Post your Deal of the Day

Here's a coin I bought for fifty cents at the 2020 FUN show. Not exactly a recent purchase but I haven't bought many coins since then so this will have to do

Caught it picking through a bucket of British large cents.

1865 Vereinsthaler (silver) Valued at $45 by NGC website

 

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It's not one I see too often (although I don't check all the venues and am nowhere near the biggest expert on these ).
It's definitely worth at least having a Heritage account to check prices (as they have an extensive archive of sales).

 

If a deal fell in the forest and no one was there to hear it, is it still a deal?

I paid $105 for this about a year ago. Grade versus value discussions could ensue, but the thing is, it's a discovery coin. It's Obverse I on a 1901, a previously unknown transition variety (and also an undocumented 1/1 RPD). How much of a deal was it? Too obscure?

 

You had a great start, but DO TELL . . . . .

 

1797 S-121. Paid $5. Sold for $760.



1796 S-103. Paid $260. Sold $800



1821 JR-2. Paid $60. Sold $300



1864 L. Paid $165 raw. Sold for $450 in an PCGS MS63RB holder.



1867 With Rays nickel. Paid $45 raw. Traded for a 1800 bust dollar after getting into a PCGS MS-62 holder.



1913 S Type 2 (KEY DATE) Buffalo nickel, 15% off center. $300 gamble raw. Sold for $1200 in an NGC XF45 holder.



AH79 Umayyad gold Dinar. Paid $200. Sold for $900

 

Holy crap.

 

It’s nothing compared to some of your successes, but they help fund my eccentric numismatic lifestyle.