Whats the most you have paid for a coin

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Of the secretary of course. 1913 V nickels are much cheaper than a hot.....

 

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My "personal best" is 4499 dollars for single coin - Estonian 10 marka 1926.
But biggest "invoice" have been 7500 for small collection.

 

Not having perused the previous answer, I wouldn't buy one without it being certified by one of the top grading companies. There are many, many more fakes than there are genuine and has been for half a century.

Low grade isn't even a safe bet as there are a lot of fake AG's too. One can learn the mint mark positions and shapes pretty easily but with the price of even the lowest grade and , if you're not a dealer and will only be buying one......

certified.

 

Paid a little over $9,000,000 and then I woke up.

 

What he said. Also eBay isn’t the best place to buy coins. I use Heritage Auctions and Collectors Corner.

 

I'll have to check them out.

Edit: Just registered with Heritage. The overwhelming majority of items I browsed through are way above my ability to pay.

 

He has a hot young secretary, and he's working with her Ipad.

 

True for me, too. It's the place to buy the keys and semi-keys for your series, because the vast majority of the sellers have a great reputation and pretty much anything offered on the site is certified (ONLY buy certified!).

 

Well, I paid $3,100 for a MEDAL... my 1942 Theosophist's Medal by Albert Wiss. BUT... it is 80g of 1.000 Fine Gold.

 

I stole this AG03 for $250... it was a good day.

 

I've come to understand that I'll not be getting a '16D of my own. Since I've already been told that the 1921 coins are also pretty pricey, these may not be in my future either. What is a real benefit to collecting the Mercury dimes in all other cases is that even some really nice coins in the series are cheap. I've bought all seven of the coins that make up 1944 and 1945, and was able to get them all for less than $30 including shipping.

 

Expansive? Elaborate.

 

$2400ish for a Saint a few years back (higher gold market)

 

I have more valuable coins that I cherrypicked, but in terms of what I paid for a single coin, mine is also definitely a Saint. $1650 for an MS65 (old NGC slab and undergraded by today's standards).

 

I hate to bring this thread down a level. $57. Fuld R-8.

 

In early 1982, I paid in the neighborhood of $400k for the unique 1787 Brasher Doubloon, Punch on Breast variety, Ex: Garrett Collection. Contemplate that and suck on the that thought for awhile….
Sam_I_am

 

$912 for this Julius Caesar lifetime denarius, minted between January and March of 44 BCE.



That's about the limit of what I'm comfortable paying. I don't mind spending $1000+ on astronomy equipment for my amateur astronomy hobby, but I can't see myself spending that much on a coin. At least a telescope will show you the universe...a coin, well, it's a beauty, but it's just a coin.

 

¿What's your question? Sometimes it seems like another lifetime, but the purchase of that coin by me can be verified on the front page of Coin World at the time following the mid-winter A.N.A. at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs that year. Forgive me, but I don't recall off the top of my head the exact date of the transaction or the date of the Coin World issue. However, next time I go to my storage unit, I'll check the dates of the Coin World & Miami Herald articles which hung on my office wall for over a decade. I also still have glass holograms of the coin which I had made at the time. We never disclosed the exact purchase price of the coin at the time and I still won't now.
Sam_I_am
Samuel L. Smith

 

Have you got pics? Would love to see 'em.

Cal