Your best coin related story....ever!

MGLICKER

One per post, please.

winky

I bought a 1893S dollar, PCGS XF40 for $3300 and sent it back. How stupid was that. Of course it was 10 years ago but still stupid.

topstuf

I opened a coin shop.

MGLICKER

More of a surprise than a story I suppose:

A couple days after winning a very expensive lot of coins from a top auction house, I came home to find the Fed Ex delivery sitting on my doorstep.

Though signature was required by the sender, the delivery person ignored the request.

All is well that ends well, I guess.

TwoSides2aCoin

Ever hasn't happened, yet. They do get better, though.

braddick

Could have purchased an AU50 details 1916-D Mercury dime in an ANACS small white slab for $900. (years ago).

The coin looked so pretty- not really cleaned at all and closer to full MS details rather than AU.

I passed and six months later saw the same coin in a PCGS AU55 slab where it looked perfectly fine and legit being in.
I still think about that coin today as the 1916-D dime is one of my favorites and that would have been a killer deal, even at the time.

SethChandler

My favorite coin story, as well as my first post.

ModCrewman

<< <i>My favorite coin story, as well as my first post. >>

Looks like a long wait for Part 2 of that story...are we still waiting or was it posted?

ARCO

The most exciting episode of my collecting experience was being first on the scene to a superb collection of Barber halves being sold and getting first picks on everything before the coins were put on Ebay. I purchased about 25 Barber halves in XF (most were semi-key or better dates), and most with superb eye appeal and at a very fair market price. It shaved years off of completing a VF-AU Barber Half set.

The collector had passed and his collection was being sold. I like to think that his otherworldy spirit sent the coins my way.

Tyler

silverpop

sometime ago I got some change and got home and looked though it to my surprise I found a die chip/ die clashed dime not a bad find in change

made my day

lasvegasteddy

i think it was when i was just 6 back in 68'.....my granny had me help her fill some coin albums with her
she brought out a box
i went to reach in and grab one of her penny rolls and the paper just crumbled into dust exposing all mint state red indian head cents
these were the 1st indian head cents i had ever seen

AMRC

Too many favs.

Sonorandesertrat

Fred Weinberg's story about the Stella mistakenly thrown into the trash takes the cake.
If he'd toss a couple more in the trash, and point me to the correct landfill, I'd seriously think
about buying some hip waders, an N95 mask, etc., and spending some 'quality time.'

Roscoe

Went looking for a 1918-D Buffalo for my circ set. Was sitting at a dealer's table looking at one that had a lamination, small die break and real late die state on the obverse. The reverse had some small corrosion, probable verdigris, and die scratches. This coin was one of the great educational pieces. I guess I was talking to myself since the dealer yanked it out of my hands and asked me to move on with an insulted glare. I was actually thinking of making an offer.

Baley

Discovering 1807 O-115
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CaptHenway

When I was at ANACS a guy came in with one of the two 1804 dollars stolen from the DuPont Family, and I recognized it as the Lindermann Specimen.

OPA

<< <i>Fred Weinberg's story about the Stella mistakenly thrown into the trash takes the cake.
If he'd toss a couple more in the trash, and point me to the correct landfill, I'd seriously think
about buying some hip waders, an N95 mask, etc., and spending some 'quality time.' >>

Coinosaurus

I went to the National Archives looking for newsreel footage of the two children who discovered the Baltimore gold hoard in 1934. Curator tells me my chances of finding something are less than zero. Five minutes later, I was looking at the videotape.

Not appearing in this story are the other thousand times I went looking for a needle in a haystack and didn't find it

mirabela

Just kind of a nostalgic personal thing, I guess, but my dad kind of got taken on a seated quarter he bought as an Unc in the early 80's that was really a whizzed AU. I traded it 20 years later with full disclosure of its issues, at an agreed value that was about 1/3 what he'd paid, for a somewhat amazing fully PL AU55-ish 1894-O Morgan with a razor strike (when's the last time you saw one of those?) and flipped it the next week for roughly the original price of the seated quarter; I took the proceeds and bought a cool better-date $10 Indian in AU58, which was one of my favorite pieces for the couple of years I had it before I sold it at around a 40% profit to raise the dough to help my parents buy a piece of land to retire on. I was glad to be able to redeem this mistake.