What was your 'Smartest' coin purchase?

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I guess in buying 4+ Chinese gold 1 oz @ $ 440 each and keeping them. Still beautiful shine. The following years I added a few partial ounces of French and Swiss gold coins. ( I loved the Angels) . All are in the Bank. Jim

 

@MIGuy,

That Henry VI is a wonderful and intriguing piece. In my opinion, it does not have anything to do with when the first European’s were in Canada... The discovered piece was most likely (IMO) a later bring-over. New France was starved of “coinage” from the get-go and nobody was collecting “coins”… unless you include the habitants of New France that hid/melted their silver or gold coinage from the authorities. In other words, if it was silver or gold, or had a "wash" such as the billon, it was of value. Age wouldn't have mattered. Any coin comprised of PM, especially gold, would have been regarded as far “more than stated value” during the French Regime. The “found” piece was discovered along the St. Lawrence. The non-indigenous people that originally settled this region were mostly from northern France / Normand’s. The English Channel is pretty narrow and it seems most likely to me, that the find, is a result of the abovementioned. The ¼ noble (IMO) was most likely brought over by a habitant or merchant (maybe even a pirate lol) many moons later. With all that “bashing” aside, your coin is still an amazing type w/ documented early N. American history.

 

Grabbed these 2 a few years back when gold took a nice dip, both now worth at least 3x what i originally paid for em lol...

 

A Big THANKS for all the members sharing their 'Smartest'!
J.T.

 

In 1996 I paid $465 for this dime from a Bowers auction. It was listed as an AU-50.
Many years later PCGS gave it an MS-62. Pretty sure it would bring $4000 to $5000 at auction today. Check out the crack down her neck running down between her X to the shield.

 

I won't reveal the year I bought it, but this one has done well for me.



In the area of medals, I bought this one at the right time too.

 

Wow, that 1792 half disme, the first federal USA coinage if I'm not mistaken - PCGS estimates 275 survivors and that's a nice one! That's ultimate collector paradise for Colonial American collectors (among others). A picture is about as close as I'll likely come to one. Thanks for posting the pics!

 

I think that it’s about 325 survivors, but a lot of them have problems like holed, bent and cleaned.