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/