My lucky eBay purchase 1950-D Jefferson

Holy smokes Ken, you only had to pay $.29 for a gallon of gas and $.22 for a loaf of bread in '63!
That means you could have gotten 82 gallons of gas for that price! Now, the OP could have only bought about 3 gallons of gas.

Ok, my point is mute. I say good day!

 

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That's a nice find and for the right price. I think I ended up paying that much for a slightly lesser grade and without the toning.

 

Yup, and I used to have to walk to and from school, bare foot and in the snow, uphill both ways.....

 

man you must have a lot of gray hair Ken ..prolly from your wife though hehehe

 

You had it easy. We used to have to push the school bus up them hills, barefoot on broken glass, when we got to school the teachers would beat us with clubs, and for lunch we had to have chipped beef on toast, 5 days a week.

 

At least you weren't home schooled so you learned how to develop social skills... Plus you got outside and did something (although walking on glass wouldn't have been my choice).

 

Ken got snookered. I never paid more than a quarter a gallon for my mower fuel. (I couldn't drive yet)
Of course that 63 quarter would get me two gallons of gas today whereas a dollar bill wouldn't get me 1/3 a gallon.

 

Heck Marshall. I's always gettin snookered.......

Luckkyseven? Your social skills are second to none. Home schooling has it's merits.

 

Oh I wentz to da public school syztum - I was just goofin around lol!

 

Very nice, great buy

 

Very nice!
The nice toning you find on nickels is VERY hard to catch in pics for some reason.
I have a set that is toned very similar, most transluscent blue, but the toning barely shows up in pics, if at all.

I think you did great for 12 bux... It's probably MS 64 technical grade, but it has eye appeal way beyond that.

 

The 1950-D is one of those "keys" that was overhyped and has fallen on hard times since its glory days. It's one of the reasons why I think beginners should never start with "key" coins first.

 

In 1968, "gas wars" would sometimes bring the price of gasoline down to 20 cents, at least in the "4-state" area (Ark, Mo, Kan, Ok), and local-brand bread was sometimes 19 cents on sale. Lunch-box-size bags of Kitty Clover potato chips were 7 cents, and a pint of lemonade was 10 cents, as was a 10-ounce bottle of soda pop.

 

Proof? Denver has never struck Proof coins (except the 1994-D Proof $10 Olympic Gold). Only Philadelphia struck Proof coins in 1950.

 

1950-d

My photographic memory is running out of film thanks to the digital age. But, I thought sometime in the late 60's or 70's, there were a lot of mint sealed bags of UNC. 1950-D's found stored at a Fed Reserve Bank. That dropped the UNC prices to all time lows for the 1950-D !

The top 4 BU 50-D's, I bought about a month ago for $12.50 each.

The bottom 3 50-D's, I bought between 1962 -1966. Paid top dollar during that era cause they were hard to find.

 

The 50-D is always going to be a key due to the mintage, but it simply isnt a hard one to get. There are multiple coins in the set with a higher value (not counting errors) and harder to find with either full steps or in high MS grades. And it's like I said in an earlier post, I think I have technically better coin in my collection already, but it doesnt have this eye appeal.

 

So what did the graders say....appears to be encapsulated by a TPG?

 

Hey, give me two 1964 or earlier dimes, and I'll be happy to buy you a gallon of gas today​.

 

Absolutely beautiful, but then I am really a fan of toned coins. I'd say you got a good deal and I'm jealous cuz mines a beat up ole thing

 

Will four 1964 nickels do?