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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 1958190, member: 36248&quot;]<font size="5">In February 2014, I won my first Auction at Heritage, after bidding and losing on hundreds of previous auctions.&nbsp;&nbsp; I won a very nice Two-Cent piece, a strange denomination that I badly wanted:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/pbe9171fj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/pbe9171fj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/911/e9171f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/ey9fc868j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/ey9fc868j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/538/9fc868.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">In Mid February, along came a 1900-O Morgan Dollar with nice toning and housed in an NGC5 no-line Fatty that I won on ebay for a Song:</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/nfg0hqj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/nfg0hqj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/843/g0hq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/ndv80pj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/ndv80pj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/841/v80p.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">That was my first NGC Fatty for my Type Set, and not a week later I won my first PCGS Doily holder!&nbsp;&nbsp; And I didn&#039;t wildly overpay for this Silver Eisenhower Dollar on Great Collections:</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/p63a4cefj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/p63a4cefj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/906/3a4cef.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/ey4e0ca7j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/ey4e0ca7j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/538/4e0ca7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Next it was time to give HA another turn, so I bid and won a very clean MS65 &quot;No Cents&quot; Liberty Head Nickel in an NGC17 holder:</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/p4da2bffj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/p4da2bffj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/904/da2bff.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/f086b4f8j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/f086b4f8j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/540/86b4f8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">I took two months off, and it was not until late April 2014 that I purchased the next coin, <font size="5">a </font>scarce circulated Barber Quarter from DLRC via eBay:</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/ezde4d48j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/ezde4d48j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/539/de4d48.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/iqc532a4j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/iqc532a4j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/674/c532a4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">This was followed within days by my first-ever Large Cent, a Coronet Braided Ha<font size="5">ir in </font>chocolaty brown from eBay:&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/p55eca93j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/p55eca93j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/905/5eca93.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/knf49500j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/knf49500j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/743/f49500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p><font size="5">(and they say you can&#039;t buy nice coins on eBay&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">I was determined to get a nice circulated Flying Eagle Cent, and luckily <a href="https://www.northeastcoin.com/index.jsp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.northeastcoin.com/index.jsp" rel="nofollow">Northeast Numismatics</a> had just the thing I needed for my next fix:</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/hl941bb3j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/hl941bb3j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/633/941bb3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/ez3ed23bj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/ez3ed23bj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/539/3ed23b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p><font size="5">(unfortunately the slab is in really bad shape)</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">While still in the first week of May, eBay would get my next two on the same day.&nbsp; Another Ike, and a VDB Lincoln Cent that I wanted in Red-Brown so I could add a nice &quot;Woody&quot; to my Type Set:</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/p45c6a4cj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/p45c6a4cj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/904/5c6a4c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/ez765e4ej" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/ez765e4ej" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/539/765e4e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/iq958584j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/iq958584j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/674/958584.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/iqf70748j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/iqf70748j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/674/f70748.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>In early May 2014, while on vacation with my family, my mother told me she wanted to buy me a coin to &quot;remember the trip&quot;.&nbsp; Unfortunately I did not have good luck with finding nice coin shops in Orlando, FL, and when I did find a good once, they did not have much CAC inventory.&nbsp; I decided the best thing to do was to buy a coin I wanted online, and call that my &quot;Diseny Coin&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; I found another new dealer site, and haggled with the owner of the <a href="http://www.typecoincompany.com/servlet/StoreFront" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.typecoincompany.com/servlet/StoreFront" rel="nofollow">Type Coin Company</a> for a very nice Seat Half Dime, Stars:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/hl006a00j" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/hl006a00j" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/633/006a00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/f0f1cf9fj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imageshack.com/i/f0f1cf9fj" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/540/f1cf9f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>to be continued in next post...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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