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What an incredible waste of money!

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
Name a coin in your collection that is not a good use of your limited numismatic capital, and tell us why you still own it.
Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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    bidaskbidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A 1903 s barber half that I bought raw as an MS coin and it came back pcgs 55. I don't like it anymore.image
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




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    RayboRaybo Posts: 5,357 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do I have to choose just one?

    Ray
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    A group of raw proof Kennedies.

    Bought them to fill the proof spots in my Kennedy set when I was a a lot younger. Total waste of money. I have no interest in Kennedy halves anymore. The proofs are impossible to sell.
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    stevekstevek Posts: 32,516 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't exactly know why, but I had a short lived itch for some foreign coins years ago and I still have these coins - I paid a decent buck for them and they now sell on ebay for squat, but for the price I paid, I figure I'll just keep 'em...makes for an interesting "sob story" LOL
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    MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a bunch of Franklin mint silver from when I first started buying silver for investment... which then led to buying 90% silver currency & ultimately coin collecting.
    I also have a few pretty nasty AT Franklins & morgan pieces from the beginings of my toned coin collections. image
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    I love all things Sacagawea. When I first started I decided to shoot for high grade registry Sac coins. Bought some PCGS 68 uncirculated examples, some not cheap, and realized shortly in that it was never any fun and probably not a good investment either. It's stupid what an uncirculated 68 or 69 sac sells for and I truly have to ask myself if they really look any better than what's in the mint sets or broken out of rolls.

    I still have them because I'm too lazy to sell them.
    John
    Coin Photos

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    I've got 49 Proof70 State quarters. Bought on eBay, but can't sell them there now, because they're in PCI plastic. image
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    << <i>I've got 49 Proof70 State quarters. Bought on eBay, but can't sell them there now, because they're in PCI plastic. image >>



    Why not?
    You can sell them on Ebay. You just can't mention the grade or the grading company.
    Take good pictures of the slab, and some goof ball will bid.

    Ray
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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162
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    I'm buried in the coin. Bought in an old NGC 65RB holder:

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    Sent to PCGS in the holder as cross at same, PCGS said 64RB. I felt the coin was a 65RB so I cracked it out and sent in raw. Came back in a BB as seen above. It's a date I need in my Registry Set of colorful lincolns so I continue try and get it in a PCGS holder. One of my failures in the crossover and crackout game. image
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    BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    a 1919 Britsh penny I recently bought. Had a quick passing fancy for British coins with kings and queens. That passed quickly and thank goodness I didn't drop some big dime on some stuff like Charles I, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII or George I. Got it for $25 on an ebay auction. I guess I coud put it on the bay

    Positive BST Transactions (buyers and sellers): wondercoin, blu62vette, BAJJERFAN, privatecoin, blu62vette, AlanLastufka, privatecoin

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    HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,490 ✭✭✭
    can't even pick a single one... but I can pick out lots of "small, interesting" coins that Ill never hope to recoup my paid value image
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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Numismatic related, but not coins ... my numismatic themed telephone cards from the 1990's. Talk about a collectible market that completely fell apart ...!
    All glory is fleeting.
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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1723 Woods Hibernia Halfpenny in VF or so that I bought when I was a kid, for $50 from a dealer that I would learn later on was a crook. All these years later that coin is not worth what I paid for it. I keep it to remind me to know what things are worth and not pay too much for that stuff.
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    I'm in the middle of culling an entire, early collecting career, 65-coin "B" set, ...and then some C's too! I'm too busy to coherently answer.
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    Yes I agree what a waste of money
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a very rare and expensive low-mid grade territorial gold coin that fits the bill.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have a very rare and expensive low-mid grade territorial gold coin that fits the bill. >>



    Can you be more specific? Did you overpay for it?

    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

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sealed mint bags of statehood quarters purchased from the mint over the past 9 years was an incredible waste of money. Not because these coins are not collectible, but because the premium attached was supposed to help our government. image
    Like my 700 billion wasn't enough to bail someone out image

    signed,

    Joe the Dumber
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    lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm buried in the coin. Bought in an old NGC 65RB holder. Sent to PCGS in the holder as cross at same, PCGS said 64RB. I felt the coin was a 65RB so I cracked it out and sent in raw. Came back in a BB as seen above. It's a date I need in my Registry Set of colorful lincolns so I continue try and get it in a PCGS holder. One of my failures in the crossover and crackout game. image >>


    Ditto, only with a '16D Lincoln, NGC 65RD I paid $2500 for! PCGS said "DNC, should be 64RD". I and my dealer friends disagreed. Cracked-out, now in a body bag for questionable color. Now THAT is a tough, expensive lesson!
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    stev32kstev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭
    I have five 1971 Proof Ike dollars that I bought from the mint when they were first issued for $10 each. I might be able to get $7 for them now. Fifty-dollars was a lot of money for me 37 years ago.
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    I have a 2006 MS 69 First Strike NGC Silver Eagle that I bought from one of the TV hucksters when I first started collecting. I keep it as a reminder of what it is like to way over pay for something. image

    Chris
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    Rolls of state quarters. Was hoping people would start collecting rolls.
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    Halfhunter06Halfhunter06 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭
    I bought a 1877 Indian penny when my knowledge of grading is not as good as now. Turns out it was a VF coin that was over-graded. I was being offered 200 bucks below what i paid for it, but kept it. Low and behold a dealer, who didnt care about the coin, only the slab, bought it from me for a 200 dollar PROFIT. Boy was I happy.
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I toad ya, I'd have to kill ya. Paid x + 1 money for a raw toned 1879 Morgan that I didn't need which came back PCGS X. Its a nice looker so I keep it. Not the end of the world tho.
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    All of them.
    Coinborg: Your distinctive coins will be added to my collection.
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Love the old buffalo nickel. So, when the new Bison came out had to have 10 rolls of each (in the two pack
    from the mint). Now what do I do with them? Upside down for sure.

    bob
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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    I won this lot in a Scotsman auction to check them for VAM's. There were a few, but I still have all of them.

    Chris

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    << <i>I've got 49 Proof70 State quarters. Bought on eBay, but can't sell them there now, because they're in PCI plastic. image >>

    Why not?
    You can sell them on Ebay. You just can't mention the grade or the grading company.
    Take good pictures of the slab, and some goof ball will bid.Ray >>

    I'm aware of the rules, but gave up selling on eBay a year and a half ago. Maybe I'll try the BST again, but the silence was deafening last time I tried.
    Good deals with: goldman86 mkman123 Wingsrule wondercoin segoja Tccuga OKCC LindeDad and others.

    my early American coins & currency: -- http://yankeedoodlecoins.com/
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    critocrito Posts: 1,735
    Big shiny silver disks! Gimme!

    Most of mine are darkside. And if you think there's a lot of cleaned junk in US 90% silver bags, try South American 90% silver bags (which usually have some 50% silver thrown in just to !@#$ ya too.) But every now and then it works out OK anyways. image

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