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Anyone can post in this topic. Just post the best deal you ever made! Please post pictures of the coin if possible!  |
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I'll start. Not ginormous dollar amount, but was able to buy an 1895S Morgan lowball for spot price at my LCS. Sold it for $75. https://goccf.com/t/252296 |
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This one... Paid $50 at a show and another $20+ to get it slabbed. If I sell it now it should fetch north of $1k and could be more depending on the audience  https://goccf.com/t/240873 |
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A couple of years ago I bought a 1922 No D Die 2 at an online auction for about $230. Sent it to PCGS, and it came back VF30.
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One Saturday at a coin show I bought a Goodacre presentation golden dollar from a dealer for $10. He had bought it earlier in the week in a junk accumulation for about $2. So he made $8. Not bad for a week. I sold it to another dealer/friend for $320 (so I made 310). Which I used in partial payment for an 1870 XF 3cs. A couple weeks later the second dealer sold it on ebay for $465. So everybody made money even the people who sold gramps' coins for a song (since they thought it was worth $1). -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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I bought a tool box full of wheats about 10 years back for $1.50 a roll. A couple of years later while looking through the rolls, I found one labeled 1922-d, in fact they were. Another score about 7 years back, I bought a board of early wheats complete for $400. The first time I viewed it, I only offered $40, because I didn't believe the 1909-s was in fact a vdb, thought it was too good to be true. I took a second look in better light and sure enough it was, along with a 1914-d & 1931-s. I probably would of never completed that early Wheat cent, had I not stumbled upon this set. |
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about 5-10 years ago I bought 10 gold coins for 800.00 and sold them at a coin show for 4000.00.
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Pillar of the Community
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I bought an R-6 1797 large cent variety for $5 and sold it for $760.
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Nothing really outrageous. VG10 1883/2 Shield nickel (FS-302) for $22, in 1999. Value today, around 200. AG3 details small motto 2 cent piece for $4.99 Lots of other sub-$200 deals not really interesting. This 1886 Morgan - PCGS OGH MS65, VAM-6B, nice peripheral toning -- for $115 - a minor victory, by the books, but the books don't know that's an R6 VAM...   Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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I had no idea at the time but a LDS 1883-O VAM 1c2 is quite uncommon.    |
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I don't think I've ever lost money on a coin deal yet. My 1794 head of 95 PCGS VF-30 Liberty Cap large cent I got for 2500 and sold for 2900.00 About 10 years ago I bought this PCGS VF 20 1798 Draped Bust dime for 1200 kept it about 3 months and sold it for 1800. Wish I'd have kept it, it worth a good bit more than that now.   Once bought an UN-circulated roll of full band 1940 P Mercury dimes on ebay for just over melt around 60.00 at the time. I picked out about a dozen of the best ones easy MS 66's and have been slowly relisting the rest and get about 10-15 each and very positive feedback for them. Just recently I got an 1811 large cent at a local auction, I posted it here but would have to switch to my phone for pictures now. It was in a lot of 4, the 1811 an 1808 an 1817 and an 1820 all for 70.00. I sold the 08 for 60 and the 1811 for 255.00 so I ended up with 2 free large cents and over 200.00 profit. Not a huge score dollar wise but anytime I can triple my money I'm happy. I was buying gold back when it was in the mid 200's so I think I made a little on that too |
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I have cherry picked a few Machin's Mills pieces for a song. I snagged a discovery piece Wood's Hibernia at my coin club for $50. My best would be when I purchased a truly unsearched lot of wheaties (not from ebay) and found all sorts of key date LWC in the lot. Paid about 3 cents each for them. |
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i 1935- Canada Dollar MS64 for $55.00
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The best deals have been foreign - an 1846K French 1F, and various Spanish colonial cobs out of junk boxes. As a category, I used to look for early San Francisco Seated quarters. I still do but prices have tripled or quadrupled from what I used to pay 10 years ago. Here's one that cost no more than $200:   "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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My best deals thus far was an AG/G 1805 Dime I bought about 15 years ago and sold last year for double what I paid to fund a beautiful XF 1782 Bolivian 8R that is now a highlight of my collection. And at about the same time I bought 3 lots off Heritage for $250 inclusive of the buyers premium and shipping of German States coins. 7 coins total, 3 of which where my beloved 1782 coins. Sold the other 4 for more than I paid on the 7 :) So I guess I paid myself to add three certified German States coins to my head :)
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