<< <i>The biggest home-run would have to be when I got out-bid on a #1 population coin, than two weeks later got the second coin to get the grade at 1/2 the price >>
<< <i>Bought (57) 2006 silver eagle anniversary sets and sold all but 2 perfect sets. In one box of 10 sets I received (7) MS70s and (9) reverse proof PF70s. Funny thing is, I only received (4) regular proof PF70s.
Currently I am at the plate with (80) spouse coins and I am swinging away! >>
SGS on the 2006? j/k
I bought 30 and have one of two (so far) 2006-W UNC PCGS MS70's FWIW I haven't a clue.
Spouses...I don't have that much influence over my "extended" family and my employees you can count on one hand...lol
I'd say it'd have to be the time when I got a BU box of 1999 cents from the bank a few years ago. Found about 3 rolls worth of Wide AMs and sold them all...made a good chunk of money from that.
Second place would be a 1972 DDO that I also pulled from the bank. It's now in a PCGS 63RD holder.
Walked into an East Coast B&M, was treated very rudly inspite of having set up an appointment to look at their Ikes.
To make a long story short, was about to put a fist through the glass-top coin display case I was standing behind (at least I really, really wanted to, and this is very rare for this placid 66 yo) when I saw three Goodacre Presentation Sacs in ICG holders.
Something told me to ask to see them.
The clerk literally tossed them on the glass at me, distainfully.
Two were 67, one 65 IMHO (ICG refused to grade these "polished" coins" when they got all 5,000 of them to holder! Market value then was $600-750 each).
I asked how much. After a long trip to the secret bowels of the store "to ask my boss", he came back, threw them down again, and said "fortyseven eighty".
I thought that more than a bit high so asked him to please tell me again.
Almost shouting, he angrily said, they will be "$47 and 80 cents".
I was so PO'ed, I paid without comment and drove away..... Rob
Modern dollars are like children - before you know it they'll be all grown up.....
Back in the 80's I bought a 1924-S dime in au58 raw through a mail auction in the east sight unseen. Got the coin and thought is was REAL nice for au. Took it to a local dealer and he thought it looked unc. I put it in my box at the bank where it stayed for about 15 years. When I was putting my first Merc set together I sent it in to PCGS............came back MS65FB! At that time there were none higher! I sold it to a dealer for 11K and bought a 64FB for 2500 and spent the rest on other dimes I needed. Oh, I paid 50 bucks for the coin in the auction.
My biggest financial gain is probably my Hudson and Hawaiian halves which have doubled in value since I purchased them, which wasn't all that very long ago.
Bot a pretty UNC 1810 Half Eagle for about $7,500 a couple years ago. It was the rare Small Date/Small 5 variety and graded PCGS MS61 (tied finest with one NGC coin). Sold it for a six figure profit.
I can't talk about others...
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
In 2004 my wife gave me a handfull of change from Wal-mart. In that change was a 2004 Lincoln cent with an obverse and reverse doubled die. After all the commotion of finding it was complete, I had it graded and slabbed as a discovery piece and sold it on Ebay for a bit over $900.00.
BJ Neff
BJ Neff
Member of: CONECA, Coppercoins, CFCC, FUN and NCADD. Retired Submariner Service, 21 years.
The opinions that I express do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations that I am a member of.
Let's see, purchased a BU roll of 1949-D Jeffersons, 16 ended up being 1949 D/S, 3 in MS-66, 7 in MS-65, 6 in MS-64, made 10k on a $104 roll. Also pulled a 1936-D 3 1/2 leg out of a junk box, cost 50c graded F-15 at PCGS.
3 years ago I discovered an unattributed ultra rare Morgan Dollar VAM in a Heritage sale. The PCGS MS-64 DMPL 1878 8TF VAM 14.18 was at the time the finest known by at least 6 grade points(and it still is). I placed a pre-floor sale max bid about 7 days before the floor sale, and decided to sweat it out. I made arrangements to have phone bidding privileges before the floor sale. On the day of the floor session, I was working(driving), with the cell phone in hand. I received the obligatory call from the Heritage phone rep., and listening intently to the auctioneer call the lot, I cringed as the bids kept climbing to near my proxy bid. Lo and behold the bidding from an internet competitor reached the increment below my max. bid, and then a long pause from the auctioneer... I began screaming at the auctioneer through the phone "END THE LOT! END THE LOT! The phone rep chuckled at my pleas, and then it was over. Winning the lot, I knew that I had secured an ultra rarity at about 15% of it's true value...
thanks, at the time i wanted to tell everybody on the planet, but business wise i could'nt, i have been waiting for the right time(most of them are long gone now) to say something in a low key kinda way,and this thread was it,the YOU SUCK i got on 3/27/07 was for this....pic..........which was in the hoard...........i hope with the help of a dear friend who is a highly respected board member here to tell the storey of my find,and to publicly salute that member for his help,insight ,opinions, all the while protecting my privacy,i doubt in the same cicumstances that i could have done it,he is a man of his word,and i'll add that when i approached this gentlemen (who i had not and still have not met in person,) thru a pm on the forum to get his opinion on what and/or how i should handle this windfall,and offered to pay for his advice because this was out of my realm, his answer was...something like...my opinions and or knowlege are free i'm a collector ....what can i help you with.............these were not the exact words but..........this is the kind of person that makes this board what it is....great!
thanks, at the time i wanted to tell everybody on the planet, but business wise i could'nt, i have been waiting for the right time(most of them are long gone now) to say something in a low key kinda way,and this thread was it,the YOU SUCK i got on 3/27/07 was for this....pic..........which was in the hoard...........i hope with the help of a dear friend who is a highly respected board member here to tell the storey of my find,and to publicly salute that member for his help,insight ,opinions, all the while protecting my privacy,i doubt in the same cicumstances that i could have done it,he is a man of his word,and i'll add that when i approached this gentlemen (who i had not and still have not met in person,) thru a pm on the forum to get his opinion on what and/or how i should handle this windfall,and offered to pay for his advice because this was out of my realm, his answer was...something like...my opinions and or knowlege are free i'm a collector ....what can i help you with.............these were not the exact words but..........this is the kind of person that makes this board what it is....great!
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that is a very YOU SUCK coin! for once it "paid" to live in Florida...
I bought 5 raw toned merc dimes for $265. They slabbed at PCGS as MS67, MS67FB, MS67FB, MS67FB, MS68FB. I sold a MS67, MS67FB, and MS68FB for five grand. Since then, I know the 67FB was upgraded to a 68FB. I still have the residual two coins.
thanks, at the time i wanted to tell everybody on the planet, but business wise i could'nt, i have been waiting for the right time(most of them are long gone now) to say something in a low key kinda way,and this thread was it,the YOU SUCK i got on 3/27/07 was for this....pic..........which was in the hoard...........i hope with the help of a dear friend who is a highly respected board member here to tell the storey of my find,and to publicly salute that member for his help,insight ,opinions, all the while protecting my privacy,i doubt in the same cicumstances that i could have done it,he is a man of his word,and i'll add that when i approached this gentlemen (who i had not and still have not met in person,) thru a pm on the forum to get his opinion on what and/or how i should handle this windfall,and offered to pay for his advice because this was out of my realm, his answer was...something like...my opinions and or knowlege are free i'm a collector ....what can i help you with.............these were not the exact words but..........this is the kind of person that makes this board what it is....great!
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Man... I'm not sure if that haul makes me want to retire the You Suck award permanently or name it in your honor.
I distinctly remember when the GW smoothies first came to light, Fred Weinberg talking here about a hoard of more than 10,000 pieces in Florida. I'm amazed not only to learn that it was a Forum member who had hit that jackpot, but that you had the self control to keep such a find to yourself. Congrats to you on all fronts.
Sean Reynolds
Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
<< <i>found over 11,000 george washington smoothies in march of 2007..........!
we were very,very lucky!.....here's a pic of some while we were getting them together.........
WOW, that is awsome. I was going to say I bought a 1944 year set in an old cardboard holder for $150 and after grading the set is worth over $3,000 plus whatever additional value for toning. But, Oh well........ Seriously, that is one great story you will be able to tell for the rest of your life. Congrat's
Bought a raw superb gem 1935-S Lincoln Cent for $110. PCGS slabbed it MS-67RD! I consigned it to a Heritage signature sale and (about 45 days after the auction) I received a check from Heritage for $16,000!!
Bought a Washington quarter in a major sale for less than $100. Upgraded it and it resold for well over $10,000 a few months later at auction, and also bought a Franklin Half Dollar in an NGC holder out of a Heritage sale for under $1,000. Got it into a PCGS holder where it resold for more than $25,000 a few months later.
But, they go both ways - I spend $4,600 once on a $200 "shot upgrade" coin and until it upgrades it will remains a $200 coin (and a $4,400 loss).
Wondercoin
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Several years ago, when silver was bouncing around the $6+ level, it took what I decided was an unnatural dive back into the mid $4.50 range.
I decided to make a risky play and refinanced my newly paid off mortgage, borrowed some more and sold some coins and managed to put together around 65,000 ounces at a cost averaged price of right at $4.60 per ounce.
About 8 months later I sold the lot at $8.10 an ounce. Yes, I paid the taxes on it, paid off the mortgage(again), invested in a fair amount of gold bullion coins at around $350 an ounce and still have them. The only thing I splurged on was 2 year old 911 Carerra in mint condition, I still have it as well.
And yes, I continued to buy silver on the dips and still do put melt and .999 away along with the few coins series I collect.
I've had some nice hits on coins as well, though compared to the stories here, I wouldn't call them home runs, just solid hits. Of course I've also lost on several over the years, just like we all have. But nothing comes close to that silver play. Some of the vets around here may remember it. I took a lot of heat from a few, some were downright nasty about it. Never did get a "you suck" for it, but that's OK, it wasn't purely numismatic.
I did once purchase an XF '89 CC Morgan in a lot from a Canadian antique dealer, $6.50 each on a lot of 150 Morgans he found in a chest he had bought. That was a pretty nice surprise and it more than paid for the entire lot.
It's nice to read about the good stories, as we've all had and heard about the bad ones too many times.
"Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
<< <i>3 years ago I discovered an unattributed ultra rare Morgan Dollar VAM in a Heritage sale. The PCGS MS-64 DMPL 1878 8TF VAM 14.18 was at the time the finest known by at least 6 grade points(and it still is). I placed a pre-floor sale max bid about 7 days before the floor sale, and decided to sweat it out. I made arrangements to have phone bidding privileges before the floor sale. On the day of the floor session, I was working(driving), with the cell phone in hand. I received the obligatory call from the Heritage phone rep., and listening intently to the auctioneer call the lot, I cringed as the bids kept climbing to near my proxy bid. Lo and behold the bidding from an internet competitor reached the increment below my max. bid, and then a long pause from the auctioneer... I began screaming at the auctioneer through the phone "END THE LOT! END THE LOT! The phone rep chuckled at my pleas, and then it was over. Winning the lot, I knew that I had secured an ultra rarity at about 15% of it's true value... >>
Ahhh ha! I'd seen it as well, and wondered who bought it and if the owner knew the vam.
I'd even mentioned it on the VAMWorld page I built: The finest known is a PCGS MS64DMPL, which sold in a Heritage auction in 2004.
Saddam Notes - I bought several thousand full sets of Iraqi currency with Saddam on them from a dealer in the Middle East for about 5 cents per note. This was shortly before 9-11. When we invaded there was the frenzy for Saddam notes and I sold hundreds of them for $40 - per note! 800 times what I paid. Probably sold a thousand at $20+ per note.
2003 $2 star note folders - Bought in bulk for $8.95 each. Sold several with fancy serial numbers for $500 each. A bunch went for $100+, probably a couple hundred for $50+. 1995 $2 star note folders - Bought in bulk for $6.95 each. Sold several fancy numbers for $200+, the rest all went for $40 to $70 each.
1999 State Quarter bags - Bought for about $30 each. Got $800+ for De bags, $250-$350+ for PA and NJ bags. Sold a ton of these.
2006 Silver/Gold Anniversary sets, W platinums - No need to explain these!
2003 $2 Premium Federal reserve Sets - Cost $475 in bulk. Sold one for $2,500 (low serial number). Parted the rest out at $50 to $70/note.
Around 5 years ago I bought a complete collection of Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents housed in an old Wayte Raymond board through a local dealer. Paid $19,500.00 for the collection. In the 1873 slot was the Doubled Die, the good one, in full red. It graded PCGS 64 Red and remains the only full red 1873 doubled die known. Sold it for a strong mid five figure price a few weeks later and it helped finance two gem Unc. 1794 Large Cents for my collection. The remainder of the coins in the collection were not too shabby either--the 08s and 09s each went 65 red, the 1879 went 66 red, the 1872 66RB, and the 1858 sm. letter Flyer went 65. Best purchase I have ever made and unlikely ever to be repeated or equalled in my lifetime.
TomT-1794
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The only 76-S Silver MS69 Kennedy ever made.....It had been sitting on my dresser for 2 years while I sold them off on eBay for around $5 each. I had put a couple aside only because they didn't have and nicks that I could see.
I had cut up some Bicentennial Silver sets shooting for an MS68 Ike and had some extra Halves and Quarters laying around and selling them off on eBay.
<< <i>I bought the Olsen specimen of the 1913 Liberty nickel. A year later, somebody wanted it and made a strong offer. >>
And I used the proceeds of this sale to later buy the Eliasberg specimen of the 1913 nickel. Two years later somebody wanted it and paid my asking price.
bought a 70s small date cent for face value along with the rest of a mint set that someone pulled the 70d half from, but no one knew about the small date until later in the year -- i'd say it's about a 6500% return on cost.
also got a 31s cent in au55 in change (from a coin shop, no less!) -- that one's at least 10000% return on cost!
needless to say i have nothing else that comes close!
Me at the Springfield coin show: 60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
I was looking for a 1971-S PR69DCAM Roosevelt Dime for well over 2.5 years, simply because back in the day a friend of mine bought one for $100 and said I would never find one that cheap. They sell for about $200-$250.
Well Heritage was having a lot sale and was selling the '71-S with a run of dates from 1968-1975 all 69DC. I put in a bid for $300 and was watching and it closed at $240, well below my bid. It then had to go to floor, of which no-one bid, so I won it at $240 w/juice.
I up-graded the 69CAM to the 69DC and cherry picked the others. I ended up replacing 1, I believe the 1975, and sold the rest on eBay for >$600!
So, I basically got paid $360 to add a $250 coin to my set for free!
Also recently I bought a 1967 MS68 Roosie on TT for $369.00 delivered and up-graded it to 8FB which is now a pop (2/0) and worth $2,250.00. Still in my set.
1913-S Type 1 Buffalo Nickel, 2 feathers, no F. Bought at the Money Show in Houston in Jan. of 2007 for $90
Submitted to ANACS for $26
Sold on eBay for $1500+!!!
You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
I doubt we will ever top the GW Smoothie find, The last real $$$$ maker we had was buying approx. 3000 GW First Day Covers from the Mint......still selling them for $35-45.00 each........
Well this one was NOT the biggest but the best one!
One year, around 2001 or 2002, I won the "Stump the Experts" contest in which my question stumped not only homerunhall, but also David Q Bowers and the other panelists.
While i won only $25.00 in a PCGS "credit" on a purchase of a coin, it was my biggest financial thrill.
Imagine knowing something that stumped your numismatic idol?
"Very telling about the current state of the hobby when most of the home runs involve coins which suddenly became "worth" many times what was paid for them just by putting them in plastic."
i bought a 1905 dime out of a dealer's junk box at a show in the mid '80's.micro o very fine paid him $3.sold the coin last year for about $220.no plastic involved
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<< <i>The biggest home-run would have to be when I got out-bid on a #1 population coin, than two weeks later got the second coin to get the grade at 1/2 the price
now that's an inside the park home run!!
<< <i>Upgraded an MS62 PCGS 1901-P Morgan to MS63.
Similar thing with me. I had a "scratched" 1901 P with Unc details, got it in a MS61 holder.
<< <i>Bought (57) 2006 silver eagle anniversary sets and sold all but 2 perfect sets. In one box of 10 sets I received (7) MS70s and (9) reverse proof PF70s. Funny thing is, I only received (4) regular proof PF70s.
Currently I am at the plate with (80) spouse coins and I am swinging away! >>
SGS on the 2006? j/k
I bought 30 and have one of two (so far) 2006-W UNC PCGS MS70's FWIW I haven't a clue.
Spouses...I don't have that much influence over my "extended" family and my employees you can count on one hand...lol
The name is LEE!
Second place would be a 1972 DDO that I also pulled from the bank. It's now in a PCGS 63RD holder.
To make a long story short, was about to put a fist through the glass-top coin display case I was standing behind (at least I really, really wanted to, and this is very rare for this placid 66 yo) when I saw three Goodacre Presentation Sacs in ICG holders.
Something told me to ask to see them.
The clerk literally tossed them on the glass at me, distainfully.
Two were 67, one 65 IMHO (ICG refused to grade these "polished" coins" when they got all 5,000 of them to holder! Market value then was $600-750 each).
I asked how much. After a long trip to the secret bowels of the store "to ask my boss", he came back, threw them down again, and said "fortyseven eighty".
I thought that more than a bit high so asked him to please tell me again.
Almost shouting, he angrily said, they will be "$47 and 80 cents".
I was so PO'ed, I paid without comment and drove away..... Rob
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Damn you, Flippers!
Back in the 80's I bought a 1924-S dime in au58 raw through a mail auction in the east sight unseen. Got the coin and thought is was REAL nice for au. Took it to a local dealer and he thought it looked unc. I put it in my box at the bank where it stayed for about 15 years. When I was putting my first Merc set together I sent it in to PCGS............came back MS65FB! At that time there were none higher! I sold it to a dealer for 11K and bought a 64FB for 2500 and spent the rest on other dimes I needed. Oh, I paid 50 bucks for the coin in the auction.
I can't talk about others...
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
In 2004 my wife gave me a handfull of change from Wal-mart. In that change was a 2004 Lincoln cent with an obverse and reverse doubled die. After all the commotion of finding it was complete, I had it graded and slabbed as a discovery piece and sold it on Ebay for a bit over $900.00.
BJ Neff
Member of: CONECA, Coppercoins, CFCC, FUN and NCADD. Retired Submariner Service, 21 years.
The opinions that I express do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations that I am a member of.
found over 11,000 george washington smoothies in march of 2007..........!
we were very,very lucky!.....here's a pic of some while we were getting them together.........
Does inheriting a collection.. then spending two years and then some figuring out what you've got count?
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<< <i>found over 11,000 george washington smoothies in march of 2007..........!
we were very,very lucky!.....here's a pic of some while we were getting them together.........
You just went from suck to blow. LOL
Congrats.
Let's see... at even just one YOU SUCK!
Wow.
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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thanks, at the time i wanted to tell everybody on the planet, but business wise i could'nt, i have been waiting for the right time(most of them are long gone now) to say something in a low key kinda way,and this thread was it,the YOU SUCK i got on 3/27/07 was for this....pic..........which was in the hoard...........i hope with the help of a dear friend who is a highly respected board member here to tell the storey of my find,and to publicly salute that member for his help,insight ,opinions, all the while protecting my privacy,i doubt in the same cicumstances that i could have done it,he is a man of his word,and i'll add that when i approached this gentlemen (who i had not and still have not met in person,) thru a pm on the forum to get his opinion on what and/or how i should handle this windfall,and offered to pay for his advice because this was out of my realm, his answer was...something like...my opinions and or knowlege are free i'm a collector ....what can i help you with.............these were not the exact words but..........this is the kind of person that makes this board what it is....great!
<< <i>holeinone1972
thanks, at the time i wanted to tell everybody on the planet, but business wise i could'nt, i have been waiting for the right time(most of them are long gone now) to say something in a low key kinda way,and this thread was it,the YOU SUCK i got on 3/27/07 was for this....pic..........which was in the hoard...........i hope with the help of a dear friend who is a highly respected board member here to tell the storey of my find,and to publicly salute that member for his help,insight ,opinions, all the while protecting my privacy,i doubt in the same cicumstances that i could have done it,he is a man of his word,and i'll add that when i approached this gentlemen (who i had not and still have not met in person,) thru a pm on the forum to get his opinion on what and/or how i should handle this windfall,and offered to pay for his advice because this was out of my realm, his answer was...something like...my opinions and or knowlege are free i'm a collector ....what can i help you with.............these were not the exact words but..........this is the kind of person that makes this board what it is....great!
that is a very YOU SUCK coin!
for once it "paid" to live in Florida...
-David
<< <i>holeinone1972
thanks, at the time i wanted to tell everybody on the planet, but business wise i could'nt, i have been waiting for the right time(most of them are long gone now) to say something in a low key kinda way,and this thread was it,the YOU SUCK i got on 3/27/07 was for this....pic..........which was in the hoard...........i hope with the help of a dear friend who is a highly respected board member here to tell the storey of my find,and to publicly salute that member for his help,insight ,opinions, all the while protecting my privacy,i doubt in the same cicumstances that i could have done it,he is a man of his word,and i'll add that when i approached this gentlemen (who i had not and still have not met in person,) thru a pm on the forum to get his opinion on what and/or how i should handle this windfall,and offered to pay for his advice because this was out of my realm, his answer was...something like...my opinions and or knowlege are free i'm a collector ....what can i help you with.............these were not the exact words but..........this is the kind of person that makes this board what it is....great!
Man... I'm not sure if that haul makes me want to retire the You Suck award permanently or name it in your honor.
I distinctly remember when the GW smoothies first came to light, Fred Weinberg talking here about a hoard of more than 10,000 pieces in Florida. I'm amazed not only to learn that it was a Forum member who had hit that jackpot, but that you had the self control to keep such a find to yourself. Congrats to you on all fronts.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
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<< <i>found over 11,000 george washington smoothies in march of 2007..........!
we were very,very lucky!.....here's a pic of some while we were getting them together.........
WOW, that is awsome.
I was going to say I bought a 1944 year set in an old cardboard holder for $150 and after grading the set is worth over $3,000 plus whatever additional value for toning. But, Oh well........
Seriously, that is one great story you will be able to tell for the rest of your life. Congrat's
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a Heritage signature sale and (about 45 days after the auction) I received a check from Heritage for
$16,000!!
But, they go both ways - I spend $4,600 once on a $200 "shot upgrade" coin and until it upgrades it will remains a $200 coin (and a $4,400 loss).
Wondercoin
I decided to make a risky play and refinanced my newly paid off mortgage, borrowed some more and sold some coins and managed to put together around 65,000 ounces at a cost averaged price of right at $4.60 per ounce.
About 8 months later I sold the lot at $8.10 an ounce. Yes, I paid the taxes on it, paid off the mortgage(again), invested in a fair amount of gold bullion coins at around $350 an ounce and still have them. The only thing I splurged on was 2 year old 911 Carerra in mint condition, I still have it as well.
And yes, I continued to buy silver on the dips and still do put melt and .999 away along with the few coins series I collect.
I've had some nice hits on coins as well, though compared to the stories here, I wouldn't call them home runs, just solid hits. Of course I've also lost on several over the years, just like we all have. But nothing comes close to that silver play. Some of the vets around here may remember it. I took a lot of heat from a few, some were downright nasty about it. Never did get a "you suck" for it, but that's OK, it wasn't purely numismatic.
I did once purchase an XF '89 CC Morgan in a lot from a Canadian antique dealer, $6.50 each on a lot of 150 Morgans he found in a chest he had bought. That was a pretty nice surprise and it more than paid for the entire lot.
It's nice to read about the good stories, as we've all had and heard about the bad ones too many times.
John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
<< <i>3 years ago I discovered an unattributed ultra rare Morgan Dollar VAM in a Heritage sale. The PCGS MS-64 DMPL 1878 8TF VAM 14.18 was at the time the finest known by at least 6 grade points(and it still is). I placed a pre-floor sale max bid about 7 days before the floor sale, and decided to sweat it out. I made arrangements to have phone bidding privileges before the floor sale. On the day of the floor session, I was working(driving), with the cell phone in hand. I received the obligatory call from the Heritage phone rep., and listening intently to the auctioneer call the lot, I cringed as the bids kept climbing to near my proxy bid. Lo and behold the bidding from an internet competitor reached the increment below my max. bid, and then a long pause from the auctioneer... I began screaming at the auctioneer through the phone "END THE LOT! END THE LOT! The phone rep chuckled at my pleas, and then it was over. Winning the lot, I knew that I had secured an ultra rarity at about 15% of it's true value...
Ahhh ha! I'd seen it as well, and wondered who bought it and if the owner knew the vam.
I'd even mentioned it on the VAMWorld page I built:
The finest known is a PCGS MS64DMPL, which sold in a Heritage auction in 2004.
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Saddam Notes - I bought several thousand full sets of Iraqi currency with Saddam on them from a dealer in the Middle East for about 5 cents per note. This was shortly before 9-11. When we invaded there was the frenzy for Saddam notes and I sold hundreds of them for $40 - per note! 800 times what I paid. Probably sold a thousand at $20+ per note.
2003 $2 star note folders - Bought in bulk for $8.95 each. Sold several with fancy serial numbers for $500 each. A bunch went for $100+, probably a couple hundred for $50+.
1995 $2 star note folders - Bought in bulk for $6.95 each. Sold several fancy numbers for $200+, the rest all went for $40 to $70 each.
1999 State Quarter bags - Bought for about $30 each. Got $800+ for De bags, $250-$350+ for PA and NJ bags. Sold a ton of these.
2006 Silver/Gold Anniversary sets, W platinums - No need to explain these!
2003 $2 Premium Federal reserve Sets - Cost $475 in bulk. Sold one for $2,500 (low serial number). Parted the rest out at $50 to $70/note.
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
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dresser for 2 years while I sold them off on eBay for around $5 each. I had put
a couple aside only because they didn't have and nicks that I could see.
I had cut up some Bicentennial Silver sets shooting for an MS68 Ike and had some
extra Halves and Quarters laying around and selling them off on eBay.
Brian
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<< <i>I bought the Olsen specimen of the 1913 Liberty nickel. A year later, somebody wanted it and made a strong offer.
And I used the proceeds of this sale to later buy the Eliasberg specimen of the 1913 nickel. Two years later somebody wanted it and paid my asking price.
Nice to see some here can do much better.
I am pretty good at losing $500+ on some coins.
<< <i>Sorry I am a rookie.
Bought a 2006 w plat for $1300 slabbed a ms70 value now at $4k yeah wish I would have bought 10 >>
Me too!!!
Still have it
bought a 70s small date cent for face value along with the rest of a mint set that someone pulled the 70d half from, but no one knew about the small date until later in the year -- i'd say it's about a 6500% return on cost.
also got a 31s cent in au55 in change (from a coin shop, no less!) -- that one's at least 10000% return on cost!
needless to say i have nothing else that comes close!
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
Well Heritage was having a lot sale and was selling the '71-S with a run of dates from 1968-1975 all 69DC. I put in a bid for $300 and was watching and it closed at $240, well below my bid. It then had to go to floor, of which no-one bid, so I won it at $240 w/juice.
I up-graded the 69CAM to the 69DC and cherry picked the others. I ended up replacing 1, I believe the 1975, and sold the rest on eBay for >$600!
So, I basically got paid $360 to add a $250 coin to my set for free!
Also recently I bought a 1967 MS68 Roosie on TT for $369.00 delivered and up-graded it to 8FB which is now a pop (2/0) and worth $2,250.00. Still in my set.
Later, Paul.
Later, Paul.
Submitted to ANACS for $26
Sold on eBay for $1500+!!!
Well this one was NOT the biggest but the best one!
One year, around 2001 or 2002, I won the "Stump the Experts" contest in which my question stumped not only homerunhall, but also David Q Bowers and the other panelists.
While i won only $25.00 in a PCGS "credit" on a purchase of a coin, it was my biggest financial thrill.
Imagine knowing something that stumped your numismatic idol?
i bought a 1905 dime out of a dealer's junk box at a show in the mid '80's.micro o very fine paid him $3.sold the coin last year for about $220.no plastic involved
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.