Whats your best "buy" from Ebay?

GopherNationals

A few weeks back I purchased a BIN for 3 rolls of 90% silver quarters at $83 per roll. I'll buy them all day for that price. What's your best "buy"?

ambro51

ILL BE POSTING IT TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mbogoman

A raw 1879 CC Morgan for $350 BIN that graded out by our host at MS61 (and should have gone 62 or 63).

derryb

Low mintate 08W $10 AGE in cardboard flip for regular $10 AGE price. Mint mark was not clearly visible in seller's pic, so I had no competition on the bidding. The icing on the cake was when it graded MS70.

Also, a raw 1999 W $5 AGE struck with unfinished proof dies for bullion tenth ounce price. This one was a gamble, but description by seller led me to believe it might be a W unc and not the W proof he described it to be. My guess proved correct when I opened the shipment from the seller. Graded out at MS69, Struck with Unfinished Proof Dies.

DoubleEagle59

I purchased a Canadian silver dollar at an AU grade for about $250.

I had it graded at ICCS as an ms64 and sold it for $6200.00.

Funny thing is, the coin was on Ebay for quite awhile.

When I first saw it, I was shocked it hadn't sold and I BIN'd it right away.

Wingsrule

A Regency holder with a pop 10 coin in it.

Or should I say, a mintage 10 coin in it.

derryb

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Not if I outbid you.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Whats your best "buy" from Ebay? >>

Maybe the small lot of Darkside coins I saw several years back. It had a BIN of something like $2.99 or $3.99- I forget now. Anyway, after shipping, I wasn't out much more than five or six bucks at most.

The auction had a blurry, darkish picture but I could make out a few coins. There was a holey in there that I sorta wanted so I pulled the trigger.

AFTER I pulled the trigger, I ended up discussing the lot on the forums somehow. (This was in my earlier days here.)

Another member pointed out an item that was semi-obscured in the corner of the picture. You could only partially make it out, and I hadn't seen it.

It was a 1694 Thick Planchet London Elephant token. (You Litesiders who aren't familiar should be- it's listed in the Red Book.)

It was real, too. VG details, with some unfortunate heavy digs on it in places. Because of the damage I only got 75 bucks on it, so it wasn't a huge "cha-ching". But it was like findin' free money. For my four or five bucks (whatever it was), I got a holey coin I wanted for my vest, two or three other moderately interesting oldies, AND something worth a quick seventy-five bucks.

Not my best cherrypick overall (not even close) but perhaps my best on eBay.

Similarly, I once scored a low grade Connecticut copper in a super-cheapo auction like that once. This was the earlier days on eBay, when not every auction even had a picture, much less a good picture.

Barndog

don't know which I would classify as best, so here are three that are satisfying:

1829 LM-14. Purchased raw. I believe this is the finest known of the R4 die marriage. Now PCGS MS62




1830 LM-5, Early Die State. Purchased raw. Now this R-6 die marriage is in a PCGS VF25 holder.




1832 LM-8.2. Purchased raw. Very difficult die remarriage. Finding the 8.1, 8.4, and 8.5 remarriages is relatively easy, but the 8.2 (this one) and the 8.3 are tough, tough, tough. Now in a PCGS MS61 holder.

Eagleguy

I got this circ-cam R-4 for a decent price:



edited to add, not a cherrypick but a nice find nonetheless.

JH

drwstr123

Looking for a 22-D, I saw this pic, OGH, and pulled the ol' trigger:

With shipping it was somewhere around $150.00
I recall getting the mail, sitting at my desk, opening the envelope.
No great shakers, just another coin for the pile.

I went to Weak D at the same grade and CACd.
One of a few.

DennisH

An 1890-CC VAM 4 "Tailbar" Morgan dollar in PCGS MS63 for $400 BIN.

I also bought a raw 1880-O VAM 49 Morgan for $450 that the seller thought would grade MS63. It did at PCGS, and now it's tied for pop top among just 6 Mint State examples that are known to exist.

TwoSides2aCoin

I recently thought I paid too much for some coins from Belarus and it seemed they took a while to get here (U.S.) from Poland, but my customer was very happy. And that's about as good as it gets.

AUandAG

bought a 92cc out of Canada from a seller that had it listed as an 82cc. It was darkly toned and
hard to see the date clearly. Paid like $80 and it graded at our host AU50. It was one of my 3
you suck awards!

bob

ctf_error_coins

Just ONE of the many fantastic buys from ebay.........

gummibear

Picked this up as just a nice bu for just over gold at the time. Paid $170. Sent in for grading and came back double struck in collar. Sold for $2500 after a few years. It was the only known gold error from Sweden.






Richard

TwoSides2aCoin

It's a great place to buy. There's never been a better place to find stuff than eBay. I never seen so much stuff. It (ebay) fills a niche and if one has a niche he should scratch it , but don't scratch your stuff trying to clean it up thinking it will sell for more on eBay, please. It ruins the coins.

fastfreddie

$32 raw, including shipping. Resides in a 40 holder now. Can you say 'dirty silver'.

OnWithTheHunt

Too many to mention but one that comes to mind immediately was $41 for an AU 1913-D Ty 2 Buffalo nickel several years ago that was listed as "1913" by seller. Apparently only one other bidder spotted the mintmark, and I couldnt tell from photo whether it was D or S. Placed a bid a bit lower than greysheet price of a D and got it for a lot less.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

an 1874 $20 in a super-old ANACS MS60 holder... paid $2200... went PCGS 62 on the first shot and sold it for around $10k.

or an 1888/7 1c that I paid $4 for and sold for $2700.

there have been a bunch of scores that have made me between $500 and $2000.

coinbuf

I guess these two, neither huge rips but nice buys, 1934-d Quarter that was in an ACG MS64 holder now NGC MS64 and 1881 Morgan bought raw for $120 now NGC MS65

fastfreddie

That Morgan is a stunner

JamesMurray

Im another with way too many to recollect , i purposely go out my way to find these.Coins with just the obverse pic have turned up 3 x CC mintmarks , biggest score was load of World silver , i paid spot and found multiple 3 figure coins in near Unc and AU.

johnny9434

I got a $5 bill ( newer one ) that was off center for $4.25. The seller ( a friend ) forgot to pull it from auction and i won out. i did give him the opertunity to forget about it but didnt. i gave him a 5 for what it was worth

illini420

Back when Microsoft/eBay was doing the Bing Cashback deal on eBay purchases I ended up with a worn $500 bill for $483.75

I really thought about betting it in Vegas or using it to buy dinner with friends sometime, just to say I spent a $500 bill... but I couldn't bring myself to actually spend it, hahaha.

OnlyGoldIsMoney

I purchased this coin raw on Ebay for around $440. Now its a PCGS F12 CAC. It is one of 28 ( in all grades) at PCGS.

jeremym

Since I'm so new to the hobby...

A few weeks ago, I bought a Gem UC NGC graded 1/10 AGE. Price was $168.xx shipped. Raw non-special AGE's were going for $220 at that time. I felt like I got a good deal.