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Does free count? Uh, yes!  |
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Quote:1926 S VF Buffalo nickel for $6 I call that a good deal.  Especially when I paid almost $20 for mine...  |
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I wouldn't say that my purchases were "outrageously cheap" but I do have a funny little story about a deal I got.
I was at a gun and knife show and there was a guy there who had a wealth of nazi memorabilia. He had knives, spoons, uniforms/hats, plates, a bunch of stuff. I asked him if he had any coins and he said, "Uh, I think I have a box actually" and he searched around under the table and brought out a small box with about a hundred foreign coins in it. Searching around in there I found 5 1930's - 1940's silver reichmarks of different denominations in there I asked the guy how much he wanted for the five coins and he kinda shrugged his shoulders and said "10 bucks?".
I didn't even haggle for him for two reasons. First reason was that I knew the retail of the coins were around $40 so I was getting a good deal. Second reason was because the longer I stayed at this guy's both it became awkwardly obviously that he probably had all this nazi memorabilia not so much because he was a history nerd but because he was probably a white supremacist.
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previous page I said somethig along the lines that you would not believe me if I reveal my best purchase. so now I feel compelled to post atleast something to back that up. imagine a box, that has 6 x 30 cm rows and is filled with 2x2 flips not the self adhesing slim ones but the older fatter flips that needed staples.  Nway its was full of russian coins and islamic (ottoman,hejaz) and indian coins and a bunch of old russian wire coins. for the box I payed 700€ here is only 2 examples. granted, they are in the top 5 of the bunch 2 kopeks 1823 EM .. (can't type in russian for the rest)   1 Polupoltinnik 1798 cm mb    wanne know the best part ...i bought these coins and at that I was't even collecting  but this and a other colliding story is what got me into collecting Edited by dohcollector
10/23/2015 1:33 pm
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Paid less than $1 out of a dealers "foreign" junk bin! Very nice! |
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It cost me 3 bucks for this vdb.  |
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It cost me 3 bucks for this vdb. Three dollars well spent. |
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I will never top this experience. It happened at a large flea market back in July 2012. A seller had a couple of small bags of Lincoln Cents. Thinking I may have seen a 1922 dated coin in one bag I offered him $2.00 for the ten coins. When I opened the bag here is what I found.     I took them to my local coin dealer who examined them for me. One of them was a Weak Reverse #3 1922 No D. He called two of them "extremely Weak D"s and one a "Weak D". I ended up selling all four and made $625 for my $2.00 investment. That sort of thing should happen more often. Paul Bulgerin
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Those no D's are amazing!
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Australia
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Today I sold about 67 ounces of scrap sterling silver for $937 which I paid around $400 for at various estate and garage sales. Definitely a nice feeling. Well under 50% of spot, there was time and work involved, but it was FUN.
Even more notable in a way is that I also sold about 9.5 grams of 14K gold for $195. I paid just $3 (!!) at various estate and garage sales - broken watch for $2, broken ring for $1, small pin and chain for free, single earring found on a pavement.
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I have been very lucky throughout my coin collecting years - this is one which I particularly like, and my 1st US copper. It was bought (a long time ago) for about $100. A nice 1794 cent, variety Sheldon 24. Even accounting for inflation over 25 years a lucky purchase.   |
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Plucked this one from a large lot of Canadian nickel composition 50c coins. Sent it to PCGS, and is now the solo highest grade at MS-68, which is impressive for a large business strike coin (next highest is MS-66). My cost was face value (and plus PCGS certification for a modern coin).  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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I will never top this experience. Not one, but four 1922 plain cents for two dollars? Are you kidding me?  Deal of a lifetime! |
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