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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2921983, member: 19463&quot;]EBay, shows, auctions and coin shops all share one characteristic when it comes to prices.&nbsp; There are good deals and there are horrid rip-offs in each venue.&nbsp; What you consider a good purchase may seem terrible to me and the last coin I bought may make you wonder just <i>what</i> I was thinking.&nbsp; We might even make a game out of it when we finish this one.&nbsp; If I showed the last five coins I bought and gave the price I paid for each one but did not say which was the $20 coin and which was the $40 one, would you agree with the prices as they go with the coins?&nbsp; When I look on eBay (or other venues) I see three categories: coins I do not want at any price (includes fakes), coins I would buy if they were cheaper and coins I would buy at the current level.&nbsp; Of that last group, I actually buy some - not all.&nbsp; Easily 99.9% of the coins on eBay fall in the first two groups for me.&nbsp; Even big sales like CNG auctions include 90% of coins I would not buy at a fraction of the starting bid.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying they are overpriced but just that I have no interest in owning either that type or that specimen at that price on that day.</p><p><br /></p><p>We thrive here on CT looking at coins purchased by others.&nbsp; Sometimes we envy their good fortune; sometimes not. We have already had a couple members post their end of year favorite purchases of 2017 lists.&nbsp; I encourage you to look at each of these lists and see if you can figure out why that person not only bought that coin but was so very thrilled with the purchase that it made their top ten.&nbsp; I still have a month to go so I can still hope my top ten will change (my current favorite was a January baby).&nbsp; Red_Spork posted his group and his #1 <u>would</u> make my top ten even though I barely collect Republicans by his standards.&nbsp; I doubt many here would rank more than a couple of most lists as among their favorites (if they would even have bought it at all).&nbsp; That is the way it should be.&nbsp; In a perfect world the right coins would search out the right collector where they would be most appreciated for what they are.&nbsp; We will be happy to see your 2017 top ten.......or two, as the case may be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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