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Let's say you have $500 to spend, and it must be on a coin (or coins). What would you buy? Would you find something graded? Something Carson City? Just thought this would be a fun topic to post. Cheers!
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With 500 you could potentially get 3 GSA cc with the box and COA......me I would get some morgans/peace and a bunch of 90%....love circulated silver. Or if I wanted some gold maybe a authentic raw or slabbed $2.50 gold or $5 in lower grade and the rest on 90% silver and morgans/peace so that way you have variety. Or a quarter oz gold or 1/10th gold and then 90%/morgans.peace
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I'd make a game-time decision, but it would be only one coin as opposed to multiples. That sum is kind of a windfall for me, and I'd want the single nicest thing I could get for it. Believe it or not, it probably wouldn't be a Morgan. $500 isn't much in Morgan terms; I'd probably do something smaller - Dime, 3 Cent, like that - where the sum would buy a much nicer coin relative to its' known population. It'd buy a glorious Seated half dime.  |
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I would probably go for either a mid grade Seated Liberty dollar, or the best Draped Bust Half Dollar I could find for the price. |
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Vermont landscape copper.
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I would get a 28 peace, and some Mercury dimes for my Dansco. I would also get the 1932-d or 1932-S quarters. |
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Thank you for taking up a couple of hours I was looking to kill. Dec 15 an 1861 3 cent silver montage 497,000 sold for $518.00 pcgs ms 64. I think they are under rated beautiful and affordable in ms for low mintages. Yes that is what I would buy
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If it was a bit more (Maybe 600-700) I would go for a draped bust half dollar in VF. With 500, I'd probably buy a large load of silver halves and dollars to fill up my date set or perhaps a nice high AU 1837 Bust Half that I've had my eye on for a while.
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$500? That's a down payment on the
last dimes that I wish to upgrade:
1895
1901-S
and a few others.
Perhaps two nice common dates in MS state.
If the color and strike are exceptional.
It is a struggle when a collector gets the "upgrading" disease.
No known cure.
And 10 times as miserable given that high grade examples are hidden away
in collections.
Sigh ...
Oh, and NOT slabbed. They would go into an album.
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02/02/2014 5:19 pm
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I'd toss it at my LCS guy and dive into the cull bins... with a LONG list or hole fillers, I even have the list ready  |
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Posted 02/02/2014 12:19 pm
