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Pillar of the Community
United States
863 Posts |
I have a few good deals. Usually I am too fair though. Paid a guy 20 bucks for a nasty old Peace dollar with a big hole when silver was at 35first an ounce. Hana I ripped my self off. He took the money so fast. Should have offered 5 for it |
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Valued Member
United States
402 Posts |
Back then I was a utility boy in the printing trade and my weekly salary was 38.00 and Eagles season tickets were $1.75 to $2.50 a game with no pre-season games to buy and if you were in an Armed Forces uniform there was no charge at all. Just walk right in, no questions asked. In fact in Baltimore if you were in uniform they let you stand on the sidelines next to the players. See the post I just made on the old coin books I found today.
edgman
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Valued Member
United States
240 Posts |
3 months ago I got at a yard sale( I didnt know much back then)
100 merc dimes for $1 apiece
Was going to buy a walker but he wanted 15$ it was bu and a 1938-D still kicking my self
-Bunch of old coppers from the 1800s for a buck a piece.
10 Silver quarters for 2$ ea
and I also buy coins from kids at school who inherit them I've bought over 30 morgans all mixed dates (he has bags of em and just pulls em out when I want to buy em) and have bought them all for $20 each
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Pillar of the Community
United States
500 Posts |
About 10 years ago, before flooding closed the local coin shop, I pulled an 1856 Large Date Seated dime from the guy's junk bin for $1.10, he looked a little surprised that it was in there but let me have it anyway. More recently, there was a woman where I work that was complaining that the vending machines kept rejecting her quarter because it was too old, I offered her 50 cents for it without knowing the date and she agreed, so I got a 47 Washington for 50 cents just before Christmas because my hunch of 'too old' meaning pre-clad was right :D |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
Dug a 1906A German mark out of a 12/$1 bin. Not worth much above bullion (5.5 grams silver) but it was worth ~50x more than I paid, and how many of us can say that?
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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U.S. gold dollar for three pounds at a Manchester coin show. That was in 1973. I still have it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
810 Posts |
Id have to say my best buy was 2000-2500 wheaties, 2 silver one ounce rounds,a 1 gram gold bar for $50. One of the wheaties was a 1917 1DO-001.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
I bought a WHOLE BOX of Wheaties not long ago, for $4.50. I didn't think that was necessarily a bargain. I ate them!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3843 Posts |
I bought a few Barber half dollars for a little over melt at an estate auction a few years back. They were locked in a display case until they sold them so I (or anyone else) couldn't get a good look at them until they were held to be sold. When I got home and checked dates and mintmarks I found that I had a 1893-S in G-6 and a 1896-S in G-4. They are low grade semi-key dates but I still like them. At the same auction they were selling some old time paper envelopes that had a dozen or so Indian Head cents in each one. I saw the glint of silver in one and won the bid to get first choice on the envelopes. In the end I got 13 Indian Head cents, 1 Half Dime, and 1 3 cent silver for $11. I also have good luck buying 40% silver Kennedys at auction was able to purchase 80 40%ers for $60 at one sale in 2010 and another 18 for $10 in 2012. Most auctions with coins have very few deals but sometimes stuff can fall through the cracks and I'll be able to buy it for less than I expected. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1795 Posts |
Best Deal I ever got well I have two of them and I got them for face value too. First one was in late 1976 got a pack of 100 $2 Star Notes from a teller who saved em for me. Worth well over $700 now. The second is $165 in junk silver in 1982 at a bank near work, was very happy with that one.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3194 Posts |
While not my deal, my dad was walking through an Antique store in Indiana and came across an 1883 CC Morgan dollar. Normally he probably would have not asked to see it but for whatever reason he asked to look at the coin. Upon being handed the coin he noticed the price tag said $12.00. Yep, twelve bucks for a Carson City Dollar. It was circulated but probably in VF condition. Still keep asking why I can't find those deals! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8517 Posts |
Ha, he should've asked if they would take 10 for it.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3194 Posts |
 Absolutely! |
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