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Whats the most valuable piece in your collection?

 

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I could tell ya, but then, well, I'd have to kill ya.
Do you want my address also?

 

let me rephrase.... most valuable coin youve found?

 

Found?
Cherrypicking: Several 1858/7 Flying eagles, other varieties, and oh yeah, a 1909 S VDB in F, that I got for $40 as a 1909 S (plain) now in an NGC holder.

Or metal detecting: no key dates, some better Indian Head cents.

 

WOW!!!!.... all ive gotten some indian head pennies and a couple liberty nicks..

 

Metal detecting?
Or cherrypicking?

 

just pickin up every coin i see on the ground... i do maintenance on mobile homes... so i find lots of pennies..:thumb:

 

nice finds, and the price is certainly right!

 

im a collector of coins that i come across... ive never bought one. im just learning how to grade the quality of them... kinda sux though, cuz i see lots of ms70s in pics and they make me snarl...hya:

 

Currently this is under investigation but this is one particular coin that has the potential to wreck everything known:



1795/88 MM 1 kopek over 1788 (MM) 1 kopek over 1762 1 kopek

Most of the 1795 MM 1 kopek, i.e Moscow mint 1 kopek were overstruck on Moldavian coinages, making this relatively rare. A survey done in the past by Steve Moulding had 300+ 1795 1 kopek investigated. Out of that, only 6 were overstrucked Moldavian coinages and that's said to be already scarce, if not rare. So far, my overstruck coin of 1795/88 MM 1 kopek over 1788 (MM) 1 kopek is already said to be very rare as there is only one example known, that is in the catalogue book. The more interesting discovery comes here - most of the 1788MM 1 kopek known are overstruck on 1762 2 kopeks, not 1 kopek and therefore this changes the whole defination of overstriking.

Overstrucking was mainly done to revalue the denomination but my example here appearently means nothing. Perhaps you might see something about this in the future but it's still under investigation

 

wow.... thats a crazy one there

 

unidentified foriegn coin of mine

i have 1 coin that ive had forever... ill have to take a pic of it..

theres a 10 on one side and 1330 on the other... it looks like it has some muslim or some middleeastern writing on it..

 

Where exactly are you seeing lots of pics of MS70 graded coins? Ebay is full of bogus self slabbed MS70 junk, I hope that is not what your reffering to.

 

sry... bad sarcasm.. i compare anything that looks uncirculated ms70.. just cuz they look alot sharper than most of my G or VGs... but yeah... not to many 70s... but even a 63 is a nice coin.