Post your under $50.00 purchase...

I tried to get this ‘42 proof for $42.42, but I had to go up to 44.44.

 

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$6.79

 

Okay, this wasn't strictly an under-$50 purchase. It worked out to a group of five for $49.50:


...but there were nineteen other stacks of five that I purchased at the same time, plus one.

I'm going to be busy digesting this one for a while. I'll start separate threads for anything interesting.

 

Here's an Ebay Cherry Pick, $5.00 free shipping. I submitted it for grading and at the time it was graded, technically, due to a prior misattribution, this was the first graded.

 

Freebie from Daniel Carr and the KotCT....$0.00

 

I bought this from a shop I don't get to visit very frequently. When I saw it, I had remembered reading somewhere about them. I had remembered that the 1992-1998 were low production. So when I saw this 1994 I knew it had to come home with me. It's also the year I graduated from HS. I paid $4.00 for it.

 

I seem to remember @mikenoodle bringing up the Souvenir Sets some place. If you could give some information or possible summon someone who can shed some light, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

My first under $50 post

 

All of this fits in the thread. Quick mental math says I paid an average of around $5 each. Better pictures of some of the individual US coins are coming in the near future.

 

What would you like to know about them?

 

Those are good buys for $4.

The souvenir sets came from the actual Mints sounvenir shops. You could only get them if you visited the Mints.

 

I found a website about them. It seems the production on them dropped significantly starting in 1992 until the end of their production in 1998. Once the State Quarter program started, the souvenir set program ended.

LOL, I guess I did not need to summons you. Do you by chance have any idea of how tough these later sets are to find? I couldn't seem to find any on eBay with the exception of a 1993 Philadelphia set that sold for slightly over $200.00 at auction and a 1994 set that sold in around an hour for a BIN price of $16.00. I guess I'm I curious as to the market on these.

 

There are only a select few of these that find a big premium over circulation coins. Largest of note are the two years 1982 and 83. Made and sealed by the Mint, these Souvenir Sets are sought after because the US Mint didn’t make Mint sets during those two years and these would be suitable replacement sets.

 

Couple civil war tokens

 

How's this for a find a 1929 Brown seal Federal Reserve Note Richmond Va. Of course I had to buy it Dad worked at the FRB Of Richmond Baltimore branch for 47 years! $30 I believe this was a sweet find as I think it"s worth $100 yeah a few bends but the paper is still crisp and the ink looks great.

BTW he was 15 y/o in 1927 when he started at the bank...

 

I just picked this up on eBay for $6.50 plus $3.50 shipping or $10 Total. The obverse isn't much to look at, but the reverse is readily identifiable as Reverse Q of 1803. This is the reverse used on the S-263 an S-264.

The question is which one is it? The heavy sinking not only at STA, but also TES would seem to indicate later and perhaps the S-264. But there also appears to be some crumbling of the die under the date, but not the CUD of the late S-263.

I resolved the question because the Large 3 has has an upward serif as well as the lower serif and this had only the lower serif.

But now the question is whether the reverse die is actually a later state or it's just an illusion from an unusual wear pattern interacting with the die break.

In any event, I now have the Reverse of the S-264 to go with My Obverse of S-264, even though both are on other pairings. But this is certainly a good pickup for me.

 

35$

 

$60 for the whole lot

 

Bust half, Fine details. Paid $50. Just the faintest graffiti in the fields there, but still nice details imo.

 

That sucks I passed on about 20 of these a year ago. @ 7$ each
They were 83' from the Denver mint.