Whats your best "buy" from Ebay?
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A few weeks back I purchased a BIN for 3 rolls of 90% silver quarters at $83 per roll. I'll buy them all day for that price. What's your best "buy"?
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Also, a raw 1999 W $5 AGE struck with unfinished proof dies for bullion tenth ounce price. This one was a gamble, but description by seller led me to believe it might be a W unc and not the W proof he described it to be. My guess proved correct when I opened the shipment from the seller. Graded out at MS69, Struck with Unfinished Proof Dies.
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I had it graded at ICCS as an ms64 and sold it for $6200.00.
Funny thing is, the coin was on Ebay for quite awhile.
When I first saw it, I was shocked it hadn't sold and I BIN'd it right away.
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Or should I say, a mintage 10 coin in it.
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Maybe the small lot of Darkside coins I saw several years back. It had a BIN of something like $2.99 or $3.99- I forget now. Anyway, after shipping, I wasn't out much more than five or six bucks at most.
The auction had a blurry, darkish picture but I could make out a few coins. There was a holey in there that I sorta wanted so I pulled the trigger.
AFTER I pulled the trigger, I ended up discussing the lot on the forums somehow. (This was in my earlier days here.)
Another member pointed out an item that was semi-obscured in the corner of the picture. You could only partially make it out, and I hadn't seen it.
It was a 1694 Thick Planchet London Elephant token. (You Litesiders who aren't familiar should be- it's listed in the Red Book.)
It was real, too. VG details, with some unfortunate heavy digs on it in places. Because of the damage I only got 75 bucks on it, so it wasn't a huge "cha-ching". But it was like findin' free money. For my four or five bucks (whatever it was), I got a holey coin I wanted for my vest, two or three other moderately interesting oldies, AND something worth a quick seventy-five bucks.
Not my best cherrypick overall (not even close) but perhaps my best on eBay.
Similarly, I once scored a low grade Connecticut copper in a super-cheapo auction like that once. This was the earlier days on eBay, when not every auction even had a picture, much less a good picture.
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1829 LM-14. Purchased raw. I believe this is the finest known of the R4 die marriage. Now PCGS MS62
1830 LM-5, Early Die State. Purchased raw. Now this R-6 die marriage is in a PCGS VF25 holder.
1832 LM-8.2. Purchased raw. Very difficult die remarriage. Finding the 8.1, 8.4, and 8.5 remarriages is relatively easy, but the 8.2 (this one) and the 8.3 are tough, tough, tough. Now in a PCGS MS61 holder.
edited to add, not a cherrypick but a nice find nonetheless.
JH
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With shipping it was somewhere around $150.00
I recall getting the mail, sitting at my desk, opening the envelope.
No great shakers, just another coin for the pile.
I went to Weak D at the same grade and CACd.
One of a few.
I also bought a raw 1880-O VAM 49 Morgan for $450 that the seller thought would grade MS63. It did at PCGS, and now it's tied for pop top among just 6 Mint State examples that are known to exist.
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hard to see the date clearly. Paid like $80 and it graded at our host AU50. It was one of my 3
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It's a great place to buy. There's never been a better place to find stuff than eBay. I never seen so much stuff. It (ebay) fills a niche and if one has a niche he should scratch it , but don't scratch your stuff trying to clean it up thinking it will sell for more on eBay, please. It ruins the coins.
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or an 1888/7 1c that I paid $4 for and sold for $2700.
there have been a bunch of scores that have made me between $500 and $2000.
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Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
I really thought about betting it in Vegas or using it to buy dinner with friends sometime, just to say I spent a $500 bill... but I couldn't bring myself to actually spend it, hahaha.
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A few weeks ago, I bought a Gem UC NGC graded 1/10 AGE. Price was $168.xx shipped. Raw non-special AGE's were going for $220 at that time. I felt like I got a good deal.