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So You Just Won Mega Millions, What Would You Collect?

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 Posted 07/30/2022  12:14 am  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
Retire from selling on the worst ever selling platform .Ebay .
Then collect Double Eagles by date , Five Guinea Pieces by date
and Mint state Roman and Greek Gold .
The other over 900 million plus start a family trust and donate
to those that need it a heck of a lot more than me .
Since I am Canadian and we don't pay taxes on lottery wins
would employ a good tax attorney and tax recovery firm and enjoy
the fight with the IRS .
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 Posted 07/30/2022  06:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Princetane to your friends list
Pay off my mortgage and all outstanding debts and the same for my family. Get all the medical work needed done for myself and partner, go on a year long world trip, sell my house and buy a mansion. Hire a staff to care for it and my partner.

Buy myself a vanity job as a coin dealer and not care if I make profit, just so I can have all the high price collectibles I will ever need.

Bank at least $500 million in high interest accounts (Not sure what you would get after tax comes out, here in New Zealand, you pay no tax on lottery wins - but our highest prize was only a $50 million powerball a few years ago). And donate the rest to charities of my choosing (No religious, no war based and no multinational famine relief ones that take 90% of the donation in administration and advertising costs).
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 Posted 07/30/2022  06:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
If you could buy anything you want, where is the challenge ?
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 Posted 07/30/2022  11:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
Actually now that I think about it, I would buy a 42 foot Center Console boat with three 300 hp outboard motors . Southshore Long Island dream boat .
Oh pooh , I hope I have enough money left over to fill the gas tanks .
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 Posted 07/30/2022  11:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jacrispies to your friends list

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If you could buy anything you want, where is the challenge ?

The challenge is finding the coins!! Some coins and their varieties are so rare, only one or two collectors own it. What would you do if neither collector wanted to sell their coin no matter the price?

One would probably be stumped in that situation countless times, trying to put together a similar Eliasberg collection. I believe that is why the Tyrant Collection owner chose to remain anonymous, so there wouldn't be any extra conflict with auction bidding. If someone knew he needed one more coin for his set, they would bid him up to the moon and back.
Suffering from bust half fever.
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Shoot me a PM if you are looking to sell bust halves.
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 Posted 07/30/2022  12:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list

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That's simple....cars.

Yeah me toooooo
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 Posted 07/31/2022  04:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list
I've mentioned it last time it came up, and I don't think I've changed my opinion much: I'll try to get at least one coin of every date I could find. One of those OFEY collections (except obviously not necessarily limited to just one, if there's several nice coins), but across as many dates as possible.
(Unfortunately I'm now fairly confident that there's probably a lot of 4th and 5th century dates that don't have any narrowly dated coins, so I couldn't do my original goal of getting a coin of every year since 1 AD.)

Other than that, I'll probably try to firm up my type sets (especially in areas where I'm lacking), and maybe start up some more type set projects.
Definitely not going into big-name US key dates, though. That's a big pond that a mere Mega Millions winner would quickly lose in. (At most I'd get some of the actually common ones, like the S-VDB.)
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 Posted 07/31/2022  12:44 pm  Show Profile   Check captainrich's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add captainrich to your friends list
First I would put in a bid to buy Twitter...
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 Posted 08/01/2022  10:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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I mean, couldn't you buy the an entire US collection, and have left overs to buy a 1979 Pinto?


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First I would put in a bid to buy Twitter...
You'd be about $44 billion short.
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 Posted 08/07/2022  07:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Princetane to your friends list
1979 Pinto? I would buy a 1972 just to get some more "bang" for my buck!!
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 Posted 08/08/2022  08:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add panzaldi to your friends list

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1979 Pinto? I would buy a 1972 just to get some more "bang" for my buck!!




younger folks on here might not get this one

i'd get a complete set of US Early coppers from 1793 to 1857 in MS to start then an MS set of draped bust gold.
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 Posted 08/08/2022  11:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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1979 Pinto? I would buy a 1972 just to get some more "bang" for my buck!!
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 Posted 08/09/2022  8:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinnewcomer1 to your friends list
What COINS would I get if I won the mega-millions?

a) Extend my collecting of Walking Liberty halves to those from the 1920's in MS 66 or higher and generally upgrade what I have.

b) Get Dahlonega and Charlotte $1 gold coins as well all others for a complete set.

c) Collect $3 gold coins (versus foreseeing being able to just get one or two in circulated condition)

d) British Mandate of Palestine Currency

e) A few early American coppers that I enjoy for their design and potential historical interest (but not all)

f) All British Maundy sets

g) and set aside some for coin roll hunting a few times a year.

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 Posted 09/06/2022  10:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add armjr to your friends list
1979 Pinto? I would buy a 1972 just to get some more "bang" for my buck!!

I had a 75' Station Wagon... Tough little car. I don't think I ever had the back seat up. Sleeping bag permanently unrolled back there. Coin collecting kinda took a back seat in those years as well...


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 Posted 09/07/2022  07:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
If it is cars? -
Trabants.
They are as rare as hen's teeth in Oz.
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