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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1818241, member: 19463&quot;]While I agree with the relief felt when someone saved me from my bidding error, I differ from most of you in another way.&nbsp; I still feel the pain of a couple very specific coins I lost many years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; The oldest that retains a place in my guilt banks was in the later 1980&#039;s when a seller and I could not agree on a price so I let a coin go.&nbsp; The next month I saw him again and had decided to pay his price but the coin was sold.&nbsp; I still remember that coin and believe now as I did then that no one in his right mind would want the thing.&nbsp; I know I would recognize it if I saw it again.</p><p><br /></p><p>That brings up the question of how many times a coin might be expected to sell in a lifetime and how likely we are to ever see a specific coin again.&nbsp; When I sold most of my coins in 1974 I did not plan on caring if I ever saw them again.&nbsp; I have images of most of those coins and have yet to recognize even one showing up in a sale.&nbsp; Some of them I would buy for what the coin is, and, some I would buy just because it was once mine.&nbsp; I may have seen one or two of the less distinctive ones and not recognized them but I do wonder and care what happened to at least some of them.&nbsp; There are many examples of some of these coins but I would prefer to be reunited with the ones I had before the 1974 mistake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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