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I mean even if some one offered you say double what you paid but you know you would be hard pressed to find another.
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Or would you sell any coin you own at double what you paid?
Coin collecting interests: Latin American early pillar 1 reales
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I my case mot of my coins I would not sell even at double the cost I paid just simply to hard to replace. Most of my coins are not worth a whole lot but finding another example would be a pain in many situations.
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I think a more apt phrasing, to include cherrypickers or bargain hunters, would be "double what the coin is worth".
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The vast majority of my trade dollars (although I would if I had a replacement lined up, but not before).
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Most of my Trade Dollars are worth more than double what I paid for them.
Here's a favorite of mine that I bought about 15 years ago for $440, currently worth about 4x what I bought it for.
I think there is always a point at which you have to say, "Someone want's that coin much more than I do, and so maybe it's time for them to be the next caretaker."
I'm not always sure what that point is, but it's always somewhere out there.
True story from this last Winter.
A board member had expressed interest in a Bust Quarter I'd had for about 12 years, after I showed it in a thread. I had recently had it graded by PCGS at that time and was showing off it's TV. A month or so later I had it stickered at CAC, and then I showed it again in a different thread he saw, and he asked again.
After a few back and forth PM's about the coin, the conversation took a turn when I said this;
"It probably does belong with you at some point, so I guess eventually you will make me some silly great offer and it will get in my head and (I will) lose sleep over why I am keeping her from you, and I might even have to accept. It's my only 1815 Bust, and so it helps ease my lack of a 15/2 Half, but alas, no one can own anything forever."
He asked for a video, and a couple days later he made a really strong (maybe even "silly") offer I couldn't get out of my head. And then, I had the difficult task of letting her go ... even though I knew his appreciation was greater than mine. I knew it had to be his, and he was thrilled.
In a fantastic twist, a couple months later, a lovely '15/2 CBH made itself available to me ... a perfect compliment to my set.
Maybe sometimes we do need to pass them forward ... to make room for what's next.
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For me it is coins like this one 1752 1 real Peru per Yonaka a rarity 2 with only 4 example seen by him but there are probably 10-20 known in all grades combines. I paid 275$ even if I sold it at 550$ were would I find another and how bad of a condition would it be. Most are holed that was a cultural thing back then over 40% are holed. Only 424 were minted from 1753-1772 over 50 000 were minted each year only the 1751 is rarer and possibly unique or 2 known.
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Most of my early Walkers. I handpicked them over the course of 10+ years.
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No intentions of selling any of my core collection.
Here’s one that will never leave unless it goes back to the gentleman on the label.
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That is the thing all the time we put into finding our coins (hours, days months sometimes years then a coin shows up that is a LOT of time) to me is worth much more than selling at double the value unless another coin comes up I can upgrade but that rarely has happened as of yet.
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This gorgeous 1914-D is in my personal collection. I was offered multiples of what the PCGS price guide showed this coin to be worth a few years ago, but it is one of the most beautiful 1914-D Lincoln cents I've seen (in brown) and couldn't part with it.
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If it was a less expensive coin, then double what its "worth" doesnt compensate me for the time and effort to find another i like for my set.
On the other hand, if you wanted to offer me double price guide for this....id part with it in a second even though i love the coin.
Lance Hipps offered me ~ double what I had originally paid, about 10 years ago.
I’ve owned it over 30 years, and I wouldn’t sell it for double 63 price guide.
I have over 14000 coins in my collection, most of which I paid less than a dollar for and most of which could easily be replaced.
Still not selling any of them, not even for a billion dollars. Each.
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That coin looks severely undergraded. So double 63 money may not be double its value.
Nice coin.
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A 1857 PR CAM is near impossible. This one’s a 64+.
This Double Liberty is next to impossible to improve upon, even though it’s “only” a 64BN.
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Everything has a price is what I used to think, until I saw this comment.
Sounds like a bogo might come into play.
Remember when you first walked up to a counter to pay for something as your parents watched.
Priceless.
Other than those moments, I'd have to agree with @Glen2022. "Everything has a price".
Then sentimental value takes over ? Temporary insanity comes to mind and you can't argue with that.
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This one
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Very nice looking Ike dollar. Why did you hide the grade on the certificate? Did ANACS undergrade it?
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Nice coin, reno. Very nice. Don't blame your feeling at all.
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Very nice, Greg.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
Purchased at a local show for graysheet bid, lustrous Bay Bridge with Wayte Raymond toning
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I posted this coin about three years ago. I have very few detail/ genuine coins in my personal collection however this long term traditional planchette error is my favorite.
I truly believe it is one of a kind and being damage/details grade adds to the mystique that there wasn’t any shenanigans in its production. I don’t know what the coin would be worth. I just know what I paid for it and I would not sell it even for ten times that amount. I just think it’s too cool.
Most of my 7070. Many of the coins have a familial connection in that they were handed down from a grandparent or parent who just saved interesting coins and they now reside in my meager collection. The wife's grandmother goes to the bank once a month and they know to save any Ikes that come in and she will give me every wheat cent, Bicentennial Washington or Kennedy, or anything else she finds in her change that she thinks might be worth something. In the past couple of years, she has been giving me a great deal of the "gold dollars", as she puts it. I recently picked up a Dansco 7080 just for the coins she gives me.
Note of interest, she has given me over 25 Ikes over the years; small town bank.
This one isn’t going anywhere. It’s what kindled my interest in double dimes, and I haven’t seen another one like it.
This one too. First certified coin I owned, 20+ years ago, which began my obsession. I wouldn’t sell for 10x book value.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Probably this coin.
I’d sell most of my coins for double market, but this one would give me pause. The Joy/price ratio is off the charts for a coin like this.
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This one - guide is probably a little higher than the $500 for a standard 65. This one is a 65 Star. It blows away most CAMs out there, and those go for over 10k.
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For sentimental reasons, wouldn't sell for 10X its value. I told this story on the forum before. This came from a bag of 1,000. My father worked for a national bank in Bayonne NJ & obtained a large shipment of silver dollars from the US Treasury in 1964 for a coin dealer named Charlie Ross - will never forget the name, somethings you never forget. He had a armored car carry the bags to the dealer's vault in Jersey City, probably the largest bank in NJ at the time. I was there with my father ( I was 7) and helped count the coins in several bags to confirm the count and they were then weighed. There were over a hundred bags. All the bags were weighed to make sure they were in the weight range.
Charlie gave me the coin as a gift for helping.
Here is an excerpt from an article in PCGS from David Bowers - Chapter 14 Morgan Dollars - Treasury Release. Great article by the way. Has to be the same Charlie Ross.
Investors Buy Bags
I also remember that Charlie Ross was a major dealer in silver dollars in the 1960's. He was from Long Island, New York. He made a lot of money. He was a very smart person, and everything he did, he did right. He had many bags of silver dollars. He put investors into bags of silver dollars and made them sign contracts that when they sold he would get 20% of the profits. I remember that we shared a bank vault once, and he had something like 150 bags of Uncirculated dollars there.
Coins given to me by my parents when I was a YN. Everything else is fair game.
It would be this one. A common date coin in a PCGS 65 holder is no big deal. But, the way the coin presents itself is something quite different. Great strike, for the date, appealing colors with the underlying luster sets this coin off into another level. I have been offered 3 times the book value of this piece.
I have many coins worth more than this one but this one is very attractive to me.
I am really attached to several coins in my slabbed collection that I wouldn't for double what I paid.
This one is an MS66PL with some decent toning. I'm sure you've seen it on here before.
I like to show it off if the opportunity presents itself.
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I would gladly take any such offer on most of my APE's!
Nothing that I own—PM now!
Not a coin, but a one of a kind Royal Mint 5kg silver medallion:
Tim
I only get offers for half of what I paid for everything. That's why if you want to be a millionaire in the coin business, you have to start with two million $s.
Double? I couldn't say SOLD fast enough!
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Probably this coin. Such a tough date to find original and problem free. PCGS VF30 CAC.
No, I think I used this photo in a guess the grade contest one time and posted it instead of the one with grade showing.
I don't have a picture, but my 2015-D Kennedy HAlf Dollar MS67 First Strike fits this bill. It's Pop 1/0 in First Strike. I paid ~$1 for the coin in a US Mint roll and about $35 in grading fees. It's irreplaceable, especially under $50.
I would have a very hard time letting go of this coin. My Proof quarter. I have had multiple offers to buy it, some more than what I bought it for but I have turned them down.
Or maybe you just overpaid for them.
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That is a damn nice 35-d buffalo.
This 1840 Small Date N-12. CC#4. Pedigree is Walter Dudgeon, Robbbie Brown and Dan Holmes. Also DLH needs this coin for his set. I offered it to DLH via DLC at 3X price guide but he declined. It's my favorite coin in my core set.