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What coin(s) do you wish you had purchased 25 years ago?
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Perhaps they've gone up in price too much over the last couple of decades. Any coin series or single coins you wish you had purchased pre-1995?
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Gold was the play.
Scarce/rare gold or simple common stuff?
CC dollars and anything gold.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Any or all of the St. Gaudens 'Big Five', or a 1921. The archives from twenty-five years ago make it seem these were going for a song. Same as early Walkers in gem!
Chain cent
More gold... having the good fortune to foresee (through many sources, I am not prescient) the impending rise in gold value, I should have stacked even more. Cheers, RickO
LOL, I was in high school, it was sports and girls back then. Didn't get back into coins until after college!
Palladium bullion coins.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
1955 or 1972 DDO
Instead bought the 1995 ddo
BST: KindaNewish (3/21/21), WQuarterFreddie (3/30/21), Meltdown (4/6/21), DBSTrader2 (5/5/21) AKA- unclemonkey on Blow Out
1916 slq, 1909 s indian head cent in high grade, 3 legged buffalo nickel
A good mutual fund would have made me so much more money. I could now afford the very coins I wished I had purchased 25 years earlier.
I can tell you about coins I wish I HADN'T purchased!
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
Gold.
1792 Half Disme.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
Wish I picked up some cool Bolen medals back when they were unpopular.
Especially the Pioneer Baseball Club, which is now 7-10xs the price
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Gold Saints of all kinds and key date Morgans.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Gold for sure... but also early Large Cents in VF20 or better... Trade Dollars (just in the last 10 years)...
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
I'm with @ARCO on this one. S&P is 4 times what it was 25 years ago, NASDAQ and DOW are 6 times higher. Not many coins on my want list that have done near that well when looking at my 1994 Red Book.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Any old gold.
Pretty much every MS or conditional rarity my 18 year old self could have afforded. Plus a bunch of 90%.
A MS64 or gem octagonal Pan-Pac.
However, I couldn't afford it then, and I still can't quite get up the nerve to pull the trigger on one now.
My US Mint Commemorative Medal Set
Just do it....you won’t be sorry.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Wish I had bought the 1995 AGE Sets back then, was going to buy a couple of sets but wife talked me out of buying them. Then had the opportunity to buy a couple of the 1995-W PR70DCAM's at the time too for great prices back then and ended up passing on them as well. Those are some that I really regret not buying at the time!
Barbers, Barbers and more Barbers.
The list is too long....should have kept many of the coins but as a dealer, we buy and sell.
Much more classic gold and 1995W ASE's from the mint.....
Barbers !!!!! Any series but especially halves!!!!!
HAPPY COLLECTING
Humbert octagon slug
1873 cc seated quarter and the 1870-cc from the Richmond sale, couldn't afford it then, and still cant , because they have tripled in price.
1894 P 1885 CC and 1893 S Morgans.
The 1995-W ASE didn't exist 25 years ago.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Anything gold.
The coins I wanted bought, then I stupidly sold them. I remember in the mid-80's no one was collecting mid-grade bust dollars and I was buying XF/AUs for $1000. I had sets of draped halves, seated lib halves, etc. I've never put back together. Look at rare date CC seated halves from the mid 1980's to now...ugh! Even low grades are crazy.
This sold for $16,100 in October 2001-- almost 18 years ago. I could really use it for my set.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
1916 doubled die obverse Buff.