What's the most you've spent on an individual coin?

As a collector of silver I wouldn't have spent as much on an individual coin as all the gold collectors have, the most I've spent on as individual coin was probably $40 for an XF Queen Victoria half crown.

I'm just curious because I see some coins listed on some of the online auction site for thousands of dollars and I was wondering if many people spend that much on their hobby.

Hello,

The most I have ever spent on a single coin is $20. I spend that when I buy canadian silver dollars. But considering what the coin is, it really isn't that bad. But I also collect banknotes. The most I have ever spent on a non-canadian banknote was $45 for a Puerto Rico 1 Peso.

Regards

Probably no more than $7.

And the coins I get are usually worth 5 times what I buy them for. Talk about bargain deals.

For me if you don´t count Gold coins its 175€ so far on a nice big silver coin of the italian state of Lucca

ughh I recently spent over $500 on a gold coin... before that it was $200 MAX on my silver dollars

GBP 35 which is roughly USD 45.5

The most expensive coin I've seen for sale was this one

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24265.html

Which was for sale on trademe time for over NZ$8,000, I saw it and I was thinking "man you've got to be a serious collector to shell out that much for a single coin".  That's more than we spent on or last car.

100 bucks for a half dime or a trime... most expensive, probs will stay there

got a american 20 cent coin for 90 tho

I paid $200 Canadian for the coin I use as my avatar. Yeah, I know, crrrazzzy! But in last few months 2 were sold on eBay for $400. I still can't find time to take a good picture of it though.

$300.00 US for a 1882 Carson city morgan dollar gsa ngc ms-64  

150.00 GBP or approx 240 USD for my 1933 Wreath Crown  

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8475.html

It's probably just as well that my wife doesn't read this  

When I had money, the most that I ever spent on a single coin was about $700 CAD for a one ounce gold maple leaf. Now that all my money is gone, I have sold all my gold and silver coins. In fact I have sold all my coins that had any value.

MY DREAM COIN



The Royal Canadian Mint produced the world's first 100-kilogram gold coin with a face value of $1 million. Why did it do this? "Because we can," the mint said on its website. The coin is the size of a "very thick pizza" — 50 centimeters in diameter and three centimeters thick — and it is .99999 pure. It was originally meant to be a one-off novelty item to help promote other gold coins that the mint sells. But after several interested buyers came forward, the mint decided to produce "a very limited quantity" of the $1 million coins on a made-to-order basis for public sale.  Even though the big coin has a face value of $1 million, it won't sell for that. At current prices, the coin's 3215 troy ounces of gold are worth approximately $5.5 million. In 2007, the Royal Canadian Mint sold 5 of these coins for between $2.5 million and $3 million each.

I've, ahem spent a little too much some would say on coins  

I've "scored" NUMEROUS of bargains through bulk lots and in sets and that's where most of my more expensive and less expensive coins have been obtained. I would  generally spend on average $1- $10.

Individual coins that I've spent over $100 NZ  it''ll have to be a XF-Au GB 1817 half crown "bull head" for NZ $160, $100 VF palestine 1933 100 mils, (To complete all my  Palestinian denomination's) and my highest purchase is $2000 for an gVF Australian 1923 halfpenny. (Temporarily insane)  

In saying that the difference between the GB pound, US dollar and other higher currencies compared to our NZ dollar makes a difference.

I'm sure there will be a few that would be cringing at the thought... but I have absolutely no regrets and I really do love my passion that much!... with the wife a close second    

Well with a mintage of 15,000 that is a good buy.
Well done.

The most I have spent is £19 on my Avatar coin...other than that I buy my coins in small bulk or for minimal pennies or small pound amounts!

My most expensive individual coin is a 1 cent (zinc) coin from 1944 from the Netherlands in XF. I bought it for 7.50 Euros. I know that it's not the highest price you've ever seen, but I normally buy coins in bulk lots, not individually, because that costs me too much time and money (b'cause of those annoying shippingcosts!). So it's like that.

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$300.00 US for a 1882 Carson city morgan dollar gsa ngc ms-64  

James this is a beautiful coin. I once had over 50 Morgan dollars, but now I have zero.

£30 for the magnificent Straits dollar.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12779.html

$450USD on Morgan CC.  USUALLY no more than $259 on MORGAN.  $180 on several Silver Eagle back when silver was ~$40/Troy oz.

Wow, revival of a zombie thread from over 13 years ago in the early Obama era.

 

$7840.00 for my gold ounce of UK gold - Black bull of Clarence on October 7th last year.

 

 

It would be a $1,000 more now and likely would have cost $1,840 back in the days of the original posts in this thread.

 

Of course I have not done anything that reckless this year.

Moneytane

Wow, revival of a zombie thread from over 13 years ago in the early Obama era.

 

$7840.00 for my gold ounce of UK gold - Black bull of Clarence on October 7th last year.

 

 

It would be a $1,000 more now and likely would have cost $1,840 back in the days of the original posts in this thread.

 

Of course I have not done anything that reckless this year.

Very interesting indeed seeing such posts from the Obama era as you describe. The guy a few posts above you where he says he had 50 Morgan dollars but no longer has any was a shocker when seeing how much that would be worth now. I think around 13 years ago they were £15 and less if I remember right on auction sites like Ebay the common dates and mintmarks anyway. The pure silver 999 bullion Britannias and such at the time likely retailed for around that too on such platforms and from independent dealers. Around 2016 you could still find silver brittanias for less than £17 as I recall and I remember the following year paying £20 for a Morgan as a gift for a family member. 

Holy necromancy Batman! Revived after 13 years!

 

As for me, I rarely spend the equivalent of US$ 40-60 on a single item. And I can count on my fingers the times I've spent more than that.

 

Besides my 3 small gold coins, there's only one big silver and one small bronze in that list, a brazilian 960 réis and a judean prutah. It was a Pontius Pilate prutah, as a historical piece it was totally worth it.

 

And there's also one banknote on that list, a brazilian note from the 1880's. Notes from the brazilian imperial period are uncommon and very expensive, it was a miracle finding one for less than US$ 100 last december. It isn't in a great state, that's why it was less expensive than the others.

75 euros on this atrocity. 😬 At the bare minimum its shiny and has a plastic box, but i still regret buying it to this day!!

Nice to see one of my old threads resurface.  An update on that.  The most I've ever spent on some coin was $300 for a Melbourne centenary florin

 

 

But that coin got sold when I cashed out my collection.  The latest iteration of my collection it's probably $50 for a nice UK George IV shilling.