Any awesome stories on how you got amazing coins??

Someone I knew gave me a box filled with some foreign coins, most from the 1950's. Near the bottom, I found this;
That got my attention. Also there was a nice looking 1918 nickel in about Au and some of those coins that came in Wheaties cereal boxes. Great coins but no "I just saved someone's life" story.

 

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Someone I knew gave me a box filled with some foreign coins, most from the 1950's.
Near the bottom, I found this;


That got my attention. Also there was a nice looking 1918 nickel in about Au and some of those coins that came in Wheaties cereal boxes. Great coins but no "I just saved someone's life" story.

 

Whoops, posted twice!

 

Crock of sh... Why don't you show us proof of these 6-7 figure offers you say you've received for your coin?

Because you haven't. It's worth $700 or so. Max.

The majority of my collection has come from roll searching. I've also picked a few nice coins out of junk silver but nothing extremely valuable.

 

I think eBay knows and they see how much money of peoples bids that has been declined, I also remember I copy and paste that offer in Coin Space Forum..
That's all. And thre's also a member insisting if you will cashed my cashier check and the money is clear to your account you will be obligated that you will handed your coin on me. But I declined that offered because is not what I asking for just below 10 % of asking price.. Period...:thumb:

 

I don't have any amazing coin stories with valuable coins, but I have gone to estate sales and I make a point of flipping through books pages to see if any money or other valuable thing is there, and the same with clothing pockets, especially men's suits. When I was a kid I borrowed a copy of Born Free from the library and when I opened it at home, there was a 10 dollar bill there. Amazing! (I kept it, 1968 or so). At an estate sale, I bought a nice upscale ski suit (which I later sold for a nice profit) for 3.00 simply because I found coins in the pocket and I didn't want to just take the coins, as that would be "stealing" IMO. The coins were quarters, and came to 3.25 I think. Also at an estate sale I bought an old photo album (for very old pics) and saw that among the photos was a very unusual comedic type photo in near perfect condition. As a result I sold that photo for 126 dollars, the album gave me a profit of about 20 dollars over what I paid and the rest of the photos gave me a 10 dollar profit. So I made just over 150.00 from noticing that the photo album had a worthwhile photo in it.

One estate sale at the very end had a box of nice coins in it and the box was 2.00 - I took it to the lady and asked if the box of stuff was all for 2.00 for the box. She saw the coins and said no, it wasn't for sale. But I found a book in BRAND NEW condition (collectible) that I bought for 2.00 there, and I sold the book for 34 dollars.

Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes not. But I really liked what you said about learning to walk away from a deal. That is sometimes hard to do, especially if you think you know it all. But I don't know what I would do if I found something VERY valuable accidentally in something I bought at a garage or estate sale (meaning it was "hidden" in another item).

 

Did I misread that or did you just say you cashed someone's check and then refuse to give them the coin that they paid for?

 

No, I did not cashed the check because the offered on that check is below Ten Percent on the asking price. So the cashier check never reached the bank for cashing.

 

redwin, why don't you send the coin to ngc? It'd be worth more that way. Not millions like you think but a little under a grand.

 

The coin certified year 2000 in Baltimore Coin Show in Maryland, March Sunday, Large Crowd. Between 1996-1999 At same show so many graders assigned on theirs Bourse table to look on it but failed to convinced me for the security and safety of the coin. Year 1996 1999 Doubled Denomination 1995 is very popular and it was on Newspaper, coin magazines, radio and heard it cost about $ 600 Bucks. But the one I have is 1995 Double Denomination with Two Full dates and many more varieties such as crack die and skull break etc. I talk to NGC representatives with all of them a very nice peoples and friendly but they are NOT ALLOWED to certify any ERROR COINS. So please you can ask them when they at what year they started certifying errors coin. That's all.

Beside the one who certified my coin is Mr. Alan Hager an Inventor and professional expert in Numismatist World. too many coin dealer see it and one of the coin dealer offered me Ten thousand dollars for it. I quietly said not now and sorry, thanks for a nice offered then walked away.

It's like a piccasso signiture that's add up.

 

Ever hear of David Hall? He's about 10 times as impressive as Hager. I had never heard of this hager character until your comments. PCGS (and NGC for that matter) does slab and certify error coins and they will give you a real grade, not some gibberish about how it is too unique to grade.

For example, they recently graded a 1943-D cent struck on a bronze planchent. Not only is it a number grade that they gave it (64 BN), it also is an error coin.

No offense, but you really need a reality check.

 

The best purchase story I've got is for a pair of 1929 German Medals that I purchased from a company we'll call Kermit Tidge.

They were listed in the catalog as a single piece (the silver medal) and I put a bid in just at the extreme range of what it was worth. My bid got bumped up to the maximum at the last second, and I was almost regretting winning after figuring in the buyer's premium. So, I go to the auction house to pick up the medal, and that's when I find out that both the gold and silver medal were included in the lot.

I ended up getting them both for less than the melt value of the gold piece (and that was the melt price 2-3 years ago):

 

Hi guys.

It's been a while...(3 years?)....I guess...
Might as well post a reply here coz aside from it making my day, this is brings back good memories.
I just hope someone here still remember me since I often just lurk.
I think my last post was about me leaving for a 3-month board exam review.

After that, I experienced life...............................

Anyway, I just read everything (this particular thread) and I can't help but smile.
And yes of course, still in awe.

Funny thing is, this morning, some member in a facebook coin group that I'm a member with posted Redwin's 11c-piece, stating:

"Eto na ata ang pnakamahal n coin error..."

which means, "This is probably the most expensive error coin ever".

The net connection was very bad at that time, and the picture keeps on loading.
Yet comments were already posted and saying that it's price generated about $7 million.
Just reading their comments led me to comment back not even waiting for the picture to load, thinking that it was someone's coin that I once knew.
Then as the picture loaded, I searched for Redwin's coin and compare it. And of course it was his.

And since I'm not that active on that group, I wonder who the TS is, and how he came to know Redwin's coin.
But whoever he is, I thank him for bringing back one of the best thing that my life have experience being a part with.

Perhaps, someday, I'll explain why...
'til then, I'll always treasure my time spent in this group.

Once again, Thank you.


Sincerely,

Adrian P. Endozo
Licensed Customs Broker

 

Here is one of my stories. Had to do a copy and paste from an earlier post since I am at the airport on the way to Chicago. True story, though.

One auction I attended earlier this year had a pic of a couple of 1892-O Morgans that looked UNC to me. I checked what they were worth, went early to inspect the stuff before the auction and scored 10 UNC 1892-O Morgans that went to NGC for grading...all coming back MS64+, 64, 63 and one 62.

As an aside, I only paid about $650 for all ten. I sold one on eBay, 8 at the June Baltimore show 2013 and kept one that went to CAC after the Florida show in June and got the bean. I won't see it until I get home from Chi on the 9th but I am happy it got it.

Another cool win was another coin auction in NC that I regularly attended. Two trade dollars, 1878-S toned that graded MS62 and 1877-S that came back cleaned. Paid about $200 each for them.

 

Care to elaborate on that auction here in NC? Sounds like a regular coin auction that occurs fairly frequently. Is it something big? Good coins consistently?

 

My wife called me one day to say that while at the Drive Up Tellers window, she could see that some lady was turning in bags of Kennedy Half Dollars.

I hurried down to the bank and purchased two bags since I could clearly see that they contained silver.

Face Value, I paid a little over $1300 for all the coins while asking the teller if she had informed the lady who turned them in that there was silver in there and that she could make money by taking them to a coin dealer. The lady's response was that she didn't care as she just wanted them out of the house!

Those bags of Kennedy's yielded over $1000 in silver. Once the silver (90% and 40%) was plucked out, I returned the CnClad coins and got most of my $1300 back in deposits.

 

Here's another cool story.

While visiting the same bank as post #56, I asked if they had any Eisenhower Dollars.

The teller pulled out 3 coins. A 1971-D, a 1972, and a 1973.
I checked the 71-D for the Friendly Eagle variety. Not.
I checked the 1972 for a Type 2. Another not.
I looked at the 1973 which appeared to be a D mint that was in pretty good shape. I've gotten many 1973 Eisenhower coins in the past at face or close to face value in the past and had to decide whether or not I wanted just one more.

I decided to purchase all 3 coins.

When I got home, I examined the 1973-D.

It turned out to be...................a 1973-S. It was not a worn proof coin but was in fact, as validated by NGC, one of only 3 known off metal 1973-S Eisenhower Dollars. The 1973-S Business strike coin was supposed to be minted on 40% Silver.

After verification and grading, I sold the coin to a collector for upper mid 4 figures.

 

I was at a flea market in Chicago. A mother and son had a table. The boy was off to college and was selling the stuff he had in his bedroom growing up. He had a huge box marked 4 for a dollar. I was picking out the Hot Wheels and action figures and I found a PCGS graded L.A. Olympics silver dollar and a PCGS graded Morgan dollar. I asked about them. "Four for a dollar." I tried to explain to him what they were. Him and his mom were both kind of rude so I bought them for a quarter a piece.

 

Thanks for resurrecting this thread; I somehow missed it the first time around.

This is the part of collecting that gets my motor running. I've come to appreciate matched sets, nicely toned coins, and the like, but it's finding hidden treasures that keeps my interest and enthusiasm.

Most of my activity, and therefore most of my luck, is on eBay:

A lot of 11 silver coins for $113 that included a problem-free VF 1919-S half, which I sold at a show for $150

A lot of 18 Peace dollars for about $640 (about $150 over melt at the time) that included a nice 1921 and 1934-S, slabbed later by ANACS at 62 and 50 respectively, and worth nearly the cost of the entire lot

A large lot of silver with a very dark-looking half dollar, which turned out to be an XF details 1901-S

And, the granddaddy of them all, a lot of 493 "damaged and culled" coins that included cull 1910-S, 1915-S, 1922-D, 1924-D and 1931-S cents, a corroded 1912-S nickel, a darkly- but colorfully-toned 1925-S nickel that got me $50 at the show, and a holed, engraved Trade dollar that turned out to be a genuine proof-only issue

 

I went to a local coin show a few years ago. I was just getting into star notes of any small currency. Well, I picked up three 1953 ten dollar silver cert. that are star notes. I just had them certified by PMG. They came back as 58, 63, and 64. I paid only the regular issue price for them then, because the "Green Sheet" doesn't list the star notes or prices. I also found in circulation a 1932d quarter and a 1916d Merc.