Your Best Deal Ever

bought a coin for $1.00 for my son. to teach my son about the coin, we look it up in the book only to discover it's the rare variety and is worth $300 or so.

-Steve

 

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The coin in my avatar (1903 McKinley Louisiana Purchase Commemorative) - bought it for the price of an XF... graded conservatively by NGC at MS64 :thumb: i liiiiiiiiiiiiiike

 

Actually they are anything BUT an indication of a counterfeit. Spend some quality time up close and personal with proofs and you will see what I mean.

You will see those "lumps" on any coin where the dies have been specially prepared by sandblasting, etc. Let me show you some modern proofs and you will see the same thing, but smaller and finer.









That closeup pic of the Morgan is to show the mirror fields and frosty devices. It's one of my favorite pics..

 

Best Deal - sounds funny, but in the early 1980's I picked up a 1957 Franklin in a small shop in Utah- common as dirt, but still has the nicest mint set toning I have seen on a Franklin. Sent it off for certification about 10 years ago and the dealer offered me $500 which I of course declined. I think I paid four dollars for the coin.

 

I bought 2 2007 reverse silver eagles for $190 each and sold one a month later (because I wanted some cash to buy a different coin) for $506.

That's sort of a deal I guess lol.



Also if I'm allowed to mention names, Speedy once gave me a colubian expo half dollar after I lost mine.

You'll be happy to know I still have it.



Besides that, nothing really.

 

A 1946 Flemish Five franc piece

I got it in a junk box for US35¢ in a Dutch coin store a couple of dozen years ago. I told him it was worth like fifty bucks, but he said that "if it was in the junk box, all I had to pay was the junk box price.

I looked in the catalogue to make sure that I was right (I was) showed it to him, thanked him profusely, and bought the coin for 35¢.