What were your biggest purchases of 2012?

[AnkurJ]

2012 was truly a record year for my numismatically. I have managed to pick up some very nice coins for my type set, and also manage to get banned from the PCGS forum twice!

 

What did you pick up this year that stands out?

[Bruceswar]

3 from this year that stand out.....

 

1937 3 Legged Bufalo

 

High Grade Standing lib Qtr

 

1795 Dollar

[messydesk]

These two are my biggest for the year, and bigger than big coins of previous years. Gives me incentive to move some of the stuff that's just taking up space in my collection and/or get some more photo jobs.

 

 

 

[Keigwin]

I added these two IHC's to nearly complete the set in 64/65. Two to go!

Lance.

 

[BKW]

 

Bought this one for my Half Dollar type set:

 

[Keigwin]

On the silver side I added these two halves.

Lance.

 

[AnkurJ]

Great stuff so far! Which two are left Lance?

[bsshog40]

My 2012 SAE SF set was my biggest purchase this year.

[bartlesvilleok]

[$ilverHawk]

On the silver side I added these two halves.

Lance.

 

 

Exceptional pick ups, Lance. Nice skin and very sharp strikes.

 

Carl

[brg5658]

I'd say these three are my favorite pick ups of 2012.

 

[AnkurJ]

I've had a busy year.....

 

It year started off with this piece courtosey of 900fine coins. A trade with the 25th anniversary ASE sets helped significantly. Any day I can turn modern coins to classic gold is a good day!

 

 

Towards the middle of the year, my go to dealer secured this piece for me. Thanks Jim!

 

 

And this one from a good friend.

 

 

And with the tail end, I was able to finish my Gold type set by securing this from Doug Winter.

 

 

A big thanks goes out to John Albanese for his continued guidance!

Ankur

[Old Pueblo]

Paid up a bit for this stunning Lib example

 

Photo by Bob Campbell

 

 

 

OP

[mkman123]

BRG you suck! I like that 1603 coin!

[mumu]

Wasnt very active this year bought filled a big hole with a toned 21 peace$

[Kenneth F]

Ive been working on my 1878 Mint Set this past year.. its been fun thus far. Here are a few of my big purchases.

 

[Catbert]

A great thread of some truly great coins listed so far!

 

2012 has been a tumultuous and challenging time for me on both a career and personal level. My "purchases" have really been "trades" as I've sold coins in my collection and applied those dollars for coins that I wanted more. In retrospect, I'm happy with what I've done and feel that I've strengthened my collection. Here are my top 3 for the year (presented in the order of acquisition):

 

From Chris McCawley (PCGS AU58 BN CAC):

 

 

From Tom Bush (PCGS MS65 CAC):

 

 

From RYK/Dirty Gold Man (PCGS AU58 CAC):

 

[erickso1]

At least of what I have photos of, this one.

 

[jom]

 

jom

[johnny9434]

At least of what I have photos of, this one.

 

i like:)

[Brol]

 

My No 3 biggest purchase still on the route.

And on eBay I have 2 important snipes set up for this weekend. If I win them both, they will be my most important purchases of the year!

[mailman1959]

1976 Type 2 MS67 (POP 3), 1974D MS67 (POP 7), 1972S MS69 (POP 4) Eisenhower Dollars.

[physics-fan3.14]

This was by far the biggest purchase of the year (and my biggest purchase ever, by a wide margin):

 

[DirtyGoldMan]

This is an outstanding thread for a number of reasons. I have made some great purchases this year. My two favorite would have to be:

 

This 1818 $5, ex-Bass, purchased from Legend, after the FUN show:

 

This PTS, from CRO:

 

 

A scarce 42-D QE from the Goldberg Sale of the Helem collection, via Doug Winter:

 

 

And this replacement for my misplaced Columbian half, from my boyhood collection, purchased from TomB:

 

[AnkurJ]

Very nice 1815 PhysicsFan! Was that from Heritage?

[brg5658]

Very nice 1815 PhysicsFan! Was that from Heritage?

 

Yes (link here). It is listed in his NGC registry sets.

 

Jason, fantastic 1815 Bustie.

 

 

[AnkurJ]

Im waiting for Boiler to chime in and put a shame to all of us!

[SkyMan]

My biggest ticket purchase of the year coin wise is an 1858-S gold $1 in PCGS/CAC AU58. I haven't had it imaged yet, so instead I'll post a picture of my second most expensive coin purchase of the year, an 1858-O $10 in NGC/CAC AU50.

 

 

 

As far as collectibles in general go, my most expensive purchase, roughly 5X the cost of the 1858-S $1, was the Apollo Command Module Lock (ex: Guenter Wendt). To the best of my knowledge it was the only piece used on EVERY Apollo Command Module. Basically it was a hard lock that kept the astronauts from accidentally flipping the switches to the Emergency Launch Escape Rocket on the top of the Saturn V. The lock was the last item the Commander of the given mission (e.g. Neil Armstrong etc.) would have handled before the hatch was closed. The Commander would detach it from the instrument panel, hand it through the hatch, and then the hatch would be closed. Here are pictures of where it would go, and it with a quarter for scale.

 

 

[physics-fan3.14]

Very nice 1815 PhysicsFan! Was that from Heritage?

 

Yes (link here). It is listed in his NGC registry sets.

 

Jason, fantastic 1815 Bustie.

 

 

Yup, bought it from them. In hand, you can tell the surfaces are perfectly original and it spent some time in a paper envelope - there is gorgeous toning on both sides. I'm extremely proud of this one. A lot of the 1815's weren't treated very well.

[BOILER78]

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