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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3299531, member: 10461&quot;]Doily holder anecdote:</p><p><br /></p><p>When I helped out in a coin shop here in Brunswick, GA in the early 2000s (back when there <i>was</i> still a coin shop in this town, before the dealer moved away), he had me list a coin on eBay for him.&nbsp; It was an 1854 PCGS MS65 RD large cent in a Doily holder (presumably the cert #<a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/08201248" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/08201248" rel="nofollow">8201248</a> example that is now listed in the census).</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have loved to have bought the coin myself, but couldn&#039;t afford it.&nbsp; It went for somewhere north of $2K when I sold it for him on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Months if not a year or two later, I was strolling the bourse floor at the FUN show in Florida when I saw the very same coin in a dealer&#039;s case- at a much higher price.&nbsp; And I do not think that dealer was the person to whom I&#039;d sold the coin on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Small world!</p><p><br /></p><p>I resolved that if that coin ever crossed my path again, I would have to sell some stuff in order to buy it.&nbsp; But I probably won&#039;t keep that promise, even if I do see it again.&nbsp; It&#039;s simply out of my budget range.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, it was cool coming across it a second time by pure coincidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>It had been part of a Jekyll Island, GA estate which my local dealer had bought several nice coins from.&nbsp; I remember a proof Seated half dime and some other cool stuff.&nbsp; The coins had been bought from Heritage back in the Doily era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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