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Message:: [QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8625064, member: 105571"]Both those Modova coins are really attractive.  On the second coin, is the animal the "Lutra?"  What animal is that, something like an otter?  Someone asked me once how to win coin auctions and I told him "Bid more than everyone else."  Trite answer but it underscores what many people are really asking:  "How can I win auctions while still getting a really low price?"  And there is no real answer to that except to bid a lot and hope that probability will let you win a few. One reason why I like live auctions, even if they occur on the Internet, is that each auction is not time-limited.  The bidding continues until it stops.  You always know exactly where you and every other bidder are situated. For those time-limited auctions, one advantage to being retired is that time can be devoted to following the auction and even sniping at the end.  For GC and Heritage, almost all auctions occur at night so most people can follow them, unless they're working the second shift. Last night, I won both auctions I was bidding on by sniping within the last two minutes.  I won both at much less than my secret maximum bid and right around Greysheet including BP and S&H because the underbidders had put in secret maximums that were too low and then didn't follow the bidding.[/QUOTE]