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What was your best "right place, right time" moment?
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Tell us about your best coin buy ever that only happened because you were in the right place at the right time. My personal best is finding an original 2000p sealed Cheerios dollar and penny package on Ebay a few years back. It had just popped up as a buy it now as I was scrolling. Right place, right time that day....Sold it, but will always remember that Eureka moment.
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Just lucky I made the 90 min trip to the show that week and George mentioned he had the coin. It could have been shown to someone else, or held for ANA. Pure luck it found its way to me. That coin is now part of TDN's seated dollar set. And I was also lucky that I got the coin just shortly before TDN went strongly into seated dollars....or he would have gotten the coin first.
TDN dollar set
2003 pre-ANA show in White Plains NY. Was looking for some nice type coins to buy. I ran into George at Legend who was manning the booth at the time. He happened to mention he just got in a MS65 seated dollar. I had always wanted to own one yet never could afford or find one that was all there. He showed me a wonderfully original 1870 PCGS MS65 that was available within the bid/ask spread at $19,500. Within a minute I knew I wasn't going home without it. And I knew if that coin made it to the ANA show the following week, it would sell immediately.
Just lucky I made the 90 min trip to the show that week and George mentioned he had the coin. It could have been shown to someone else, or held for ANA. Pure luck it found its way to me. That coin is now part of TDN's seated dollar set. And I was also lucky that I got the coin just shortly before TDN went strongly into seated dollars....or he would have gotten the coin first.
TDN dollar set
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1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
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Bought a newly placed into inventory 1966 Kennedy half. Priced at $4.50. I really thought nothing at the time because I was just buying a bunch of cheap stuff. After second look and it looked nice, why not send it in for fun. Came back PCGS MS67, Pop 2/1 I think. I posted a pic and many thought it looked like an SMS. Nevertheless, I sold it for a trade/cash equivalent to around $3000. This was early in my collecting career. It really gassed my collecting objectives. On that lesson, I have made several more. That forged my interest that has been narrowed to early commems and a very Dansco type set. That's it!
WOW!
A gain of 66566.67%.
That had to have been your best ever, right?
as part of an estate from the long time heirs. He kept a few for his personal set, the rest he planned to sell, and I was invited to his home to
look over the collection.
He used EAC grading and Greysheet pricing to me.....I bought a LOT of coins that day. A few went to forum members, but most of them I still have.
When he broke up his personal set a few years later, I got first shot at that, but many had been slabbed, and prices were quite a bit higher, but I still
purchased a fair number of those also.
Had not one but TWO three-legged. One graded AU50 the other VF35. Just a fun little find and totally unexpected.
peacockcoins
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In May of 1980 I was sitting in the Denver Mint souvenir shop looking through sets that were lousy with Gem 1980 dime.
Life is very much about being in the right place at the right time.
I picked up two of these at a local auction house, along with a piece of local ephemera. All three for $7.50. I wish I could say I new what they were at the time of purchase, but I didn't know the value until later internet searches. The one I still have is nicer.
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i like that one messy. have seen a few. never an unc in-hand though.
ive got so many right-place-right time instinct moments, they have all but removed the word coincidence from my vocab.
for my budget; an impressive amount of first-graded varieties at the various tpg and my most expensive vam discovery a few years back due to an ebay special on top of it being a .99 auc that ended low. sent to messy, then leroy, now is 79p ms65 pcgs toner vam-73.
right place right time for some big cud groups with big cuds. i'd like to hit 1,000 cuds sold within 10 years but really only buying them as i come across them. kinda fun that way.
that reminds me.....
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Would have bored you anyway.
here's the results of a chance buy:
Cert Number PCGS No. Date Denom Variety Grade Status
08573134 7286 1903-O $1 MS64
08573135 7226 1893-S $1 VF20
08573136 7228 1894 $1 AU58
08573137 7232 1894-S $1 AU58
08573138 7156 1884-S $1 XF45
08573139 7148 1883-S $1 AU55
08573140 7131 1881-S $1 MS63PL
08573142 7186 1888-S $1 AU55
08573143 7356 1921 $1 High Relief, Peace MS64
These were in a bag of silver dollars I bought with silver at $8 silver
bob
An early date gem proof morgan, raw for a couple hundred dollars.
Trolling ebay at just the right time, 'eh Steeler?
bob
Walked into a local coin shop for the first time and asked if they had any error coins. Dealer immediately reaches over to a back counter, then holds up 2 slabs and states that they had just come in. I was a real newbie and still learning the ropes, but I bought one of them, because I thought it looked cool and was priced VERY inexpensively. Later as I was learning and researching more I realized that I had bought a very rare and choice coin. A decade later I finally parted with it and made 4 figures. That coin would have sold very quickly if put out for public view. To date it's still my best "cherrypick" even though it was completely accidental.
Sean Reynolds
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Bullion prices in exchange for what turned out to be "nicer" coins. I submitted a couple of them, and for the price, it was what I considered being " in the right trade."
These graded MS 64, MS 66, and MS 65 respectively.
Buying on eBay sort of got me in the "search for good deals /trades anywhere" mode.
PCGS graded it VF30 and before I could retail it to my customers, Harry Laibstein bought it for $10K. After he upgraded it to XF, I bought it back for $13,000 and sold it to my customer for $14,500.
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Oh and picking up a 1799 Bust $ in PCGS OGH in XF at a "friendly" discount
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Many of them centered around looking for, finding and purchasing at local shops, coin shows and on the internet OGP proof and SMS set and 1947-1958 double mint sets for bid (or even back of bid) which contain high grade Cameo or DCAM coins, or which contain varieties, or which contain fully original multicolored coins.
Kept the nice coins and resold the left overs.
Last year I cherrypicked two 1959 proof sets containing Cameo half dollars.
A nice feature of collecting in this niche area is that there are lots of OGP and after market sets and there are also raw singles of these coins which are raw (and thus modestly priced) that you can find and look through. While finding cherries is getting harder and harder, they are still available and a collector can still experience the thrill of a successful hunt.
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