What was your best buy or sell?

My wife and I attended a yard sale event where there were several people selling things. We had our own table and made some headway on clearing some excess from the home. On a whim, I brought some of my coins to see what I could sell. I put some Mercs, Liberty Nickels and Steel Wheaties in a cup and waited for people to dig into them. I had one customer come up and ask how much I was selling the Mercury Dimes for. Anticipating that we would haggle, I told him $2.50. He bought 2 and his wife came back and bought 2 more. Very unexpected and it helped me recoup a buck or two from a terrible purchase on dimes I made a year or two back.

Out of curiosity, what was your best buy or sell?

 

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Best buy would be the coin I bought today actually. I bought a 1882 o over s for 50 bucks in ms 63-64 according to what cointalk told me.

However, the best deal I've seen and almost won on eBay was a 1836 gobrect dollar. It sold for $178. I bid 140. It was easily worth thousands

 

Your sure the 1836 Dollar was not a fake, a real one would never go that low

 

I bought a PCGS AU58 1809 capped bust half dollar for $3000. I recognized it as the xxx edge so I had it reholdered. Then promptly sold it for $6000. That's my biggest profit from 1 coin. But there are folks on CT who have made WAY more than that.

 

I got a nice 1855o seated half in around G-06 without any issues for $12 on ebay, another 1876s for the same price. I paid $9 for a SMS set with a DDO Half Dollar, it took a couple years until I found out, it was the first coin I bought.

 

Best sell was a 1998S JFK Matte. I bought it from the Mint (along with the RFK Matte) for $59 and sold it on ebay for $400 in 2000.

 

It looked real.plus a coin friend I know said it looked very real and the seller still had the same rating and no bad feedback.

 

It might have made a difference that the coin was from Russia.

 

Just going out on a limb here, my friend.... but that's not one I would spend much time regretting; depending on how you want to look at it, you could say that in all likelihood you're $140 a head by missing out.

 

Are you sure it wasn't some Fantasy Restrike and advertised like that and you didn't notice it??? Some of those can go for quite a bit of money for some weird reason.

 

yes it was a real type. and besides this Russian had returns.

 

I guess my best single hit was a $50 gold eagle that somebody listed at $800 when gold spot was around $1300. That was my first big leap of Buyer Protection faith. It was authentic; sold it a year or so later for $1600.

I might end up doing better dollar-wise, and certainly percentage-wise, with a large lot of culls I won two years ago for $165. It included a holed, engraved proof Trade dollar that I've since had PCGS slab as authentic, a corroded 1912-S nickel, a 1925-S (not 1924-S) Buffalo that I've already sold for (I think) a third of the lot's cost, and some other goodies that I'm likely to get some money out of. But the trade dollar is the big piece there, for sure.

I don't think any buy/sell story on CoinTalk, though, will top this one.

 

My best buy was this 1990 P 50C Double Struck - Both Broadstuck! I got it for my final bid of $200.00 on Ebay. Even the seller told me that he thought it would sell for a lot more. It is definitely my best buy and keeper! Saw one recently as a "Buy It Now" for a few thousand dollars

 

I remember that one. Simply awesome!

 

I only gave a few dollars for this. The FE die was clashed with a $20 gold piece die.

 

Yeah I got a story that blew my mind as well as a couple of friends at work and my wife and when it comes to coins, nothing fazes her. Anyways, I bought a bunch of tokens and medals from this old time dealer at the flea market, Denio's in Roseville, California. One of the medals I bought was a 1909 Taft Dollar and I didn't know anything about it at all. It was very nice looking and I paid $15 for it. I took it to a coin show but I got there late, anyways some guy tells me that he thinks I have something special but he doesn't know for sure. He wanted me to wait around to talk to his boss but I didn't have the time and I had to leave. So I decided I would place it on ebay and let the bids fly. I was shocked, first few hours hit $200, the next day it hit $700. When all was said and done it sold for $1225.00. Talk about learning something about So Called Dollars. Turns out there were only 250 of them minted and President Taft personally handed them out at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle. I was floored, and I bought that at a coin shop!! Obviously they didn't know anything about SCD's either. Here's a scan of the SCD and a couple of the pics that I posted with the sale, not the best pics but the only ones I still have. Keep in mind that this happened around 2007. Anyways, my wife always wanted me to tell the owner of the coin shop what happened when I sold a medal I bought from them, but I never did. I wouldn't feel right about rubbing somebody's face in their screw up. Moral of the story to me, is two fold. One, I wish I had it graded before I sold it. And two, keep my eyes peeled and learn as much as I can about anything and everything related to coins.

 

it was maybe like 1994 ???

I bought a 1911 sandblasted Proof 64 NGC 2.5 IND for $21K from a dealer friend of mine. I immediately asked him to crack it out of the NGC holder, then about a month later I took the coin to the Long Beach show and did the $100 PCGS walk through service and the coin came back PR65. I was offered $47K for the coin and dumb ASS me didn't sell the coin till the market had crashed...

 

My list is easy - 1882 snow-6 IHC. This was back when there was fewer that 5 or 6 know. I bought it at $105 and Rick Snow sold it for $1500. I have also managed to make a few bucks off buying raw coins I thought were under-priced, had them graded and eventually sold them. Nothing as good as the snow-6 coin.