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Picked up a vf 1889 cc Morgan at a local pawn shop for 80.00 in the late 1990s
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I have had a few nice cherry picks but my best was last year on a no date 1916 T1 SLQ. It's in the archives here on the forum. I am still 5 behind Johnny 12345  Original lot, actual listing photo. The 1916 is in the center top row.  Final result.  |
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My best Cherry Pick was a Cheerios Pick. Back in 2000 I saw the Cheerios 2000 Cent and Dollar promo. My wife loves Cheerios, so the hunt was on. After many a box of Cheerios, we hit the Dollar and Cent.  I folded up the box, put the U.S. Mint COA holder in bubble wrap and placed it in a CD jewel case. I thought because it was the first Mint promotion like this, maybe someday the coin would be worth $50-$75, if I was lucky. I put the coin in a drawer and didn't think about it for about 12 years. My wife found it when we were moving and wanted to know if it was worth anything. I hadn't even thought about it so I looked on Heritage.com to see if they had any auctions for the coin and learned the fact that it's a pattern. Officially I read it's called a "2000 Sacagawea with the pattern Reverse of 1999." The first of a number of auction result I saw on Heritage was $34,500! I knew that it had to be a mistake, so I started researching. I learned that some 2000 SACs were detailed tail feather varieties. I also found that the rare variety has a die marker on the obverse. The pattern has a small die polish mark on the obverse just above Sacagawea's shoulder just below the mint mark. I grabbed my 20X loupe and BINGO! There was the die polish mark. I still have it in the original holder waiting to get things setup so I can send it to PCGS. The coin is almost spot free with only a few contact marks. The grade will depend on the reverse, but I'm 99% sure it's the Sacagawea pattern. I owe it to my wife for eating box after box of Cheerios in January of 2000. I'm going to have it graded as soon as I can and I'll share the results. Everyone, please cross their fingers for us! Here's the Sacagawea pattern in all it's glory along with one of the first 10,000,000 year 2000 cents minted!  I'm sure this is my "Find of a lifetime" so I don't think anything else will ever match the feeling my wife and I had when when saw how much these coin were going for. If ours is an MS-68 and it sure looks nice enough, the value is around $10,000 today. Ben ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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06/13/2014 12:22 pm
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NICE Yokozuna!! I tried HARD to get the dollar and cent.... But no luck... I did get two of the cents which also still reside in the original holders.. But uugh, I should have eaten more Cheerios!
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Picked this 1795 Liberty Cap at the age of ten or so, at an estate auction with Mom, where a pickle jar full of mainly Coronet large cents was divided into lots of five in Ziploc baggies:   |
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I'm happy to share another coin. It's an 1890 British Half Penny that I picked up on ebay UK a couple of years ago for $10. Paul Bulgerin
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Sorry . . . I hit "Post New Reply" by accident. Anyway . . . an 1890 British Half Penny I picked up on ebay UK for $10.   I sent it to NGC and here's how it came back.  Paul Bulgerin
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My best cherry pick is probably my three legged buffalo. The deal I got it from thought it was a fake so I hesitantly bought it and sent it to PCGS. Came back as vf 20. After this one is my 1787 Vermont over a Nova Constellatio. Personally it is way way cooler then the buff.   |
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What great stories behind even greater coins
The Cheerios is mind blowing and I'd love to see it graded and official one day
More please....love this thread
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Picked up a U.S. gold dollar for One Pound 50 Pence out of a junk box at a coin fair in Manchester (U.K), way back in 1971.
Gave it to my sister. It started an interest for her, in coin collecting.
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Great finds--some are quite amazing!   One of my recent picks was the 1887 IHC--it's the Snow-1 DDO. I didn't do bad for $10.  |
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Back in January, I went to my favorite pawn shop to see what they had. They had a complete Buffalo set with all the keys and semi-keys for only $199. I quickly looked over the main keys to get a sense of condition. They were acceptable, so I bought it. I'm a Buffalo collector, and I wanted to keep some of the keys (in particular the 13-S Ty2, 14-D and 14-S) The 13-S Ty2 was AG/G, so not that important to keep, but the 14-D and 14-S are VF and wanted to hold onto those at a minimum. Here are pictures of the highlights from the set (I didn't photograph the 26-S, because it's AG at best and looks to have been acid treated):     I sold some of the above Buffalos a few weeks later. I only sold the 13-D Ty2, 13-S Ty2 and 17-S. I got $85 for the 13-D, $225 for the 13-S and $25 for the 17-S. Those are much better values than I was expecting. So, after selling just those three I made ~50% profit and decided to keep the 14-D&S, 15-S, 21-S and 24-S. I suppose this was a "cherry-pick" but I know for a fact the pawn shop knew the true retail value of the set, but choose to price it very well to move it, which it did. All the better for me. Edited by mendelman
06/13/2014 4:16 pm
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Nice pick-up there, mendelman. Might that 1914-S be an overdate? Try getting a close-up view.
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