What are some of the best deals you got on ebay?

What is the best deal you ever got on ebay? List your coin, grade, value, the price you paid, etc. PICS IF YOU GOT THEM!!!!!! =)

 

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the best deal i got was an 1906 j 1 mark from germany.
they only made some 300,000 of that mint mark. the coin is in UNC. and i got it for $7 =)
in my km book it is worth $200 in UNC. =) =) =)

 

I picked this up for $135 buy it now. It was only listed for about 10 minutes, LOL... It attributed at O-105.

 

I bought a 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar O-110a R-3 for $150. I sent it in to ANACS and it came back AG-3 "Scratched". For the variety, it should be a Good, but no surprise about the light rim scratch.

 

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First color coin minted by Japan. Mintage of 50,000 sounds a lot but current market prices of this seem to go way past 600USD and perhaps going to hit close to 700+USD soon. JNDA 2007 catalogue appearently put a price tag of 95,000 jpy which is a hefty 850USD. Here is one example on Yahoo Japan: http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h46142398

Of course, I didn't even pay a hefty 3 digit. The original mint price is said to be 6000 JPY, which is around 50USD but I still beat that price. My final cost including shipping?

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25USD - makes you wonder where I have been

 

A couple Conder token varieties, Warwickshire 350bis. Second known specimen and this is the finer of the two, Shropshire 13Bis discovery specimen currently unique, Inverness 6 which is still unlisted.

 

One time won an auction for a buffalo nickel for 1 cent... even if it was worth no more than face value got something worth five times what I paid lol... for some reason nobody else was interested. Turned out to be a 1936 in what was probably VF condition or so. Not an amazing find maybe, but worth more than 1 cent definitely!

 

Bought a Roosevelt silver dime set from a first time seller. He listed it as "missing 9 coins" . It was a complete set with 9 extra holes. $22.00, postage included! Also bought 6 coin albuns/folders; 3 Dansco, 1 Whitman album and 2 Whitman folders for one cent! What a buy!

 

best deals are my war-letter collecting. Recent months, I boight for ten bucks a 1945 letter written by Lieutenant Colonel David Hardee, and for $16 a 1941 letter, written by Lieutenant Colonel Willard Waterous: Each of these Lt. Colonels was a survivor of the Bataan death march.

 

I bought a 1724 farthing for £3....catalogue £30....

 

I got several good deals on conder tokens on Ebay...I think it might be that conders arent a big market so there isnt a large amount of bidding on them...the only one I have ever seen turn into a huge bidding war was the slavery conder with the 'Am I not a Man?'

 

Conder101,can you please post some photos?

Drusus,I haven't got that anti-slavery token.I do have one dated 1795 with a dove holding an olive branch on the obverse.It says,'UNITED FOR A REFORM OF PARLIAMENT'.The reverse depicts a handshake.The inscription says,'MAY SLAVERY & OPPRESSION CEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.'

I also have the 1d. token that has an anti-slavery message that has an Arabic inscription in several lines on the obverse.The reverse depicts freed slaves dancing outside some huts.It is listed in the 19th. Krause as a coin from Sierra Leone.

Aidan.

 

I got a whole bunch of Franklin Mint ingots about 2 years ago when silver was at about
$8/oz, I thought it was a good deal, I got them for $5-$6 each, not tax or shipping, it was a
local seller... turned out they were 2 OZ ingots, so I got a really good deal (about $2.75/oz),
...waited untill silver had risen to about $10-$11, and traded them for a 1991 Canadian 25c BU roll.

 

When I 1st got into Coins and buying PMs... I started collecting Silver Art Bars... I bought about 40+ Art bars off Ebay....

Several of them I got for less that what I saw them go for everywhere else and less than their melt value...

I also got 2 10 OZ bars for under a 100 each, when the POS was like 18 something an ounce...


Other than that, the only other decent deal I got was a "Lot" I had bought off of ebay...

I got the lot for $30.00 + 10.00 (Shipping and Ins)=40.00

It had like 100 Wheaties,
a few nice pre-64 Silver Dimes,
a few Very worn mid 40s, Walking Liberty halfs,
a few very worn early 20s Standing Liberty Quarters
several Non-US coins
a 1964 Proof Set
several other old, but common coins
a modern ""Star Note"
and a 1878 8TF VAM-12 NGC MS63.... Not that its worth that much, but I had never even heard of a VAM at that point....

My daughter and I had a lot of fun sitting down and looking at it all....

We sorted them and then I put most of them in 2x2s....

All in all noe of it was worth a fortune, but there were a few neat finds and as I said it was good fun...

I'd like to buy a few more big lots, just for fun... We spend hours looking for just one more to fill a spot in one of the albums...

 

Usually I am not very active on eBay but sometime do window shopping there.

My best purchase on eBay was a problem coin (1/3 of the coin is missing as somebody cut that coin). It's a gold dinar of great Kushan king Kanishka with the reverse depicting a Greek God Mahasena.

They are extremely rare and only 3 or 4 are known in private hands. Few years back, either CNG or Baldwin auctioned one (full coin though) for $30,000 (+fees).

On eBay, the starting bid for this 2/3 coin was little above gold melt value. I was watching the coin and at last moment placed my bid and was the winner. I got that for a very good price and the second highest bidder lost it by $0.01

Even if it is a defective coin; I know that probably I won't be able to upgrade this coin in my lifetime.

Regards
Ballabh Garg

 

The only thing Ive ever got of ebay was a microSD card

 

Similar to others above me, I started on Ebay collecting silver art bars (shiny and pretty!). I placed a "watch" bid of $8 on a set of 5 UN medals and forgot about it. My suprise was when I got a mail saying I won it... $45 of silver bullion value at that time for just $8! Thats when I learnt the importance of not finishing your auctions at 4 am.

 

Probably the best buy I've got on Ebay so far is my 1917 SLQ type 1. I would grade it at least a Fine. I won it for $36.

 

Looks FINE to me