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$65,000 For A Coin? Whats The Most Expensive You've Seen?

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 Posted 06/09/2014  2:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SmallEagle to your friends list
The most expensive I've held is the $10M 1794 $1 and the most expensive I've purchased personally is $260K.
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 Posted 06/09/2014  3:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TypeCoin971793 to your friends list
You must really get around and have a strong financial backing, SmallEagle. That's impressive.

I've seen the $10 million 1794 dollar before; I've seen the 1834 King of Siam proof set with an 1804 dollar a $10 million dollar set; and I've held the finest-known 1913 Liberty nickel, a $4 million coin, which was held in a capsule of bullet-proof glass surrounded by four armed security guards, and was presented alongside the other four nickels, the first time in history since Col. Green owned them that the five were in the same place together.
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 Posted 06/09/2014  5:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add denco7 to your friends list
I think this thread works better as " what is the most expensive coin you have seen or held " more than what is the most expensive coin you can look up on the internet.

The most expensive that I have seen was the 1933 Double Eagle at the New York Gallery of American History.

The most expensive that I have held, is a 1880s NGC MS69 Morgan dollar, at $34,000
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 Posted 06/09/2014  6:12 pm  Show Profile   Check vermontensium's eBay Listings Check vermontensium's eCrater Listings Bookmark this reply Add vermontensium to your friends list
I remember those Dave :-)
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 Posted 06/09/2014  10:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cruisinfusion to your friends list
I don't exactly have an image or memory of what coin show, but I remember seeing a PCGS PR-67 Liberty double eagle that was worth a few hundred thousand. The guy wouldn't let me hold it, and was uncomfortable with me looking at it. I think I would, too, if I had a quarter-million dollars condensed into a four inch rectangle slab, sitting in front of me.
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 Posted 06/10/2014  03:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westcoin to your friends list
I've been lucky to have held in hand several 1804 dollars, 3 1913 Liberty nickels at once, both counterstamped Brasher doubloons and a quite a few multi $100K coins (mostly patterns) all pre slab era. Cool, but there are still a few I'd love to get my hands on time with for some in depth study, like some of the tough 1794 Sheldon large cents in high grade, and some of the really hard to find 2 cent error coins (the big ones) capped dies, double struck, off center more than 50%, etc.

Most of the ultra rarities came to me while taking a course with Q. David Bowers at the ANA Summer Seminar while still a YN and in high school, made me a life long collector, I went from putting lincoln cents, searched out of grab bags into albums to holding some of the world's rarest coins, totally mind blown, Mr. Bowers was a huge influence, just to be in the same room with him and listening and learning from him for a whole week changed everything I thought I knew about coins.
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 Posted 06/11/2014  10:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add solotime to your friends list
If you guys want to go by seen in person, I have to say 5k dollars....
Yep, that's right. :(
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 Posted 06/12/2014  07:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TreasHunt to your friends list
I got to hold this in my grubby hands.

Too far from the exit to make it.

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 Posted 06/12/2014  09:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCollector2012 to your friends list
My friends dad has a 1916-D merc graded MS-66 FB by PCGS. It is worth right around $60,000.
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 Posted 06/14/2014  11:05 pm  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
At Torex one year the 1911 Canadian dollar at Coinex in London Edward VIII 1937 sovereign.
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 Posted 06/16/2014  9:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DannDaMan020 to your friends list
I own 2 1909 S VDBs graded MS 64 and 65. These are the most valuable coins I recall seeing.
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 Posted 06/16/2014  9:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
There is a unique ONE TONNE gold bullion coin available for sale, and on public display at the Perth Mint. It has a legal tender face value of $1 million. It has exactly the same designs (Elizabeth 11 obv., kangaroo rev.), as the Perth Mint standard range of gold bullion 1/10 ounce to one kilo coins.

You can stand next to it, and lay your grubby hands all over it, if you want to! Maybe a little hard to get it into a standard coin album, though.

How much is one tonne of gold worth? I dunno; I'll let you calculate that for yourself.
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 Posted 06/16/2014  10:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jack jeckel to your friends list

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The cheapest among them is probably a $150K coin, and two are 7-figure pieces.


I guess they didn't send the 1793 in because of the rim bump
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 Posted 06/20/2014  12:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add physicself to your friends list
I had the pleasure of holding a proof 1839 eagle (type of '38) and an MS66 1927-D $20 at the Charlotte ANA about 10 years ago... million-plus dollar coins each. It was a great experience!
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 Posted 06/20/2014  8:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ksammut to your friends list
I have held a 1913 V nickel before. I almost dropped it when the guy put it in my hands!
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