It's Simply, "Frugal Frugal Friday!" Bought on the cheap.....Post yours.....

Hello all. It's time for a new thread! It's called Simply "Frugal Frugal Friday!". A thread about buying a Coin(s), token or medal that you purchased perhaps a while ago or recently "on the cheap" and now is worth way more than when you purchased it. A good story behind your post should be interesting as well.
Here is my short story. I met this very pretty girl back in 1990 and while we were out and about one day, we went to a small flea market in a mall. I guess I was trying to impress her by buying a coin I saw there or at least that was the plan.
It was this 1909vdb Lincoln Cent. The guy had it at an EF40 which meant nothing to me at the time. It was the decent condition that got me and the $3.00 price tag. What a bargain I thought. I figure that I got my money's worth.
Oh, by the way, I married that girl in 1995! Well worth it.
. So, I got the coin and the Love of my life, forever.
Comments welcome....

 

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Talk about frugal, how about a bird? I brought this just last week for just $8.36. I couldn't find any info on what the bird means to IKO-TAMS. I'm not exactly patient enough to be a good researcher but birds do sit up in trees and talk to each other so I suspect it might symbolize dissemination of information, knowledge, ideas etc.

 

Thankyou. I never thought three states would have the same bird.

 

Thanks for the info. My state, Connecticut is one of them. We wait every year for the Robin's return which means that Spring is just around the corner.

 

I found this mixed with other tokens at a coin show. It was $8. Turns out it's an extremely rare (unless there's a massive hoard somewhere) strawberry token unlisted in all my books and research databases. I would guess it to be worth $50+. The trade token market is much more complex and unpredictable than the coin market though, so who knows?

Carthage, Missouri Union Trust Co. One Tray

 

I don't usually think of Seated Dollars as cheap but here is my 1846-O Seated Dollar. I won this coin for $325 auction juice included. Anyone and everyone is free to find one at that price.

 

I picked up this Canada 1946 $1 in 2004 for $80 in an old ICCS MS60 holder. It's now ANACS MS62. I didn't notice for many years that it's the short water lines (SWL) variety. Although the coinsandcanada price guide says $284, an NGC MS62 sold on Heritage last December for $780.

Looking at my spreadsheet, I bought a lot of coins in 2004. I don't know what I was thinking. We had a one year old kid and the second was born a year later. Great time to be blowing money on coins, right? It all worked out OK.

 

For $143 I took the plunge on this one.

 

Purchased an Indian Head cent.

 

At @Yankee42 . An actual near worn flat Seated Dollar. you should get some kind of bonus points for that. James

 

About 12 or so years ago I started collecting CSA Notes, notes from the Confederacy during the Civil War. Only 72 notes were produced during the war years. I have about 1/3 of them, mostly the most common ones. That made me branch out and start collecting some of the more interesting things on CSA Notes.
Things like cut cancelled notes, interest stamps on the back of the notes, etc. I even have a couple of counterfeit notes. I now have radar notes, ladder notes and special notes of various types.
One of my frugal buys is this note. It’s
a note from 1862, a fairly common one. It’s graded by PCGS Currency as a vF-35 note. It would have graded higher but there is a small edge split on it. It has slaves hoeing cotton, a common theme from the south during this time period.
It h as strong writing that not faded and there are 3 Interest stamps on the reverse. All three interest stamps are fr on Augusta. This indicates that this note never ventured away from this area, which is unusual. It is a $100.00 Note so less of them were issued than with the lower values notes.
I paid $2000 for this note around 10 to 11 years ago. Why you may ask? Because of all that I’ve mentioned but mainly due to the serial number. Four years ago I was offered $7000 and it’s now worth of $10,000. This note is the lowest know serial number on CSA Notes, any of them, to this day. The serial number is written in red ink and it’s still strong in color. It is recorded by the grader as SN #2. The next know lowest number is just below 10, like 7 or 8, I forget which. I just know what I paid and that every year it keeps rising in price. Needless to say, I’m thrilled!

 

Quite the kudo Sir Dave......

 

Yes, thank you, it’s one of the top items in my collection.