Coin You Regret Selling/Giving Away

I bought a bag of junk world coins off of an old coworker for a couple bucks. In there was a fake British pound coin (mushy details, sloppy edge lettering). When I found out it was fake, I lost interest in it and left it in a store for a kid to find. I wish that I had kept it for my own kids to enjoy, but I like to think it found a good home.

I do regret not offloading my small silver stash when prices topped $45/oz in 2011, and also not starting CRHing halves before the silver craze was in full swing. But, I might as well regret not investing in Apple stock or not registering the twitter.com domain.

I've never sold a coin. Not to say that day won't come...it just hasn't yet.

10+ years ago when silver was still dirt cheap I sold a few rolls of circulated Mercury dimes for $35 each and a roll of mostly Good-VG late date Barber dimes for $50.

I regret that quite a bit.

I'm sure my LCS 20+ years ago, the owner regrets selling my schoolboy self many problem free, good-to-VF but common date silver coins at 8x face (later 10x), try that nowadays. (I picked up several XF-AU Morgans for $10 each and a XF40 scratched/details Seated Liberty dime for $1.00, all of which are still in my collection.)

Back around 1965, I spent 7 silver quarters, just to get rid of them, as I sometimes do with excess pennies today. Right after I spent them, I realized that I shouldn't have, and I started saving away all silver coins that came my way.

I have regrets not buying.

Never really happens with coins too often.

I'm happy to say that I have no regrets..... yet.

I don't regret selling anything only thing I have sold is varieties and I always make sure I have another and I keep the better conditioned one for myself.

My collection of Two Cent Pieces all TPG in MS66, including Proofs (not in PR66, though I wish, the Small Motto was only a MS64), missing only the 1864 Small Motto Proof.

Sold it off for a good reason, to pay hospital bills for my Dad when his Parkinson's got bad. But I still wish I had been able to keep it.

The discovery coin for 1878-S VAM72, I sold the coin a nice VF/EF to Larry Briggs, along with another nice find from the same junk bucket (EF/AU 1878-P 8TF VAM9), I did not know the long nock was an unidentified VAM at the time, but did know it was a long nock. However, to be fair, Larry paid me really well for the two dollars, over $2K in cash and trade, I paid only $14 for the pair of them out of a local shop's junk bucket.

I've since purchased several of the VAM9's and a VAM72.

I used to buy and sell large cents all the time as a dealer, way before I ever knew about Sheldon varieties - DOH! Wonder what I let slip through there!