Post your Steal of the Year

For going into the new decade, what do you think (regardless of what others think or what price guides say) was your steal of the year in buying coins?

bnb 2010 edition

 

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Quite an oxymoron.

 

Probably getting bricks of the first 3 Lincoln reverses at the bank for face.

Jim

 

Is that all you do? Critique everything I write? It gets really annoying after a while. Just either take the question or don't answer it. But to keep debasing my thread with your jabs just doesn't make me OR you look good. It just starts a bickering war, something I want to avoid with a 10 foot, heck, 20 foot pole.

bnb

 

My "steal" of the year was an 1878 8tf VAM-9 (unattributed) in VF35. Got it off ebay for $30.

 

Can't say I have a STEAL of the year... I've done a lot of dumb things, for buying coins that is, and I did indeed buy a lot of coins over retail.
I think I'll just learn from those experiences, so I can get a real STEAL in 2010-2011.

 

My steal of the year was my 1878 Morgan CC. I love that old gal.

Alrighty then, I had to get the pic. I've had more expensive deals but I think this one gave me the biggest charge.

 

My candidate for steal of the year in 2010 is any 1936-1942 proof cameo coin. They are exceedingly rare and are much more attractive than the brilliant proofs IMO. Here is the auction listing for the last CAMEO WLH by Heritage.

http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=1114&Lot_No=698

Of course, these are not coins you would want to bid on sight unseen. The only question is will we see one of these coins in auction in 2010?





As far as my steal of the year for this year for 2009, it has to be this 1952 NGC MS67 Jefferson Nickel that I bid $1,000 and lost in a Heritage auction in May 2009.

http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=69031&Lot_No=61142


Just three short months later, the same coin appeared in a DLRC auction. I again bid $1,000 on the coin and won with a final price of $200 which is actually less than Numismedia Wholesale.

http://www.davidlawrence.com/invent...332398c1f-717AC772-2BFC-0A80-302DCD49FDBC374B

 

Mine go lost in the mail but I did find a few clashed die FE Cents this year.

 

Probably a Morgan I got on ebay with a picture of a VF and the coin that came was AU. Paid $20. But in terms of flipped this year. Small amount. I bought a Silver ounce on ebay for 9.00 and sold it the day I got it for $20.

 

My steal of the year is actually probably the steal of my lifetime -- and a pretty boring one (but lucrative).

In the very same month I finally discovered that the US Mint has stores just a few blocks from where I work (which I learned on CT -- just a month after I discovered CT!), I happened to notice that the US Mint web site had William Henry Harrison dollar mint rolls listed as sold out, while the store had them. I checked eBay, saw that the price went through the roof, then went back to the Mint store, and purchased, with my hands trembling, their last boxes for approx $600. (Before that point I had never spent more than $5 on a coin!)

I flipped them all on ebay in 10 days, and netted $1100.

Sheesh . . . talk about being in the right place at the right time!!

My other steal -- although I'm not sure it classifies -- is when I discovered a jar of my own wheaties that I'd casually thrown stuff in over the last 30 years, went through it, and found a 1924-D in approx VF condition. (Thread and pix at http://www.cointalk.com/t52415/)

 

Thats a winner

 

I had one great "steal" this year. Bought a Jefferson Missing Edge Lettering dollar coin for $82.50 at an auction and sold it three days later for $2200.00

That was fun!!!

Bought another Jefferson MEL dollar later in the year for around $300 and that one also sold for more than $2k (though I thought it would have been $3-5k because it was a higher grade than the first example, but I wasn't going to be too greedy).

 

Bought a 1963 proof set along with a bunch of others. In checking the sets the quarter just blasted out at me. An absolute gem PF69 ULTRA CAMEO. Best 1963 proof quarter I have ever seen ... and I originally ordered 50 1963 sets to sell at shows when they came out and never saw this quality of a coin. Super nice.

 

I didn't really get any great steals this year. The two Lincoln Chronicle sets are probably the best cost/benefit for me.

 

Hmmm, not really a bargain hunter when it comes to coins, but I suppose the 1913 type 1 Buffalo nickel, NGC MS 67 rainbow toner I bought from my friends shop with his employee discount for under $300 might be considered at least a good deal, maybe not quite a steal though.
Guy~

 

I am so loving my new 1900-O Morgan I just had graded 66 over at PCGS.
Bought it in an ANACS slab with a Buy it now $150 under book (elevated but still not too bad).

So yea, that's my steal of the year...

 

I found in a bank roll so I got it for 10 cent

 

Not as good as last year, but one of the coins I purchased did auction for almost twice for what I won it at. Not as good as the others posted here, but still made me happy.

 

bought 4 coin albums partially filled this summer at a garage sale for a buck,the nickel book held a 1949-d d over s,and a bu 1950-d,plus a bunch of other decent coins in the other albums all for a buck,I had not looked at them when purchasing as I fiqured the holders were worth a buck and somehow they ended up buried in my garage for a few months until I found them again recently.