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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7768371, member: 118780&quot;]As I mentioned, I&#039;m new to ancient coin collecting. When I first started, I made a list of three coins that I <i>had</i> to have:</p><p><br /></p><p>- An Athenian tet. Every auction has about a hundred of these, so I accomplished that quickly.</p><p>- An Olbian dolphin, because coins shaped like dolphins was the coolest thing. I seriously overpaid at my very first auction, but I got one.</p><p>- An Alexander the Great lifetime tet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Alexander tet proved a challenge. Recently, there have been a lot at auction, but several months ago decent quality ones were hard to find. Participating in my first Savoca silver auction, I put what I thought was a serious bid. I double checked a few minutes before the coin came up and my max bid was still over twice the current, so, since I was busy doing something at the time, I didn&#039;t keep an eye on it. I won&#039;t make that mistake again...</p><p><br /></p><p>I was foolish and didn&#039;t raise my bid, and someone bid it up to just one increment over mine and got it! Oh, I was fuming over my stupidity. I was so upset that I impulse bought - picking up a Thebes stater from Forum for a decent price to cheer myself up.</p><p><br /></p><p>It took some time for me to finally locate another one. Below is the one I ended up purchasing. The obverse is of similar quality to that original coin, though the reverse isn&#039;t as sharp. I picked it up for less than half of my max bid on the previous coin. Both are from the Babylon mint around the time Alexander died.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I lost out on another lifetime tet in between. That one was Stacks Bowers, and I put a far higher bid than my previous one, but the coin went for over twice my bid. In my opinion the buyer seriously overpaid.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1332096[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1332097[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is one other coin I&#039;m still fretting about. It&#039;s been a high priority for me for some time, and I was outbid a week before the auction started. Because I was participating in several other auctions and I was worried about the expense, I didn&#039;t raise my bid. Whoever won the coin got a pretty good deal, because no one bid again.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I&#039;m not going to mention the type because I have every intention of going for the type again, and now that there are only four coins on my list I can be more aggressive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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