Your Best Cherry Picking Find Ever?

About 6 months ago I was going through some rolls of Mercury Dimes. They came from an antique slot machine. On my 3rd roll I found a 1942/1. I ended up sending it in to PCGS and it graded XF-40. What is your best find ever?

 

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That is a suh-weet cherry pick which only draws sighs of envy from me!

My best pick was a 1971-S Eisenhower Prototype Strike for $9 or $10 bucks! Totally new obverse die design, totally new reverse die design and a new doubled die obverse to boot!






After that, I guess finding a rare 1970-D DDO Washington in a $12.00 roll of quarters!






Both are very rewarding coins but both have very narrow market interests.

 

I cherried an 1854 n30 large cent, 14th known of the variety.

 

I would have to say when my daughter and I picked bing cherries in Wisconsin. Bing cherries are delicious.

 

That is very interesting, can you expound on this at all? Meaning, how many are there, or were they distributed? Just curious.

I was waiting for that lol.

 

Did you get this idea from a thread ATS? I'll just copy and paste from C.U.

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Cherrypicked the 7th or 8th discovered (at least according to the census at that time) 1959 Franklin "Goiter" (FS-402) on eBay - uncertified and unattributed - for $20.00. Sold it uncertified on eBay a few weeks later for $325.00.

I estimated the grade at MS62 w/ a shot at 63.

-Brian



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Here I can see the coins...

 

Anyone ever hear about possibly the greatest cherrypick of all time? I man in the 70's went to a local coin shop and bought the only known, (unique), 1870s half dime in a junk box for the price of a common type coin.

Later on, it was priced based upon the auction price of a 1804 silver dollar plus $25,000 in 1978.

 

While not really a cherry pick (The pawn shop knew what they had, but did not know the value), I once bought a $500 star note for around $800 and sold it to another dealer for $2500 three days later.

 

Any idea on the value of that Doug? I can't find it online.

 

Personally, idk what my best cherrypick might be. Maybe 42/1 mercuries, 32s quarter in EF from a bulk silver purchase, a Ostrogothic coin from 485 in a batch of byzantines, a misattributed Hepthalite listed as Sassanid? IDK which I would choose I guess.

 

Best ever?

Great question, I was tempted to say the 1942/1 D Merc, found in junk silver, now in an NGC XF-45 holder.


But, I have to say:

1806
O-127a

R-7

Grade: G-4
[Note: no condition census given for die state. However, O-127: 20,20,15,12,12)
Obverse: 12-s2
Reverse: H

Diagnostics:
Obverse: Die Crack, Y above T at top.
Reverse: Berries do not have stems.






As an R-7, it is estimated that there are 4 to 12 known.


Best ever?

Yup.

 

Well I can't get a good picture of it, but a few weeks ago I found a 1886 liberty head nickel in a bargain bin with other buffalo and V nickels. It only cost me 33 cents

 

That was a heck of a deal.

Nice

 

when will it be my turn for cherry picks

 

1877 IHC in AG3...coin dealer's junk box, for 15 cents. Took it back...they said...nah. I sold to another dealer for $115 in 90% silver. Six months later, sold the 90% silver for $350. With that money, I bought my 1914 D XF and 1911 S AU Lincoln cents for $325. So....15 cent cherry pick turned out well. 1988 was the year.

 

I also got some nice black cherries from the supermarket before. They were really good and would like to go get some now.

 

I have found some. (1916D Mer, 1932D QT in change in the 1960's). But, for now it is the "Cherrypickers' Guide" by Bill Fivaz and J. T. Stanton, but signed by my fellow collector/author/friend Bill Fivaz. The search for the hard ones still going on.