gxseries Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 When you saw a few coins, couldn't afford it back then and now if you want to get them, they will cost not just twice or thrice but maybe let's say, 5 times or more? And you knew they will rise in value? Missed my chance on lots of platinum coins but those were not cheap for me back then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Yep, don't worry, it's not just you. I was offered a coin for £5,000 in April of this year but refused. I then sat in the room at Spink in London and watched the hammer fall on the exact same coin for £10,000... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottO Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 been there, but the ammount of great surprise buys has wiped it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Since I started fooling with coin when I was young - like 8, I've seen many many coins that I would love to have owned that were out of my price range a bit back then but now are so far out that I can't even afford to dream about them. Take an 1877 IHC as an example. Used to buy St. Gaudens $20 for 36 to 38 each. Silver halfs and dollars for face in quantities that virtually had no limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Used to buy St. Gaudens $20 for 36 to 38 each. And here I'm thinking that $500 for a St. Gaudens was cheap, thinking back a decade or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottO Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 i remember seeing an 1858 halfpenny in EF with partal lustre for £12 about 12 years ago, those are now WAY out of my price range, i loved the design.. had to settle for a 1858 farthing for £7 in a lesser grade a few years later..... only to find it was worth nearer £40 and has only hundreds in existance i think the good came from the bad here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Actually I think we used to pay something more like 55 or 60 dollars for each one (memory isn't as accurate as I'd like). I had a buddy who worked a ton of overtime back in the early 70s. He put all his OT money into gold coins as soon as ownership became legal. (Actually a bit before that. He had a relative who travelled to Europe regularly and would bring him back sovereigns.). Last time I talke to him -- like in 1998. He still had most of it. In fact he had sold more than half his stuff in the big gold rush of the 80s and got it all back as soon as the prices fell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just carl Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 And that is why you hear so many times those words: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda. And not just coins. It's everything. Cars, TV sets, dog food, fishing equipment, spear guns, water pistols and on and on and on. There is always something that you should have, could have or would have if things were different. Your just looking at it all wrong. Suppose way back you purchased a 1909S VDB Lincoln Cent for $25 in MS-63 Red. So after all these years of bragging you decide to send it to PCGS for grading and it comes back as a fake. Or you buy a what looks like new 1957 Chevy, with original 23,000 miles for $2,500.00 only to learn later the entire bottom is rusting out. No brakes, gas tank leaks, engine blows up after one day. You buy an engagement ring for $10,000 and the girl you were going to give it to runs off with your mailman and takes the ring with. The moral of this is to always be happy with what you have now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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