Most Amount of Money You Have Spent Thread

What is the most amount of money you spent on a coin, rare or not? The most amount of money I have spent on a coin is 3 bucks for a 1934 mercury dime. I would go up to spending 5 bucks for a coin perhaps. (Also, list your limit for paying for a coin.) :smile

P.S. (If you want you could add a picture of your coin.):yes:

 

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$600 and I'm a very small fish in a sea of sharks.

 

I'm with Log - I've spent $600. Unfortunately, that may change this evening.

We'll see how many snipers are on the prowl tonite.

-Brian

 

325

 

What coin was that? (To anyone in general)

 

A Capped Bust Half Dollar.

-Brian

 

Bought an Indian Quarter Eagle for around $500 if I remember correctly.

I don't know that I have a set limit for buying coins. If I have the money, I'll buy the coin.

 

Barber Half, what else?

 

Most I have spent on a coin is $1K, Most I have spent on a slab is $1400. Most I have spent on a coin book is $500.

 

My answer is contained in the thread linked below!


Read more: http://www.cointalk.com/t137389/#ixzz201VCSs6a

 

That's quite a Lafayette, Lehigh! :thumb:

-Brian

 

I have never been to one! :'( we have one once a year, so this year will be the first year for me going. probably will take around 500

 

$32 for an ASE.

Everything else I tend to get at spot (for silver coins) or face (via CRH).

 

(I think the question was more aimed at a different angle than it was received. And don't answer if you have something you don't want others to know about!)

 

I spent around $2800 for a US coin once, a VF 1795 Flowing hair dollar quite a while ago.

As for a limit? IDK, it would depend. I could see myself spending 5k for a coin if it was really special and historically important, but I try to be cheap.

 

Actually I can't answer the questions. I unloaded almost all of my most expensive coins. Now here is one that was well over 1k(no I am not going to look up the exact amount) and worth every penny I spent. Plus there are several members here who know how much I spent.

 

More than $1 and less than $100
I don't have nearly as much money as I would like but I'm only 21 so I'm sure that will change as I get older

 

I think this is an inappropriate thread, and request that no more specific answers be given. There are some collectors here who have spent HUGE amounts of money for very valuable coins, and it is a security issue to discuss it openly. Even given the anonymous environment, IP addresses are extremely easy to check, and so are ISPs. While it will not give an exact location, I certainly would only give my location information to some folks on here--this is a public forum, and this question is a bit like asking for bank records online.

 

Sorry guys, but I beg to differ. I think your caution—though well-intentioned—is a bit excessive.

Let's suppose some nefarious CT lurker reads that I've spent $1,000 on a mighty-nice coin. He lives in Ohio—only 5 hours from me—and, after having discovered my address though some convoluted online means, decides to drive up here to rummage through my house to look for my SDB key. Is this a likely scenario?

First, he doesn't know, based on this thread, if I'm even telling the truth. I may not have $1,000 to my name. But suppose he has seen me post other mighty-nice coins on CT. Is this really going to be sufficient info to justify his traveling here for a potential surveillance and break-in?

Based on this thread, or even on all of CT, he really would have no idea of 1), what my net worth actually is (it's not that much) or what exact valuables I might have in my possession, or 2), what kind of protection I maintain for my property.

Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier for this nefarious CT lurker to drive to his nearest old-money neighborhood in Ohio and hot-wire a Porsche or two, or rummage through a few homes for jewelry boxes while the owners are at the opera?

Granted, I'm being silly and playing devil's advocate; still, I've read too many testimonials by former burglars about how they do their work. They go to nice neighborhoods during the day when everyone's at work; they pop out a window and then rummage for valuables. They want to hit as many homes in one vicinity as possible. Reading coin discussion boards in hopes of a coming across a potential wealthy collector (which, BTW, I've yet to see emerge on this thread) doesn't strike me as a very efficient way to steal.

 

It's about the most expensive.



BTW it stays at the Credit Union and when it's at the house in the gated community it is watched over by the dog and a armed old guy.