Are there coins you regret selling?
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I sold my original collection about 15 years ago. For the most part the high grade type coins I sold are readily replacable. I wish I still had the Carson City and 18th century gold I sold. Currently the bidding for these is intense and hard to replace.
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I don’t really regret any of the coins I’ve sold in the past. Mostly I wish I had been smarter at buying in the first place. I was too indiscriminate.
i have never regretted selling any coin mostly cause they were already on the list to be sold off anyways
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I had a nice collection of certain Vam.
Netted several $k, but should have kept the nicest one.
Tried as I can, but cannot locate another in the wild... much less a nicer one.
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All the 93s Morgans I've had... I've owned 7 or 8 of them with grades from VG to AU.... Loved them all.
I do not regret selling any coins. There are plenty of coins I would like to still own but do not regret selling them.
I receive a coin I purchased from an online dealer and am like meh but I talk myself into keeping it. I regret those decisions way more than I do the ones I sell.
Yes.
Not really. I have sold two complete US Type Sets based on the Dansco 7070 album, and have replaced those coins each time I sold (still working on the third one!) with upgrades. Every coin. So the collections keep getting nicer as I go along. This 7070 set I currently work on will probably be my last, mainly due to my age. Coins I've sold from other (World stuff) accumulations or sets I've never regretted selling or trading.
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Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
Numerous. Too many to list.
Dave
In a few cases when I changed collecting objectives. For example, I decided to put together an 1874 proof set since I had the 10, 25, and 50c in my proof type set. Unfortunately I had sold off most of my IHC proofs a couple of years' back, including the 1874. Just found another nice one but took a while and no doubt lost $ in the transition. Thinking ahead more now as I tend to assemble sets of various dates of interest.
Which Vam?
All of them... but they were sold out of necessity not a whim...
I've sold my collection and walked away from the hobby three times. Each collection had a few coins I wish I still had. Is that regret? I don't know.
1886 p Vam 20 which are as scarce as some of the big 1878 8tf's
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Yes! Great Vam and a very tough find!
In general no. I have built some nice collections in the past and sold them. In a perfect world there are a few coins i wish i had kept but most of the time i took the proceeds to buy other coins that i probably would not have purchased but for the sale.
Really just one. I had to sell my entire collection back in 2008, in it was a 1921 peace dollar that had been my great grandfather's. It was raw, xf-ish, with natural gray surfaces. I've since rebuilt my collection, but I'll never have great grandpa's dollar again.
Just one. It was a choice, semi-key Morgan in an OGH. I sold it to finance another major coin purchase, which was stupid, because I could have paid off most of the new coin and then paid off the rest (with a nominal interest fee). The dealer that I sold it to paid me a very fair price for it. But, It was sentimental, because it had been one of the first certified coins that I'd ever purchased and I had it for many years. It was a very premium quality coin. I plan to find another one, in a slightly higher grade, someday. Then, I'll feel better about it....
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As a former part time dealer, I’ve sold many hundreds of coins. The vast majority I don’t regret at all. But I’ve sold two choice ‘23S walkers that were both nicer than the PCGS 55 residing in my set. Also a crusty xf ‘39O half and a low grade but genuine ‘93 Liberty cap large cent. These were all ‘want list’ items from good customers. All of these are legitimately scarce coins, and irreplaceable at the prices I sold them for.....
I get sellers remorse EVERY TIME I sell one of my coins. That’s why I rarely sell.
Actually I’m in the process of selling one of my monsters from my primary buffalo nickel collection. I’m already starting to feel the pain.
Many, unfortunately. I've sold my first 7070 which I worked many years on and it had so many treasures I searched hard to find, but far easier than today. Then my second Everyman's Buffalo Nickel Collection, which was the worst. But Life hands rewards and cost and we must ride it's wave.
Jim
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Jim, do you still have the wood grain set of Indian cents? That was a pretty unique critter!
There a many coins that I wish I had back, including some now worth vastly more, but there are few regrets.
A handful I do regret, not so much because I love them or because keeping them would have worked out well financially, but because I made a stupid decision when selling them. Those I can shrug off because everyone makes an occasional blunder, but some of them were pretty bad.
The other regrets are a very few coins that I sold from my core collection, mistakenly (so far) thinking I could find a better one someday. Maybe not stupid decisions, but I still regret selling them.
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I always do on most of the coins that I sold because the price moved up year after year on those coins. LOL
Just give an example on one of the recent sale on HA.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/szechuan/szechuan-dollar-nd-1912-xf40-pcgs-/a/60192-92278.s?ic2=mybidspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyBids-101116
I got one of the coin like this from Teletrade years back and I sold it on ebay for aobut $500. My coin is much better looking than this HA coin and is graded higher, I believe it is AU. Now it can be worth 10K.
I got 2 V75 ASE last year, sold one, wish that I kept...
Yes, this one in particular. Such is life.
@Walkerguy21D Jim, do you still have the wood grain set of Indian cents? That was a pretty unique critter!
No, unfortunately. 2014-2017 there was so many bills with the 3 heart surgeries and other pressing family matters I had to sell them also. A shame as I only lacked 5 having them all wood grain. Luckily, I've been able to save my 3rd Buffalo Nickel set with many spares and my new Walking Liberty Set. I'm pretty sure someone else will have to sell them as it won't be me.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
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Give another example how fast the price moved up. I sold one PCGS MS62 for 4K in 2018, two years later in 2020, an AU58 sold for over 4K at HA. The price is pretty much on fire.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/world-coins/china-republic-dollar-yuan-shih-kai-year-8-1919-au58-pcgs-/a/3087-30208.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515
I bought a High Relief Peace dollar when I was in high school for a good price--a well-struck ICG AU58 with really, really nice color. Back then, I was super excited when I had the opportunity to make a profit, and I sold the coin for a decent profit, but what now is certainly a pittance. It was a really nice coin and I probably didn't do anything spectacular with the money. It's definitely not a coin I'd sell off if I had it today, at least without it being upgraded in some way (and I say that with a really nice MS64 in my collection, but the coins are different and I'd rather have both). Oh, well. At least I learned a lesson about valuing coins over just making some money.
From way early in my career, i had built a high grade set of both Canadian Fishscale Nickels and Large Canadian Pennies. I got into it when a dealer showed me a Canadian Coin book and showed me the total mintages compared to the US mintages. When I had the sets finished from 1858 to when I sold them, including a lot of the varieties, I got bored and sold them. Big mistake!
Back in those days, no one collected Canadian so I pretty much had my pick of coins and with being transferred all over the country, lots of coin shops to choose from.
These were just the Canadian pennies, transposed from a real photograph. Don't know where the Nickel pictures are.
I found the 35mm slide boxes were perfect for the 2x2's and used to pick them up at thrift stores for a couple bucks each! This was back before TPG services and each box held 150 coins in 2x2's.
To give you an idea of what I had to pick through, a dealer in St. Louis, MO sold me a 1921 Fishscale nickel in about MS63 for around $300.00. He had acquired it as part of a collection a number of years before and since no one collected Canadian, I think he was afraid he was going to retire with it. Today, that coin alone is worth about 4-5 times what they paid me for the entire collection in about the mid 1990's. It really isn't the money, though, I really liked collecting those coins and kind of miss them, particularly the varieties.
I think it's natural to miss coins that were treasured and sold.
The only way to not miss them may be if the collection sold was tuition
My slug...
Same slug (picture from the auction house).
A few, but there are more coins I regret buying or not selling when it was worth more that I still have.
The first two sets I completed to the best of my younger budget, Mercury Dimes minus the big three, and a completed set of Proof Memorial Cents. Neither are tough to reassemble, and I have recovered a couple of the sold Memorials.
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No - quick turnover best.
Many and varied. I really miss my first 1916 d die 5c which was a VF and my set of doubled die Washington 25c.
There have been a few but the standout... now that I'm looking for another... is the Trade Dollar from my 7070. I had a nice AU with nice understated tone and mint luster in the devices. It was also the first year of issue... 1873. I've not seen another like it since and certainly not for the $200 I sold mine for...
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My sellers remorse lasts about as long as it takes for me to get paid for whatever I’m selling.
I regret selling my partial sets of Silver Dollars that I got from the bank at face. My back door neighbor bought the Peace Dollar ( missing the 1928 and about 2-3 others ) set about 45 years ago. He is now 97. Maybe I can get it back someday.
“Are there coins you regret selling?”
Plenty.
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There have been a few cherrypicks I would have loved to keep but having a family with young children, I always felt guilty holding them when the money could go toward other necessities. None of them keep me up at night, I only think about them when threads like this come up.
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Yes and no. It only will bother me when i find a picture of it or a thread like this lol
LUCKILY, the coins that I HAVE sold are replaceable.......Many others are NOT.
So, that's one good thing.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Not really. I’ve taken the proceeds and applied them for something new of interest.
Flip side. There are coins I regret not getting the opportunity to buy either due to budget timing issues or someone beat me to it.
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
Yes, you are right. I hate this thread; it put some salt on the wound. It remind me how stupid I sold so many coins. LOL.
I had a Classic Commemorative type set that I sold just before they tanked. The only one I regret selling is the Hi.
I have yet to experience this phenomenon... Because I have not sold any coins....(just some gold during the run-up years ago). I will avoid this as long as possible...Cheers, RickO
Not really. Maybe one or two, but I generally quickly forget about them. I “made” an MS67 Peace dollar and sometimes wish I had it back. There are others out there to find though.
I acquired an 1853/4 Seated Liberty in the 4th grade and I kept it until I was in my 30's. I did not know it was the more valuable variety until I happened to stumble upon an article talking about that variety. I looked closely and thought it was a match and sent it for grading. It graded XF45. I wish I had kept the coin and just bought the Indian for sentimental reasons but I converted coin money back into coin money so not really.