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Back when gold and $20 Liberty's were "cheap", for $20 gold fans...

ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,808 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I got this $20 Liberty for just over melt in the early aughts. This one is an 1880 in a no line NGC fattie, graded AU-53. This is date you don't see too often.

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And now you would like to move it at 10% under melt and still make an obscene gain... image Deal!

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  • ModernCoinModernCoin Posts: 394
    Now, THAT is a gold coin image. Thanks for sharing.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a great coin!
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  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gotta love those stage coach ridden Double eagles!image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,903 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Gotta love those stage coach ridden Double eagles!image >>



    A few of them look like they were ridden over by a stage coach.image As far as cheap, I bought my first Saint for $47 back around 1965. Wish I still had it.

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bought into most of mine in the fall of 2005, when I sold a California property at the very peak of the market. I was buying them up from HA at 2% over spot.
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  • curlycurly Posts: 2,880 ✭


    << <i> As far as cheap, I bought my first Saint for $47 back around 1965. Wish I still had it. >>



    Me too brother, me too.
    Every man is a self made man.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice Liberty... Gold in any form is my favorite... and I do enjoy looking at the gold I acquired when it was much, much more reasonably priced. image Cheers, RickO
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,903 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i> As far as cheap, I bought my first Saint for $47 back around 1965. Wish I still had it. >>



    Me too brother, me too. >>



    I only wish I still had it for sentimental reasons since it was my first gold coin. It was a nice coin with original surfaces and would probably grade MS64 today. I still have many Saints that were bought at a small fraction of today's values but none as cheap as this one.

    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

  • BloodManBloodMan Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Elmer—nice buy!

    1880 is an underrated, low mintage date. It is a very difficult date to find without heavy bag marks, and many also have planchet defects/streaks. As a collector, I think nice AU examples are a good buy.

  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    << As far as cheap, I bought my first Saint for $47 back around 1965. Wish I still had it. >>

    I waited until 1968, and paid $75 for my first Saint, but it was a beauty. I sold it for MS65 money in 1980, before TPG's. Wish I still had that one, too!

    Jim

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,818 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i> As far as cheap, I bought my first Saint for $47 back around 1965. Wish I still had it. >>



    Me too brother, me too. >>



    Bought my first $20, a BU 1900-S, for $50 from Earl Schill in downtown Detroit in May of 1966. I was 15. Sold it a few years later for college tuition.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,903 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i> As far as cheap, I bought my first Saint for $47 back around 1965. Wish I still had it. >>



    Me too brother, me too. >>



    Bought my first $20, a BU 1900-S, for $50 from Earl Schill in downtown Detroit in May of 1966. I was 15. Sold it a few years later for college tuition. >>



    I sold my $47 Saint and several other gold coins in the early 1970's since I was getting married. It was my best investment and I've never regretted it.

    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

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice, thanks for sharing !!!
    Timbuk3

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