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I was wrong.

TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,624 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 6, 2018 9:29AM in U.S. Coin Forum

But I can admit it.

Post a coin you know you were wrong for buying , selling, or trading.

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  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This 2015 PCGS Panda MS70 and now has spots on it. Ugg

    Best place to buy !
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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    hope you did not buy that with the milk spots already on it!

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Selling a PCGS MS45 Charlotte half eagle years ago. Also sold a nice double dime. Got a fair price, but wish I had kept the coins.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kkathyl said:
    This 2015 PCGS Panda MS70 and now has spots on it.

    PCGS was wrong for slabbing it. :|

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    There's a guy over on the PM forum who is never wrong.

    And we all are.

  • Josh32Josh32 Posts: 138 ✭✭✭

    And this is why I don't buy ms70s. No such thing as a perfect coin.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 6, 2018 7:40PM

    @TwoSides2aCoin
    I was not quite wrong then but looking back to 2017.... I was very wrong :'(
    @dcarr winged liberty is what I was looking for then & had to settle with the 1st coin; I am glad he came up with his superior design :)

    <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    one with multiple "personalities"? :o

    @derryb said:
    There's a guy over on the PM forum who is never wrong.

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was wrong when I bought an “Unopened 2009 UHR double eagle” on eBay. I was just getting back to collecting and was hoping to win at the 69/70 lottery. I got my coin, sent it in to our hosts, and got back a coin in an MS65 holder. I kinda, sorta don’t think it was really a mint sealed, original box.......

    That was my introduction to grading, this forum, eBay shennanigans, and buying what I really wanted the first time. The thing I bought had nasty hairlines.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 6, 2018 8:39PM

    Did you buy it from coin dealers? I paid premium for PCGS MS70

    @BryceM said:
    I was wrong when I bought an “Unopened 2009 UHR double eagle” on eBay. I was just getting back to collecting and was hoping to win at the 69/70 lottery. I got my coin, sent it in to our hosts, and got back a coin in an MS65 holder. I kinda, sorta don’t think it was really a mint sealed, original box.......

    That was my introduction to grading, this forum, eBay shennanigans, and buying what I really wanted the first time. The thing I bought had nasty hairlines.

  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am underwater on each of the few coins which were nice for the grade for which I paid more than a 1/3 premium. One got upgraded to a + holder, which has a minimal effect on the grade. Perhaps someone else can get them upgraded. I can't.

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too many to mention !!! :'(

    Timbuk3
  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bought Zincoln proofs but realized I'd have to live to be 175 before seeing them worth the investment.

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • mt_mslamt_msla Posts: 815 ✭✭✭✭

    Proof sets.

    Insert witicism here. [ xxx ]

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sold my large size currency & comic book collection in the early 90s to buy early commemorative. :/

    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,897 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BlindedByEgo said:
    Let go a raw 1911 D that wound up in PCGS MS62, before they jumped a bunch.

    Also a 1909 O Barber in a rattler 64 that, in the end, jumped two grades.

    1911-D what? ;)

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  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I bought Missing Edge Letter Prez dollars. :'(

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,922 ✭✭✭✭✭

    oh, I thought you meant about your name. There are 3 sides to a coin.

    All comments reflect the opinion of the author, evn when irrefutably accurate.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kkathyl said:
    This 2015 PCGS Panda MS70 and now has spots on it. Ugg

    I've had that happen a few times. :s Now I wait for a coin to be at least a solid year in the holder before I purchase. It seems to helps avoid the spotting issue.

  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭

    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 39,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow! 39,000 Posts! Congratulations.

    Only wrong once in 39,000 times is an enviable record. :)

  • RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I let a friend convince me to buy a bunch of 2005 mint sets on speculation - I'm not even sure where the box is, but it's $1,500 I'll never see again.


    What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kkathyl said:
    This 2015 PCGS Panda MS70 and now has spots on it. Ugg

    On sale at provident right now for 21.54 , as a bonus you don't have to smash that plastic rectangle off them.
    https://www.providentmetals.com/2015-chinese-silver-panda-coin.html

  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    More than I care to recall, but here is a recent one: I “cherrypicked” a cool error coin, unattributed in a lot on eBay, with the intention of reselling it. One other bidder saw it and I seriously overestimated the secondary market, so my “cherry” wound up costing me full retail.

    Sean Reynolds

    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

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  • 3stars3stars Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ACop said:
    Bought sports cards in my teens instead of coins. I was wrong.

    If your now in your 70's, this could actually pay off. If your around 45, not so much.

    Previous transactions: Wondercoin, goldman86, dmarks, Type2
  • TurboSnailTurboSnail Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was wrong of buying silver eagle couple dollars over spot. But it was an addiction and I couldn't help it. :(

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 7, 2018 6:19PM

    @3stars said:

    @ACop said:
    Bought sports cards in my teens instead of coins. I was wrong.

    If your now in your 70's, this could actually pay off. If your around 45, not so much.

    A tad bit under the latter lol...so yeah, worthless. Triple game worn Mickey Mantle refractor hologram reprints just didnt hold up. $12 packs - 5 cards in a pack...12th year Kirby Puckett and Vladamir Guerreo cards just dont have a following.

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did work in the building where Kayo boxing cards had an office so I got a boatload of worthless protoype cards for free including some unauthorized Mike Tyson rookies. I think those fetch $15

  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @BlindedByEgo said:
    Let go a raw 1911 D that wound up in PCGS MS62, before they jumped a bunch.

    Also a 1909 O Barber in a rattler 64 that, in the end, jumped two grades.

    1911-D what? ;)

    $2.50, sorry. Space, the final frontier.

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