Your Best Coin Deal(S) ?

That must have been great--to see the final result!

I feel no obligation to pay more than a dealer's own research warrants. I'm not the one trying to make a living on coins... just filling a hole in an album. And for all I know, my coins might sell for face value when I'm six feet under.

For the bargain bin haters out there, I have a question.

If McDonald's gives you an S-VDB in change, to whom should you mail the $500 check?

edit: and don't say "the clown"!

I agree with bibd. We enthusiasts spend hundreds (thousands) of hours learning the rare dates and die varieties on both local and foreign coins and then spend countless more hours looking at dealer bargain bins and ebay listings hoping to find a gem among the dross.
By this method I have picked a grime covered gold coin for a dollar, a 1925 8 pearl Australian penny for 20 cents, a halfpenny brockage for under 10 cents and several rare foreign coins for less than melt.

There are winners and grinners here, (I have had some fortune too).

But bibd is right. Health and happiness are more valuable than wealth.

Hope you found a 1909 S VDB in that $0.39 profit you got (:

Best coin deal. I'd have to say this coin is the best deal I've gotten so far.

Was sitting at my local store one Saturday morning, going through the world bin, and one of the employees was wrapping up purchasing an estate. They'd spent about two hours going through everything and there was a lot of US coins, all certified and entombed in plastic.

There was this one lone little ziploc baggie full of world coins. The employee brought it to me and offered me the lot of 3-4 pounds for $25. I'm always game for unsearched foreign! I paid for it, took it home, and began going through. I was very confused when I found an obvious Chinese coin with German writing on it, and elated when I figured out what it was.



1909 German Kiaochou, Deutsch Kiautschou Gebiet, 10 cents. Mintage, 670,000 pieces.

KT, that's an interesting fusion of cultures!
I'm surprised they used "cents"--it looks more like something you'd see on a Netherlands coin.

Back in November 2001 I had probably my best score, 13 Bahamian coins for the equivalent of $526.77 at the prevailing exchange rate.

Two sets of coins in a combined deal, the $10/$20/$50/$100 coins in mint state .917 gold totalling marginally under 2.12 toz and the 1c/5c/10c/15c/25c/50c/$1/$2/$5 uncirculated specimen set - the higher denominated four coins being silver (2 x .925, 2 x .800) totalling a little over 2.87 toz.

Au had just dipped a little and was hovering around $273/toz and Ag had also dipped back to around $4.05/toz so got the lot nicely under spot

Not just a great deal but nice designs in the main to boot, especially the $50 and $100.

Norm