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1794half18391794half1839 Posts: 505 ✭
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What is the most expensive coin you ever bought (either for your collection or inventory)?
Greg Cohen

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  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    My icon.
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Julian wins!!image
  • 1794half18391794half1839 Posts: 505 ✭
    Yeah...
    Greg Cohen

    Senior Numismatist

    Legend Rare Coin Auctions
  • Rob41281Rob41281 Posts: 2,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PO1 chain cent

    http://www.ebay.com/sch/rs8199/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,290 ✭✭✭

    Real coins:

    21-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar in F+



    Bullion:
    2007 Plat. 10th Anniv. set

    @ Elite CNC Routing & Woodworks on Facebook. Check out my work.
    Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
  • ColquhounColquhoun Posts: 545 ✭


    << <i>Julian wins!!image >>


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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,198 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Eliasberg specimen of the 1913 Liberty Head nickel.
    Early Dollar Set
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    A Libertas Medal
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
    PCGS Registries
    Box of 20
    SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Bearded Goddess CBH in F-12.
  • beartracks42beartracks42 Posts: 2,834 ✭
    1932-D Washington quarter in PCGS 64.
    Gary
    image
  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    a 1913-S Quarter in Fine.
    Positive BST transactions with: too many names to list! 36 at last count.
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1878 Morgan 8TF VAM 14.11, NGC-65.

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
    http://www.american-legacy-coins.com

  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Proof 1913 T1 Buffalo from Angel Dee's (actually, it was from Pushkin at Andy's table, but I didn't know it was him until after the show).

    Waiting for TDN...

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    1850 proof half cent
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭


    Tie between two spectacular undergraded lincoln cents; 1915-D in PCGS 66RD and 1921 PCGS 67RD.

    Jack


  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My icon. >>



    Hey, I got one too!

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    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    One of my DMPLs, the 1901 though the 1904 isn't far behind it.
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
    NSDR - Life Member
    SSDC - Life Member
    ANA - Pay As I Go Member
  • MoonbiterMoonbiter Posts: 652 ✭✭
    My 1873 closed 3 quarter eagle AU-50. Yeah, not an expensive coin but it is for me.
  • BLcoinnutBLcoinnut Posts: 76
    1807 draped bust dime.
    I over paid,but what the heck,I NEEDED it
    Those who stand for nothing,will fall for anything.
  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭
    1976 Assay Commission medal.
    --

    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Edited for an update...see below. image
  • apoplecticapoplectic Posts: 85
    The most I've ever paid on on on coin was 15 bucks for on on 1944 AU50 walker with slight tan toning, which I now notice has small crack on the planchet and possible doubling on the word america. The dealer never really got on on good look I think because I bought it right after another guy sold it to him. My first possible cherrypick! I'll try to get some pics as soon as I find my camera. Now excuse me while I enthuse over my good find.
    Coins please me, they please me so...
  • apoplecticapoplectic Posts: 85
    The most I've ever paid on on on coin was 15 bucks for on on 1944 AU50 walker with slight tan toning, which I now notice has small crack on the planchet and possible doubling on the word america. The dealer never really got on on good look I think because I bought it right after another guy sold it to him. My first possible cherrypick! I'll try to get some pics as soon as I find my camera. Now excuse me while I enthuse over my good find.
    Coins please me, they please me so...
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    42 D/D Jeff in MS64 FS
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    Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1909 S VDB MS66RD OGH.

    Just a perfect well struck coin with orange and yellow tones. Of course, some will say SVDBS are common as sand on the beach, but, really thats not the case.
    Not in this grade anyway. If I didnt mind losing that lovely Old green holder.....Id resubmit since the only defects I can see are two microscopic nicks on the reverse. Sure would be sweet to have it come back as a MS67RD!

    In the future though.....Id love to buy the coin I have as my Icon. An original 1861 CSA cent. Thats 150K roughly, with only 12 known. Lovett lost **LOST** one though, Id dig up Philly if I though I could locate it image
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1880 Coiled Hair Stella in 1990. Today, it would grade rock solid 67DCAM, with rich orange color. (Believe it or not, this issue - with a mintage of 10 - comes in two distinct color variations.)
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chain Cent in VG8
  • sweetwillietsweetwilliet Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭
    1894-S PCGS MS64PL
    Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
    Will’sProoflikes
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,799 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>1894-S PCGS MS64PL >>



    What denomination?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1805 Irish gilt copper proof penny, NGC PR64 UCAM.

    image


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  • sweetwillietsweetwilliet Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭
    << 1894-S PCGS MS64PL >>



    What denomination?

    Click on my registry set, of course!!image
    Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
    Will’sProoflikes
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    just an overpriced widget -- an 09SVDB PCGS AU55.
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
    image
    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    My icon
  • AJ2525AJ2525 Posts: 477
    I bought a raw 1924-D cent in XF.

    Bullion coin: 1924 St. Gaudens NGC MS63.
    Some call it an accumulation not a collection
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm not telling. image

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1909-S IHC in ANACS AU50 details holder...

    ...close second... 1859-O Seated Dollar in VF30
    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    My daughter's birthday coin. MS70 $50 gold eagle

    image
  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    Our 1852 seated dollar in AU-58.
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    many years ago i max'd out at $3,500 for a vg 1796 quarter...wish i still had it
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    The most expensive coin was a 1913 PCGS PR67CAM 25c.
  • guymguym Posts: 248
    1870 $3 gold PCGS AU53
    There is nothing like an uncirculated set of washington quarters!!!
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    MS64 1929 Half Eagle

    Wish I could afford to keep it. image
  • Sunshine Rare CoinsSunshine Rare Coins Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ttt

    Sunshine Rare Coins

    sunshinecoins.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1889 CC Morgan in a MS63 DMPL
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My icon
  • barbershopperbarbershopper Posts: 1,201
    1879 Flow Hair Stella $4 gold, AU58. Lord, I thought I'd faint when the guy on the phone said I'd won it!
    Edited to add: The day after I bought it, I went to Dunham's sports and bought a gun safe to put it and
    my collections in. Took 5 men to deliver it. Weighed half a ton. Fireproof to 1700 degrees F. Bolted to the floor.
    Also used for other things including CDs of all our digital pics taken during our travels.
    JET
    image

    It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.

    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    just a widget at 120,000x face value.
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
    image
    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    MS-61 1836 LM-2 Half Dime.
    "College men from LSU- went in dumb, come out dumb too..."
    -Randy Newmanimage
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,099 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Like Lakesammam.


    I'm not telling.
























    For a different reason. image

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • techefftecheff Posts: 2,285


    << <i>Like TDN.

    I'm not telling.


    For a different reason. image >>




    Like TDN? He told, Lake didn't...
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