It's "Wicked Way Back Wednesday!". Post yours as well........

Hello all! I have a new thread here and a fun one also.
I'm calling it "Wicked Way Back Wednesday!". A thread about buying a coin, token or medal that you purchased or just acquired "back in the day" and what you see it valued at in today's market? A story to go along with it helps also.
Here's my story and coin and I'm sticking with it. In 1990, I met a girl (my current wife) and at a flea market one day, I purchased this coin. I guess it was to maybe impress her with my negotiating skills early on?? I thought it was going to be more than I wanted to pay at the time for a penny, so I offered only $3 and the guy accepted. That was all I had at the time after the date was over, lol. I should if known better.
Anyways, here it is. What do you think it's worth today? I feel "priceless" since I married the girl.
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Twenty Cent Piece cost me Twenty Five Cents back in the early 50's.

There was an old vegetable vendor that pushed a handcart down the alleys in our neighborhood. He sold produce out of his garden. One day mom gave me a Fifty Cent Piece and asked me to go out to him and buy something. Mom said it would be Twenty-Five Cents. I gave him the half dollar and he gave me a Twenty Cent Piece. They were almost the same size as a quarter and only in use for a few years in the 1870’s for this same reason – confusion. Now, technically, the vendor gained Five Cents and mom lost Five Cents. As I thought, when I told mom about the mix-up, I was told to put it in my coin collection.

 

I received this from a vending machine and since I was sending in some coins to be graded I included this.

 

I found this at a local coin shop, many years ago. The dealer said it was just damaged and sold it to me for just a few dollars. I told the dealer that it looked like a clashed die coin. He said he didn't care and that it was stupid to collect stuff like that. I didn't argue.

I could't figure out the clash and put the coin away. At some point I bought the Cherrypickers guide and there it was. The die from the FE Cent was clashed with the die from the $20 gold piece. This put me on the path of collecting clash die coins.

Last year I sent the coin to Great Collections to sell at auction.
The coin brought $3100. I did well.

 

That's awesome! How does a FE clash with a $20 Gold piece?

 

We may never know for sure but many believe the night watchman at the mint was playing around with the presses. There are FEs clashed with the quarter and half dollar as well.

 

I didn't want to get to dusty so I just went back to before there was a Great Collections; back in the misty early days of the internet and we got paper lists in the mail from a company called Teletrade:

 

Back then coins even had two sides