...comes courtesy of this auction: 1857-1909 Flying Eagle 1857 1858 & Indian Head Album It was originally posted with just a low-res overall view of the album and a few noncommittal close-ups. I messaged the seller asking for a photo of the back of the 1909-S; she obliged with close-ups of both sides of that coin, as well as the obverse of a VERY nice 1873. I'm not a serious IHC collector, so I hemmed and hawed for a while, trying to figure out whether this was a good deal. I finally convinced myself it was a SCREAMING deal, and hit Buy It Now... ...one minute too late. :desk: I'm getting better at not hesitating, but $800 is still a significant chunk of money to sling around casually, so I guess due diligence was the right thing to do. Oh, well -- I've gotten a couple of other screaming deals in the last few days, and I guess I'll console myself with those. But I'm still pretty mad...
Oh no. As a board newbie, but 25+ year collector... I send you internet comfort, shallow though it may be.
That feeling does suck but you would feel 10X worse if you pulled the trigger and spent $800 on crap.
I agree with H8_modern. And you said you had a couple other screaming deals lately. I'm thinking, how many screaming deals come along and you have a couple recent ones. So, I wouldn't worry about this one. It looks like you're the type that will find plenty more. Good luck and when you come across another one of those good deals that you buy, post some pics!
Thanks for the moral support, folks. There is a steady -- well, let's say "trickle" -- of really remarkable deals on eBay, whether because of an ill-described lot, an ill-advised Buy It Now price, or just a collective blind spot on the part of potential buyers. I'm going to keep looking, and hopefully I'll keep landing the good ones. Which reminds me -- it's probably about time for part 4 of "eBay: what was he thinking?" Maybe this weekend...
The other day I caught a listing for 5k wheat cents that was a couple hours old for $200. Medium description about collecting up enough wheaties from estates etc to sell them, always wanted to do something with them...... mom and pop antique store with a couple sales per week, no evidence of any other coin buying/selling. Pictures clearly had steelies, very worn cents, some with red around the edges. some very dark some with that painted red look. they had a make best offer option. asked would they take $150, they came back at $175 when I went to click on accept. it was gone.. 4 hours after listing.
Hard to be sure, but that '09-S looked to be XF at the least, and the 1873 didn't look much worse to me. Hard to tell from photos, of course, but it looked like those two alone could almost carry the cost, disregarding any of the other semi-keys. I could be wrong, of course; one reason I hesitated is that I haven't spent much time studying IHCs. It may be that I actually hesitated just long enough.
