Holy Kick Myself In The But Batman!!!

LOL...Bison. Hey, I never claimed to put all my eBay bids in with an hour to go.

 

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Sorry but your problem has never occured around me. I've never sold a coin in over 60 years of coin collecting. I've never even considered selling a coin. Not even sure how. My Son made me a thing or something on ebay and paypal with my name and a password but since I don't buy or sell over the internet, that has just vanished around here too.
I've purchased coins over the years I thought I should have maybe, possibly, taken a bit more time doing so, but just never let it bother me. I actually have the first coins from way, way back in the 1940's and will have them all forever. Possibly like the Egyptians, bury me with them, please.

 

You should hook up with About Good and become Burial-Buddies :goofer:

 

Electricy is still on so I can Post today

Honesty is a form of Health.

Electricy is still on so I can Post today.

Actually went to the head of the thread were regrets and BatMan intersected.

Give the gift that lasts forever came to mind while reading this thread.

GUILT!

I just am happy to know I can reach into my pocket and find something special every now & then.

The rest just get "used".

 

I like to keep "keep it positive" and be thankful for the wonderful priceless things I have (health, people I love, etc.), instead of dwelling on regrets.... That said:

In mid-1999, after the birth of my second child, I asked friends and others what would be a good gift and investment for my children for their future. I asked friends whether gold would be a good investment. At that time, gold was around $270.80 an ounce.

One friend recommended a nice expensive watch. He insisted it was a great keepsake and something a child would always treasure as an adult. He recommended against buying gold. "You want something you can use."

Another friend recommended some tech stocks that were "starting to take off." "Gold will never go up and makes a poor investment."

I asked some bitter old coin dealers about buying gold, but all they could do was complain about was "losing their shirt" in gold investing years ago. When I expressed my surprise that many high quality 19th century foreign cold coins were still going for little over the low bullion prices, he insisted that it was "foolish to buy any foreign gold" for reasons I'm still don't understand.

Another friend cautioned against buying any coin since "they were all overgraded and there are too make fakes."

At that time (May 1999), I wrote down some prices of gold coins from a reputable dealer:

Uncirculated French Roosters 20F 1899-1914: $59.15
Uncirculated French Angels 20F 1871-1898: $59.90
Uncirculated Italian Umberto I 20L 1871-1898 $59.80
Uncirculated British Sovereign Gold Kings early 20th century: $82.20
Modern Bullion coins little over spot ($270.80)

I could go on, but you get the idea.

Now, trying to keep it positive:

I did NOT buy the expensive watch. (Young people don't wear watches anymore.)
I did NOT throw too much money away into tech stacks that later crashed and burned.

Unfortunately, I bought only a small fraction of the gold coins I wanted then.

Oh, well, I still have my health, my wife, my job, and my friends...and the too few gold coins I bought when gold was at $270/oz.


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Yep the best opportunities, They always come at the worst time....LOL

 

Nice question joe, man can I relate!
I hope TDEC weighs in on this discussion. about a year ago I sold him some bullion and some copper cents. One of them was an IHC, can't quite remember the year. But it was certainly a nice high AU, close to MS IMO, and it had Gorgeous die cracks around the perimeter of the coin... man I miss it. I wanted to email him and buy it back, but I had noticed he already had it on ebay and it was sold. If it ever comes up, I'll pay extra for it. I actually have a thread on it on here somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.

EDIT:
http://www.cointalk.com/t45110-2/
It is the 1864 IHC, the reverse has awesome die cracks. It was actually a recognized snow Variety, TDEC found out when he got it.

 

Shawn, the question is....how much did he sell it vs. what you sold it to him for. I guess as long as you got what you were hoping for then all is good. Sometimes the price placed on the hassle of selling it yourself is worth the difference lost.

 

The only regret i have so far is not buying the 2000 Saca Dollar that i saw in a flee market about 5 years ago. It was in the Cheereos packaging with a 2000 cent for $5. It is now worth thousands of dollars.

 

Yep, I think I would be kicking my self for that one too.....for a long time. :headbang:

 

At the time it seemed high for a common date dollar. I didn't know that it would be a rare variety. if only i could go back in time.

 

Who did? THat is the marvel of modern rarities.

For instance, that 2007 FS bronze medal set that I mention in the first post....well, I got rid of it before the Adams mule was found so I never looked to see if I had it. In fact, a member on CT has it, but I can't remember who or I would have told them to look. Based on what they know of the mule, chances are that I didn't have it....but knowing my luck! :computer:

 

That suck about the FS set.

 

Snaz, anybody in their right mind would miss that coin. My barber , who is just 12 cents shy of a full IHC collection, would be so sad for you. He loves em' so much. zeke

 

I don't sell, just buy. I have a few times kicked myself for not getting a better deal.