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Valued Member
South Africa
453 Posts |
If you only have 50 bucks what will you buy? And if you had a million bucks what will you buy?
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Valued Member
United States
467 Posts |
If I had $50-- I would buy a really nice red bu 1935 D and 1935 S Lincoln Cent. Still missing those two. If I had a million-- I would start a complete circulated set of every modern coin series then a complete uncirculated set of every modern coin series. Then I would move to the circulated silver sets of classic series and then gold sets of classic series. Then maybe complete uncirculated and proof commemorative series. Depending on just how complete and/or unciruclated I want to get-- I could be out of money. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
597 Posts |
unc rolls of any 2009-d out there
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
856 Posts |
I received this today. $46 including post. I'd happily buy another like it if someone gave me $50!  $1M? I'd just buy any coins that took my fancy!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1531 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7375 Posts |
Depends if I'm collecting or investing. Collecting, a nice coin. Investing, silver dimes or quarters. A million....stocks and bonds, and then buy coins with the profits  Edited by edweather
07/15/2014 2:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
656 Posts |
I just picked up 14 1981 & 14 1977 mint sets for $48 each lot, so I would use my $50 for one of those. For a million, I would try to assemble as much of a complete run of gold coins I can afford.
Edited by AlbumAccumulator
07/15/2014 3:13 pm
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Pillar of the Community
1325 Posts |
$50: 2 boxes of pennies
$1 million: house on plenty of land, workshop beside it, museum inside the hosue for my own use to mess with collectibles. couple dozen boxes of each coin type and maybe a dozen bags of each, if I could find them.
boxes:
$1 24x1000
.50 24*500
.25 24*500
.10 24*250
.05 24*100
.01 24*25
probably be too busy with that many coins and other things to do much else for a while so probably stop there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2368 Posts |
I would get a common-date Barber half dollar in Fine condition or a better-date BU Franklin, like the 1952-S or 1949 for example. Edited by wheatchaser140
07/15/2014 4:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1158 Posts |
MS-63 Peace dollar (MS-64 if I can get lucky) I do have $50 and that's what I'm buying next. $1,000,000? I wouldn't buy coins with more than a few thousand of it. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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$50 - perhaps a Victorian Young Head shilling or florin that I am missing (or an upgrade for one of my worn or holed ones!)
$1,000,000 - Some gold - £2 and £5 pieces, a nice date run of gold sovereigns and perhaps some Eagles and Double Eagles! My biggest UK gold coin is currently a guinea and my biggest US one a half-eagle.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5174 Posts |
For $50, chances are, a lot of varied stuff from bargain bins. I very rarely buy individual coins more expensive than $10 (can't even remember last time it happened - definitely not this year).
I think I already answered the "million" question elsewhere on CCF, but realistically, discounting possible spending on items other than coins, I'm unlikely to spend more than a few percent of it within the first year. I don't really care about either key dates or high MS grades, and I probably won't load up much on gold; and there isn't really much else I can think of that would be particularly expensive, so I'll just end up with a big bunch of under $100 stuff anyway (probably mostly under $20 - depending on where and what I search could well be mostly under $10 or even $5).
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Valued Member
United States
183 Posts |
$3.00 face value of 90% all day!!
With a million, I would buy $65,000 face of 90% ;)
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Valued Member
United States
258 Posts |
With $50? I would probably purchase either a couple Barber dimes I need or a couple uncirculated silver Washington quarters I need. First I need some more 2x2 boxes for the rest of my collection... Quote:
$1M? I'd just buy any coins that took my fancy! Yes  No matter how hard I tried I couldn't bring myself to purchase everything I need with $1M, that would be no fun. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
250 assorted world coins picked from one of those 5/$1 buckets!
Or... $50 worth of assorted world silver priced near melt.
I'd split it depending on how good my finds would be that day.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2850 Posts |
A nice fullband Mercury dime. Some of the more common ones in MS66FB can sell under $50 and any FB merc is very popular and would be easy to sell again if needed. |
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Posted 07/15/2014 2:22 pm
