i love these stories of everyones!
here are a good one and a bad one, both from estate auctions that just happened to have a few coin lots:
1. small group of 20 or so wheat cents in a plastic bag.....did not see them before the auction......bought them cold for $2 as a lark.....pulled out a 1909 s vdb in vg out of that bag........apparently no one else had looked at them either
2. group of approx 100 2x2ed silver washington quarters.....spot checked a couple of dozen.....all common circulated coins someone had wasted their time 2x2ing.....i bid them up to just over the silver value and quit.......the winner pulled a BU 1932d out of that lot!....i still kick myself for not going thru each and every quarter!