Post your under $50.00 purchase...

This was $49 w/Buyer's Fee.

CDN numbers are $120/155. I literally thought I was going paranoid when I saw the numbers for this coin and immediately went to bid on it.

 

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And also, can't go wrong with $34 for a key date even in poor/fair details.

 

Nothing special. I already had one, but for $19. I didn't pass it up. 1865 3 cent nickel.

 

Mr Half Dime......can you educate me? No sarcasm whatsoever. How does anyone get a dime slabbed thinking it will economically benefit them? How much does ICG charge for grading a dime? I'm serious. I know you bought them that way, but original owner, WHY???

I do dumb stuff for Morgans, I'll get a common date graded just because......but a dime? Even weirder, a nickel or penny?

 

Chances are those 8 dimes were slabbed due to any of 3 reasons:

1 - A dealer may have been doing a bulk submission and could have included these since chances are really good that for a submission large enough, they received a significant discount.

2 - The person may have believed the coins were of a significantly higher grade than they were, or may have thought the dimes were worthy of a Full Bands grade. Some dimes from the 1970s, such as 1976 (P) can bring some huge money in full bands.

3 - These coins could have been part of a set of some sort, possibly something as off the wall as a year set or an entire Roosevelt dime run in MS64.

My guess is that since multi-coin auctions can go for some serious money on GC, these were likely consigned with hopes of bringing a much higher amount than $14. I won several ICG-graded lots on the same night, all for under $5 a slab.

I'm sure ICG is fond of whoever submitted these. I can't blame them, I'd be fond too.

 

Let me start by apologizing. The following was not $50 and under. I know what this thread is about, but hopefully you'll forgive me this slight deviation. I don't know how much I paid for each coin. I put 4 coins on the counter, and he gave me a price for all 4, $60. So, I think it's safe to say, I didn't pay as much as $50 for a single coin. I know these are low grade (except for the 1871 3 cent, which was the real one I wanted), but I didn't have that year, so I added them while I could still get them.
1840 Half Dime
1850-O Half Dime
1869 3 cent (I have one, but this is a little better)
1871 3 cent (again, the one I wanted)

 

Someone (@Pickin and Grinin?) started an "under $100" thread, and now I can't find it.

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bought-for-around-a-hundred-give-or-take-15.421126/

 

I managed to get this coin straight graded by PCGS at AG3. This is the only DM of the three overdates that shows portions of all four digits of the "underdate" 1854.