What type coin was your first $1k coin?

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  1. davidh

    davidh soloist gnomic

    My most recent 1K purchase. 1799/8 Dollar 15 stars w/obvious defect but still worth having.
     

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  3. Whipps

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  4. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Type? A tetradrachm. An incredibly artistic and well-preserved 2300+ year old chunk of silver struck under the tyrant Agathokles:

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    SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles (317-289 BCE)
    310-305 BCE

    AR tetradrachm, 17.40 g, 24 mm
    Obv: head of the nymph Arethusa left, wearing grain wreath, earring and necklace; around, three dolphins; under, monogram (NK?)
    Rev: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, fast chariot charioteer leads to left, holding reins and kentron; above, triskeles; in exergue, monogram
    Ref: Ierardi 12 (O2-R8); SNG Copenhagen 573 var., SNG ANS 637
    ArtCoinsRoma, auction 8, Feb. 2014
    The story of its acquisition is here.
     
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  5. Coinchemistry 2012

    Coinchemistry 2012 Well-Known Member

    I can honestly say that I don't remember. I have bought/sold several in recent years.
     
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  6. Dancing Fire

    Dancing Fire Junior Member

  7. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    I was thinking the same thing.
     
  8. Whipps

    Whipps Well-Known Member

    I always have but I don't want to spend the money to send it back in. Maybe one day
     
  9. Dancing Fire

    Dancing Fire Junior Member

    The sad part about it...not worth that much more $$$ even if it came back a 64.
     
  10. sgt23

    sgt23 Active Member

    I've been buying and collecting coins since 1993 and have only hit the $400 level with a $5 half eagle. I think I may pass that this weekend at a coin show in Dalton, GA.
     
  11. davidh

    davidh soloist gnomic

    Nice coin, and great story. It was destined to be yours.
     
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  12. micbraun

    micbraun coindiccted

    Money is not really a concern for you, huh...? ;-)
     
  13. Coinchemistry 2012

    Coinchemistry 2012 Well-Known Member

    I can't say that. If I were wealthy, my collection would be much cooler and rarer than the modest pieces I have.
     
  14. jerryc39

    jerryc39 Well-Known Member

    1893S Morgan VF25 was my first coin over 1000
     
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  15. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    I've been doing much more trading than purchasing lately, but I think that this was the last coin that I dropped several K on. image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg
     
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  16. joecoincollect

    joecoincollect Well-Known Member

    Never have, never will. Im more for quantity, rather than quality and/or rarity
     
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