The one that got away

Yeah, I read further after responding. My comment still stands. How can you blab price, price, price and get offended at comments related to the price? That's my point.

 

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Just because someone makes 'good money', it doesn't necessarily mean they can buy $500 plus coins. I'm a bartender and do pretty well for tips (it also gives me a chance to browse change and currency in the til for silver, older notes & coins, etc). But, for now, some of that 'extra coin money' is not that much 'extra', due to student loans, but there's rent, utilities...then there's the car...then health insurance....CC payments...I think you get the point. It ain't always easy living comfortably when you make a comfortable living, sometimes, if that makes sense.

 

Hey y'all, it's all good:

They did it like men, twenty paces each.
(if ya know what I mean)

 

Yeah, I saw that. Hope it made you feel better.

Just for the record, that wasn't a snap, more like a lecture and a rant, which included the story of your life, that got multiple likes over the use of the word "rich". Jerry Springer or CT, now I'm forced to choose the lesser of two evils.

 

Last response to you on this issue. I was wrong, I apologized. I pm'ed
And discussed what we did and came out friends.

I didn't write a four page essay on why I was wrong. I said I was sorry and everyone but you moved on.

If you are upset about the likes the post received then I suggest you pm the others and discuss it with them.

Feel free to choose springer.

 

I'm not upset, just amused and feeling free to comment on an interesting public display.

 

Then there is the type of personality, regardless of how much he/she makes, that treats this as a not so serious hobby and could never bring themselves to overpay for any green bean and slab.

Buying attractive common coins much more frequently, keeps the hobby fresh, relatively free of fakes and more engaging. Holding the coins and seeing them slab free, also has a certain appeal for some folks.

I'm sure we've all seen the pricing disservice and discrepancy that many of the slabbed coins display on the TPG websites versus real market saturation and pricing of a given coin's population. I've seen it as high as 75% overvalued by TPG standards.

Example: Green Bean vs. None



http://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-half-dollars/1880-50c-ms64-pcgs-cac/a/1189-3868.s?type=NGC1189

http://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-half-dollars/1880-50c-ms64-pcgs/a/1189-3867.s?type=NGC1189

 

Honestly cac doesn't sticker that many proofs. The first cac stickered coin is much more appealing visually then the second. I think the coin Vic is looking at is better looking by far then both!

 

That 2nd coin would of brought more if it wasnt for that ugly brown streak in the right field of the obv, and the first has better colors than brown

 

In that case, for the price, I'd rather have two of the ugly coin, than one barely more appealing with a bean on it.

 

The plot thickens. Apparently the guy was out of town and responded to my email today I'll
Keep you posted I'm awaiting my counteroffer. And I'm selling my toned coins on ebay that I used for inventory when I pretended to be a vest pocket coin dealer so I'll have the capital free.

 

Hope you get it is a beautiful coin!!

 

My thoughts exactly (and probably those of anyone else that sees both coins). The obverse of the non CAC'ed coin is just a miserable sight, no? Somebody please put that one out of it's misery!!!

 

To put this thread sort of back on track... here is one that got away... I was the underbidder, and whomever I was bidding against, had deeper pockets than I. I bid it right it up to my "uncomfortable cost" threshold...

It is probably unique, in terms of Canadian nickel dollar strikes, a double brockage... Some day (*sigh*), I will have this piece...

 

SPP:

That is an amazing piece.

slabbed?

 

Yes - PCGS MS-63. Sold in the Moore Legacy auction in June, I was the underbidder.

http://www.icollector.com/1-DOLLAR-1984_i19827666

I did win the other nickel dollar lot, the 1980 nickel dollar struck on a 25c planchet.

 

I have a hard time thinking of any coins that got away but I can easily think of coins I wish I hadn't had to sell for financial reasons.

Also on a side note if you enjoy coins you get out of them what you put into them, I can think of some purchases that might make people blink if told the cost (like my TT bike) but I get much enjoyment out of it. I think the most I have ever spent for a coin is just several hundred even though I could save and spend more if I wanted too.

 

Conclusion.

I'll use my cat selfie to prove it's mine now.

 

My pics


Ebay pics


Ebay pic is sharper but mine shows more color.