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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikecouil, post: 1503794, member: 31420&quot;]i am currently deployed to Afghanistan and bored out of my friggin&#039; mind so for the last few days I&#039;ve been on ebay looking at coins.&nbsp; I was second bidder on 4 different coins before I finally won this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/140810887563?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/140810887563?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/140810887563?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is an 1828 Half Cent. I suck at grading and bid on it assuming it&#039;s no better than Good, which FMV puts at 54.00</p><p><br /></p><p>I paid about 5-10 dollars more than I wanted but I&#039;m happy with it.&nbsp; My question is why does FMV have this so much higher than what it sold for? I didn&#039;t even look it up until after I bought it because I just wanted to finally not be outbid, and from the looks of things I paid right around market price.&nbsp; But why is true market so different than what the FMV website has it at? Typically FMV is extremely close to what stuff on ebay is going for.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In case you are curious what I lost out on, here is the one I SHOULD have went a bit higher on.</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/140803020054?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/140803020054?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/140803020054?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649</a></p><p><br /></p><p>1939 D Mercury in BU</p><p><br /></p><p>I was ****ed to lose out on that when I&#039;d have probably gone another 10.00 just because it&#039;s so pretty.....</p><p><br /></p><p>The new plan is to buy 1 coin per week with a budget around 25-35 dollars.&nbsp; I will have them all shipped to the wife, who will scan them and send me scans to verify I got what I paid for, then they&#039;ll go in my coin drawer until I get home to play with them with my 6 year old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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