Best deal you've ever been offered....

About 1.5 years ago I got a complete Buffalo nickel set for $200 and a complete 1916-1936 Walking Liberty Half set from a pawn shop. Both sets were a great buy and I was able to flip most of the coins (sans the one's I kept) for ~70% profit.

These were the retail prices from the display cases.

Here's the photos of the highlights from the Buffalo set:

The 14-D and 14-S are the best and I held onto them.

 

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great deal.

 

I bought 1-1882-CC GSA & 1-1883-CC GSA for $75.00 ea.
Boxes & cards included both PCGS MS63

 

Posted before in another thread, but...

Back in the late 1970s I had a chance to trade my VF 1801 and EF-1815 halves for my choice of either a F 1796 or F 1797 half straight across. At the time replacement value for my two halves would have put me slightly behind on the swap so I didn't do it.

Today that same swap would net me about 50K in value. And the 1796...1797 half is STILL the only hole in my half dollar set.

So not the deal of the century at the time, but it sure would have turned out that way.

 

Be careful when someone offers you a "deal".



"They can be all yours, just sign this contract - in blood"

From the film "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941)

 

Walked into my fav shop a few years ago and he had a Jefferson's Liberty gold in the box sitting on the counter. I asked and he said he was going to "melt it" (gold was $800/oz at the time) so I said, I'll take it for $400 cash...he said SOLD!

I'm not really a collector of these but that was just too good to pass-up!

 

@Mainebill offered to sell me his NGC graded 1886 toned morgan for $20 above spot, but I had to say no.......lmao.

 

Should have grabbed it. Sold it today at my show. And someone else that looked at it came back to find it gone and regretted it

 

Glad you were able to get rid of it....an eye sore for sure....

It's a beautiful coin. Just not the right time for me.

 

I understand that too well. I've passed up some I loved for the same reason

 

How was your first show? I gather it was successful.

 

Was actually my second. I did this show in June I learned a lot that time. I did quite well thanks

 

This is my best deal ever. Got it for way under greysheet several years ago, as the owner was liquidating his collection, and I had just sold my full set of Morgans, and wanted to start over with some good dates: