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Guy paid $1 for a Pewter Continental dollar...

pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,258 ✭✭✭✭
News story from Fox44 out of Burlington VT says a Vermont man paid $1 for it at a flea market in the 60s. The coin now resides in a PCGS MS64 holder! Not a bad payday.

The PCGS Cert number from the news story is 24516854. I took a quick image. It was a transitioning shot, so you see the lady's and the man's outlines. I didn't catch the whole story as I was fumbling around trying to take a picture. Looks like a nice coin though!

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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Wish i had that kind of luck, thats a nice looking coin.
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  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,366 ✭✭✭✭
    What were they worth in the 60's?
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  • << <i>What were they worth in the 60's? >>



    Apparently $1.

    Ron

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  • My 1962 redbook lists it at 330 in Unc , it also mentions copies of this were made in 1876 for the centennial expo.
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And for everyone of these there are thousands of people who make a similar type of purchase only to take home junk.
    Numismatist Ordinaire
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,642 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And here I thought this was going to be a hotel buyer ripping someone. Cool!
  • ebaybuyerebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
    i heard of one being found in a garden by a NH resident, along with a handful of other old coins.
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 43,796 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll take
    "hearsay for a hundred grand," Alex
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stories such as this bring out the treasure hunter in all of us. Cheers,RickO
  • Call me a skeptic, but it is a good story.


  • << <i>Call me a skeptic, but it is a good story. >>



    Im also in the skeptic camp , apparantly the guy was or is a coin collector according to the reports , why wait 50 years to have it checked out ? If it really was in a wallet for these 50 years and pewter being a soft metal..would it really grade MS ?


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    << <i>Call me a skeptic, but it is a good story. >>



    Im also in the skeptic camp , apparantly the guy was or is a coin collector according to the reports , why wait 50 years to have it checked out ? If it really was in a wallet for these 50 years and pewter being a soft metal..would it really grade MS ? >>



    No chance.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,427 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What were they worth in the 60's? >>



    According to the 1965 Red Book the most common variety was going for $575.00 in Uncirculated.

    New England has yielded some real treasures in years past. I don't when it happened, but years ago a guy in Maine bought 50 large cents for $50. This was one them. image

    As the story goes the scratches were put on the piece AFTER the guy bought it. He was not much of a numismatist and carried it around in his wallet to show off to people.

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  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,237 ✭✭✭

    dang
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,411 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Call me a skeptic, but it is a good story. >>

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice story, happy
    endings I like !!!
    Timbuk3
  • RaufusRaufus Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, that's my absolute favorite coin.

    My brother lives in Northern, NH. I've told my wife for years how cool it would be to wonder into one of the antique shops and find a Continental Dollar (or a nice Colonial).

    So neat to think that it's been floating around for over 200 years.

    It's also interesting how, after nearly 200 years, they were worth about $500 - $600 yet over the last 45 or so years they've gone from there to six figures. Even inflation adjusted, that's just amazing.
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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The CW story has the guy buying it for a $1 and wrapping it up and carrying it in his billfold for 40+ years. I don't see how it could stay in MS64 under those conditions. If you put a wrapped BU Morgan in your billfold for one year I just doubt that it would stay that way. There wuld have to be some rub on it. BTW what a bump in you back pocket.

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