Post a coin you've had to pay a premium for

And here's one I paid a bit of a premium for based purely on its pedigree:

 

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Picked up a 2007 $25 in a MS70 NGC holder. There's a local gold & silver shop that contacts me when they get neat stuff and I usually offer a 5% premium over spot. I'm quite happy with that low markup on this one:

 

I paid $9000 for this FDC Diocletian AV Aureus struck at Rome Mint in 286AD. The coin was from CNG/ Triton V
But, even today I am happy I got it, and look at it every week.

 

That Diocletian really is a stunner. I am not familiar enough with the market in ms Diocletian solidii to know what these should run. It's a very pretty coin.

Also in mid-2019 I bought an mint state solidus, however it is not as perfect as your Diocletian. Still it's of a slightly better emperor and I got because he lost the battle of Hadrianopolis which I talk about in my classes on Roman History.

It's a solidus of Valens. However, it doesn't keep in the theme of this general thread as I think I got it "relatively" cheaply ~2K.

 

Your Valens is very nice/ same reverse as my AV Solidus (Valentinian I)
The Diocletian Aureus was a rarity (FDC) grade. CNG hardly ever gives out that grade. That same coin sold in NFA auction back in late 1980s for 33K. Recently, a similar ex. sold for 65k. Seems prices on MS solidi are going up big time.

 

Thanks. CNG coins are very hard for me to get. I have an Ungood experience at their recent Triton sale this past January. I used either their App or the website to bid as they charge an extra 5% for phone bidding. Basically I had the high bid on a coin well prior to the sale but was out bid at the live auction. Using their website, I bid again and was outbid at 5.5K. I really didn't want to go to 6K but then I decided to and bid. However during my bid, it didn't post: they closed the lot and gave it to the other bidder at 5.5K. I was a bit surprised as I was in the middle of actively bidding on the piece and I did click the 6K bid button. There was no warning or anything. I guess these "cheap coins" (<10K), they don't worry about so much as they've many 6 figure pieces?

My solidus came from a European auction (Leu Numismatik) so no slab of course. Also for some reason Eves (Yves) over there is always helpful & pleasant to talk to. Maybe they have me confused with a big name dealer or something?

 

I may have paid up for this one a bit. Lifetime issue drachm almost perfectly centered with great strike and surfaces.

 

Wow. That's beautiful.

And that's why we pay more for these sorts of things!

 

Really nice drachm Trimer! Also if I recall 1862 is a better date of these.