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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2644566, member: 71723"]I recently watched a $2.50 Indian go for quite a bit UNDER melt at an Allentown-based Bid Board. For the person who asked, a bid board is a fixed ending date silent auction where you write your bids on a card next to the item, or as in the case of easily lifted items, the item is in a showcase and the card is on the counter above it. I didn't bid on a U.S. gold coin at under melt because I already had the high bid on so many other coins which were even BETTER deals, that my spending budget was spoken for. Here's the thing. That quarter eagle Indian was tucked in between some real monster high end, but raw, $10's and $20's, and they were sucking up all the late bidding attention. Here's the other thing: gold coins aren't treated like objects of worship where I live. They're kinda "meh". This is "old country", not the western states.[/QUOTE]