That moment when you literally strike gold

When you get to see as many coins and estates as I do, you begin to expect things like this (I call them a "cherry" cause I pick 'em!) to happen on a regular if not infrequent basis. I haven't had a good one in over a year. I bought a beautiful Frankford Delaware $10 note at a coin auction for $45 simply because no one there did their homework properly except me. That was over a year ago.

 

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Oh. Beautiful coin and a hell of a find! (grrrrrrr)

 

Hope is an eternal prospect! I have found little treasures like that in junk box searches, never gold, but some really really rare and valuable stuff.

 

This is maybe the third time I found gold that was completely unexpected in about a decade of buying bulk world lots. But yes I have also found non-gold rarities and much more often than gold coins. My best bulk lot find to date is this 1918 US admin Philippine mule 5 centavos.






With condition in consideration, the 1918 mule is arguably the rarest coin of all from US admin Philippines. Compare to this finest known MS64 example that went to auction at Heritage: http://coins.ha.com/itm/philippines...-25633.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515
Or the most recent one, which is an MS61 http://coins.ha.com/itm/philippines...-31371.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

While I don't expect mine to be worth the crazy sums these coins sold for, it's still my best eBay lot find and one of the best coins in my entire collection.

 

Great find and in nice condition, you can't beat GOLD.

 

Ya and he will be eating these for breakfast lol

http://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/2016/02/gold-doughnut-nbc-news-video.html