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the title says it all, whats your best cherry pick(s)?, what did you pay for it(them)?, what is it(they) worth?
please post a pic if you can.
mine would have to be a 1947 dot nickel in EF for 25 cents and a VG 1864 N.B. cent with the rare E/F legend error. Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
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anyone else wanna share?
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I out bid four other buyers and scopped up a 1947 dot nickel in EF for 85 cents.I bid with a few seconds left not knowing that the highest bidder did not have a reserve bid.I bid 10 bucks only noticing at the last minute that it was a dot.  |
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Canada
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Dollarman, can you please post a 1864 NB error coin E/F
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I paid $10 total for these two coins together. First an off metal error. 1 cent on a new zealand 5 cent planchet.   The second is a split planchet (before strike).   Now where are your pictures DOLLARMAN!! LOL Edited by robmck1967
10/20/2014 12:14 am
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Are you sure that second one is a split planchet? Have you weighed it? Looks like it was struck through a blank (uniface strike, with ghost of brockage).
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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This was my best cherry pick. Bought it for $10 in 2008 from a dealer who had no clue of international coins. This dealer strictly dealt with Canadian coins, he probably didn't even bother to have a Krause Catalogue - to him, world silver meant bullion. This was a coin of pure nickel (and not silver), therefore the dealer thought it was worthless. I sent it to PCGS and then consigned it at the August 2010 World Heritage Auction. Sold for US$2760, including the hammer fee. http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...&lotNo=21897From that same dealer, at a subsequent coin show, I also bought these two coins, also pure nickel, which cost me $20 each (plus PCGS certification afterwards). I consigned them to the same Heritage auction. http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...&lotNo=20227 http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...&lotNo=20228 Sold for US$1840 and US$2530, respectively. The moral of the story, just because a world coin is not gold or silver, does not mean it is junk material!! "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
Edited by SPP-Ottawa
10/19/2014 11:41 pm
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Mine is 1911 weak D $2.50 gold indian quarter eagle. Bought off ebay for $321. The D is very weak have to get just right with loupe to see and all the diagnostics are there for the issue. Not sure exact value but should be good amount more than I paid!   |
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Sorry just realized canadian coin topic not US
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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well here are 2 decent cherry picks for me both are the 1864 e/f new brunswick variety, the first one was from asyn,,,blurry pics took a chance and won for $6, the next one was a buy it now for $10     |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Don't own it anymore, but I got a "double denomination" coin at my local club auction for $14.
1969 "11 cent" coin- struck as a one cent, then overstruck through a ten cent die, flip-over strike as well. I do not have photos, but the forum member who purchased it from me might be willing to put some up.
After that would likely be a 1998 $15 Tiger coin for $15 at a Value Village and my weak strike/gap core 2006 Toonie I got for $40 at a flea market. S in Cents is missing and ELIZA is completely covered by the aureate plating that oozed over it.
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Valued Member
Canada
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That is the one! And yes, I know the guy you bought the other one from- he was at the same auction! This was part of a collection sold by a guest to the club. I had advised her not to put these errors up for auction there, but she chose to do it anyways.
Glad they found a good home with you!
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New Member
Canada
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Two of my best cherry picks would be: 1. Buying an Australian, mid-19th century, silver 3d token for $2.50 that catalogs $600, out of a random coin binder from a vintage items seller's booth. 2. Picking a late 19th century copper merchants advertising token from a Montreal, Canada tailor, out of a big coin store's little foreign coin junk bin for 25 cents but catalogs for $900! CP
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Forum Kid
Canada
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yes I bought a 1902 MS-63 small H for 127 on ebay! I bought a 1965 LB VF-20 for a good deal. how much would you want for the 1989 wrong metal!! |
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