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Message:: [QUOTE="Collect89, post: 478812, member: 15445"]Do you know Aesop’s story about the fox and sour grapes?  The story is about a fox that spies a bunch of succulent sweet grapes hanging overhead.  He jumps for them but they are just out of his reach.  They are really plump & ripe so he wants them and he jumps harder & harder but they are just out of his reach.   The fox finally resigns stating that they are far out of his reach and they were probably sour anyway. I lived the sour grapes story last night.  I needed to get home in time to bid on a great AU 1838-O dime on Teletrade.  As I remember, the dime was original & really well struck and it would be a wonderful addition to my collection.  I remember it was a really ripe & succulent key date dime.  No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get home in time to place a bid & of course I didn’t get the coin.  Looking at the coin this morning, the coin really looked lifeless, dull, and probably had evidence of an old cleaning.  I am very glad I didn’t get this coin as it was probably sour & sold for way too much money.   Very best regards,collect89[/QUOTE]