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I bought a tool box full of wheats about 10 years back for $1.50 a roll. A couple of years later while looking through the rolls, I found one labeled 1922-d, in fact they were. Another score about 7 years back, I bought a board of early wheats complete for $400. The first time I viewed it, I only offered $40, because I didn't believe the 1909-s was in fact a vdb, thought it was too good to be true. I took a second look in better light and sure enough it was, along with a 1914-d & 1931-s. I probably would of never completed that early Wheat cent, had I not stumbled upon this set. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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about 5-10 years ago I bought 10 gold coins for 800.00 and sold them at a coin show for 4000.00.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I bought an R-6 1797 large cent variety for $5 and sold it for $760.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nothing really outrageous. VG10 1883/2 Shield nickel (FS-302) for $22, in 1999. Value today, around 200. AG3 details small motto 2 cent piece for $4.99 Lots of other sub-$200 deals not really interesting. This 1886 Morgan - PCGS OGH MS65, VAM-6B, nice peripheral toning -- for $115 - a minor victory, by the books, but the books don't know that's an R6 VAM...   Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I had no idea at the time but a LDS 1883-O VAM 1c2 is quite uncommon.    |
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United States
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I don't think I've ever lost money on a coin deal yet. My 1794 head of 95 PCGS VF-30 Liberty Cap large cent I got for 2500 and sold for 2900.00 About 10 years ago I bought this PCGS VF 20 1798 Draped Bust dime for 1200 kept it about 3 months and sold it for 1800. Wish I'd have kept it, it worth a good bit more than that now.   Once bought an UN-circulated roll of full band 1940 P Mercury dimes on ebay for just over melt around 60.00 at the time. I picked out about a dozen of the best ones easy MS 66's and have been slowly relisting the rest and get about 10-15 each and very positive feedback for them. Just recently I got an 1811 large cent at a local auction, I posted it here but would have to switch to my phone for pictures now. It was in a lot of 4, the 1811 an 1808 an 1817 and an 1820 all for 70.00. I sold the 08 for 60 and the 1811 for 255.00 so I ended up with 2 free large cents and over 200.00 profit. Not a huge score dollar wise but anytime I can triple my money I'm happy. I was buying gold back when it was in the mid 200's so I think I made a little on that too  |
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United States
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I have cherry picked a few Machin's Mills pieces for a song. I snagged a discovery piece Wood's Hibernia at my coin club for $50. My best would be when I purchased a truly unsearched lot of wheaties (not from ebay) and found all sorts of key date LWC in the lot. Paid about 3 cents each for them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i 1935- Canada Dollar MS64 for $55.00
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The best deals have been foreign - an 1846K French 1F, and various Spanish colonial cobs out of junk boxes. As a category, I used to look for early San Francisco Seated quarters. I still do but prices have tripled or quadrupled from what I used to pay 10 years ago. Here's one that cost no more than $200:   "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My best deals thus far was an AG/G 1805 Dime I bought about 15 years ago and sold last year for double what I paid to fund a beautiful XF 1782 Bolivian 8R that is now a highlight of my collection. And at about the same time I bought 3 lots off Heritage for $250 inclusive of the buyers premium and shipping of German States coins. 7 coins total, 3 of which where my beloved 1782 coins. Sold the other 4 for more than I paid on the 7 :) So I guess I paid myself to add three certified German States coins to my head :)
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Boy you're serious about 82's of every century! What's your earliest?
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Rest in Peace
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The majority of purchases that I've made that resulted in significant profits all involved exonumia (tokens). In many instances just knowing what is rare and special in that huge range has allowed me to purchase single pieces and complete collections that had significant value. I've almost always converted those sales back into my US coin collection. The best part is that I always keep track of my cash invested to include those items I've bought and then traded. I have a large group of coins at NGC right now. In some cases the actual cash I have into multi hundred dollar US coins is as little as 18 cents. I should be showing some of those in the next month. |
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United States
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Bought a whole coin collection basically for silver content. Looked through the old LWC album and saw a 1922 broken D....sent it to NGC and it came back no d, strong reverse and graded au55....sold it for 3,000 a year or two ago. |
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United States
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Boy you're serious about 82's of every century! What's your earliest? The current '82 count is  282 Probus - 2 1582 - 5 1682 - 5 1782 - 14 1882 - 21 1982 - 17 Total - 64 I've recently become aware of some German States 15th Century dated 82 I've had fun learning about and I know there's a 1382 from a ruler who's reign was only a few months of that year. I do have a couple other things I'm working on, so I keep a balance in my life. I've been working on date sets of Capped Bust Dimes and Half Dimes and Draped Bust Half Cents. |
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