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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1916578, member: 19463&quot;]Note that CNG estimated their coin at $100 plus fees.&nbsp; Their coin is much nicer than mine.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even with that scratch on theirs, I would pay $100 +18% +postage for their coin but $368 is out of the question.&nbsp;&nbsp; That would be +$66 + postage (they don&#039;t send anything cheapest way) so the final bill would have been over $450 and you would, like me, still have a coin you might want to upgrade.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other denarius I mentioned in the OP as liking was substantially perfect but was a legend variation of my current best grade Republican (below) but just a bit nicer.&nbsp; I&#039;m now thinking I should have bought it and consigned it to CNG.&nbsp; I don&#039;t do that sort of thing but if someone is willing to pay $450 for common scratched Republicans, it has to make you wonder. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]328792[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Which do we buy with our $450?&nbsp; Three or four junkers or one nice coin with a scratch?&nbsp; It turns out that the same sale had the type I left behind (but not as nice) that sold much closer to estimate.</p><p><a href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=257824" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=257824" rel="nofollow">http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=257824</a></p><p>This just shows that there is no telling what will happen at an auction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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