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Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab

StoogeStooge Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Back in the day I bought a 1993-D dime raw from a dealers 2x2 folder for about $0.35 and submitted it and it came back PCGS MS66FB (2/1). With grading fees I had about $18 into it, and sold it on eBay for $420.

Well, this actually isn't my biggest score, my other one is confidential. image

Whats yours?

Later, Paul.

Later, Paul.

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As you say back in the day before PCGS I bought a 1924-S Merc out of a mail auction sight unseen for $50. This coin was described as ChAu. I bid the 50 which at the time was a strong bid for the coin in that grade. I won...got it in the mail and it was a beautiful coin with nice tone. I showed a dealer friend the coin and he said it "might" be unc. I put in my lock box where it stayed for 15-20 years. Then I got interested in the registry so I started buying slabbed coins and having some of raw coins slabbed. Some made it and some didn't. The 24-S did. It came back MS65FB. Sold it for 11K and bought other Mercs I needed.
  • RBinTexRBinTex Posts: 4,328 ✭
    Maybe not the #1 all-time in total dollars but CERTAINLY the #1 all-time percentage gain (25000% or so) on a coin due to getting it slabbed by PCGS.

    Raw 1971 DDO on eBay for about $6 turned into the single finest known 71 DDO on the planet:

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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>As you say back in the day before PCGS I bought a 1924-S Merc out of a mail auction sight unseen for $50. This coin was described as ChAu. I bid the 50 which at the time was a strong bid for the coin in that grade. I won...got it in the mail and it was a beautiful coin with nice tone. I showed a dealer friend the coin and he said it "might" be unc. I put in my lock box where it stayed for 15-20 years. Then I got interested in the registry so I started buying slabbed coins and having some of raw coins slabbed. Some made it and some didn't. The 24-S did. It came back MS65FB. Sold it for 11K and bought other Mercs I needed. >>



    THAT!

    Is one sweet story DIMEMAN!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • onlyroosiesonlyroosies Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭✭
    I bought a BU Roosevelt 46-64 Album from a board member about 5 years ago for about $200. Once I got around to
    looking at it I pulled one coin out to send in for grading. That coin still stands today as a pop 1/0....1947S MS68FB.

    I bought a busted up 1954 mint set on ebay for $70. I could see that the quarters and half's had been replaced. They
    didn't bother with the dimes. Today the 1954S that I pulled out of that set is still a pop 1/0....1954S MS68.

    Saw a pretty raw 1954-D wash quarter on the bay. Thought I'd take a shot and got it for $35. About a year later I needed another
    coin to make a 5 coin submission so I put it in with some Roosie's. It came back MS67. I sold it to a dealer for $3500.

    But my best score is.....As Paul said, "Confidential"
  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    Bought an 1836 CBH on ebay for ~$60 after shipping and a $15 coupon. Sent it in and paid for variety attribution, an O-121, R-5+ and sold it for almost $3k. image
    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!!!

  • wondercoinwondercoin Posts: 16,973 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This was a fun one. A customer of mine bought a coin from a dealer for about $10,000 and a year or so later desired to sell it off. He consigned it to me and asked me to try to net him at least his cost back or close to it. I thought the coin had a good chance to upgrade so I submitted it, got the upgrade and then sold it for about $35,000 right back to the same dealer who originally sold it for $10,000 retail to my customer. I told the customer he grossed $35,000 on the sale back to the same dealer. Needless to say, he was quite surprised and pleased.

    Wondercoin

    Please visit my website at www.wondercoins.com and my ebay auctions under my user name www.wondercoin.com.
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys have the "Eye" I don't. Nice stories from you "Coin Flippers"

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    Ken
  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are great stories and I loved reading them all.

    My best story lately involves an ebay purchase of a MS67 clad quarter in a no-name holder(I cant remember the company and I have never heard of them anyway). I saw that the coin was exceptional despite the holder and I purchased it for $10. I cracked the coin out and sent it for grading and wouldnt you know that the no-name company got it right!! MS67 Clad quarter in a respectable holder. I sold it to another collector for over 20 times what I bought it for and had in it.

    Just goes to show you to buy the coin, not the holder cause sometimes they get it right! This is harder to do on ebay now since they banned all the smaller companies from listing as certified.
  • StoogeStooge Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>But my best score is.....As Paul said, "Confidential" Nick >>

    Nick I know all of your dirty little coin secrets! imageimage

    Later, Paul.

    Later, Paul.
  • DarkRedSkyDarkRedSky Posts: 56
    On my first (and only) submission, I picked out five 1994-P lincolns from a roll I bought on ebay and made two MS68s (20/0 before my submission, 24/0 now), and three MS67s.

    $4 roll = $1480 book value in 5 coins
    Positive BST Transactions: LincolnsRule (2), zkcoins(1), bsb (1), MS67PLUS (2), SNMAN (1), robb (1)

    "The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." - Frank Zappa
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a roll each of 1955PDS lincolns. I wonder if I have any 67s or 68s?

    Wouldn't that be a nice surprise. I have had them since the mid 80s.
  • PoppyPoppy Posts: 127
    Bought on ebay a 1928 PCI Green label AU 55 2.50 gold Indian. Cracked it out came back PCGS MS 63image
    Just having fun.
  • GandyjaiGandyjai Posts: 1,380 ✭✭
    #1.
    I was buying 40% Silver Bicentennial Red pack on eBay several years ago, trying to find a 68 Ike. I noticed a couple
    of the Kennedy halves didn't have any marks on them so I just set them aside. A couple of years later, I was putting
    together a submission of Ikes and decided to finally send in these Kennedy Halves that had been sitting on my desk.
    One made a 68 and the other is still the only 69 to have ever been made!

    #2.
    After not having much luck in finding this 71-S/S RPM Ike Variety at shops and shows, I decided to sit down one weekend and
    cut out all of my 71-S Blue packs so I could see them better. (I had already been through them once). Scored (6) of them
    and doubled the total Top-Pop Grade of 66 from (4) to (8)! Too bad I didn't do it sooner....the first few made went for MOON $$!

    Order #20274223 / Submission #3839871
    Line # Item # Cert # PCGS No. CoinDate Denomination Variety Country Grade
    1 1 14095206 396477 1971-S/S $1 Silver US MS66
    1 2 14095207 396477 1971-S/S $1 Silver US MS66
    1 3 14095208 396477 1971-S/S $1 Silver US MS66
    1 4 14095209 396477 1971-S/S $1 Silver US MS66
    1 5 14095210 396477 1971-S/S $1 Silver US MS65
    1 6 14095211 396477 1971-S/S $1 Silver US MS65
    2 1 14095212 6728 1976-S 50C Silver US MS67
    Total Items: 7
    Date Received: 2/11/2009

    Happy Hunting!
    Brian

    I Love image Variety & Error Ikes! image

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