Do You Favor A Particular Coin?

Nathan,

The coin was sold with large clear pictures. I didn't put a price on the coin and then wait for someone to bite. I started the auction at $0.99. Several people were bidding into the last few minutes, and into the upper amounts.

This is what coins like this sell for continuously on ebay. The only description I put in the add was "1926-s Judge condition for yourself".

How did I feel when I found out the coin was junk? I didn't find out the coin was junk. I found out that forum members here thought it was junk, but when the coin sold for exactly what I thought it would, I was reassured that they were wrong.

I don't ever see any Peace dollars at all sell on ebay for bullion value. They sell for a premium wether cleaned, polished, holed or whatever.

I already stated that I do not normally sell on ebay, but sold this one because I wanted to see if the forum members here who claimed the coin was worth only bullion value were correct.

Because the coin was a less common date, it sold for a slightly higher premium than the more common dates.

No matter what any books, dealers, or experts may say, the value IS what people will pay. A civil war era wooden chair may be appraised at $50,000, but if no one is ever willing to pay more than $1000 the appraisal is a bit meaningless, and in the same way, an old sword may be called "worthless" because it's handle has been replaced, but if it continuously sells at an auctions for huge sums of money, the original appraisal was incorrect.

Anyway, I am not going to discuss this topic any further, because at this point we're all just .

The "beating a dead horse" is the first I have actually seen in a forum here :P but I like collecting one of each type of coin. But if I had to choose, I do like the ATB Quarters since there are different designs to collect and look at.

Two of my most favorite coins:



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100kg and 1000kg respectively of pure gold.

You can get good deals on ebay from either of the following:

People who don't know much about the coins they sell
Honest sellers whose items were somehow just not looked at.

People see littleton or catalog prices (which, incidentally are higher than retail prices) and then look at ebay prices. Then they buy out of impulse.

Am I the only one who wishes the guy in the second pic would not touch it with his bare hands?

To put a slightly different slant on it, I like shillings.

Firstly because I'm old enough to remember spending the things (here in the UK they were replaced by decimal currency in 1971)

Secondly I found a book in the library called "The Splendid Shilling" which was all about the history of the coin. That was my 'guide' to collecting at first.

After a while I realised I didn't have the budget for shillings from all reigns and countries and decided to specialise on those from the reign of Charles I of Britain (1625-1649)

Still working on it!

And yes, like pretty much everyone else, I have a n 'accumulation' of other coins. Coins from travels. A small side collection of coins featuring the Republican symbol 'Marianne' .. but I only really collect Charles I shillings. See my avatar!

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