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Valued Member
United States
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Just a thought---Can you find a Mint State coin in circulation? Are the two not mutually exclusive?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice finds.
Rohumpy: most of the time if you find it in circulation it is not an unc. However, it does take a little bit to produce wear ona coin.
Best deal:
From junk silver: 1 1942/1D Merc. Currently happily residing in an NGC holder, XF-45.
Cost: .30 plus slab fee.
Value: priceless.
Also from junk silver: 1921 S Walker, in AG, plus a F+ 1938 D.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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"Best circulation find was 1909 VDB in MS condition." Wow that is rally nice Texas collector
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have gotten quite a few nice deals over the years but one occurred just last week. I was trying to win a dime planchet off the bid board at my local shop. It had previously been marked "$5" on the 2x2 which would be retail for a clad dime planchet and I won it with a high bid of $2.50. I got it home and noticed some toning around the rim and thought that it was kind of similar to silver coin rim toning. I popped that sucker out of the 2x2, weighed it, and sure enough- 2.5 grams- I had just purchased a silver dime planchet for $2.50  |
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I know I've gotten some really good deals. I used to buy world coin lots off of ebay before people figured out what was going on (late 90s). However, for some reason the bargain I remember the best was 20c from a dealers junk bin for a 1906 50c piece from Liberia in VF (asw .3450 oz, mintage 24,000). Not a coin most would enjoy, but I really like it. |
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A few coins I got for $1.50 apiece   (this is the 1844 E/N Half Farthing)  |
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Awesome find Treshunt... I've had a bunch of great finds but nothing along the lines of that merc. My best find of 2008 was a 1914S Lincoln in VF that was hidden in an album of wheat cents. It was in the wrong slot as well as being in an album where the dating was a little confusing. The album itself was loaded with MS example latter date cents (I didn't like the toning on most of them), a perfect set of steelies, and loaded up with early mintmarked dates. I bought the album for $20. I replaced a couple of the nicer latter date MS's with circ examples, replaced the steelies with ones that matched the book better (read circ but not rusted), took out several of the teen date mintmarks along with a few of the 20's minmarks. Then sold the album on ebay for $32... All that said, $32 was a great deal for the buyer IMO. |
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springcypress
Thanks for the note.
Also, that was very fair of you and a fair selling price.
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KurtS- Very nice! How did you manage to get such a great deal?
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How did you manage to get such a great deal? I have a few good sources--and I spend a lot of time looking. |
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wow really nice stories to tell
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United States
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About the "MS" 1909, my coin dealer told me EF. I then took it to a coin show where someone, who seemed to be knowledgeable, told me he thought it was about MS-63. I think I need more opinions. However, I don't have a camera to show you guys.
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Poland
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My best deals would be the trades. I'm serious  . In terms of value, the 1937 10 kopeks ($3.00) for $0.2. |
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At the Visalia, CA show last Saturday one dealer had an assortment of Mercury dimes in 2X2's, mostly for $1.50 each. I picked out a nice 1919-D in F-15 or better, and a 1919-S in about VF-30. Both were unmolested originals with no problems. PCGS values for these two dates in F-12 are $14 and $12, respectively. The $3 I paid for the pair didn't seem like a bad price!  |
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Jaobler, Nice finds on those Mercs!  I seem to find good IHCs in those bins of 2x2s. One recent show I found the 1897 Snow-1 "1 in neck", and the 1887 Snow-1 DDO--both around VF20 for $2-3 apiece. Edited by KurtS
11/10/2008 3:56 pm
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