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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 10100496, member: 10461"]This 182(?) British off-center shilling was given to me by a coin dealer in Hendersonville, NC, around 1992-'93. In 1994, when I fell on financial hard times and had to leave NC, I sold it to my friend Michael Swoveland for $100.00. He sold it on eBay in the early 2000s, and it went out into the wild for many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2016, by complete coincidence, I stumbled across it again, for sale on the Atlas Numismatics website. There was no mistaking it as the same coin I'd sold 22 years earlier! So I HAD to buy it back, even though it cost five times what I'd sold it for in 1994. It had found its way into a PCGS slab while it was out in the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>I later sold it back to Michael again, for the higher 21st century price. He had regretted selling some of his British collection. I did make him promise that if he ever resold it again, it had to go to me instead of out into the wild. This one "stays in the family".</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you were following, that was: dealer in NC, to me, to Michael, to eBay and the world, to Atlas Numismatics, to me, to Michael. How's that for a "small world" coin, eh?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/yRNeLf0R1q3sEmwhHpwQ_OC-shilling-800x500-label.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 10100496, member: 10461"]This 182(?) British off-center shilling was given to me by a coin dealer in Hendersonville, NC, around 1992-'93. In 1994, when I fell on financial hard times and had to leave NC, I sold it to my friend Michael Swoveland for $100.00. He sold it on eBay in the early 2000s, and it went out into the wild for many years. In 2016, by complete coincidence, I stumbled across it again, for sale on the Atlas Numismatics website. There was no mistaking it as the same coin I'd sold 22 years earlier! So I HAD to buy it back, even though it cost five times what I'd sold it for in 1994. It had found its way into a PCGS slab while it was out in the world. I later sold it back to Michael again, for the higher 21st century price. He had regretted selling some of his British collection. I did make him promise that if he ever resold it again, it had to go to me instead of out into the wild. This one "stays in the family". So if you were following, that was: dealer in NC, to me, to Michael, to eBay and the world, to Atlas Numismatics, to me, to Michael. How's that for a "small world" coin, eh? [IMG]https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/yRNeLf0R1q3sEmwhHpwQ_OC-shilling-800x500-label.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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