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United States
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Only a couple months after I started purchasing coins on ebay, I bought a high grade Lincoln Cent for 4,000 times face value. I sold it a month later for 50 times the price that I bought it for, you do the math on that one.  |
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 United States
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Another 1877 Indian story: Found in a small oddlot box of ~50 nondescript pieces of 'foreign coins and paper money' at a public sale.
Cost about a dollar a coin. None of the hounds at the sale bothered to snoop. The date is clearly readable. I still have it. There's a thread and pics on here somewhere.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I picked this coin up for $1 from an antique store. It's the E/N variety.  |
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United States
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Bought a BU 1970 s Lincoln Cent at a coin shop for $.50 because it looked a little different. Sure enough--- small date!! |
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Canada
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2005 p non mag cent in the original PL mint set for $50.00 Sold for $3179.99 Flea market buy.  Or the 1932 far 2 nickel for 18 cents that sold for $275.00 or so  Edited by Bm0ney
04/20/2014 9:41 pm
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I've gotten a 1948 nickel for 10 cents and also a 1942 one.
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Canada
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I was once picking out coins from a 'one for $2 or 11 for $20' bin. The last coin I picked out (the free one) turned out to be gold. I couldn't tell at the time because it had dirt on it and improper alloy mixing, I just bought it cause it was old!
France, 10 francs, 1867, 0.093 ounces if I'm not mistaken.
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04/21/2014 10:07 am
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A few years back, I snagged a lot of 3 Morgans off ebay for $50 because one looked very close to Prooflike. Turned out, it was.... 1921-P VAM-47, the dies used for the Zerbe Proofs and then for business strikes. This had to have been one of the first examples struck after the Proof run, as it was a massive strike for a 1921 and highly reflective:   It slabbed NGC MS63PL and I flipped it for $550.  |
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United States
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In July 2012 I went to a flea market near my house. A dealer there had a little bag of Lincoln Cents for which I offered him $2.00. When I opened it I found ten coins. Four of them were 1922 "No D" Weak Reverse Lincolns. I did a lot of studying about the 1922 "No D" and took the coins to my local dealer. He examined them and his opinion was that one of them was a true "No D", two were extremely "Weak D" types with hardly a trace of the mint mark showing and one was a "Weak D" with just a hint of a D. I sold the four coins for a total of $625.00. I've attached a photo of one of the coins.  Paul Bulgerin
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United States
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My best bargain was the first part of my worst mistake. I went to a local auction where I had gone several times in the past. Most of the higher end stuff was cleaned and the like, so I mostly stuck with bulk lots. One that I saw and took a look at was labeled "Misc. World coins, commemoratives,and Israeli mint sets." I checked out the bag and it looked like there were two silver coins in there. Figuring I could pick up the lot for fairly cheap I bid and ended up paying around $20 after BP. When I got home and started researching what I had bought, the two coins were in fact silver and worth about $20 total at the time, so everything else in the bag was free. I finally got down to the bottom of it and found a pretty heavy coin. It was gold colored, which if you know modern world coins means it is probably some kind of alloy. A little research later and I found that it was an Israeli commemorative coin for David Ben-Gurion, 28g .900 fine gold, worth about $800 at the time. However, it wasn't worth more than melt so I ended up selling it to one of the PM places for around $1000 (this is right before gold took off so I missed out on a few hundred dollars more if I had waited, my biggest mistake.)
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United States
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Bought an 1808 draped bust Half Cent in AU50. Thought it looked pretty nice for the grade, so I cracked it and sent it in. It got an AU55, which basically doubled the value. (It's a hard date in high grades.) I later used it as part of a trade on an early Half Cent I couldn't have afforded otherwise. |
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120 Ikes bought online for $126 including shipping. Sure only really face value plus shipping, but where else can you get Ikes from in the past 15 years really?
My mother bought a pocket book once at Goodwill, it had a Morgan in it in a 2x2. So did she get a free pocket book or what on that one?
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04/22/2014 5:34 pm
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Morgan 1888 O V.1B1 for commom. Grades Au58....
But then again I've actually paid too much for one but I still felt I was getting a good price...and still do!
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My Biggest bargain was a "AVST DVX" variety of MTT. Cost me €180.00(US$250) actual value is above €1000.00(US$1400). I have had better paper financial returns but this one was a completely new variety: a magic find( In a floor Auction)
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