Bought this off sleezebay on friday because i have been watching this little gem for sometime now. Everyday just peeking to see if anyone clicked the buy it now button. The seller originally wanted $180 and i was able to talk him down to $160. My point being is, have you ever paid way too much just because you absolutely had to have that particular coin?
Yuuuuup! Sometimes you just gotta have it, no matter the price. I've done it a couple of times, but not very often.
Well not a horrendous amount, but you can find MS66 examples for around $100 to $125. I think the seller was asking the premium for the rainbow toning that is supposedly on the coin, its hard to tell from the photos so i will have to wait until the coin gets here to say if i paid too much. Guess i always feel i paid too much LOL.
Date/Info: 1974 D Denomination: $1 Grade: MS 66 Additional Information NGC Coin Price Guide: $100.00 NGC Coin Price Guide Total Graded at 66: 600
Certainly. The coins I paid way too much for will some day be paid way too much for by the next guy. I'm not sure how far you have to go to overpay for quality. Lance.
Yup, if it looks better than the others i can find, and i know it will be in my personal collection rather than ones i plan to resell, sure i'll pay a premium.
Sure - coins, fiddles, banjos, pocket knives, whatever. Fortunately for my pocketbook I don't tend to do that with automobiles and houses Doug
Almost always happens to me when I get down to the last coin in a set I'm trying to complete. *** I WANT IT and I WANT IT NOW!!! *** Hence sense, logic and cost considerations go out the window.
I find "having to" buy a coin at nearly any price is the sure mark of a collector. Wear it with pride. Dealers or "investors" will buy anything for the right price. Collectors are the only ones in the game that are the addicts. Dealers know this, which is why sometimes dealers can stay in business while priced very high. They get good stuff, charge a mint for it, but eventually collectors will break down and "have to have it". There is an early copper dealer out of Omaha that was always my example of this. Some of the best early copper you will ever see. The reason he had so much, though, was that he charged well above red book for everything. 20 years ago you may be lucky to find one AG chain cent at a show, but he would have 8-10 of them from vg-xf. If you wanted one, you had to pay his price.
Well put and bitterly truthful, Medoraman! If a dealer has something that few others can offer, he can help set the prices. It's how capitalism operates. I am guilty of impulse buys on these gotta have items once in a while. But, it's only money as I see it!
I've paid too much for certain foreign coins that only go for sale during every death of bishop. (On another note, I typically pay in excess for anything that my girlfriend requests.)
This only gets worse when you marry her. But, I'm not dissuading you from tying the knot in any way!!!
Well, I just have to have this 1921-D Walking Liberty Half as it was the last empty hole in my Walker set :greensmile:
