Where You Found It

I read an article about a 1895-O Morgan dollar online and then a few days later I go to swap o rama and I end up seeing a guy selling regular and circulated morgans for the heavy price of $45 and I actually see an 1895 in the glass. I asked if I could see it and I had it in my hands and I flipped it over to see an O on the back. Though I wasn't fond of paying $45 for a morgan (as I learned from a past buying mistake as a newbie collector), I found myself paying up the $45 and sold the coin raw for $370. 370-37 (10% ebay fees at the time) would mean I get $333. Take that and minus what I paid and I make a nice little about of money regardless

A "pocket dealer" approached me at a coin show and asked me what I would pay for a raw 1873-CC half dollar. Looked AU to me. I bought it for FIFTY bucks. And it is a genuine 1873 CC half.

It now resides in a PCGS XF details holder.

I should mention that I bought this in 1976. But I still have the coin.

Wish you would have asked that about 20 to 40 years ago. By now after over 60 years of collecting coins, not really sure where or when or how I found anything.

While not my most valuable coin, this was my best find.

At the 2008 Chicago International Coin Fair I was digging through a $10 pick bin of small Roman bronze coins when I pulled out a very rare AE-4 (small bronze) of Hanniballianus, the son-in-law of Constantine the Great who was executed by Constantine's sons after his death. My heart beating a mile a minute I paid the seller the $10 and then had to walk away to contain my excitement. It's gorgeous and worth hundreds of dollars.

Mine was on a local dealers website where he mislabeled an accented hair Kennedy for $39. An NGC pf68 is listed on NGC priceguide at $500. He immediately knew he'd left out a 0 in the listing. And after we went back and forth for a minute he eventually sold it at original mistake price. I felt a lil guilty at first but realizing he still made a profit on said coin made me sleep better that night. Ha ha ha ha

1879 morgan, was looking for a morgan a long time, my bullion dealer got it for me direct from the US and it was minted a 100 years before my birth! Its my pocket piece now in it airtite.

Around 6 years back, when I was new to collecting I received a response to my Kijiji ad from a guy looking to sell his coins. I bought a bunch of silver coins including Vickie 5 Cents.
In that lot there was a banged up (Dented) 1875-H that was probably VG-08. Anyway, later that month when I went to a coin show, a dealer wanted to see what I had to trade, he saw the 75-H and offered me $60, and I took it thinking I got a deal on what I bought for $1. Later I realized it was worth almost twice that. Anyway, a lesson learned.