005-D PCGS MD66 Business Stike Quarter. Might be a varity coin in the futher.

Sold 1986-D PCGS MS66 Kennedy Half. A YN needed it for his set.

Just got a 1936-S Walker Half in PCGS VF-25 this morning on eBay. Working on a PCGS graded all grades set. Budget does not allow all top grade or even gems for this project.

Rob41281

my 2 buys from last week. just liked the look of both coins.

MICHAELDIXON

I bought this 1922 Vam Peace dollar because I know several board members collect them. It didn't last long, as it went to the first PM I sent. It is a beautiful, original skin, "broken wing" 1922 Peace dollar. Hopefully, the purchaser will like it.

Picture of Coin


Edited to take out picture, as it was too large!

dwssws

bought a 1878 8tf Vam 22 "Hot 50" to fill a hole in both my 8tf and hot 50 sets

Barndog

I wish I had something to contribute here, but no purchases or sales in the past week.

Pentimento

Sold-- 20th Silver set. Open box.

Bought-- 1925 Lexington Commem ms64

cool thread!

MrEureka

I wish I had something to contribute here, but no purchases or sales in the past week.

Quit slackin' off! Coin dealers gotta eat same as everyone else!

pharmer

This covered three bases for me-an error I didn't have, it's Canadian and it's rainbow toned.

TorinoCobra71

I recently bought an 1883-CC PCGS MS65 Morgan Dollar and SOLD a business Strike 2006-D PCGS MS67 Sac $ ...................

TorinoCobra71

Weather11am

Bought: 62 Uncirculated mint sets

2005 Platinum $10 PCGS MS-69 First Strike

ROBERTB

I just bought...
1923 Peace Dollar NGC MS65
1958-D Franklin Half NGC MS65
and 1944-S, 1945-S, 1946-D, 1956 Quarters PCGS/NGC MS65

My plan is to buy a s**t load of more common, slabbed gem 20th century silver issues. I'm going to continue buying all the way down as prices continue to fall. I have some other stuff in the works, but I'm not wanting to tip anyone off just quite yet.

coindeuce

Bought the finest NGC certified(MS-64) 1876-CC DDO dime, FS #10c.-004. Sold my favorite toned Morgan, 1878 7TF Rev.'79End of roll toned beauty The images just don't do this coin justice. The obverse colors literally jumped out of the coin's surface.
The '76-CC DDO 10c. will reside in my Centennial type set along side a PCGS-65 DDR (Breen 3397) 10c.

Shamika

I sold a 1927-D PCGS 64 Buffalo as well as selling Buffalo's dated 1926-D PCGS 63, 1914-P PCGS 64, and 1936-D PCGS 66 in order to free up some cash for a 1925-S PCGS 64 Buffalo. The 25-S is a key date and the time is right for this transaction.

I hate selling the 27-D, but I'll eventually find another suitable one (I hope). The other three that are being sold are duplicates.

mtnman

I bought an 1891-O Morgan in NGC AU58 because I love AU58 coins
and it replaces the lower grade coin that was in my set.

numobri

Bought a collection a few weeks ago,1880CC gsa,1881cc gsa,1885CC gsa,10 1OZ kRADS,15 silver dollars and some junk.

Why did I buy it? It was priced right.(I'm not a dealer)

Plan on sending in the 1881 for grading.

Also bought an 1938s/s Licoln in MS64 just for the heck of it.

Sold the 1885 to a co-worker.

I'm trying to amass some cash for the ThanksGiving week end show in Dearborn,Mich (MSNS show).


Brian

lathmach

I bought this Quarter on Ebay. I haven't received it yet, but I'm fairly sure of what it is.
The 1 is doubled at the top on the left side of the base, and the 4 is tripled on the top of the right side of the base.
I have seen only one other, which I have recorded as being here on Collectors Universe on 20 July 2005.
I don't know what the thread consisted of at this time.
I also bought an 1843 Valentine-6a Half Dime at the Muskegon Coin Club coin show yesterday. There wasn't much of any Seated stuff at the show, and this was the only thing of what little there was that was worth buying. It's just VG, but I didn't have one of these.
This is the repunched date, and is listed in the new Cherrypickers book.

Ray

jdimmick

This week I bought for re-sell:

Group of type coins containing 1801 LC good-6, 1865 two cent Au-58, 1866 Three nick Ms-60, 1913 TY I Buff Ms-64, 1869 Three c Xf-40
17-d SLQ TY I Xf-40, 1851 and 1831 Large cents XF, 1913-d Ty I Buff Au-53, 1938-d Buff Ms-64 (some to customers, flea market dealers & some to E-bay)

1921-s WLH Vg (local customer)

1898-0 Barber quarter Xf-40 (To ANACS)

1921-p & D merc dimes VG (to a customer)

Circ Buffalo set minus the 13-s tyII, 14-d (to a customer)

1857 Seated quarter PCGS-50 (e-bay)

1921 WLH PCGS-8 (local coin auction)

1859-0 Seated $ Vf-30 (still in inventory)

1926 SLQ PCGS-58 (Undergrade) (going to e-bay)

and a dateless buff that turned out to be a 21-s (e-bay)

and the best:

1983 Unc set with all the original packaging/info cards P & D mints!! (havent seen one in years) (holding on to right now!!)

farthing

Just won this on eBay!
Somersetshire Bath Wine Vault Urinal token

DMWJR

I just sold a 25-s Buffalo in 64............ because I need to fund some Lincoln purchases .... and the purchaser/board member is a great guy and collector.

I also bought a set of 06 p & d Lincoln business strikes in 67 from Clakamas, mainly because I wanted to compare them to my SF's, and secondly for insurance in case PCGS decides to make a change to the registry and move the SF coins out of the regular set!!!

roadrunner

Nice catch on ebay Ray. I've watched seller Vette and thought he pretty much stayed with gold coins. Guess not.

Unfortunately I struck out this week. Did visit my local dealer yesterday and was fondling a MS65 Saint and a few other nice looking gold coins that I probably could have bought. But the store was so busy I just got tired of being there and bagged it. Maybe next time.

roadrunner

MrEureka

Just won this on eBay!
Somersetshire Bath Wine Vault Urinal token

Nice buy. You must be quite relieved.

lathmach

<< <i>Just won this on eBay!
Somersetshire Bath Wine Vault Urinal token

Nice buy. You must be quite relieved. >>






Ray

DarkStar

I sold:

1860-O 50c MS64
1895-O 25c MS65
1881-S $1 MS66 PL
1937 10c PR66
1941 50c MS67

The proceeds were used to help puchase a 1879 $3 MS64, nice, original, high end, and flashy. I hope my timing is ok.

p8nt

I bought an 1883-O ANACS MS65 Obv DMPL because it was being sold at the bid price of a common MS65 Morgan.

jbsteven

3 ms68 Morgans, one is a 68PL. MS68 Morgans "do it" for me.

Andy:

What have YOU bought/sold in the last week?

Burks

Bought: 1945-S Mercury Dime, NGC-MS64

Why: Because I wanted a graded UNC Merc, sellers description caught my attention.

MrEureka

Andy - What have YOU bought/sold in the last week?

I bought and almost immediately resold quite a few things as a dealer. My only motive was capturing a buy/sell spread.

As for my collecting, I haven't bought or sold anything in months. However, I have high hopes to report some purchases in about one month when I return from my next overseas buying trip!

IGWT

Bought: 1876 5c because it is a previously uncatalogued DDO.
Sold: 1866 5c because a fellow collector needed a nice example for his type set.

Coxe

A number of nice pieces on Teletrade. Got the 1878 VAM-5 (PCGS 64) that I know I wasn't alone in chasing. They didn't let me have it cheap.

Sold a number there tonight too. A couple were practically stolen from my consignment, but I made a little bit overall anyway.

airplanenut

I sold an 1881-S MS65 rattler dollar, and a few other toned pieces in the past week or so to help raise some funds for Baltimore

jacktheknife

I bought Stewart's Lincoln cent collection.

Jack

farthing

rjf810

My Purchase for the day:
new half dime

Dog97

I gave this to stman last week. Don't know why. He just wanted it so I just gave it to him. Yes, it's solid black, the rare & desirable Black Beauty.

numobri

He is a lucky dog.

Or is it your a lucky dog.

Colorfulcoins

1949-P PCGS MS67 Rosy......blue of course!

JZrarities

I purchased two new coins:

An Ancient Greek coin from Neapolis with a Man-Headed Bull,

and,

This $5 from Charlotte because of the dirty old gold look in an old NGC holder.



Hi RYK.
-JZ

Coxe

A nice PCGS 64 VAM-5 from Teletrade tonight.

Also on Teletrade, I got a 1926-S VAM-4 (PCGS 62), an 1896 VAM-20 (NGC 64DPL), a 1900 VAM-16 (PCGS 63, attributed) and an 1882-O VAM-17A (ICG 64, to add to my hoard of them). On eBay, I picked up a 1901 VAM-5 in XF, 1880 VAM-23 in F/VF, and a bunch of others.

Oh, and on TT I sold an 1885-CC VAM-4 PCGS 65 and a bunch of other VAMs. (I am sure I have the highest quality hoard of that VAM.) A 1934-D PCGS 64 Peace dollar was ripped from me at a $450 bid. It is a really nice one too. My 1927 (ANACS 65) didn't sell even though my reserve was below what I paid for it. It is a solid 65 but everyone figures it must have tried to cross. Perhaps I should have. If I buy it back after two more shots there, I will. One I didn't mean to consign, fortunately didn't sell. So I will just set outrageous buybacks on it in the next couple appearances and get the coin back.

MikeInFL

I won this coin last week and am waiting for it to arrive from Heritage. It is for my type set and (according to Mark Feld who viewed the coin) matches the look of the $10 Indian already in the set:



With gold down, the market supposedly slowing, and many in Las Vegas at the time, it seemed like a good time to add to my gold collection....Mike

Steve27

I bought this Morgan because I wanted a DMPL:

CharlotteDude

I realize that someone already provided the "Charlotte Fix" to this thread, (thanks JZRarities), but I did purchase this one very recently (last week 1/2), so it still qualifies?? This filled one of the 3 remaining slots to my C-mint $5 run....

the 'dude

richardshipp

Nothing sold, but bought these:

I bought this one because I wanted a nice example of the Steel Cent:


I bought this one because I liked the obverse and felt that I'd take a stab at my "raw grading" abilities: