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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4650468, member: 27832&quot;]It&#039;s been a while -- other things have eaten up the time I used to spend camping on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few highlights that pop to mind:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;1997 proof set&quot; for $7.00 BIN. It was a clad proof set -- and a proof ASE in the blue clamshell container. The 1997 proof ASE is lower mintage, and goes for $50-60.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;1998 silver proof Kennedy&quot; for $5 (yes, below melt). When I got it, I realized it was the <i>burnished</i> Kennedy. That goes for over $100 raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>A bag of dug and cleaned Mercury dimes for about 20% below melt. It&#039;s a real shame about the cleaning, because it was <i>really</i> harsh, and a lot of them would have been XF or better. It included a 1926-S that I sold for more than the cost of the whole bag.</p><p><br /></p><p>A box of 101 Morgan and Peace dollars for $1000. Already got my money back on that one, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>A <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-latest-ebay-pig-in-a-poke.227450/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-latest-ebay-pig-in-a-poke.227450/">bag of random culls</a> that I bought for something like $160. The <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1878-p-trade-dollar-yeah-right.227707/#post-1707738" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1878-p-trade-dollar-yeah-right.227707/#post-1707738">holed, engraved Trade dollar turned out to be a proof</a>; I sold it for something like four times the cost of the lot. The <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/not-the-usual-lot-of-wheats-more-news-from-the-poke.227845/#post-1709682" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/not-the-usual-lot-of-wheats-more-news-from-the-poke.227845/#post-1709682">wheats included a 1910-S, a 1924-D, and a 1931-S</a>. That <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dark-buffalo-would-it-grade.228753/#post-1719783" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dark-buffalo-would-it-grade.228753/#post-1719783">nice Buffalo (darkly toned) was a 1925-S</a>, not 1924-S (rats), but I still sold it for a nice price. And as it turned out, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/corroded-key-v-nickel-another-piglet-from-that-ebay-poke.228561/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/corroded-key-v-nickel-another-piglet-from-that-ebay-poke.228561/">one of the Liberty nickels <i>was</i> a 1912-S</a>. (I&#039;m keeping that one.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Those</b> are the kinds of finds that kept me coming back to eBay. I hope one day I&#039;ll have time to start searching again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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