Ancient Trajan Contest

Man, all these late comers. Oh well

 

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1h 13minutes to go... still at $174.49

 

I'll go for $225

 

$325

 

c'mon $205!! ... let's get some movement (c'mon Doug, bid!!)

 

$186

 

Well i was in the money for the last 3min.

 

Doug!! => did you win???

:sniper:

 

Looks like miedbe7 won.

 

Sold for $238.00....


Anyone see tooling on his nose?

 

why, what did you figure the price was at 15 mins before the finale? (I got preoccupied and missed the suspense)

... I was chasing something shiny (*sigh*)

:burger-flip:

 

What?

Btw, it was ~$175 15 min before the finale...

 

Man, I should have bid $205, knowing that it was gonna rocket-by that price .... yah, I thought about it, but just in case I ended-up winning, I don't have the funds at the moment, so it would have been a really bad faux pas ...

=> "Ummm, look Honey, I boughtcha somethun' ... ummm, no, it's not a new deck ... ummm, it's a Trajan!! ... cool, eh???"

:foot-mouth:

 

Just logged in today, 15 minutes after the auction ended. I wish every log-in were like this!! Thanks again RB for the cool contest!

 

Congratulations to miedbe7 who is the real winner here. I hope the buyer at $238 is not a reader of these posts because I hate to think that our playing with the coin caused anyone to think it was worth that much because we showed interest in it.

This was a fun contest but I remain a bit concerned whether it is appropriate. What if the contest coin were one that you had interest in buying but someone cause a bunch of crazy people to look at the lot that you hoped would slip by unnoticed?

 

Ah man i lost oh well congrats

 

Congrats to the winner! Very cool contest Thanks!

 

Thanks RB for the fun time. I was a tad over. C'est la Vie

 

CONGRATS Miedbe7!!! A great guess, especially considering it was over 24 hours out from the end of the auction. This was a lot closer than I thought. I would have responded sooner, but do have a life outside of CoinTalk.

PM me your mailing address and I'll mail you the silver dollar this week as soon as I can run to the post office, probably Tuesday.

Thanks for participating one and all. I hope you enjoyed yourselves, had lots of fun, and as a byproduct, now we know what a big sestertius from a popular emperor will sell for on the bay even if it is scratched and cleaned. Current market price on a big venue like eBay is worth more than a price guide.

 

Ahahaha => dougsmit, there are a whole lotta coins out there!! ... ummm, but if I like a coin and a bunch of you don't like it, then chances are good I'm gonna get a better deal on 'er?!! ... so please feel free to bad-mouth any coins that I am interested in bidding-on ... hey, that actually sounds like a great strategy ... I'll tell you guys which coins I like, and then you guys can all start picking them apart and saying that they're tooled and fakes, etc ... ummm, kinda like you already do now!!