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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wiggam007, post: 2304341, member: 18436&quot;]Well, I have told this story before, but it is always worth telling again <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I first got into collecting a few years ago, I used to go to a local auction house which did coin auctions about once a month.&nbsp; Most of the stuff looked cleaned to me or was overpriced.&nbsp; But every now and then you could get a good deal or cherry pick a DD or RPM.&nbsp; One night I saw a lot listed as &quot;Misc. world mint sets and commemoratives&quot; and decided to check it out.&nbsp; They were all in a bag and shifting it around a bit I spotted a bunch of stuff like Israeli mint sets and a few other things.&nbsp; Then I spotted two cool looking coins with dragons and a sundial and compass rose on them from Bahrain.&nbsp; They looked like they might be silver so I decided to take a chance and said I would bid up to $25.&nbsp; Sure enough I was able to get them for just a bit less than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I got home I checked out my haul.&nbsp; Most of the other stuff, while interesting, was not really valuable.&nbsp; I quickly grabbed out the two coins that I thought were silver.&nbsp; After some searching they turned out to be silver and from one of those cheesy collectors sets you see put out.&nbsp; But they were cool and with silver price at the time they paid for my purchase.&nbsp; I was already pretty happy, but as I got to the bottom of the bag I found a coin that I immediately recognized as being unusually heavy.&nbsp; It was Israeli and when I looked it up I about lost it.&nbsp; It was a 500 Lirot commemorative coin for David Ben Gurion struck in gold!&nbsp; I immediately figured that I must have something else like a cheaper version or something.&nbsp; I went out and bought a digital scale and when it arrived checked the weight.&nbsp; It was legit, about .75 of an ounce of gold if I remember right.&nbsp; I ended up selling it to one of the online bullion places when gold seemed like it was getting high (but still pretty low considering how high it went.). Still, I think I netted around $800 or $900 from a $25 misc. bag.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Doubt I will ever top that find <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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