dumbest thing you've ever done

Tiny , but there none the less

 

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Mogans initial is on the obverse at the base of the neck and on the reverse at the top left center of the wreath

 

yup.
Sorry, I misread your posting.

 

Dumbest thing was winning a fradulant ebay auction. In hindsight.....there were a few little clues, which I didnt put together. But, there were 28 other bidders so ..... Oh Well. Its now in police hands, but learn by my mistakes.....if that ebay seller is someone who has no coin sales in the feedback. Run Away.

 

One of Vwap's many Truly Moronic Moments (TM):

Late one night, about midnight, Vwap finished up his half-dollar roll searching for the evening. The next day was the 1-year anniversary of Vwap meeting his awesome girlfriend, so they were getting together before work for breakfast. Knowing this, Vwap took the bags of halves to the car so he wouldn't have to the next morning.

Vwap goes back inside, brushes his teeth, falls asleep, and at some point, dreams about forgetting to lock his car and someone steals the coins.

The next morning, Vwap wakes up, gets ready for work, and goes out to the car. He realizes that the dream, eerily, came true -- the car doors had been ... opened. No, the windows weren't broken, no locks were picked.. No, Vwap had left the doors unlocked. He also notices that the bags of halves are gone.

Without a doubt, one of Vwap's Truly Moronic Moments (TM)...

 

well......ok....i can do that....but do you want to read a five page essay

 

Since someone brought up Gold it made me remember something dumb. Of course at the time it wasn't. I used to buy my first wife a Gold charm for a Gold Bracelet for every occation such as each Holiday, anniversary, wedding, etc. And Gold back then was $35/ounce. Sure wonder if she still has that thing.

 

Started to collect coins....

 

when i was 20, my grandfather gave me 50 morgans. I displayed them on my dresser in my bedroom. had a party one saturday night..and yep, they were gone the next morning. the last party i threw being single. and the last time i displayed any coin.

 

luckily i have been trained well by my dad so my mistakes are very small - like selling a coin i just bought to fund another coin i thought was going to be the better investment.

sometimes i regret getting my son into the hobby - he wants all the expensive coins

-Steve

 

Not buy all the gold futures contracts I could when gold was 275.00 and oz

RickieB

 

Sold a MS64 CC to a dealer for AU money .. I looked at the wrong line in the greysheet. I still don't understand why he hesitated so long... probably struggling with the last shred of conscious he may have possessed.

 

Dumby-Dumby

The dumbest most stupidist idiotic thing I ever did was (a couple of years ago when I was getting back into the hobby) to listen to Robert Chambers on shtv and buy the malarke that I'd better get on the band wagon and buy a complete set of ASE's because they were becoming increasingly rare. I found out later that I paid way too much...live and learn. Wish I knew about Coin Talk back then.

Aside: is shtv an anagram for an unmentionable word?

 

One of the dumbest things I have ever done was pass up a chance to get a MS64 1909S VDB for 500 bucks about 4 years ago.

 

Probably the time I sold my original collection to pay the bills when my live-in girlfriend was too lazy to go get a job. We broke up soon after. Joke's on her though. I started a bigger and better collection and she ended up pregnant and broke.

 

Forgive me for resurrecting an old thread, but I was about to create a new one replicating it!

For me my biggest mistake was probably getting my early education on Ebay :/
I made a bunch of dumb purchases, mostly inexpensive lessons; but I did get roped into the "unsearched' wheats for a while and spent way too much money over and over with different sellers, until logic finally set in

Another regrettable decision was buying and then selling a complete date/mm collection of IHC on Ebay. I had picked it up at WAY under value from a fellow college student who needed cash fast to pay for his classes. I didn't really have the money to buy it, but recognized the instant cash potential, so took a cash advance from my credit card to buy. Although his story was that it was his late grandfather's collection, I wonder now if he had come by it through illegitimate means. Even though I made a quick $800 profit, if I had known what I know now, I would have first asked a lot more questions before the purchase in the first place, and then held on to the set (or at least the keys)! Looking back, even I was going to sell it, I could have done a much better job on my listing/photos and probably seen a much greater profit. I still feel guilty wondering if someone is missing their collection (although I did contact local police years later and no such set was reported stolen during that time) Still I wonder if he had obtained it from out of state. Guess I'll never know

Ben

 

I purchased a 1854 California gold token (bear on back) for $90 at an auction in 2008. Big mistake, it was fake. I'm not a gold collector and now I'm surely not one. I'm also still a little hung over for the $163 that I paid HSN for the Westward series collection in 2006. At least I have a bunch of nice Sac's out of that one. Lesson learned; don't buy coins off TV; too much impulse buying.

 

During Heritage Live auction online, I clicked on 'Bid' on a $10 1882 MS64 from PCGS (actually happened 2 days ago), and of course didn't get outbid. Note to self: disable double tap on touchpad as a mouse click... Anyhow, I'm now the proud owner of this coin...guess it could have been worst and could have really been a piece of junk! This isn't too bad of a coin, think I'm going to end up keeping it!

 

As a beginner to this hobby I have already made multiple mistakes but the worst moves I made so far was getting fingerprints all over some of my coins,sell a silver eagle and a west point commemorative coin and cash in 20 dollars in bicentennial quarters. :headbang: I'll never do these things again.

 

Not buying a ton of gold when it was less than $300 an oz. 5 years ago.