Coin You Regret Selling/Giving Away

Back in 94 I sold a bunch of coins in Whitman albums to help with the purchase of a boat. I don't regret having the boat ,but I do regret selling all those coins. fortunately
I still have a lot left.

I sold my first SLQ, a type 2 dateless. I'm regretting it now.

I regret selling all three of my Native American C&C set with the enhanced Sacabuck. Oh well... made 3x what I paid on 2 of them and 2x on the other.

Ouch.

I have never had a sell/give regret. Plenty of "not buying" regrets though.

Considering how much I've learned about coins by selling some of them, I would be in Cascade's realm of opinion. During a lifetime of collecting anything, including coins, there are those who will never sell anything - and kudos to them.

But for me, there have been a number of opportunities present themselves over the years where I needed fast cash to make a significant purchase at what I considered a bargain price, and often one collectible series or another suffered.

I can think of zillions of things I've owned and sold that I'd still love to have, but if I had to trade what I've learned by selling those items, I'm sure I'd keep it just the way it is.

Without a doubt I have lot of regrets. I inherited my coins in 1982 at the age of 18 when my grandmother died and sold many rolls (like $100 face worth) of 90% whenever I was low on funds in my college days. Unfortunately this was after the price of silver had dropped from the Hunts brothers spike.

Later, around 1988 I think, to fund a long weekend in NYC with a girlfriend that was moving there, I sold almost all of my extra large & Half Cents (about 100, all post 1814 except the halves which were 1804, 1809 & 1828)for $5 each to a dealer. In hindsight it was a great weekend but I'll never know how many Newcomb/Cohen varieties I let slip through my fingers

Such is the folly of youth...

Not a US coin, picked up a 2002 1/10oz panda for $100. A frenzy hit with this coin, I sold it for $1200. If I would have waited another month or so I could have gotten $2500. Oh well still profited quite nicely on it.

I bought a bag of junk world coins off of an old coworker for a couple bucks. In there was a fake British pound coin (mushy details, sloppy edge lettering). When I found out it was fake, I lost interest in it and left it in a store for a kid to find. I wish that I had kept it for my own kids to enjoy, but I like to think it found a good home.

I do regret not offloading my small silver stash when prices topped $45/oz in 2011, and also not starting CRHing halves before the silver craze was in full swing. But, I might as well regret not investing in Apple stock or not registering the twitter.com domain.