Your biggest score?

In the world of coins, us dealers tend to make profits, some larger than others. Post the biggest score you ever had with coins, and type. Currency is accepted too.

 

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Mine wasn't much, since I haven't bought any big ticket items lately, it was a 1993 SMS Proof 90 % Silver Quarter I got for 4 dollars.

 

I wonder what bq will post. Mine was an 1882 snow-6 IHC - bought $105, sold for $1500. Not as big as others, but made me happy.

 

One time I bought a group with horrible pics on Ebay for $200 because I believed the man who said his wife got them from her uncle. The group went unsold, but I ended up buying them after the auction. When I got the coins the first envelope I opened was a Ptolemaic tetradrachm, worth about $300. All in all, the coins were probably worth $2000.

 

169-147. Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point night.

 

Found a 1865 3 cent in a bag of foreign coins I paid .83 cents last week

 

A couple of goodies:

1. I bought a job lot of foreign mixed at a car boot sale, for once genuinely unsorted. Among other gems in the lot - a Bulgaria 10 Leva (6.5gms of 0.900 Gold), plus four 1926 Portuguese 1 Escudo - only Aluminium-bronze but very scarce for some reason, and sold just over £200 each!

2. Bought a collection of old British Indian Silver coins. Seller only wanted scrap value for them, so they cost me about £80 all told. Included a pile of early 19th century One, half and quarter rupees amongst lots of other things. It took me a year to sell them all, and I was well over £4k by the end.

 

I've bought a couple dozen large cents on eBay for around $20 that sold at auction for a couple hundred each. One particular group lot on ebay I picked up 10 late date large cents for $300 and pieced them out for over $1500.

GAJ - when you say, 'us dealers' what do you mean? When I think of a dealer I think of people who run a business. I think, as this post shows, most collectors buy and sell as part of their collecting. I don't consider myself a dealer even though many of my purchases are made solely to resell the coin. Case in point, I cherried an 1804 c-4 half cent for $29 on ebay and it's already on it's way to an auction house as I already have a nicer one. Should make at least $200 off the coin, does that make me a dealer?

 

3 come to mind... an 1890 p morgan I bought for melt (25) that turned out to be a AU55 VAM 15a (r-6) and worth about 200 2nd was a 1.2g 2007 20 Euro gold Ireland culture for $65 and most recently picked up an MS64 George Washington dollar with no edge lettering icg certified for 30. None real fantastic but all great scoops that still make me smile

 

AU 1883 V Nickel with cents- bought it for $15 @ LCS sold it on eBay for $115

:hail:

 

I really don't buy to sell so I don't keep track of my biggest scores. The one time I can recall was when I bought of three black eagle notes on Heritage for $150 because I wanted one. Sole the other two at a show in Vegas for $100 each. Not bad I guess, for someone who wasn't even trying.
Guy

 

I don't mean to be a Richard Cranium, but you aren't my idea of any type of dealer.

 

My biggest score dollar-wise, was probably buying 5-sets of 25th Anniversary Silver Eagles for $300 each and selling a few at $800 each the next day.
I managed to acquire a complete, Extraordinary P-D-S-S set of perfectly toned Roosies for $165 that's worth around $1k slabbed & parted out now, but a buyer would have to pry that from my cold dead hands before we really know what it's worth.
Best percentage-wise, was a Encased Cent where I paid $0.05 and sold for $80...... try doing that with stocks & bonds

 

I got one of these in MS64RB for 1-cent when roll searching in 1969 or 1970.

The find was a real score because it got me interested in collecting error coins.

 

Very cool cud collect89!

 

I forgot my biggest one besides the V nickel. I bought an almost complete album of Wheat cents that was only missing 22 plain, 14-D and 09vdbs, I upgraded many of my earlier coins including the keys and filled a few spots (11-d, 12ds, 14s, 15s, 24d and 31s) I listed ever coin on eBay and all but a few crappy cleaned ones from the 20s sold. I made my money back plus $50 plus I added several hundred in upgrades. My best personal score.

 

Recently picked up a roll of mixed Peace and Morgans in VF-AU (a few lightly cleaned) for $23 a piece. Not too bad.

 

Actually, he's the type of dealer I was warned about in my younger years.

Now, I just pass the tables/stores of dealers like him.

 

Well, I've certainly done it in the opposite direction with stocks...

 

Reached into the millions playing Galaga once, my eyes got tired after a while.