<< <i>How about the Indian Cent collection I bought from a local dealer several years ago--in the 1873 slot was the Doubled Die, the good one, in full red. Got it certified as NGC 64 RD, it later crossed to PCGS as 64 RD, and sold it two weeks later for $50,000.00. It remains to this day the only 1873 1C DDO certified in full red. Dollar cost averaging, that 1873 cost me around $340.00.
I have been trying to make another score like this for the past 4 years, but no such luck. >>
This is YOU SUCK! HOF Material!!
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
<< <i>I bought a 40% Silver Red Pack Bicentennial 3-Coinset off eBay for $11 + $4 s/h/i....I was only looking for 76-S MS68 Ikes (I'm an Ike addict!). The Kennedy didn't seem to have any marks on it, so I sent it in with my Ike batch on a whim. (I know NOTHING about grading Kennedy Halves)...It came back MS69 is still the only one ever graded! >>
A pop 1/0 coin from a set and/or raw certainly qualifies.
<< <i>I bought a 40% Silver Red Pack Bicentennial 3-Coinset off eBay for $11 + $4 s/h/i....I was only looking for 76-S MS68 Ikes (I'm an Ike addict!). The Kennedy didn't seem to have any marks on it, so I sent it in with my Ike batch on a whim. (I know NOTHING about grading Kennedy Halves)...It came back MS69 is still the only one ever graded!
Brian
I LOVE TALON HEAD, PEG-LEG AND ERROR IKES! >>
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It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
If My first try at Suckdom did'nt work, maybe this will. I inherited My Dad's entire collection when He died! This included Many MS, key date Morgans, 8 modern Gold Eagle 4 Coin sets, 45 pieces of pre 1933 raw gold including 4 double Eagles, and many $2.50's, 1-$3.00, $5.00's, $10.00's. All proof sets and uncirculated sets from 1955 to the present. Some really great stuff. I am having all the raw coins graded currently. One I just got back yesterday was a 1891-CC, MS-64, Vam-3 Spittinng Eagle (It should have been a 65) but I'm happy anyways! Many Commerative sets with the $5.00 gold coin in most of them and much more! Do I suck or what!! granpagraf
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One of Pat's listings last year or so. Just had these images to go by, thought it might be rpm-1 ddo-1 fs-013.51, asked him to check the eyelid, he did not have the coin at the time, but to his credit said the auction would proceed variety or not.
Ties for second highest graded by NGC, surely the most beautiful. Rellaa had a F12 for $150 a while back, CPG values are way low. Paid $95, worth more than 10 times that.
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Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Peaceman bought a roll of BU Peace dollars at a local show that happened to be somewhat full of nice VAMs in high grades (64+). He sucked several times in that one transaction.
I'll see if my coin purchase of a 1922-D lincoln Cent in a NGC holder which I purchased on E-bay for $127.50 iis worthy of a U Suck. The coin was graded MS-63 RED by NGC. After I received the coin I got looking at it and thought it should be a weak-D example so popped it out and sent it in to PCGS and they agreed slabbed it a PopTop only one in 64 RED non higher. Sent it to Heritage for Sale at last years Central States auction in St Louis MO and sold the coin for $5K. Pretty good investment for the money. I would have kept it but wanted a 22D example for my registry as at that time it wasn't qualified as a 22D.
My PCGS cherry pick HERITAGE Photo. Mike.
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I'll just mention a couple fun ones from my pre-professional days. Once you turn pro, cherrypicks are no longer fun -- they're required to either pay your rent or pay your bosses.
My best percentage hit was probably a rare 1787 Connecticut, M. 33.13-hh.2. It was the 4th or 5th known at the time. I paid $1 (yes, a dollar) at a country auction near where I grew up in Chester County, PA. I sold it for $275 in 1993 (a fortune to a high school kid!). When Ford's collection appeared at auction in May 2005, containing 271 (!) different Miller varieties, there was NOT one of these in it. I don't think one has sold at auction since mine was discovered. Today, a CT that rare could bring $5,000 or more at the right auction.
Of course, even that purchase pales in comparison percentage-wise to the 1939 doubled MONTICELLO nickel I pulled out of a roll when I was a kid. When I sold it for $20, I knew that I had, indeed, arrived.
In terms of non-coin purchases, I once (ca. 1992) paid $8 for an 1841 Philadelphia check, no big deal. I had owned it for a few weeks before I realized who signed it: Adam Eckfeldt. THAT Adam Eckfeldt! The only other privately-owned document I know of signed by Eckfeldt open and closed at a recent auction for $6,000.
I love reading the tales of cherrypicks -- regale us with more fellow forumites!
Bought a roll of 1949 D Jeffersons 16 ended up being 1949 D/S in EDS, printed in Die Variety news Nunismatic News and Coin World not to mention new die markers were found on the coins being EDS so hopefully more cane be found!
Made 3 pop tops when the population was much less also about an 8000% return and I still have 24 BU 49 D Jeffersons.
Cherrypicking is what it is all about for me many other stories but this is probally the best and most known. Althought I still love m 46-S Jefferson DDO scores 2.
How about numerous 1998 Wide AM Lincoln cents picked up at face value and sold for multiples of face.
I am the original submitter of the only five 1998 PCGSMS67RD Wide AM's which are top pops. Two of which I sold to members on this board.
My best percentage of profit was on a group of five coins (5c face and cost) at 18,000 times face($900.00) which was for one 1998 PCGSMS67RD, one 1998 PCGSMS66RD, and three 1998 PCGSMS65RD's.
<< <i>I'll just mention a couple fun ones from my pre-professional days. Once you turn pro, cherrypicks are no longer fun -- they're required to either pay your rent or pay your bosses.
My best percentage hit was probably a rare 1787 Connecticut, M. 33.13-hh.2. It was the 4th or 5th known at the time. I paid $1 (yes, a dollar) at a country auction near where I grew up in Chester County, PA. I sold it for $275 in 1993 (a fortune to a high school kid!). When Ford's collection appeared at auction in May 2005, containing 271 (!) different Miller varieties, there was NOT one of these in it. I don't think one has sold at auction since mine was discovered. Today, a CT that rare could bring $5,000 or more at the right auction.
Of course, even that purchase pales in comparison percentage-wise to the 1939 doubled MONTICELLO nickel I pulled out of a roll when I was a kid. When I sold it for $20, I knew that I had, indeed, arrived.
In terms of non-coin purchases, I once (ca. 1992) paid $8 for an 1841 Philadelphia check, no big deal. I had owned it for a few weeks before I realized who signed it: Adam Eckfeldt. THAT Adam Eckfeldt! The only other privately-owned document I know of signed by Eckfeldt open and closed at a recent auction for $6,000.
I love reading the tales of cherrypicks -- regale us with more fellow forumites! >>
Shame you still dont own that check!!! I'd double your purchase price!
-D
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I believe I got my most recent one in January this year when I bought a roll of XF/AU Morgans (well, only 19 coins actually) for $775 and it wound up containing three very rare VAM 9s... which graded AU50, AU50 and XF45 at PCGS and are worth about $2,700 as a group. There were also six VAM 14.3s which, when graded and sold, paid for the entire roll.
<< <i>How about numerous 1998 Wide AM Lincoln cents picked up at face value and sold for multiples of face.
I am the original submitter of the only five 1998 PCGSMS67RD Wide AM's which are top pops. Two of which I sold to members on this board.
My best percentage of profit was on a group of five coins (5c face and cost) at 18,000 times face($900.00) which was for one 1998 PCGSMS67RD, one 1998 PCGSMS66RD, and three 1998 PCGSMS65RD's.
I won't make it but I bought a 1903-o Barber Half for $225 in EF raw from a local dealer and it came back MS63 ($1600) from across the street (NGC). My best rip to date.
Edited to add: LordM's 1914-d surely deserves a spot on the list.
<< <i>How about numerous 1998 Wide AM Lincoln cents picked up at face value and sold for multiples of face.
I am the original submitter of the only five 1998 PCGSMS67RD Wide AM's which are top pops. Two of which I sold to members on this board.
My best percentage of profit was on a group of five coins (5c face and cost) at 18,000 times face($900.00) which was for one 1998 PCGSMS67RD, one 1998 PCGSMS66RD, and three 1998 PCGSMS65RD's.
So, do I suck or what?? >>
The aforementioned would also include the very first 1998 Wide AM's PCGS attributed.
How about the Indian Cent collection I bought from a local dealer several years ago--in the 1873 slot was the Doubled Die, the good one, in full red. Got it certified as NGC 64 RD, it later crossed to PCGS as 64 RD, and sold it two weeks later for $50,000.00. It remains to this day the only 1873 1C DDO certified in full red. Dollar cost averaging, that 1873 cost me around $340.00.
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<< <i>How about the Indian Cent collection I bought from a local dealer several years ago--in the 1873 slot was the Doubled Die, the good one, in full red. Got it certified as NGC 64 RD, it later crossed to PCGS as 64 RD, and sold it two weeks later for $50,000.00. It remains to this day the only 1873 1C DDO certified in full red. Dollar cost averaging, that 1873 cost me around $340.00.
I have been trying to make another score like this for the past 4 years, but no such luck. >>
This is YOU SUCK! HOF Material!!
<< <i>I bought a 40% Silver Red Pack Bicentennial 3-Coinset off eBay for $11 + $4 s/h/i....I was only looking for
76-S MS68 Ikes (I'm an Ike addict!).
The Kennedy didn't seem to have any marks on it, so I sent it in with my Ike batch on a whim. (I know
NOTHING about grading Kennedy Halves)...It came back MS69 is still the only one ever graded! >>
A pop 1/0 coin from a set and/or raw certainly qualifies.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>I bought a 40% Silver Red Pack Bicentennial 3-Coinset off eBay for $11 + $4 s/h/i....I was only looking for
76-S MS68 Ikes (I'm an Ike addict!
The Kennedy didn't seem to have any marks on it, so I sent it in with my Ike batch on a whim. (I know
NOTHING about grading Kennedy Halves)...It came back MS69 is still the only one ever graded!
Brian
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I inherited My Dad's entire collection when He died! This included Many MS, key date Morgans, 8 modern Gold Eagle 4 Coin sets, 45 pieces of pre 1933 raw gold including 4 double Eagles, and many $2.50's, 1-$3.00, $5.00's, $10.00's. All proof sets and uncirculated sets from 1955 to the present. Some really great stuff. I am having all the raw coins graded currently. One I just got back yesterday was a 1891-CC, MS-64, Vam-3 Spittinng Eagle (It should have been a 65) but I'm happy anyways!
Many Commerative sets with the $5.00 gold coin in most of them and much more!
Do I suck or what!!
granpagraf
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Advertising, and many other collectables!
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Ties for second highest graded by NGC, surely the most beautiful. Rellaa had a F12 for $150 a while back, CPG values are way low. Paid $95, worth more than 10 times that.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
<< <i>If My first try at Suckdom did'nt work, >>
Suckdom is usually achieved when you least expect it to.
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<< <i>Congrat's to all those in the Hall. Maybe someday for me. >>
Keep looking!!!
After I received the coin I got looking at it and thought it should be a weak-D example so popped it out and
sent it in to PCGS and they agreed slabbed it a PopTop only one in 64 RED non higher. Sent it to Heritage
for Sale at last years Central States auction in St Louis MO and sold the coin for $5K. Pretty good investment
for the money. I would have kept it but wanted a 22D example for my registry as at that time it wasn't
qualified as a 22D.
My PCGS cherry pick HERITAGE Photo.
Mike.
Someday REAL American HERO's will be on our COINS.
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Old Morgan I had laying around
My best percentage hit was probably a rare 1787 Connecticut, M. 33.13-hh.2. It was the 4th or 5th known at the time. I paid $1 (yes, a dollar) at a country auction near where I grew up in Chester County, PA. I sold it for $275 in 1993 (a fortune to a high school kid!). When Ford's collection appeared at auction in May 2005, containing 271 (!) different Miller varieties, there was NOT one of these in it. I don't think one has sold at auction since mine was discovered. Today, a CT that rare could bring $5,000 or more at the right auction.
Of course, even that purchase pales in comparison percentage-wise to the 1939 doubled MONTICELLO nickel I pulled out of a roll when I was a kid. When I sold it for $20, I knew that I had, indeed, arrived.
In terms of non-coin purchases, I once (ca. 1992) paid $8 for an 1841 Philadelphia check, no big deal. I had owned it for a few weeks before I realized who signed it: Adam Eckfeldt. THAT Adam Eckfeldt! The only other privately-owned document I know of signed by Eckfeldt open and closed at a recent auction for $6,000.
I love reading the tales of cherrypicks -- regale us with more fellow forumites!
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
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Bought a roll of 1949 D Jeffersons 16 ended up being 1949 D/S in EDS, printed in Die Variety news Nunismatic News and Coin World not to mention new die markers were found on the coins being EDS so hopefully more cane be found!
Made 3 pop tops when the population was much less also about an 8000% return and I still have 24 BU 49 D Jeffersons.
Cherrypicking is what it is all about for me many other stories but this is probally the best and most known. Althought I still love m 46-S Jefferson DDO scores 2.
I am the original submitter of the only five 1998 PCGSMS67RD Wide AM's which are top pops. Two of which I sold to members on this board.
My best percentage of profit was on a group of five coins (5c face and cost) at 18,000 times face($900.00) which was for one 1998 PCGSMS67RD, one 1998 PCGSMS66RD, and three 1998 PCGSMS65RD's.
So, do I suck or what??
<< <i>I'll just mention a couple fun ones from my pre-professional days. Once you turn pro, cherrypicks are no longer fun -- they're required to either pay your rent or pay your bosses.
My best percentage hit was probably a rare 1787 Connecticut, M. 33.13-hh.2. It was the 4th or 5th known at the time. I paid $1 (yes, a dollar) at a country auction near where I grew up in Chester County, PA. I sold it for $275 in 1993 (a fortune to a high school kid!). When Ford's collection appeared at auction in May 2005, containing 271 (!) different Miller varieties, there was NOT one of these in it. I don't think one has sold at auction since mine was discovered. Today, a CT that rare could bring $5,000 or more at the right auction.
Of course, even that purchase pales in comparison percentage-wise to the 1939 doubled MONTICELLO nickel I pulled out of a roll when I was a kid. When I sold it for $20, I knew that I had, indeed, arrived.
In terms of non-coin purchases, I once (ca. 1992) paid $8 for an 1841 Philadelphia check, no big deal. I had owned it for a few weeks before I realized who signed it: Adam Eckfeldt. THAT Adam Eckfeldt! The only other privately-owned document I know of signed by Eckfeldt open and closed at a recent auction for $6,000.
I love reading the tales of cherrypicks -- regale us with more fellow forumites! >>
Shame you still dont own that check!!!
I'd double your purchase price!
-D
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
<< <i>How about numerous 1998 Wide AM Lincoln cents picked up at face value and sold for multiples of face.
I am the original submitter of the only five 1998 PCGSMS67RD Wide AM's which are top pops. Two of which I sold to members on this board.
My best percentage of profit was on a group of five coins (5c face and cost) at 18,000 times face($900.00) which was for one 1998 PCGSMS67RD, one 1998 PCGSMS66RD, and three 1998 PCGSMS65RD's.
So, do I suck or what?? >>
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Answer: Must be or what.
Steve Smith (aka "Millennium") scored a detectorist's "YOU SUCK" for digging up this rare half cent. (And I get a huge "you suck", but not in a good way, since I was invited along on that outing and didn't go.)
<< <i>Oh, yeah. I forgot about this. I paid less than a nickel for it- cherrypicked it out of a bulk lot of Wheaties.
Nice 1914-D cent, Lordmarcovan! Great cherrypick!
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<< <i>No more inductees?? >>
There will be this weekend.
Edited to add: LordM's 1914-d surely deserves a spot on the list.
<< <i>How about numerous 1998 Wide AM Lincoln cents picked up at face value and sold for multiples of face.
I am the original submitter of the only five 1998 PCGSMS67RD Wide AM's which are top pops. Two of which I sold to members on this board.
My best percentage of profit was on a group of five coins (5c face and cost) at 18,000 times face($900.00) which was for one 1998 PCGSMS67RD, one 1998 PCGSMS66RD, and three 1998 PCGSMS65RD's.
So, do I suck or what?? >>
The aforementioned would also include the very first 1998 Wide AM's PCGS attributed.
How about the Indian Cent collection I bought from a local dealer several years ago--in the 1873 slot was the Doubled Die, the good one, in full red. Got it certified as NGC 64 RD, it later crossed to PCGS as 64 RD, and sold it two weeks later for $50,000.00. It remains to this day the only 1873 1C DDO certified in full red. Dollar cost averaging, that 1873 cost me around $340.00.
The rarist IH variety of all time?
1873 DDO PCGS MS64RD.