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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24738407, member: 26430&quot;]Just so you know: I&#039;m really mad at you for making me remember!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Long before the print catalog arrives in the mail, Harlan J Berk sends out the email saying the new Buy Bid Sale is online. Here is why I now try to catch that email <i>immediately</i> and race through:</p><p><br /></p><p>Three years ago, I looked through BBS 220 to see a coin that I instantly recognized from a book on my shelf, <i>ACNAC Norman Davis</i>, published in 1969 by ANS, a 4th century BCE Rhodian Didrachm:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582531[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It was priced ridiculously low: $300! (At $1,000 I would&#039;ve still at least considered it, or planned a bid.)</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s more: The provenance to the important Norman Davis Collection, and it&#039;s publication, were completely absent from the listing. (That&#039;s me who <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6935761" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6935761" rel="nofollow">added it in the comments to the ACSearch record</a>; I do that a lot.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582532[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Before I could click &quot;Buy Now&quot; and pay, however, someone beat me to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m halfway convinced (okay, more than halfway) that HJB deliberately radically underprices at least one or two coins per catalog. (Nothing expensive enough that it would hurt, but enough to give an incentive to buyers to look as soon as possible and buy fast!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I always look right away so I won&#039;t miss another. Just bought one when the current sale came out. I&#039;ll post it soon!</p><p><br /></p><p>(I have many other sob stories like this, usually having to do with some old collection provenance and plate coin I recognized but somehow missed the purchase. Also a couple of happy stories where I got a second chance a year or two later, so on balance I can&#039;t be too mad.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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