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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Every time I talk about winning the lotto and what I will buy, my wife kept telling me to wake up!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36710 Posts |
I would do a date set of $3 gold.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3641 Posts |
It would be virtually impossible to assemble a complete set of U.S. coins as Eliasberg did, but with that kind of money you could easily afford to try...
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Valued Member
United States
378 Posts |
With the current US lotto at 1.1 Billion, is this even a question?
I mean, couldn't you buy the an entire US collection, and have left overs to buy a 1979 Pinto?
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07/30/2022 12:02 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Retire from selling on the worst ever selling platform .Ebay .
Then collect Double Eagles by date , Five Guinea Pieces by date
and Mint state Roman and Greek Gold .
The other over 900 million plus start a family trust and donate
to those that need it a heck of a lot more than me .
Since I am Canadian and we don't pay taxes on lottery wins
would employ a good tax attorney and tax recovery firm and enjoy
the fight with the IRS .
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Pillar of the Community
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Pay off my mortgage and all outstanding debts and the same for my family. Get all the medical work needed done for myself and partner, go on a year long world trip, sell my house and buy a mansion. Hire a staff to care for it and my partner.
Buy myself a vanity job as a coin dealer and not care if I make profit, just so I can have all the high price collectibles I will ever need.
Bank at least $500 million in high interest accounts (Not sure what you would get after tax comes out, here in New Zealand, you pay no tax on lottery wins - but our highest prize was only a $50 million powerball a few years ago). And donate the rest to charities of my choosing (No religious, no war based and no multinational famine relief ones that take 90% of the donation in administration and advertising costs).
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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If you could buy anything you want, where is the challenge ?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Actually now that I think about it, I would buy a 42 foot Center Console boat with three 300 hp outboard motors . Southshore Long Island dream boat .  Oh pooh , I hope I have enough money left over to fill the gas tanks .  |
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United States
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If you could buy anything you want, where is the challenge ? The challenge is finding the coins!! Some coins and their varieties are so rare, only one or two collectors own it. What would you do if neither collector wanted to sell their coin no matter the price? One would probably be stumped in that situation countless times, trying to put together a similar Eliasberg collection. I believe that is why the Tyrant Collection owner chose to remain anonymous, so there wouldn't be any extra conflict with auction bidding. If someone knew he needed one more coin for his set, they would bid him up to the moon and back. Suffering from bust half fever. Want to learn how to attribute early half dollars by die variety? Click Here: http://goccf.com/t/434955Shoot me a PM if you are looking to sell bust halves. |
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United States
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That's simple....cars. Yeah me toooooo |
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Russian Federation
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I've mentioned it last time it came up, and I don't think I've changed my opinion much: I'll try to get at least one coin of every date I could find. One of those OFEY collections (except obviously not necessarily limited to just one, if there's several nice coins), but across as many dates as possible.
(Unfortunately I'm now fairly confident that there's probably a lot of 4th and 5th century dates that don't have any narrowly dated coins, so I couldn't do my original goal of getting a coin of every year since 1 AD.)
Other than that, I'll probably try to firm up my type sets (especially in areas where I'm lacking), and maybe start up some more type set projects.
Definitely not going into big-name US key dates, though. That's a big pond that a mere Mega Millions winner would quickly lose in. (At most I'd get some of the actually common ones, like the S-VDB.)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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First I would put in a bid to buy Twitter...  |
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United States
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I mean, couldn't you buy the an entire US collection, and have left overs to buy a 1979 Pinto?  Quote:
First I would put in a bid to buy Twitter... You'd be about $44 billion short.  |
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1979 Pinto? I would buy a 1972 just to get some more "bang" for my buck!!
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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1979 Pinto? I would buy a 1972 just to get some more "bang" for my buck!! younger folks on here might not get this one i'd get a complete set of US Early coppers from 1793 to 1857 in MS to start then an MS set of draped bust gold. |
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