Thrifty Thursday! Post yours also...

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  1. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    What is it? It's "Thrifty Thursday!". It's about buying a coin or coins on a budget. Please post your Coin, token or medals that you for some reason bought with very little cash.
    For example, this is my 1909VDB cent that I purchased at a "flea market" just after dating my now, wife back in 1990. I paid a whopping $3!! I still have the coin and the woman. :rolleyes:

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  3. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    You go, Sal! Glad you found a keeper.

    (BTW, I think you're on a roll with these themed-day things.)

    So... cheerful cheapos, huh?

    OK. Each of these coins cost me less than a dollar.

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    Found 'em in bulk lots. (Yep- even the proof.) Thus I reckon I paid somewhere between 10 and 25 cents for each of them. And each has a catalog value of less than five bucks.

    So the coins themselves cost me practically nothing- and are technically worth practically nothing... but yet I went and spent nearly fifty bucks apiece to put them in PCGS slabs, in order to add them to my (all-slabbed) collection.

    Why? Because both have sentimental ties to my childhood. You see, when I was a kid, we lived in Tanzania in 1972, and the Bahamas in 1974.

    As I recall, you could buy a model airplane kit with a Tanzanian 5-shilingi piece like this in 1972- I used to get one of these coins a week for my first allowance. And one of these Bahamian 10-cent pieces would buy a comic book back in '74, when we were living aboard a trimaran sailboat in Nassau.

    So slabbing these made no sense from a purely economic standpoint, but all the sense in the world from a sentimental one.
     
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  4. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    I found this in my change, but it wasn't slabbed:D
    and as @lordmarcovan said it wasn't worth getting it graded.
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  5. JoshuaP

    JoshuaP Supporter! Supporter

    Here is a recent $5 purchase I couldn't pass up. There is also a post I made of a 1901 S dime I bought for $6.
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  6. Dima

    Dima Member

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    These two beauts; both MS66 and $18.50 shipped and $19.80 shipped respectively. Felt these were quite a steal, especially the '62.
     
  7. KBBPLL

    KBBPLL Well-Known Member

    $19.44 shipped. Not sure if it would straight grade or high enough to make it a great price, but it's the obverse Type I anomaly with a 1/1 RPD, which are pretty scarce. I'll spend <$20 on some weird thing like this all day long.
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  8. Evan8

    Evan8 A Little Off Center

    I paid $19.99 for this common date but it should grade at least 66. Extremely reflective and very well struck.

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  9. JoshuaP

    JoshuaP Supporter! Supporter

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    4 dollars graded and slabbed, then the fee's but it is a cent.
     
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  11. KBBPLL

    KBBPLL Well-Known Member

    I don't remember exactly what I paid for this one but I know it was under $15. 1963 Thailand 20 baht, .750 silver.
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  12. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    I found this in a Put one, Take one tray, then I squashed it:D:rolleyes:o_O
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  13. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    That coin really made me do a double-take, because I once dug a nearly identical looking 1916-D quarter while metal detecting, and put a very similar scratch on it when recovering it. (It had been sitting atop a rock in the side of the hole, and the scratch happened when I pulled it out.)
     
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  14. JoshuaP

    JoshuaP Supporter! Supporter

    Fascinating! You aren't missing it, are you? I bought it on eBay in a lot of mixed silver at silver spot price a couple or several months ago.
    I have never dug up any silver yet, but that scratch would have really hurt... I am sure that irked you.
     
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  15. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    That coin should still be in my detector finds album. Thinking back, it’s possible the one you have could be slightly higher grade.

    And 30 years on, I can’t remember now if my detector find got scratched on the obverse or the reverse. But it was definitely a strongly detailed 1916-D Barber quarter with a similar look to yours. And with a similarly unfortunate scratch of similar proportions.

    It was still an exciting detector find.

    PS- and yours was a good grab, at spot price.
     
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