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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2153786, member: 71510&quot;]I&#039;ve gotten lucky at a few, but most of the time the single coins - morgans, etc. are going for well over market price.&nbsp; I saw a very old woman and her daughter buying casino Silver Strikes last month at $40 each.&nbsp; All were common, I even had a few (two I won at the casino, a few others I picked up cheap along the way).</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to be selective.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done really well in the &quot;pile of foreign coins&quot; department, and in the ability to grade on the fly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up a 1905-P Barber Half in uncirculated condition in a pile of what were called &quot;dirty old silver coins in pretty good condition&quot; according to the auction listing.&nbsp; PCGS graded Uncirculated / env. damage details.&nbsp; I sold it for a HUGE windfall.&nbsp; Nobody took the time to examine the coins and were all paying melt price in apathy.&nbsp; I also scored some uncirculated quarters, and a 1934-S in VF or better in a pile of &quot;morgans and peace dollars - circulated&quot; that people again were paying melt price for.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently picked up an 1888-S which should be arriving back from ANACS today that came in with a grade of MS63.&nbsp; I picked it up for $140 in what was listed at the auction company as &quot;very good condition.&quot;&nbsp; Gotta thank them for providing a grade without realizing - and all the others that didn&#039;t take the time to examine the coin.&nbsp; Of the dozen morgans sold, this was the one to buy.&nbsp; I knew it because I examined each coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there was the &quot;second best&quot; score ever.&nbsp; In a &quot; pile of old foreign coins from Belgium&quot; lot I picked up an uncirculated gold coin from Finland circa 1879.&nbsp; I paid $25 for the whole lot - and scored huge.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a treasure hunter by hobby, and I know how to test and grade coins pretty well.&nbsp; I&#039;m no expert, but if you put the time in at the auctions and estate sales, you can do well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]413673[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]413674[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My absolute best score ever was an unopened bank bag from 1979 full of dollar coins (remember people going crazy over silver in 1979 added lots of speculation).&nbsp; I put together the details, did the research and spent a bit too much for a complete unknown, and after a couple years just sitting and staring at it - decided it was time to re-coup and move on.&nbsp; I had a guy that just kept insisting that it was silver and wanted to buy it.&nbsp; I never opened it, but I knew it weight 25.12lb on my digital scale.&nbsp; He didn&#039;t care, or he didn&#039;t understand and offered me a handsome profit for it.&nbsp; Some people just don&#039;t understand math.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]413687[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]413688[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Happy Hunting![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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