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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 10740, member: 669&quot;]Goldberg Coins put their Pre-Long Beach Show auction on EBay&#039;s Live Auction system, and I placed three bids, to compete with the floor bidders, fax bidders, and phone bidders.&nbsp; The majority of the lots I checked were going at the high end of the pre-auction estimates, or better, but&nbsp; <a href="http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rd=1&amp;item=2239083636&amp;sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rd=1&amp;item=2239083636&amp;sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT" rel="nofollow">this one</a> closed below the estimate, even with another bidder in the game. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Both of my other bids were near the high end of the estimates, but I was blown out of the water by floor bidders on another silver yen, and a gold 10 yen. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://216.67.248.213/liveauction/25jpgs/067071.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://216.67.248.213/liveauction/25jpgs/067071N2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font face="lucida console"><span style="color: blue"><font size="7">Meiji 14 (1881)</font> </span></font>, 38.6mm, 26.9568g .900 silver (ASW .78 oz)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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