best coin you stole

[craig12]

thats a forum headline if ever i saw one

 

but i wasnt meaning it in that way , what was the best item you stole on price , what was it and how much did you pay for it 

i saw a sov earlier in the gold section which one member bought of e bay for peanuts think it was £7 turned out to be genuine, 

i cant say ive got too much to my credit but did buy some bullion this year for around £12 -£13 per coin all in when spot was £11.50  also i thought the hgm 100g bars i got for £51 each all in seemed to be priced wrong 

anyone bought some coins/bars  and you knew that you stole them but the seller didnt realise 

[HelpingHands]

About a year ago I got a 1oz desert storm silver round for about £7.

[watchesandwhisky]

peace dollar for a fiver is my best coin wise i think.

[craig12]

one of my £12 buys was a 1995 maple and a 1986 eagle  not sure if bullion a little older is worth more

[HighlandTiger]

On the silver front its got to be the 1 x Silver 2011 Canadian 1oz Timber Wolf, stolen for only £14.98 delivered. You can't get it anywhere now for less than double that,

 

and on the gold front a 1/10th Guernsey double for £74.16 delivered. Amazingly it's still under spot even at todays low prices

 

 

Both won overnight on Ebay. 

[Paul]

i got a full complete run of UK 1oz silver britannias (1998 to 2012) from my local coin shop in town about 3 months back for £18.00 per coin (£252 for the full run)

The sheer cheek of the dealer, he originally wanted £19.00 each for them !!! can you believe it

but my haggling saved me £14, enough for a celebration pint or two after the deal was done   

 

another from the same shop was £250 for 

2006 BRITANNIA SILVER PROOF GOLDEN SILHOUETTE 

beautiful stunning set with the gilding and fine details

 

I have seen many sets sell on eBay since i got them in 2011 go for £400-£450

 

You gotta love these old fashioned coin dealers who do not have access to the internet and have no interest in joining the internet 

[craig12]

fantastic  are all these steals  e bay  or dealers with good deals on

[craig12]

are the 1998 brits 925 silver making them a more expensive purchase in theory

[HighlandTiger]

are the 1998 brits 925 silver making them a more expensive purchase in theory

The 925 Brits all weigh 32.45g. So they are still a full ounce of silver

[Paul]

are the 1998 brits 925 silver making them a more expensive purchase in theory

they still have a troy ounce of fine silver in them, so its like buying 22crt or 24crt 1oz gold coin, both still have an oz of gold in them. Just one is slightly heavier than the other

[craig12]

wish we had coin shops in sheffield, only thing we seem to have is these cash convertor , pawn broker shops, but i dare say they will know the price of bullion resale

[craig12]

best scenario i could think of is a massive drop in pm,s , then a trip over to blackpool  chards shop  to see their best deals, collecting in person  no delivery charge

[Paul]

i think it is hard to find super deals on just the pure bullion factor. an ounce of silver is an ounce of silver, however armed with a bit of knowledge as to what sells for higher than other ounces of silver is the key.  keeping an eye on eBay for what stuff sells for, and remember particular years that consistently sell over and above what a bog standard mass coin like ASE or canadian maple sell for.

UK Britannias have certain years that will sell for more (often double) what a standard generic 1oz coin will

ie years 2003,2006, 2005 & 2007

 

I have bought many chinese pandas for my local dealers paying the current going rate an ounce or a quid or two more they charge for 'exotic' silver like this.  However, the long term market for chinese pandas to be far far better than buying the ASE or maples they also had on the day.

 

A quid extra paid today might be £20-£30-£50 more in years to come as time progress

[craig12]

i suppose paul that makes sense in the fact that on a massive drop on silver, pile in with stg pandas  

[Keithoil]

My best steal was 6 coins from Canada.

 

When I got them the PCGS slabbed Morgan dollar is worth around £80-90.

 

Well pleased.

[Shamatti]

I swapped an old video camera I didn't want for a 1997 Britannia Proof Set once

 

Also picked up a Congo 2007 1500 Fr - Romulus & Remus design 0.5 gram gold coin off Ebay - for a few quid. Worth three times what I paid for it now, and I bought it a couple of years ago when gold was way higher than it is now!

[Keithoil]

Just remembered when I got the order from Canada I was also given a Lydian mint little lion paw coin for free they are advertised at £10 so another bonus.

[motorbikez]

I got a 2006 1oz proof Britannia from the local coin shop for £24,

my best bargain was a set of 1/2 oz lunar series 1 coins which just happened to include 4 proofs, 3 very rare, I thought from the photos on ebay 3 looked like proofs,the 3 rare proofs are worth what I paid for the 12 coins in total.