What is the highest you have ever paid for one single coin? (Pics are welcome).

My highest coin came with a $470 pricetag, and it's not even going to be mine. It's a GIFT!!!



I think my 2nd highest is around $140.

Doesn't matter if it cost $.05 or $5,000. I'm just curious to see what people's limits are. Mine used to be $100 dollars and that didn't happen very often. In reality it was the $20-$30 range. Now I've broken all my limits more than once.

"Holey moley" Tiff, I am cheap cheap cheap. Most I have paid is about 5.00. Would have been 33.00 but the deal fell through because of "postal problems". How can I find a spot on your gift list, maybe we are related way, way back. You know ancestors from perhaps cave days or........ Never mind.

I won't bother with the picture.

Dear daggit, it is not important that your most expensive coin is $5. I never used to pay more than $50 for anything. Like I said, this one was a gift. My Mommy loves gold and I love my Mommy.

Try my Old Bronze roman Coin

Paid $12.00


I Think it's Still A Nice Coin to own

Possibly, just possibly in another life, again possibly! I may have been your mom.

Well i don't usually list prices i've paid for things but since you specifically asked, then the most i've ever paid out would be $1800. (Which for me is a heck of alot, usually i try and stay well below the $1000 mark).



Oh and Tiff... nice coin!

Wow. I would say I would never spend that much but in the past I said I wouldn't spend over $100 and when I passed than I said nothing over $200-$300. And yeah, well I'm past that now....

I am way over that too... My top three would be Russian coins, *cough*

All of them are way over 400USD mark I have to sell them one day when I get too broke.

1834 proof-like commemorative silver coin,
1978 olympics platinum proof coin + official box & paper
1991 palladium proof coin... + box & paper

Well... *cough* you can probably imagine how pricy they are

Platinum and Palladium, oh yeah i can imagine.


At nearly $900 per ounce for Pt alone.

$20 for a 1909 "V.D.B." BU wheatie i know thats a little much to pay for that coin but i really liked it. i just wish i could pay $20 for a 1909S BU

Against face value for a currency coin....as you guys call raw I paid 91,200 X face value....ouch.... .
I don't really think too hard...if I see a coin I want and the funds are there I will go for it.
I do bear in mind resale with the bigger boys....my wife trusts me.
I've just pursuaded my mother to add $2000 of gold to her assets rather than plonk it in some bank paying 3%.
She thinks she's getting Krugs or sov's I wonder how she will react to a nice James 1 Unite.

Gold is an exceeding violiate "investment" material. It is a fact whether you want to deny it or not, that war and stablity that solely have to do a lot with the pricing of gold. And it is up to you to interpret if the war in Iraq is to end any sooner or later. But honestly, in my humble opinion, assuming that the war wouldn't last much longer, now is one of the difficult time to buy gold and stock it up.

If you like, you can check this useful homepage, http://www.kitco.com and check under "charts & datas" and check all the historical chart. Of course, the pricing of gold is just a short 40 year history, but it has enough data to tell you how it is like.

My most expensive coin is this:

It cost allmost $200.
It's not cleaned, rather it has nearly prooflike surfaces which aren't visible in the poor scan

The situation is about to change a bit, i am buying a nice example of a Rouble 1899** right now

Tiff, that's a stunning coin.

My two most expensive coins are:



It's now in a NGC MS-62 slab.



NGC MS-65

Under $200 each, thaler was purchased from a dealer in Germany and 10K at ANA convention last year.

Nice coins akdrv! O_O

My highest were:
Mercury Dime 1945P Full Band MS64 PCGS $2500.
Mercury Dime 1916D XF-40 PCGS $2450.
American Silver Eagle 1995W PR69DCAM PCGS $2550.

So I guess my limit is around $2500.00
Sorry no pics but their in the safe deposit box right now.

If memory serves, I think it was about $450 for a US $20 Saint.
My self-imposed "limit" is $500 ... but that's gonna change if I can find a NIIIIIICE Gothic Crown I believe the vast majority of my stuff falls into the "less than $50" category.

Not cash, but a trade. A '72 Dodge Charger, tricked to the max, for a PCGS MS60FB '16d Merc. The car has since been totaled, and the Merc. has appreciated $2700.

€ 75 has been my highest price so far.

Then a bunch of coins in the area around $20.

The rest is (far) less

Well I had to look up my records and in absolute terms the most expensive was a steal at 477 euro
100 FF Laurated

More than my salary... for my favourite Sadagura 5 Kopecks Probe 1771

The highest I have ever paid for a single note is $1,000, for a Greenland 100K note in crisp UNC, but this was only to sell.

The highest I have ever paid for a note for my collection is $950 for a Swiss 1,000 Franken:

Besides that I think it was $300-something.

This was my highest coming in at $238 USD:


1632 Austria Leopold Thaler

but recently I took delivery of a 1765 Mexican 8 Reales, and that one is a bit more expensive.

I don't have a scan of it handy. FOUND IT!

Maybe I can find one tonight and post it later. Here it is, aint' it a beaut!

Wow, some nice stuff all.

My most expensuve was your Gothic. What did we decide it was? 95 Euro? That was around $200? I've already forgotten!

Normally, the coins I buy are a tenth that much or even less.

Why on earth would Ætheling sell a Gothic Florin for euros??????
And at that time, a euro was about the same value as a dollar, so I guess it must have been 95 pounds...

See! That is how bad I am with remembering how much I paid for any coin! We had this discussion over on Coin Community and it took us forever to figure it out and I have already messed it up again! It had to be pounds, I am sure. In a month I will probably think I paid 175 francs for it.

The most I've paid is about $115 for the Buffalo Dollar coin and currency collection. I usually will not shell out that kind of money but I saw it and I fell in love.

The last coin needed for my CC Morgan collection $520 from David Lawrence.
It is not as toned as the pic shows, It has light golden colr at the rims.

THe most ever for a single coin was $1200 for an old Spanish Trail commem half.
The most ever for a note was $6000 for a 1934 dark green Boston star note $1000 bill.

The most "total" for coins in one stop-- I just paid $2000 a few weeks ago for 84 Morgan dollars. I've already sold $1000 worth and hope to sell the rest this week and probably make a bit. Sadly almost all of them are cleaned, but they are nice 1879 8tf, 1880, 1888s, 1898 etc

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, I do this to annoy you

Hey if I can increase KWB's stock maybe one day it'll happen!

I didn't keep it long. I bought a new truck with most of it as I sold it to a dealer for cash and broke even. I used some bonus money to buy it which was silly. I learned to keep coins a hobby and keep my properties as investments not coins. Don't mix the two.

Coins=fun hobby for me, not investement. Though I don't want to take a bath on a coin.

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, All Redheads are nuts

5300 for the VF 1794 half that I pictured in the thread on half dollar type sets. I have crossed the 4 figure mark several times for different Overton varieties. This past winter I placed my first 5 figure bid on a coin but wasn't lucky enough to win it. (Or I was lucky enough NOT to win it!)

Jim

Oh, 5 figures! Now we are talking some serious money.
My wife would just flip. Hell, I think I would be doing some back flips myself.

Most expensive coin thus far:


Paid around $60 for it.



coin is a little darker in hand. I have a half cent on the way that cost around the same.

$120 for a Canadian 1956 PL set. Lost $15 selling it (needed money), though it jumped in value to about $200-250 about six months after I sold it...

Im sorry to say the most I paid for a coin was about 10X what I should have.

I think it was something like $45 + $10 shipping for an undated ~ 95% off center lincoln.

I dont regret it though, That was the reason I started teaching myself about coins. I learned more and more and got more interested and now I have a whole collection.

An undated off center lincoln is prob still my most frequent buy on ebay.... but only pay no more than $5 shipped.

-Bobby

$270 for this...