So, have you ever had a binge coin buying spree?

Maybe you were bored at a show and just wanted a change in scenary in your collection.
Maybe you just happened to be in the right place at the right time and filled a lot of holes in your collection.
Explain any of your binge buys. I don't care if it's 1,000,000 wheat cents or 5 tough coins for your 7070. Let's hear what you picked up for the old collection.
I remember about 3 years ago being in San Antonio and there was a coin shop that had bulk Barber dimes, quarters and halves. This was a time where I was just getting into the Barber series and I just wanted to get a complete collection in any grade. So, after a couple of hours searching in this small shop, I left with about 1/2 a collection of Barber Quarters, 1/3 of the Barber Halves, and 1/4 of the Barber Dimes. It was also amazing to see how cheap I could pick these up for; 90c for the dimes, $2 for the quarters, and $4-6.50 for the halves. Oh, and some of the dates were semi-keys
. None of the coins passed VG grades and most were AG/G's, but hey it was a lot of fun.
Maybe you just happened to be in the right place at the right time and filled a lot of holes in your collection.
Explain any of your binge buys. I don't care if it's 1,000,000 wheat cents or 5 tough coins for your 7070. Let's hear what you picked up for the old collection.
I remember about 3 years ago being in San Antonio and there was a coin shop that had bulk Barber dimes, quarters and halves. This was a time where I was just getting into the Barber series and I just wanted to get a complete collection in any grade. So, after a couple of hours searching in this small shop, I left with about 1/2 a collection of Barber Quarters, 1/3 of the Barber Halves, and 1/4 of the Barber Dimes. It was also amazing to see how cheap I could pick these up for; 90c for the dimes, $2 for the quarters, and $4-6.50 for the halves. Oh, and some of the dates were semi-keys


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P.S. I saw that tub of Barbers. It's impressive, isn't it?!
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The craziest part of this binge were the prices. The coins were mostly undergraded and priced half of the going Ebay rates. These coins were bought from a well known dealer. I ended up buying probably 30 XF original Barber halves for low VF prices.
I ended up keeping about 23 coins for my set, and bought another 10-15 for resale. The coins I resold almost made up for the complete cost of all the coins purchased. Coin collecting has been boring for me ever since that one windfall. That and it helped me complete my Barber set.
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Still have most of them. about half I bought from a seller who has been criticized on these boards in the past for selling dipped/cleaned stuff, but what I bought was absolutely original and problem free so I'm happy.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>I have not purchased a coin for my personal collection in a long time. In the past two weeks, I picked up a 1909 S VDB, 1909 VDB, and 2004 Lewis and Clark MS70. I would call that a binge for me and my wife quickly put the breaks on that
I had a 1971 Type I wife and then a 1991 Type II. Traded both away for Peace and Quiet S (for single and serenity) .
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...has anyone heard of a 12-step program for out-of-control numismatists???
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...has anyone heard of a 12-step program for out-of-control numismatists???
what helped me is running out of disposable income.
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Once in an auction I bought lot after lot. Nice coins; I thought at the time good value. Maybe I should go back and reassess the moment at todays prices..
It makes for a rather long set of initials.
I bought a Sparkletts bottle full of 90% and silver dollars once a few years back... Averaged 5X face. Sucker weighed over 300 Lbs. All of the dollars are still sitting in plastic roll tubes waiting for the day I go through 'em. Sold a bunch of the Franklin/ Kennedy/ Washington and Roosevelt recently for more than I paid for the lot...
I bought a total of 62 common date Quarter Eagles and Half Eagles (Indians and Libs) from a dealer friend recently, just before the run-up in gold price. Average cost all in about $185 per. Some are nice enough to go in, some are ex-jewelry. A real mixed bag. Just haven't had the time to send 'em out - but the box holds the SDB down nicely
Might have the opportunity to go halves with the same guy on a monster box of 1996 Silver Eagles, if we can negotiate a good price with the owner... Might be an interesting bulk submission there, since I don't think that they've given a 70 yet...
Couple of Long Beach shows ago I paid the most money over sheet I have ever paid for a coin - a gorgeous Proof IHC from Rick Snow. Never would have done it, but he paid a mind-blowing price to me for a toned MS IHC I had in an ANACS holder... I felt very binged after that.
Yeah, lots of binge stories...
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Although a somewhat risky thing to do, it was a boyhood dream come true to have a shot at owning and searching all those Lincolns. I was pretty confident that at the very least I'd come out of it with a free batch of whatever I chose to cherrypick and hang onto. What made it even better was that my wife gave me her approval to bid like I meant it.
Almost two years later, I'm thrilled that I got the opportunity and seized it. And if it hadn't been for a thread on this message board, I never would have known the lot was listed on EBay.
(Still love those gem Mercs, however.)