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.
1909vdb (No S ). .......

 

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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

 

A bit of metal I bought in mid 2001 for $4.44.

I was moving and sold off a couple tons of 1969 Ford Mustang and assorted parts.
I was looking to put the money somewhere because the bank wasn't paying anything for interest.
Silver on the move again and I'm thinking about selling Out.
Downsizing if you will, but I have plenty of other things collected that should go first.

 

After giving it some thought I will share the coins that started it all. I was a 5 year old living on a farm in Iowa when a class 5 tornado destroyed our farm.
I was doing a pathetic job of helping pick up debris when i fouind an old leather purse. The next couple of pics are what was inside:



This started my coin collecting career. james

 

In 1964 I worked evenings and weekends at the service station my parents owned. Built by my mother’s parents in the 30s
I pumped gas, cleaned windshields, checked oil, belts and hoses. Commission on work sent for the mechanic. Candy, ice cream, soda, tobacco inside. Searched rolled coins between customers at a desk behind the counter.
Went to a coin show in Syracuse with the owner of the local Chevy dealer. He had a little more money than me and watched over me. My big purchase was a penny for $5. Still have it
Pic is my grandparents & uncle c. 1935

 

I bought these around 1971-72 with lawn mowing money ($5 for 1 acre sized lawns). Everything was graded and sold this way - 2x2, letter grades. $1.50-1.75 for BU Franklins, $1.25 for BU Mercury dimes. Today of course value depends on "how BU is it?". Today these would be what, $25? So I marginally beat inflation - $1.50 in 1971 is $12.25 today. There aren't any big scores from that era in my collection except the silver I got for free out of circulation.

 

Do you still have the purse?

 

$1.50 while taking 39th ann in Ireland

 

@SensibleSal66 . No. The purse was a small black leather purse with a metal zipper. The entire thing was all but destroyed by the elements. i have just always wondered who owned it. The mix of coins, the grades they are in, has always baffled me. James

 

What is this falsehood?? Two sides to a coin?? I say to you,
this is heresy and blasphemy!! An investigation is forth coming.