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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Setree Rare Coins, post: 2488833, member: 74719&quot;]This just happened to me is a spectacular manner.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 28 years ago, I bought a United States Type set from the estate of an old time collector. It was gemmy and contained a 1795 Flowing hair silver dollar that I sent to SEGS for grading shortly after they began grading coins just to see how they did. It graded VF20 with a small area of the Obverse field smoothed. Great eye appeal coin though.</p><p><br /></p><p>I owned it about 12 years when I sold it OTC to a collector who purchased almost every early bust coin I had in stock.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slow forward 90 days and the Coin Dealer Newsletter tripled the bid price of almost all the coins I sold him. Of course he returned with coins in hand to resale them to me. I thought about how long I had owned them only to &quot;lend&quot; them to this fellow to hold for three months and pay him $15,000.00 of the privilege.</p><p><br /></p><p>I simply couldn&#039;t do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In June of this year I received an email for a local estate auctioneer with some coins in his auction. I saw there was a 1795 Flowing hair silver dollar and wondered who, out here in the middle of nowhere would own one of those? I called the auctioneer to ask if there was a reserve on that coin of which he said &quot;No, It is going to sell.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I got interested in it now and went online for a look-see. I still didn&#039;t get it. I had long ago pushed it to the back of my mind. It took about two more days before I realized that it was my coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to the auction and low and behold, there was the man I sold it to. He denied putting it in the auction, having sold it long, long before. When I asked him why he didn&#039;t come back to me, he reminded me that he had (I had totally pushed THAT horrible feeling out of my mind also!_). I then asked him if he remembered what I had sold it to him for. He grinned like he wasn&#039;t going to answer and then said &quot;$1350.00&quot;. The auctioneer saw us whispering and came over and ask me what it was going to sell for. I told him &quot;$3000.00&quot;, and he shook his head, quite satisfied.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only had one competitor and took the coin home where it resides in the front case for only $x,xxx.xx![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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