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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1907752, member: 19463&quot;]Wouldn&#039;t that be a 40 step program?&nbsp; Lets be serious for a minute.&nbsp; The price you paid is a matter of record online.&nbsp; After allowing for buyers fee and postage, I calculated an average cost per coin.&nbsp; Then I went through and decided that, to my standards, 10 of the coins were not what I wanted for my collection.&nbsp; I then found seven duplicates within the lot that I would not want since the lot itself had better.&nbsp; A couple of those groups overlapped but lets just say you have 15 losers and 25 winners.&nbsp; Now lets divide again the total cost but this time by 25 and get a new per keeper coin number.&nbsp;&nbsp; Next take that number and see how many of the 25 you would pay over double the average.&nbsp; I saw five making the adjusted keeper quotient 35.&nbsp; That means the 15 losers need to be sold for an average of 1/3 the overall average.&nbsp; My convoluted way of thinking places this loser requirement at about $5.&nbsp; Five of those 15 losers you can be counted upon to give away to charity or the next 14 year old that impresses you (if we ever get another active one) so the question is can you sell the other ten for $7.50 each.&nbsp;&nbsp; We should all have such problems.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Why was it you didn&#039;t buy the other two lots?&nbsp; (...or did you?) The second, from the photo, looked less promising.&nbsp; The third went for more which suggests someone saw something in it.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to know what it was.&nbsp; I love to play the game: &#039;Why did <u>that</u> sell for <b>that</b>?&#039;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have looked at several CNG end-of-sale lots and wondered how they brought so much over estimate.&nbsp; Here I wonder if people were allergic to make up.&nbsp; The reason that I would not buy the lot is that I already have many of these common types not that I don&#039;t think they were worth the price.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>...and now the rest of the story:&nbsp; Just after this sale came the announcement of US import restrictions on coins from Egypt.&nbsp; How would this change the potential for a group of not-so-special tets?&nbsp; We don&#039;t know.&nbsp; I seriously doubt it would cause these forty coin to be worth less than what you paid.&nbsp; In fifty years, you might even make a profit.&nbsp; Let me know how that works out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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