Just For Fun

All I have sold are 14 40% silver JFKs and 3 common worn merc dimes that I found while roll hunting. No regrets, I got $35 for them.

I have yet to sell a coin but I am really excited about selling my first coin. The reason being is that I will buy more coins. It is like buying my first house. I sold it, and bought three more, etc... Constantly improving my collection.

Eaglefoot, that reminds me of the wealthy man who wanted to take it all with him. So he gave $1M to his pastor and told him to put it in his casket. He did the same with his accountant and attorney.

Years later, after the wealthy man's funeral, the three of them got together for coffee. That Pastor said, "I have a confession, I kept 1/4 of the money for our church, we really needed it, please forgive me." The accountant admitted that he kept 1/2 of it for purely selfish reasons. The Attorney looked at both them and just shook his head. He said, "I can't believe you two, keeping some of his money. I put a check in the casket for the full $1M."

Thanks for all the replies!

Sold a 1921 Walker years ago that should have gotten a lot more money.
Also a 1928 Funnyback $1 note with a noticeable misalignment error. I bought it cheap and made money but wish I had just kept it.

Other than that I usually regret NOT selling things when they are really hot. Have a bad habit of holding things too long.

Absolutely beautiful! I can feel your pain from here.

Oh no SuperDave, not the 1818 Sorry about your loss, wasn't that a James Garcia(EarlyUS) purchase?

As for me, I did sell some stuff in my early 20s that I accumulated as a kid, I really regretted that for a while. However, I had most of the rest of my collection stolen in the process of moving to St. Louis several years ago so I guess it was a good thing that I did sell them when I did. Of course, the almost useless St Louis PD only returned the least valuable stuff to me, claiming that nothing else was recovered when I had detective statements to the contrary. I had always felt that my evidence/collection was intentionally "lost". Naturally, that theft turned into my current adult affliction/addiction with a much higher budget so without the theft, I might not be currently collecting in the manner that I do or not even actively collecting at all.

I was recently somewhat vindicated in my thinking when a story broke over the summer about how the STLPD was towing cars and then "losing" them and also cash seizures came up missing from the evidence room as well. Several top-level cops, including the Chief of Police, were either fired or resigned in the wake of the scandals. Of course, this was in addition to the illegal seizure/usage of World Series tickets in 2006 from scalpers and even people just trying to get face value- the cops that took the tickets went to the games with their buddies and then returned the used tickets to evidence

As for now, the only coins I sell are ones that I purchase strictly for resale or I purchase upgrades for my collection and then sell the old coins.