Coin misses and regrets..

I wanted one of these types (triumph chariot) for a while since i saw one here on CT...I bid $20.00 on this coin last week and it sold for $20.50. the next one similar went for $332.00. i now am kicking myself for not bidding more. .. i am having a hard time dealing with this and am thinking that now i will put up the farm,(literally!) so this never happens to me again and i will either win the coin or cost my competitors dearly... ... does anyone else have a story of woe similar to tell here at regrets not so anom ominus1?..
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I wouldn't regret that one too much, I don't like its surface and soft devices (not just wear IMO)

Q

 

thank you Q..

 

I don't know what the books say but those Rubrius Dossenus denarii seem common enough that you should be able to get a circulated one for 40 or less if you're patient and keep your eyes open. Mine has a cruddy obverse struck with worn dies but the reverse is appealing, and at 28.60 shipped suggests it isn't a high-demand issue. You'll find one, don't worry.

 

thanks, that's encouraging .. i reckon i should look at it as i gave the winner a Christmas gift..one mans(sic) loss is another mans(sic) gain...and i like my farm better anyway^^

 

A few years ago I missed out on this Domitian rarity on eBay. I was out bid by a fellow Flavian collector. I am still not over it.

 

Here's my main great miss/regret, a big chunky AE Litra of Sicily, Aitna under The Campani. This was the coin but I don't have a pic of the reverse, which had a magnificent big bold awesome 16-ray Argead star.


Wildwinds pic of cruddy example:


One day I'll get a good one.

 

I have regrets all the time, but not that OP - I agree with Cucumbor that it looks iffy to me - that was eBay, wasn't it? I am always on the lookout for underpriced-underdescribed Roman Republican denarii and I think I was watching this one. It looked cast to me, but I didn't research it.

2018 was not a very good year for cheap RR denarii - here is one I got last month:



Roman Republic Denarius
C Vibius Cf Pansa
(90 B.C.)
Rome Mint
PANSA, laureate head of Apollo right, control mark before (lighting bolt) / Minerva in quadriga right, C VIBIVS CF in exergue.
Vibia 1; Crawford 342/5b
(3.49 grams / 18 mm)

 

This is a really rare and interesting type, and one I have been wanting for nearly a decade. The auction ended as I was walking from class, and I forgot to reinforce my bid. It sold for far less than what it was worth.

Western Han San Zhu, sold for $113. It is worth nearly double.

 

Here's my latest. https://www.ebay.de/itm/USA-2-Cents...eld-US/202456358039?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

It was at 16 euros with 30 seconds to go, so I lowball bid some random number at 46 euros or so with a couple seconds left and someone outbid me without a chance to raise my bid. I would've easily paid 70 euros for it, I should've just bid what I was willing to pay. I was really, really mad at myself on this one.

 

To avoid such misadventure, when I (rarely) bid on ebay, I put the maximum I'm okay with some time before the end of the sale and forget it until it ends : no regret, I wouldn't have paid more !!

Q

 

Yes, I usually do this. I saw it with a minute or so to go and didn't give myself enough time to really think on it. I thought it was going to sell low... it was stupid and I thought it was a fitting addition.

 

Missed this one by one bid

 

But I drowned my sorrows with this one

 

ah, that's also known as the "consolation prize"

 

I feel your pain

Q

 

Ouch, but at least you were actually engaged in something important and responsible. When that happens to me it's usually because I drank a few too many brews and forgot about bidding entirely.

While we're at it here's a Syracuse litra (the Campani Litrae were overstruck on them) with the most awesome hooked sprues I've ever seen (not that I've seen many). I had already blown too much this week on coins and artifacts and couldn't bid as high as I wanted yesterday, so someone got a remarkable piece I probably won't forget anytime soon:

You could hang that beast on a thread from either eye-catching oppositely-hooked sprue, how awesome is that?

The Wednesday purchase which blew part of the budget that otherwise would have fattened the bid yesterday is something that means much more personally: A supremely rare Hellenistic lead sling bullet embossed with Zeus' Cyclopean Thunderbolt, to "strike" the enemy.

Generally speaking thunderbolt bullets are common in the realm of sling projectiles, however instead of being a typical 30-50 grams, it is 173 skullcrushing grams! That's a full 6 ounces of lead, an ounce heavier than my next-largest plain Iberian bullet and 7 times heavier than my smallest inscribed bullets. The next largest embossed/decorated bullet I've seen was 123 grams (mushed and indecipherable), so at 173g it is a gold-medal outlier of remarkable proportions, and believe I stole it for the 252 shipped they were asking. It was a new arrival on VCoins I got an email alert for, and doubt it would've lasted the day had I passed.

I'll see plenty more Litrae in my life but may never see another one of these "White Whale" 6 ounce monster bullets again. We can't win 'em all, so just try to win the ones that really matter.

 

Not an ancient coin,but a little while ago I attempted to snipe a Japanese coin I wanted for my type set (an XF Mameita Gin with a well-struck and almost perfectly centered Daikoku) but my plan of sniping backfired, as my phone apparently wasn't synchronized correctly with eBay time and the lot sold for a full $75 less than my maximum bid!

Also, back in the day when I had fewer than 10 Indo Sassanian coins in my collection, I spotted an example with easily one of the most artistically beautiful portraits on the type. I dropped out of bidding early, and it topped out at $125, a price I now would be willing to beat to have that coin as my crown jewel.

 

In a weird way this would count. I saw this coin in the UK in September thought about buying it but it was gone before I could do anything about it

 

Again I found a consolation prize