What is it? It's "Thrifty Thursday!". It's about buying a coin or coins on a budget. Please post your Coin, token or medals that you for some reason bought with very little cash. For example, this is my 1909VDB cent that I purchased at a "flea market" just after dating my now, wife back in 1990. I paid a whopping $3!! I still have the coin and the woman.
You go, Sal! Glad you found a keeper. (BTW, I think you're on a roll with these themed-day things.) So... cheerful cheapos, huh? OK. Each of these coins cost me less than a dollar. Found 'em in bulk lots. (Yep- even the proof.) Thus I reckon I paid somewhere between 10 and 25 cents for each of them. And each has a catalog value of less than five bucks. So the coins themselves cost me practically nothing- and are technically worth practically nothing... but yet I went and spent nearly fifty bucks apiece to put them in PCGS slabs, in order to add them to my (all-slabbed) collection. Why? Because both have sentimental ties to my childhood. You see, when I was a kid, we lived in Tanzania in 1972, and the Bahamas in 1974. As I recall, you could buy a model airplane kit with a Tanzanian 5-shilingi piece like this in 1972- I used to get one of these coins a week for my first allowance. And one of these Bahamian 10-cent pieces would buy a comic book back in '74, when we were living aboard a trimaran sailboat in Nassau. So slabbing these made no sense from a purely economic standpoint, but all the sense in the world from a sentimental one.
I found this in my change, but it wasn't slabbed and as @lordmarcovan said it wasn't worth getting it graded.
Here is a recent $5 purchase I couldn't pass up. There is also a post I made of a 1901 S dime I bought for $6.
These two beauts; both MS66 and $18.50 shipped and $19.80 shipped respectively. Felt these were quite a steal, especially the '62.
$19.44 shipped. Not sure if it would straight grade or high enough to make it a great price, but it's the obverse Type I anomaly with a 1/1 RPD, which are pretty scarce. I'll spend <$20 on some weird thing like this all day long.
I paid $19.99 for this common date but it should grade at least 66. Extremely reflective and very well struck.
I don't remember exactly what I paid for this one but I know it was under $15. 1963 Thailand 20 baht, .750 silver.
That coin really made me do a double-take, because I once dug a nearly identical looking 1916-D quarter while metal detecting, and put a very similar scratch on it when recovering it. (It had been sitting atop a rock in the side of the hole, and the scratch happened when I pulled it out.)
Fascinating! You aren't missing it, are you? I bought it on eBay in a lot of mixed silver at silver spot price a couple or several months ago. I have never dug up any silver yet, but that scratch would have really hurt... I am sure that irked you.
That coin should still be in my detector finds album. Thinking back, it’s possible the one you have could be slightly higher grade. And 30 years on, I can’t remember now if my detector find got scratched on the obverse or the reverse. But it was definitely a strongly detailed 1916-D Barber quarter with a similar look to yours. And with a similarly unfortunate scratch of similar proportions. It was still an exciting detector find. PS- and yours was a good grab, at spot price.
