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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3200323, member: 98035&quot;]Very nice specimens!</p><p><br /></p><p>No hard feelings about being out-bid; I was going for about 50-75% of the market price with an eye to keep one and sell the rest. Figured I had little chance to win.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have won a few CNG auctions; they do tend toward the upper end of affordable for Greek and Roman coins, but sometimes bargains are to be had, especially when bottom feeding on their large lots.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my first CNG win, and remains arguably my favorite coin to date, even if I overpaid:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]828108[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I have learned (that I probably shouldn&#039;t divulge, but oh well) is that if a coin doesn&#039;t meet their apparently arbitrary standards of &quot;value&quot;, it goes in a lot, even if it failed to meet the cutoff by a few dollars. It is also a gamble going by their horrible lot photos; I have bought lots where most of the coins had only one good side, and lots where the best stuff wasn&#039;t even in the picture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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