Paying £10 for a Beatrix potter coin back in 2017.
Cleaning several silver coins in 2020.
Purchasing two pvc coin albums and storing coins in there for 1.5 years so I’m crossing my fingers that they won’t turn green soon.
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Buying a gold coin for $6250.00, when one of my friends offered to sell it to me for $4995.00 a few days late.
Paying $200 for an 1888 Halfcrown I thought was UNC, but turned out to be cleaned gVF, so worth around $50.
Others minor, usually nice looking silver coins that turned out to be heavily cleaned and polished.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Yen is worth a lot less now like 145 to $1, that is what he means.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I suppose I did rush into buying a bunch of the British Armed Forces vouchers when I very first started collecting.
I don't remember what I paid, but I think I probably could have gotten them cheaper if I'd shopped around. Think I paid about 50% over the typical value, maybe £4 a note instead of about £2.50. Only bought 7 so not a great loss.
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I did also buy the Cook Islands “History of the Monarchy” first day cover & coin set from a charity shop in my early collecting days. Paid £100 for them; think I got about 40 coins. I think its a complete set of extant issues but they didn't print the full monarchy run.
These days, wouldn't even entertain the notion of buying such obvious “collector” rubbish.
Don't think I lost money, just more wasted on something outside my scope of interest.
