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<p>[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3250225, member: 77704"]Congratulations to all the big winners, esp. to severus Alexander for getting on the auction bandwagon. My best showing ever was, when I won 14 lots in a Stack's Auction back in 1990. I bid low on 24 lots (all AV coins from the 1974-79 Wildlife Conservation Series) I ended up winning 14 of them, all same weight/size as a US Double Eagle. I got all them for under the gold price back then, yet all were perfect proof coins. So, when the invoice arrived in the mail, I was shocked, but happy with my horde. Then reality set in, since I owed a whack of cash for them<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Here is one of them.</p><p>Venezeula/ AV 1000 Bolivares 1975 Birmingham Mint 34mm. 33.98g. .916[ATTACH=full]852617[/ATTACH]</p><p>Peruvian Cock of the Rock</p><p>This coin came from a happier Venezeula, today, after decades of leftwing governments ruinous, corrupt, brutal policies.....its a basket case like Zimbabwe.[ATTACH=full]852617[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3250225, member: 77704"]Congratulations to all the big winners, esp. to severus Alexander for getting on the auction bandwagon. My best showing ever was, when I won 14 lots in a Stack's Auction back in 1990. I bid low on 24 lots (all AV coins from the 1974-79 Wildlife Conservation Series) I ended up winning 14 of them, all same weight/size as a US Double Eagle. I got all them for under the gold price back then, yet all were perfect proof coins. So, when the invoice arrived in the mail, I was shocked, but happy with my horde. Then reality set in, since I owed a whack of cash for them:( Here is one of them. Venezeula/ AV 1000 Bolivares 1975 Birmingham Mint 34mm. 33.98g. .916[ATTACH=full]852617[/ATTACH] Peruvian Cock of the Rock This coin came from a happier Venezeula, today, after decades of leftwing governments ruinous, corrupt, brutal policies.....its a basket case like Zimbabwe.[ATTACH=full]852617[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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