The best deal I ever made was around a year ago when I got these 2 absolute beauties for around 15$ a piece in my country's currency.
The coins are: 2 mark 1911 Lubeck and 2 mark 1903 Hamburg. They're both in UNC condition and I'm 99.9% sure they are actually proofs (I'd like a confirmation on that if you can say for sure). The Lubeck one is quite rare and is valued at around 325$ in UNC and 500$ if proof and the Hamburg one is a little more common and is valued at 200$ in UNC and 300$ if proof. I'm still amazed by the quality of these 2 coins and the only 'damage'they have are some absolutely tiny rim nicks.
Back in 2002, a rep, who used to visit the company I worked for then, often came to see me as he always knew I was a coin collector, and he asked me if I could sell some coins for him which had been left in a will from his uncle.The collection included the 3 coin set of UK 1/2, 1 and 2 sovereigns, dated 1989, which commemorates the 500th Anniversary of the Gold Sovereign. (KM#'s 955, 956 & 957).
I took this whole collection, including these three gold coins to two different dealers and they offered me a very similar price to buy the whole lot.
I went back to the guy who owned the coins to make him the following deal.
I said I would sell all of the other coins and said the following.
I will sell all of the coins, less the 3 gold coins and I would either-
1. Pay the difference of what I was offered from the dealers and what I had sold the coins for, making sure he did not lose out. This way meant I paid the difference and then kept the gold coins.
2. If I sold the other coins for more than the dealers offer, then he would receive the higher amount. I got the gold coins for nothing.
He accepted my offer and then the dealing started. Ebay, car boot sales and other private sales.
Result.
I did exceptionally well on the sales, so ended up paying £85.00, which included the original box and certificate.
Value today- £2,500.00
I got a lot of Norwegian coins for NZ$10 (about US$6) in the lot was a whole lot of iron World war 1 1 and 5 ore coins, some rare early bronze coins, and the best one was an uncirculated 1927 krone
I sold off the spare coins for a couple of hundred dollars and still got to keep these guys
引用する: "neilithic"I got a lot of Norwegian coins for NZ$10 (about US$6) in the lot was a whole lot of iron World war 1 1, 2 and 5 ore coins, some rare early bronze coins, and the best one was an uncirculated 1927 krone
The best I've done was finding a 1955 India 2 Annas for $2 in a dollar bin at a flea market. Got WAY too hurried to sell it, so sold it for $200, probably could have done $500.
引用する: "nthn"The best I've done was finding a 1955 India 2 Annas for $2 in a dollar bin at a flea market. Got WAY too hurried to sell it, so sold it for $200, probably could have done $500.
I remember that.
Did you pick it out of the bin knowing what it was or was it just blind luck?
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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I had one best bargain for now with my American friend, for 43$, I would get 280 coins in that lot. I chose 7 more from him, and he offered 10 coins more. Making it 297 coins.
I had also a bargan with a French. I chose a rare Monaco coin and he offred me a free and expensive Ottoman coin. I again ordered 2 Frans of Belgium and the 3, 5 francs from Belgium and France and he gifted me an old Greek silver Drachma.
引用する: "nthn"The best I've done was finding a 1955 India 2 Annas for $2 in a dollar bin at a flea market. Got WAY too hurried to sell it, so sold it for $200, probably could have done $500.
I remember that.
Did you pick it out of the bin knowing what it was or was it just blind luck?
I was going through the bin looking for silver. My younger brother was picking them out, I was checking value (silver value). He picked out that one, and I knew it definitely wasn't silver, I looked it up anyway. And Krause gave me the value, even though there is no other website that gives a real value. They all have something like $5, which is more than the other years for the coin. They are worth like $0.25.
I contacted the person who owns the coin who has the picture for the Numista coin page (It is a 1955) and he said he has been offered $1300 for it. That one is the only other one that I have ever seen that is real.
I bought a US silver lot for about $450 and it included a 1893 S Morgan dollar. It's going to auction in August but it will get at least $1500 possibly $2000
I couldn't believe it! https://en.numista.com/forum/topic59208.html
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
My local coin store was throwing out some Dansco folders for pre-decimal Australian coins, empty and in poor shape. I took them all anyway, to "give them a good home", and one still had a 1911 sixpence in it.
My best deal is when I switch out coins from my job at face value. I'm a manager at a retail store, so almost all the change is seen by me at some point. I don't have time to go through it all coin by coin, but I get to pick the rolls at night when I close. I pulled a 1916 Buffalo nickel off the end of a roll a couple weeks ago, and just tonight pulled a 1943 S Jefferson war nickel out of a roll as I emptied it into the drawer. Total cost, 10¢.
I've also pulled lots of wheat pennies, a couple silver Roosevelt dimes, an '81 S proof quarter, sadly not in pristine shape, and silver versions of the Pennsylvania and Wyoming state quarters. Then there are occasional foreign coins and "oddballs" like off-center strikes and a gold-plated state quarter from one of those not-worth-it late night infomercial 'collector's' sets.
My best day ever was picking up several New Zealand coins in really great shape when a customer poured them out looking for change. I offered to buy them and she just gave them to me as she had no idea what else she would do with them. They may not be money makers, but that doesn't matter to me. I was just happy to add to my collection.
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain
Got a 1 Escudo 1916 (https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11152.html) last evening for R$ 18 (US$ 6), and I was surprised when I found that it's half of the bullion value and another surprise when I found that the coin is worth 10 times the value I paid on online stores.
It's in a good shape, but very dirty (enough to confound it with a nickel coin, could it be? That would explain the price).
Just bought a whole bunch of coins (like, 800!) out of the bulk bins at my local coin shop. Average price $0.26 per coin. Most aren't worth much more than that but one is a 1905 Edward VII halfpenny in beautiful AU condition, lustrous red with beautiful album toning around the edges. Book value about $60. I'm pretty pleased with that bit of treasure!
two different purchases actually at the first ever Mumbai Numismatic coin society fair in 2004.
I bought approx 5kgs or more precisely 1183x BI George VI 1/4 anna 1939-42 - mostly in xf-unc for about Rs2.4 per piece (4cents US). I still have about 700 of these
The second purchase was 56x year wise Re1 1840-1947 (missing 1939) in mixed grades of vf to UNC. Again at the same event. Bought for Rs232 per piece (approx $4). Sold them in 2013 for a little over Rs1650 a piece (~$28per piece). I never got around to cataloguing those coins to verify if they were even real or fake (though back in 2004 that was not such a widespread problem). Neither did I actually bother to verify if I had any gem in there. That's basically what i told the buyer. For me it was a 7.3x return on investment anyways and especially useful as I was going back to school!
Now that I recall, there was the time when I picked out an Edward VII 1/4 anna only to discover later it was of Sailana State. It was in vf+ condition which at the time I believe Krause listed at about $28 though I paid Rs9 (c.14c US) for it . I still have it as a very prized specimen in my collection.
Went to my local car-boot (or flea market for you Americans ;P )and there is a guy who sells tables full of costume-jewelery and other misc. junk and occassionally coins like worn pennies and other worthless stuff, and I spotted a lone coin, and mistook it for Japanese (which it kinda ending up being Japanese) and offered 10p for it not knowing what it was.
. I still have it as a very prized specimen in my collection. 
