Ever browse dealer websites and come across a coin you've owned before?

lordmarcovan · May 16, 2016 6:16PM

It's happened to me twice now.

I used to own this coin in the mid-1990s, and wish I still did.

Aethelred owned it for a time, too.

Boosibri · May 16, 2016 7:26PM

Yep, happens! Sometimes I buy them back depending on the price and the circumstances which caused me to part with it in the first place.

lordmarcovan · May 17, 2016 3:58PM

I got that coin for FREE from a brick and mortar dealer around 1993 or so. He knew I was collecting British coins at the time.

Traded it to Aethelred for $100-ish in about 1994, if memory serves.

Which means its price has multiplied 7.5x since!

Sapyx · May 17, 2016 9:01PM

On at least three occasions now, I've been browsing through a dealer's stock-books and noticed coins in 2x2s with my writing on them. On every occasion, the dealer was unaware it was my writing. I'd sold the coin in the 2x2 to another dealer, and they'd acquired some of that dealer's stock in a trade.

Since the only way I've ever gotten rid of a coin is because I've acquired a duplicate, I never feel the need to re-acquire such coins, since I know I already own a better one.

Stork · May 17, 2016 9:39PM

Nope, that would imply selling.

Okay, I've sold a few, but nothing that I've ever noticed again.

TwoKopeiki · May 17, 2016 9:59PM

Yup, from time to time. Bought one back recently, too. I let it go originally because the coin was in an NGC AU53 holder but PCGS crossed it at 45 (no luster), at which point I thought it could do better and sold it at a loss. Over the following few years I wasn't able to easily find a better example that was just as original as the one I sold. When it came up for sale a few months back, I happily bought it back at about 30% less of what I sold it for due to the marketing softening these days.

asheland · May 18, 2016 12:43AM

That's a cool Shilling!

CIVITAS · May 18, 2016 1:18AM

Yes. But to be fair, I sell a lot of coins to a lot of dealers.

Ever browse dealer websites and come across a coin you've owned before?

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