Most you ever paid for a coin/ World survey

@panzerman when you started this thread I thought the few coins I posted would be my top ones price-wise for a long time. That was, until this one came along, which I have posted on other threads.

I can't imagine anything topping this for a while. It was double what I ever paid before for a single coin.


Solver for 4 talers 1664 LW, Clausthal. Yield from the Harz mines.
Christian Ludwig, 1648-1665

Obverse: Hand of clouds wreaths a horse over a mining landscape with miners and two gullets, outline of the pit below
Reversed: Crowned monogram from CL, framed by two laurel branches, surrounded by fourteen coats of arms. With value stamp.

Mint master Lippold Wefer

Weight: 111.5grams
Diameter: 72mm

Welter 1495, Davenport 187, Müseler Supplement 10.4.1/63 a, Duve 12 AI.

 

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Since everybody is posting theirs, here is the coin I paid the most for:

The price of a not so small, small car.

 

Eduard/ Chris....I think both you guys are really happy that you spent that $$$$ and NOW own two amazing pieces of numismatic history. And....both coins will be double their price in next 5 years.
John

 

LOL, well yes that is both sides of it for sure. I generally like the coins I stretched for but sometimes regret the extreme amounts of money given up for the privilege - love the coins but not the money out....

 

This one is my most expensive coin. I plan to submit it to NGC next year. I hope they don’t details grade it for potentially being in a mount.


Unter Schweden. Gustav II. Adolf, 1631-1632.
1/2 Reichstaler 1633, auf die Überführung seiner Gebeine nach Schweden. 14,45 g. Münzmeister Hinrich Martens.
Ahlström 14; Hildebrand I, S. 193, 189.

 

3950 EUR (which is 4262 USD) for this 6 stuivers Dutch gold coin from 1770:

 

I don’t have any photos but I have 2 US coins that I paid over $5,000 each for years ago. I think they are my most expensive ones but I don’t keep them handy.

 

I have several in the 7K plus range from low mintage modern proofs to liberties
and saints.

 

Here are the Top 6 that I have pictures of at this time.

Paid $4200 Paid $5200

Paid $13,000

Paid $8000

Paid $2200

Paid $3000

 

I love the old dated coins! I have a book of the oldest dated coins. Just haven’t dived in yet. Thanks for sharing

 

Would you share the title of the book

 

Pretty much a tie, but the second one wins.

Z

 

The Early Dated Coins of Europe: 1234-1500. By Levinson.

 

That's the book I use exclusively. I've got over 300 different per the book.