Of course, don't forget to figure in the exchange rate if the auction is not in your country's currency.
Another very important point, Greg, if you want to buy the coin for the lowest price possible: don't target coins I'm bidding on! :D
:D I wouldn't mind having one just for the bottle.
All true, Z. I really enjoyed buying a few large mixed lots at the outset of my ancient collecting. Some of those individual coins appear to be...
Another point, Greg, is that many coins offered by dealers were probably bought in group lots, where there is usually considerably more room...
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If it is any consolation, even if you lose by one increment, you really don't know how high the winner was willing to go (assuming the auction has...
So true! On Numisbids and Sixbids you can easily find the "Terms of Sale" link for each auction. Sometimes its difficult to glean all of the...
There are oodles of auctions every month and two major auction consolidation sites are a very convenient way to keep track of it by creating watch...
Whaaaaaat? Dark Side of the Moon wine? How did I not know of this?! Who makes it, what varietals or blends, and is it good? Dear Santa...
Stating your age including "a half"... a true sign of youth :joyful::joyful:
It's a beauty, Steve-O! I probably have some Syracuse bronzes I hadn't posted before but will have to dig through an old drive for pictures after...
Noob, are you in that age group? I didn't realize you were so young!
I do like having the vast array of fixed-price Vcoins offerings in case I'm too impatient to wait for a given coin at auction, but it can be hard...
Pretty!
Those are the largest grains of sand I've ever seen! :D
What a fun set!
How serendipitous, and what a great little coin!
Pretty amazing little coins there, AJ! Somewhat relevant, recently there was an interesting example of a hekte struck on two conjoined hemihektes...
...and to get an idea what similar coins have realized at auction, run searches in CNG's archives and on acsearch.info.
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