Whats The Coin You Most Overpaid For But Still Don't Regret Buying?

I bought the Philip 11 gold stater of Macedon direct from Spinks London in 1983, and paid a bit too much for it, but
I have never regretted the purchase, from then until now.

It has remained one of the 'stars' of my collection.

@howell1018

Not quite. If justanothercoinaddict bought his coins just over a decade ago then the math would be thus:

If he buys a Canadian coin for $10 in US dollars and then the Canadian dollar drops 26% the coin is worth $7.40 USD all the while maintaining its $10 Canadian price tag. Assuming the coin appreciates at the same rate as inflation, which was 2.41% in Canada over the last decade, then the coin will take just under 11 years before its worth what he paid for it.

This of course doesn't include inflation of his own currency.

If the roles were reversed and he was a Canadian buying a US coin, he would have made 26%.

edit:my math was wrong, how embarrasing.

It's an odd question for me, because any coin I really want, I don't consider that I've overpaid for it - I paid what I wanted to pay, at the time. I usually don't bother referring to price guides at all either before or after I buy a coin from a dealer or at a coin show, so I really would have no clue what "fair market value" might be for a specific coin at any given time. So the only coins I think of as having "overpaid" for are coins that I ultimately didn't really want (usually because I already had one which I'd forgotten about when I bought the second one).

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then if I had a coin shop I would definately want you as a customer

The real value is your joy. If you like it then continue to enjoy it!

Lovely example!

Wow, that's a spectacular token. I don't collect tokens either but that might make me stray, especially since so many of those that I've seen are worn-out junk.