$65,000 For A Coin? Whats The Most Expensive You've Seen?

I remember those Dave :-)

I've been lucky to have held in hand several 1804 dollars, 3 1913 Liberty nickels at once, both counterstamped Brasher doubloons and a quite a few multi $100K coins (mostly patterns) all pre slab era. Cool, but there are still a few I'd love to get my hands on time with for some in depth study, like some of the tough 1794 Sheldon large cents in high grade, and some of the really hard to find 2 cent error coins (the big ones) capped dies, double struck, off center more than 50%, etc.

Most of the ultra rarities came to me while taking a course with Q. David Bowers at the ANA Summer Seminar while still a YN and in high school, made me a life long collector, I went from putting lincoln cents, searched out of grab bags into albums to holding some of the world's rarest coins, totally mind blown, Mr. Bowers was a huge influence, just to be in the same room with him and listening and learning from him for a whole week changed everything I thought I knew about coins.

I got to hold this in my grubby hands.

Too far from the exit to make it.

At Torex one year the 1911 Canadian dollar at Coinex in London Edward VIII 1937 sovereign.

There is a unique ONE TONNE gold bullion coin available for sale, and on public display at the Perth Mint. It has a legal tender face value of $1 million. It has exactly the same designs (Elizabeth 11 obv., kangaroo rev.), as the Perth Mint standard range of gold bullion 1/10 ounce to one kilo coins.

You can stand next to it, and lay your grubby hands all over it, if you want to! Maybe a little hard to get it into a standard coin album, though.

How much is one tonne of gold worth? I dunno; I'll let you calculate that for yourself.

I had the pleasure of holding a proof 1839 eagle (type of '38) and an MS66 1927-D $20 at the Charlotte ANA about 10 years ago... million-plus dollar coins each. It was a great experience!