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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 767231, member: 17753&quot;]My steal of the year is actually probably the steal of my lifetime -- and a pretty boring one (but lucrative).</p><p><br /></p><p>In the very same month I finally discovered that the US Mint has stores just a few blocks from where I work (which I learned on CT -- just a month after I discovered CT!), I happened to notice that the US Mint web site had William Henry Harrison dollar mint rolls listed as sold out, while the store had them.&nbsp; I checked eBay, saw that the price went through the roof, then went back to the Mint store, and purchased, with my hands trembling, their last boxes for approx $600.&nbsp; (Before that point I had never spent more than $5 on a coin!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I flipped them all on ebay in 10 days, and netted $1100.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sheesh . . . talk about being in the right place at the right time!!</p><p><br /></p><p>My other steal -- although I&#039;m not sure it classifies -- is when I discovered a jar of my own wheaties that I&#039;d casually thrown stuff in over the last 30 years, went through it, and found a 1924-D in approx VF condition.&nbsp; (Thread and pix at <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t52415/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t52415/">http://www.cointalk.com/t52415/</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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